Intel Atom based smartphones to go on sale starting tomorrow
Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced during a
financial earnings call that the company's first Atom based smartphone
will go on sale "later this week".
This is not really a surprise because the Indian company Lava, with
whom Intel partnered to make Atom based Android phones, has already
announced their intentions to launch the Xolo X900 tomorrow, April 19,
in India.
Just in case you are not aware of this phone,
it has a 4.03-inch display with 1024 x 600 resolution (295 PPI), 8
megapixel rear camera with flash, 10fps burst mode and 1080p video
recording, 1.3 megapixel front camera, 1GB RAM, 16GB internal storage
space, HSPA+ connectivity up to 21Mbps, HDMI out and NFC built-in.
Unfortunately, the phone will be sold with Android 2.3 Gingerbread at
launch.
The Xolo X900 will use Intel's Atom Z2460 processor that has a
single-core 1.6GHz Saltwell CPU with Hyper-Threading, PowerVR SGX540 GPU
clocked at 400MHz and 32-bit Dual channel LPDDR2 memory. This
processor, however, is based on Intel's x86 architecture that differs
from the one that ARM uses on almost every other SoC on the market,
which means application compatibility is going to be an issue initially.
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