U5500 - Full smartphone
experience for ENTRY
The NovaThor™ U5500 is an integrated smartphone platform, combining a powerful application engine with a high-speed broadband modem. With U5500, ST-Ericsson offers a “no compromise” smartphone experience at an affordable price.
The U5500 integrates a powerful dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 application processor with a HSPA+ mobile broadband modem in a single baseband chip to offer advanced smartphone features such as HD camcorder capabilities, 12Mpix camera support and an always-on internet experience.
Features
- 720p HD camcorder with real-time encoding
- High-resolution display with support up to FWVGA
- High performance 2D/3D graphics,
- 12 Mpixel camera support
- HDMI v1.3 and CVBS output
- USB, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS support
- Support for Android and other Linux-based, open and proprietary frameworks
Technology
- Highly efficient, low-power, dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 processor with NEON®CPU extension
- High-bandwidth LP-DDR2 interface
- ARM® Mali™-400 GPU
- HSPA+ 3GPP release 7 modem
- Unique audio architecture with a wide range of audio codecs supported
- Advanced power saving architecture enabling class-leading audio and video operating time
Block diagram
Related links
Making mobiles smarter and smarter
Fact sheet about smartphones (pdf)
Smarter phones require smarter networks features
Ericsson article about ensuring the best user experience in the shift to smartphones
