Open Handset Alliance including the Google-Android initiative and Nokia’s recent
acquisition of Trolltech are seen as developments in favour of Linux
18
. All this is true but
Linux is still way behind to be in a position to challenge Symbian’s market dominance.
Further, Symbian’s agreements with various industry players including handset vendors and
large number of operators means that it will continue to be the major handset OS vendor for a
good number of years to come. Only one Android based smartphone (GPhone) was available
for TMobile networks at the end of 2008 (by HTC) making its evaluation too complex for
SMARTMUSEUM solution.
4.2 User device core hardware components
This section specifies recommendations for CPU selection. The second component of high
importance – the LCD screen – shall be maximized by size and resolution for museum owned
user device, no specific technical requirements apply.
As described earlier, museum owned user device shall be maximized for multimedia
performance mainly limited by application processor the screen size should be at least 3,5”.
User owned device, optimized for size and weight (display size 2-3”), has weaker computing
performance requirements and is out of scope of this CPU selection section.
Devices from HTC, HP, Asus, FujitsuSiemens, Nokia, RIM, Dell, Apple were analyzed to
select suitable, multimedia presentation optimized museum device. This selection is not
relevant to user owned device due the weaker computational power requirements. The central
processors candidates include Marwell 270, 320 XScale series up to 620MIPS, TI OMAP
family, Samsung SC32400 family up to 400MIPS, ARM11 and 9 up to 530MIPS. The
majority of high-end smartphones are based on Marwell CPUs well supported under
Windows Mobile and Linux, both environments were tested by ELIKO. HTC is using more
rare ARM1136 CPU, Nokia 770 and 800 Internet handheld and E90 Communicator are based
on OMAP CPUs that may be more weakly supported as well. Devices based on (not XScale)
ARM and TI CPUs are less recommended for SMARTMUSEUM museum owned device
because may need more development effort. There are currently no modern MIDs in
production having dedicated video accelerator similarly to obsolete Dell Axim 510. However,
based on consumer reviews Marwell 320 devices have close multimedia performance
comparing with the top performing Axim 510 device. SMARTMUSEUM like projects use
Dell Axim, (Postmuseum in Stockholm), iPAQ family (Trento adaptive museum guide
hardware solution)
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18 http://www.abiresearch.com/Blog/Wireless_Blog/472 , Jan 2008
19 http://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/
Grant Agreement Number: FP7-216923
Acronym: SMARTMUSEUM
Project title: Cultural Heritage Knowledge Exchange
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