As I’ve mentioned several times already the HTC HD2 running Windows Mobile 6.5 is currently unable to natively playback 720p videos even-thought the SnapDragon chipset supports it and the recently released Acer Liquid Android smartphone can do it (same for the future HTC Bravo / Passion). So far it seems like this is a Windows Mobile 6.5 limitation (FYI I have never seen any demo or video of a WM6.X/WinCE5 device playing back a 720P video, only WinCE 6 and Android/Linux demos). We already know that this feature should be enabled in Windows Mobile 7 according to the info here but are we going to be stuck with sub-par video decoding on Windows Mobile 6.5?
The latest I found is this little piece info on Linkedin:
Qualcomm Inc
(Public Company; QCOM; Telecommunications industry)September 2009 — December 2009 (4 months)
Working with Video Decoder software team developing drivers for H/w decoders (DSP) on Windows Mobile (WM6.5 and WM7) platform
So it now looks like Qualcomm is still developping drivers for WM6.5. It remains to be seen how all this would work given that the SnapDragon’s FPUs aren’t even supported/enabled in WM6.X.
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