The OMAP-Vox single-chip solution from Texas Instruments (TI) will foster development of lower-cost multimedia-rich feature phones. Codenamed "eCosto," the new single-chip platform is leveraging TI's DRP technology, which is successful with the "LoCosto" value platform in volume production today. The first product in the new "eCosto" platform will be the OMAPV1035, which will be manufactured on a 65 nm process and will support GSM, GPRS and EDGE standards.

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The "eCosto" multimedia-rich capabilities include advanced video capture, playback and streaming with up to QVGA screen quality at 30 frames-per-second; digital still camera up to three megapixels with sub-second shot-to-shot delay; color LCD; and interactive 2D/3D gaming with graphics comparable to that of portable video consoles. The chip also features high-speed hardware-accelerated Java and 3D graphic processing up to 100-K polygons-per-second. An ARM9 core is fully integrated within the device.

The OMAPV1035 single-chip solution will sample in first half 2007 and will be in production in 2008. The OMAPV1030 solution is currently in mass production in handsets.