[ChickeNES]

IIRC, the original RasPi SoC was intended for a Nokia smartphone that was cancelled

[dfox]

The original RPi SoC was intended for DVRs and set-top-boxes and maybe as application CPU in midrange TVs. The design with huge-ish video accelerator and highly battery unfriendly power requirements is totally unappropriate for anything mobile, even less for anything designed by Nokia with their full-custom PMICs with internal ARM cores and so o on...

[pjc50]

I thought it was for set-top-boxes; that's why it's mostly video decode with a small ARM to run the menus.

[makomk]

Yup. Some models of Roku apparently even shipped with the SoC used in the original Raspberry Pi.

[EvanAnderson]

Check out this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12745506