PS3 Level Graphics On Your Phone

This was the claim laid by Imagination Technologies, the PowerVR chip that powers smart phones such as the Droid and iPhone.  The thing is that they are currently developing the technology but it the process for them to finish it and pass it on to Apple and HTC and other such companies who in turn have have to incorporate it into their phones and eventually bring it out on the market will take 3 years. So the technology exists just we don’t have access to it.

The claim is that when the chip is complete you will be able to play games in full 720p graphics via HDMI output on a TV so it is not just stuck to the confines of the 3-inch screen that the actual phone may have. This is mainly good news for the phone games industry which has only really seen a jump in the last year or two with the introduction of the iPhone.

The details of this rather revolutionary chip are that it will most probably use multiprocessors to achieve those PS3-like graphics and that it will feature OpenCL which will allow the device it is in to use the graphics chip as another processor which will allow for the device to run much faster and do things much quicker than it normally would.

Closer to the present however, you can expect software updates for your smart phones which will enable them to utilise Flash Acceleration courtesy of Imagination Technologies in collaboration with Adobe. So far they have gotten the acceleration up to 300%, that means that things will run 300% faster.

Below are screenshots (they are literally photos of the screen) of the kind of graphics we can expect on our phones and subsequently on our phone games in years to come, bear in mind that these are still early days and the chip is not even fully complete yet.

Keep in mind that these images were rendered by the graphics chip, they are not just pictures. I find the effect of the water and the last screenshot perhaps the most amazing, for a phone to have that kind of detail is simply amazing.