Reacting to the increasing demand for high-quality image and video processing on mobile devices, Texas Instruments this week announced their OMAP-DM510 co-processor, capable of handling up to 8-megapixel still images, 3fps burst modes and DVD quality video at 30fps.  The DM510 supports multiple video codecs, including MPEG4 and H.264, and can be implemented alongside or instead of a dedicated applications processor depending ... continued »

Texas Instruments this week launched the industry's first combination GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 and FM receiver/transmitter chip, the NaviLink 6.0 (NL5500).  The NaviLink 6.0 is capable of simultaneously accessing each function, giving device manufacturers the opportunity to support navigation, talking on a Bluetooth headset and wirelessly playing an MP3 through a car radio, all from one compact chip that uses 40-percent less board ... continued »

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has unsurprisingly been the star event of this week, featuring the mixture of new product launches, corporate jostling and PR whimsy that we all know and love. For us here at PHONE Magazine, it's been a week of exclusive video demos, and we hope you've been as excited as we were by the first ... continued »

On Monday we showed you the video of Texas Instruments' non-touchscreen Android prototype at the Mobile World Congress; today we've got their touchscreen version demonstrated live on video.  Two aspects of this demo stand out for me, firstly the hardware itself - TI have put together what they claim is a sub-$1,000 reference platform targeted predominantly at the open-source community ... continued »

Although nowhere near as polished as the offerings from Sony Ericsson, Samsung and the rest, a number of Android prototypes and reference designs are on show here at the Mobile World Congress, and I've been shooting exclusive video demos of them for PHONE Magazine. Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and ARM all had displays, and in the three videos after the ... continued »

Texas Instruments are preparing to claw back market share from rival Qualcomm with a range of new high-end chipsets for mobile devices, one of which will enable "pico" projectors and the other that will encode and decode high-definition video on the handset itself.  Pico projectors, which TI demonstrated last year, can be used to project large screens onto walls and ... continued »

Texas Instruments are set to present a new, custom chip design intended for a cellphone expected later this year, at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco later this week, which analysts are predicting will "outflank" attempts by rival Intel to woo mobile device manufacturers with their own new CPUs.  The TI design is capable of decoding MPEG-4 video streams, ... continued »