One of several unknowns surrounding the newly announced Samsung Mondi WiMAX MID was the CPU running the Windows Mobile 6.1 machine and allowing the included Opera 9.5 browser to provide users with "immediate access to the Web without having to sacrifice download speed and portability."
Neither the press release nor the company's news blog revealed the identity of the critical component, so I reached out to my PR contact at Samsung while he was mostly unavailable at CTIA last week. I heard back from him today and unfortunately, the news won't make Steve of UMPCPortal happy at all.
According to the email I received this morning, the CPU inside the Samsung Mondi is the 800MHz S3C6410 ARM11 Mobile Processor. Sorry, folks, no Cortex in this one. I hope the price is a reflection of that.
Not happy at all!!!
Thanks for the info though Jenn. I can move on now!
Steve
That’s just too bad it wasn’t at least Atom 1.3. So Steve is moving on LOL… This device would have been a great MID if it had at least some kind of Linux, Windows XP, and maybe the ability of installing Windows 7.
as it was announced running windows mobile, a intel atom cpu was never really a option (unless microsoft had done a stealth change of its licencing).
btw, after having a poke here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
it may be the same one that the iphone uses, only a bit more clocked if its running 800MHz (samsung seems to only list it at 533 and 667 at their products page tho:
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/productInfo.do?fmly_id=229&partnum=S3C6410
Is this another of those ‘never-to-be-seen-in-real-life’ devices or are they actually going to release it before I collect my pension?
i suspect it will only show up in USA, as its specifically designed for a wimax network there. the same one that nokia had its wimax variant of the N810 for btw…
I’ve been told that it will launch “later in Q2″ so as long as you don’t plan to retire before then, you shouldn’t have to touch your pension.