Intel CEO Unveils x86 Moorestown Smartphone

[pochacco007]

one question you have to ask yourself when looking at cellphones is, how powerful does it have to be?

720p on a handheld device? would you have cared or known based on the size?

 

[Guest]

Not sure what the "wee wee waa wuu" is with the duel Camera. Hardly new.... My Nokia 5800 (xpressmusic) already has the same rig.. (?)
(the "wee wee wa wuu" really needs to be done with Borat's voice, by the way..

 

[randomizer]

A horribly power-inefficient architecture like x86 running a smartphone sounds like a terrible idea to me.

 

[sidran32]

[citation][nom]Mergatroid[/nom]"X86 main advantage is compatibility with windows. It is 2010, do we really need legacy instruction sets from the 1970's in our modern devices running linux?"Who cares what the instruction set is as long as the device works well? It's just too bad it won't run Windows 7, there would be a lot of software available for this platform right out of the gate if it did.[/citation]
The developers do, and without good software developers writing good software for it, it won't "work well". x86 is an old architecture with tons of stuff tacked on (yay thousands-page architecture specs), highly bloated, and you have to jump through hoops to get it into even 32-bit mode (fact: x86 processors boot into 8 bit mode and you have to get it into 16-bit and then 32-bit and then 64-bit via the bootstrapper). ARM works just well. x86 needs to go away.

 

[sidran32]

Besides, how many Windows apps would you expect the everyday working man to be running on a smartphone? They aren't designed for phones and it's just not that important.

 

[mavroxur]

Would've loved to see that thing running a flavor of Windows.....Mobile 6.5 preferably

 

[ethanolson]

When are they going to shrink an Itanium? That's a futuristic CPU that gets brushed aside way too much.