Windows Phone Thoughts: NVIDIA Announces the MobileMedia Platform for Windows Mobile

"Consumers want it all – digital television, high-resolution photography, immersive audio/video playback, 3D games. And they want it all anytime, anywhere. That means they want it on the devices that they carry with them everywhere – their mobile phones, PDAs, and other handheld devices. The NVIDIA® MobileMedia Platform for Windows® Mobile makes it easy to give them what they want, without asking device designers to become multimedia experts, and without draining all the power away from talk time and other essential tasks. The NVIDIA MobileMedia Platform for Windows Mobile provides a complete multimedia hardware platform to support the Microsoft® Windows Mobile environment. The power-efficient, integrated design simplifies the device design process and allows the shortest time to market without sacrificing features that consumers want. The NVIDIA-Microsoft combination makes sense – for the consumers, for the developers, and for the manufacturers of today’s most innovative mobile phones and handheld devices."



Earlier in the year, we posted about the release of the GoForce 5500, and the partnership between Intel and NVIDIA to help deliver Monahans/GoForce-powered handhelds. We're now one step closer to a new wave of GPU-enhanced mobile devices with NVIDIA's recent announcement of the MobileMedia Platform for Windows Mobile. This is exciting stuff, and by year end, we will hopefully witness the release of Pocket PCs that leave the Axim X50/X51v out in the dust.