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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: ipod red!Re: ipod red!
From: Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren_at_smiths-aerospace.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:32:13 -0500 Barry Wardell wrote: > On 3/2/07, Dave <promisedplanet_at_gmail.com> wrote: >> I guess my question should be rephrased ... I wonder what's different >> about >> the new hardware. > > The main difference is that all older iPods were based on the same > family of chips from PortalPlayer (the PP502x and PP5002 series'). > This is the main chip in the device and contains the CPU, and USB > among other things. So, basically, work done on getting things working > on one model of iPod usually also benefits all other models (and also > iriver H10 and Sansa e200 which share the same chip). > > The chip in the new nano is totally different. It is Apple branded, > although I think Samsung actually produce it. This chip is completely > different hardware wise to the PortalPlayer chips, so everything we > have learned before goes out the window and we have to start from > scratch. > > A further problem is that starting with the 2g nano, Apple are > encrypting the whole of their firmware. This encryption makes it far > harder to gain access to the hardware and firmware and figure out how > it works. Some trivia: "Samsung snatches iPod win from PortalPlayer" <http://news.com.com/2061-10793_3-6065385.html> "Samsung 'gaffe' sends Apple order to rival chip maker" <http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05/31/apple_samsung_sigmatel/> gvb Received on 2007-03-02 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |