Here’s next year’s smartphone for you. At the ST-Ericsson stand here at Mobile World Congress, the company was showing their U8500, a dual ARM Cortex-A9 chipset running at 1.2 Ghz running Linux, Android … or Symbian^3.
According to the Symbian Foundation’s John Forsyth, ST-Ericsson’s Symbian demo is running the brand-new version of Symbian unveiled this week, although ST-Ericsson didn’t drop it to the menu screen or anything like that, and ST-Ericsson’s folks would only confirm it was running some version of Symbian.
The Symbian^3 demo was being used to show 1080p video decoding, which the U8500 offloads to dedicated chips so only 10% of the CPU is used in the process. The U8500 also supports HSPA+ – T-Mobile’s new super-high-speed 3G network – HD video recording, 20-megapixel still capture, and 12 hours of video playback on a standard 1,000 mAh battery, according to ST-Ericsson. On a nearby table they showed the same chipset running Android spanned over two screens.
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