Intel Shows Off Its Android Smart Phone and Tablet for 2012

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39378/page1/

by blinkingled • 15 years ago

32 13 15 years ago

If these chips are able to outperform ARM, then it will put android in a very good position because their apps run on a VM. I am assuming these would show up only in android phones and windows 8 tablets? Would windows phone be able to use these, or are their apps native to ARM?

ConstantineXVI• 15 years ago

One exception: the vast majority of Android games use a portion of native code; which won't run on Intel chipsets without at least a recompile.

All WinPhone apps run on the .NET VM; however it's up to Microsoft what chips get used in Windows Phone devices. So far; the only SoC in Windows Phones has been the Snapdragon. It may be a while before we see other ARM chips used; much less x86. (This is excluding a theory that Win8 may possibly extend to phones as well)

sunkencity3• 15 years ago

Got to love a "reference design" that looks like a cheap knockoff of an iphone4.

chwahoo• 15 years ago

Does it? It looks like an utterly generic smartphone to me.

j_col• 15 years ago

That's probably because so many phones have copied the iPhone "slab" shape, they're starting to look generic.

sunkencity3• 15 years ago

well, they have exactly copied the antenna design and the rounded sim card slot, as well as the speaker outlet (only slightly larger holes for the speaker grille), and the buttons look exactly like the switch on my iphone 4. Power on switch exactly same.

rayiner• 15 years ago

No way. It's a black metal and glass slab with a silver antenna band around the edge. From the edge-on view it looks exactly like an iPhone.

idspispopd2• 15 years ago

This is something I don't understand about zealots. Help me out here:

Why is it perfectly ok to compromise your own common sense and intelligence for the sake of a company that:

1. Does not know who you are 2. Does not care who you are, rather only caring for your buying power

I'm writing this because I'm legitimately interested and I don't believe any rational person could truly dismiss any similarity to the iphone as outright as you have chosen to do.

mrich• 15 years ago

But will it have a fan? :)

Kidding aside, this is good news. Competition is good for mobile.

Intel Shows Off Its Android Smart Phone and Tablet for 2012

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