Intel-powered Android Smartphone Headed to Orange

[JMcEntegart]

Meet the Santa Clara, Europe's first Intel-powered Android.

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[olaf]

EU FTW! take that US with your freaky networks

 

[fellskrazykayaker]

The real test is how this holds up to an ARM based device in terms of battery life. All the processing power in the world is useless if you run out of juice in a few hours. I really hope that it's competitive with ARM.

 

[Guest]

FIRST!!!!!!

 

[pollom]

[citation][nom]frozonic[/nom]is it just me or anybody else thinks AMD is kinda late to the ARM party? i wonder what they are up to.[/citation]

the atom is x86

 

[jaber2]

Where Intel goes AMD will follow.

 

[tmk221]

I guess that atom will be much much faster than ARM but what about battery life? I think it's much more important.

 

[Guest]

I don't think anybody would be buying the reference platforms if they didn't fix the battery life issue. With SoC, I'm thinking it is probably quite efficient. Also hearing it will scale to 2 GHz in turbo mode. Definitely a performer, but agree that it needs to last long. For that to happen, they will also need highly optimized code for x86. I wonder if that is happening or has happened?

 

[pacioli]

It's all about battery life!

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Makes me wonder, will there be a Haswell Smartphone?

 

[back_by_demand]

hmmm, x86 on a smartphone
...
I'll give it 2 weeks and someone will have Window XP running on it

 

[ojas]

lmao 1.6 GHz is massive for x86, in terms of the performance you'll get.

Battery life is the question. Though from what i read on AnandTech, it wasn't so bad.

 

[joytech22]

x86 in a phone?
Oh I hope modders find a way to install Windows 7 on it.. Lol..

Better yet Windows 8, it's designed for touch devices right..?

 

[nebun]

go intel go.....how come the europeans get all the good stuff....when it comes to smartphone hardware, the US is at the back of the line.....why is that?

 

[beetlejuicegr]

Nebun, the answer is simple, US is more apple oriented market? I suppose the % of customers who want to root/unlock/test/tweak their smartphones is larger in europe..

 

[olaf]

to bad Orange blows chunks .... droped calls, over taxing, shoddy 3G

 

[sonofliberty08]

[citation][nom]jaber2[/nom]Where Intel goes AMD will follow.[/citation]
Fixed: where AMD goes Intel will follow since the K8

 

[GreaseMonkey_62]

is it just me or anybody else thinks AMD is kinda late to the ARM party? i wonder what they are up to.

You're right. AMD has been quite about the mobile market. I'm hoping they blow it all out of the water with a Llano based ARM processor and they're just waiting to announce that they have one coming this summer.