{"id":10575,"date":"2009-08-18T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2009\/08\/18\/zune-hd-provides-glimpse-at-future-windows-mobile-phone-features\/"},"modified":"2009-08-18T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:07:00","slug":"zune-hd-provides-glimpse-at-future-windows-mobile-phone-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10575","title":{"rendered":"Zune HD Provides Glimpse at Future Windows Mobile Phone Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/page\/handheld.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 2px 15px 5px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"NVIDIA Tegra &amp; Windows Mobile\" border=\"0\" alt=\"NVIDIA Tegra &amp; Windows Mobile\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tegra_wm_lrg.jpg\" width=\"164\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">NVIDIA has been touting its low-power <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/page\/handheld.html\" >Tegra<\/a> System-On-A-Chip (SoC) for mobile devices since early last year, and now \u2013 for the first time \u2013 we\u2019re beginning to see this system show up in handheld spec listings.&#160; The upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Ffeature.html%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Damb%255Flink%255F85030371%255F5%26docId%3D1000410491&amp;tag=palmsizepccentra&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\" >Zune HD<\/a> is powered by the Tegra APX 2600, which gives the player its 720p HD video capabilities.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But this SoC won\u2019t be limited to dedicated multimedia devices; NVIDIA\u2019s Tegra APX series of SoCs will also power future Windows Mobile handhelds, and will provide not only for HD video output, but for a more visually appealing UI as well.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/object\/io_1250488651953.html\" >press release<\/a> regarding the Zune HD, NVIDIA states that the company has at least \u201c50 active Tegra processor-based design projects currently in the works.\u201d&#160; At least some of these devices are sure to be Windows Phones, smartphones powered by Windows Mobile 6.5, or (more likely) Windows Mobile 7 which is due out next year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">What will Tegra mean for future Windows Mobile smartphones?&#160; Perhaps most importantly, Tegra will provide the processing power for a new User Interface, which Microsoft has indicated is a main focus of Windows Mobile 7.&#160; Other benefits include superior video playback, faster rendering of web pages in a mobile browser, support for OLED screens, up to 12MP of image processing from a digital camera, HDMI output to TVs and other video devices, device screen resolutions up to 1280&#215;1050, and OpenGL &amp; Direct3D Mobile support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nNVIDIA has been touting its low-power Tegra System-On-A-Chip (SoC) for mobile devices since early last year, and now \u2013 for the first time \u2013 we\u2019re beginning to see this system show up in handheld spec listings.&#160; The upcoming Zune HD is powered by the Tegra APX 2600, which gives the player its 720p HD [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10575\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}