The Cell Phone Junkie

At CES this year Intel was showing off their Android Gingerbread device running on the new Intel® Atom™ processor Z2460 platform, formerly known as “Medfield,” reference design handset. The Z2460 platform represents a unique shift in instruction-set architecture to Intel’s platform versus the common, power efficient ARM based mobile handsets and tablets. The device shown is not a unit that will be sold to the public, but it does represent what manufactures can do with the Atom processor based chipset. Intel is facing serious competition because manufacturers like Qualcomm have fully integrated wireless and processor chipsets, Intel is still going to have to use external wireless chipsets.

The device demo on the show floor showed some impressive 1080p video and video game performance in the Asphalt 6 racing game. The camera has a special burst mode allowing the full eight megapixel images to be processed at a rate of 15 per second.

Manufacturing partners Lenovo and Motorola were announced today at CES.

Update: Furthermore, tonight at ShowStoppers we got to visit with the Lenovo K800, the Z2460 Atom 1.6 GHz powered smartphone running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Device seemed comparable to mid-spec current generation Android phone. The K800 will be sold in China in the upcoming months, no US carriers partners have been announced.

Source: Intel Newsroom