Vega Racer: The World's First 2x 1,5GHz Phone

Snapdragons have made a long way since their inception. It has been a number of years and several devices on the way. But the real story begins now with the introduction of the first 1,5GHz, MSM8660 - based phone, the Pantech Vega Racer. With the introduction of the MSM8660 mobile devices, the performance gap between laptops and phones is closing rapidly. Look. My current Nokia Booklet 3G laptop has a single core Z530 Atop CPU running at 1,6GHz, no GPU and 1GB of RAM. The Vega Racer phone has two asynchronously clocked 1,5GHz cores, fast Adreno 220 GPU and the same 1GB of RAM.

The Adreno 220 GPU is worth a separate mention here. It is blazing fast, especially for a mobile, battery powered GPU. Probably the fastest mobile GPU on the market today. Six times faster than the iPhone4, twice as fast as the Nvidia Tegra 2. With Having the Adreno 220 on board, with FullHD HDMI output, any MSM8660 phone can easily be a gaming console, or a HD content player. With a HDMI monitor and Bluetooth keyboard it is as close to be a desktop replacement as a phone can be.

Of course the Vega Racer is the first device based on the fastest MSM8660 chipset. But many will follow in the second half of 2011, as Qualcomm reports very strong design activity around the flagship chipset. Of course there will be MSM8660 - based tablets too, with the unified Android 3.1 "Ice Cream Sandwich" release. The MSM8660 with 3.1 Android may finally be the winning mix of ingredients, forming the base of new mobile devices and usage scenarios.