Will the Droid X and Droid 2 Pack 1GHz Snapdragon Processors?
Posted on 22 June 2010 by androidfever
The issue of just what exactly is under the hood of the upcoming Droid duo isn’t becoming any clearer just yet. What was originally thought to be a certain Texas Instruments OMAP 3630 CPU in both phones soon started to give way to whisperings of the phones actually coming with a 1GHz Snapdragon. A tweet from the new @DroidLanding viral Twitter earlier today seemed to confirm the 1GHz Snapdragon claims, but was quickly pulled. So what gives?
Droid-Life got in touch with their sources who substantiated the Snapdragon claims, saying that Motorola worked closely with the chip manufacturers to get the processor running in top form in their new handsets. Still, Moto has been closely linked with the Texas Instruments line of processors and there has been no outward indication that they would move away from using them.
Snapdragon is all the rage when it comes to 1GHz smartphone processors, and it isn’t exactly unlikely that it could be in the Droid X and Droid 2, but everything up until the past few weeks indicated otherwise. Whether or not its the Snapdragon or a TI chip that makes its way into both handsets, it seems like Motorola and Verizon would rather keep the answer under wraps for now.
[via Droid-Life]
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Tags | 1GHz, Droid, Pack, Processors, Snapdragon
haha I remember the Texas Instruments Speak and Spell. Now they are the future and Intel just can’t get anywhere in the mobile space.
No Snapdragon please!!
TI has shown that they have better GPU and more speed
@bobdude5
Right on!!!
Its a texas instrument..a guy from ti came into my work at rubios where a shirt with texas instruments on it…i asked him if he worked at TI and he said yes..and then i asked what part and he laughed and said calculators and then he said he was kidding and that he does all the other stuff..i asked him if he works with the mobile processors and stuff..and he said wow im suprised most people dont even know we have processors and i said so i hear your new 1ghz omap processor is going to be in the new droid..and he said yes it is and that i have done some good reading lol..i gave him a free drink for the info ahah
I don’t want a Snapdragon in MY Droid X.
Hummmm what ever long as if its a snapdragon they improved it….but I must say hearing the word snapdragon sounds alittle old now…..
@Ivan I knew it! They WERE just f%&king with us!
I saw the benchmark image that was posted about 1 month ago showing the Droid 2 getting better marks than the Nexus 1. There are some questions I have to ask.
1. Was it photo-shopped and how do we all know it wasn’t?
2. Why haven’t more benchmarks surfaced. You would think whoever posted it would have done multiple benchmarks.
Here’s to praying its the OMAP and not that overrated snapdragon.
No crappy Snapdragons on MOTO DROIDS keep the OMAP goodness, leave HTC to use Snapdragons and ruin their phones.
DroidLife retracted its posting…no SnapDragon.
Looking at the speed tests, if it was a 1ghz processor, then it has to bethe OMAP as you cannot get that more performance out of the SnapDragon over another 1 ghx snapdragon, at least not running 2.1. With 2.2, sure,but not 2.1
Ceger
@digitalicecream
Ive never heard the words “love” “battery life” and “incredible” used in the same sentence. Anyway, I doubt its gonna have the OMAP.
BTW droid 2 also has that ninjablur crap, it has that blur touch button thing.
Maybe the person who originally posted the tweet was just a marketing guy that saw 1 ghz and assumed it was a snapdragon and then pulled the tweet when informed otherwise.
Why in the hell do you all care who made the processor or what its called. It could be an 8086 but if it puts up the benchmark numbers that we saw earlier then what difference does it make. Arguing over phones is one thing but processor brands and models ??? Lol