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Megapixel display for PDA? You'll need it for the 4 mp camera phone!

The first product from the MediaQ, Inc. acquisition, the NVIDIA GoForce 2150 is "the industry's first low power media processor with 1.3 megapixel camera support."

It was announced at Computex in Taipei this week, and "provides handset designers with an exciting product for delivering high-resolution picture capture, motion JPEG video capture, and advanced camera controls for cellular handsets and other handheld devices with integrated digital cameras" said the release.

With the four megapixel Intel PDA/camera/phone promised for some time next year, 1.3 megapixels is hardly overkill. "User expectations for camera phones continue to increase in terms of image quality and camera functionalities," said Phil Carmack, vice president of handheld products at NVIDIA.

While new imaging features and higher performance drive current solutions to ever increasing power consumption,, Carmack said, "the GoForce 2150 processor is specifically optimised to deliver exceptional image quality and camera functionalities at a small fraction of the power consumption."