During the keynote, Intel announced that ceo Paul Otellini, Intel’s first steps on the smartphone market. The company showed a Lenovo smartphone but demonstrated also a reference design of a Medfield-powered smartphone.
The Lenovo K800 is the first smartphone with Intel’s architecture on board will be available. Lenovo built the phone and the device in domestic market of China on the market. A launch date is not yet known, but the K800 would in the course of the second quarter should be available. For the American market will Motorola with one or more devices with Intel’s new Medfield-Atoms: that would be this summer should take place.
In addition to the K800 demonstrated Otellini also a reference-design smartphone from Intel, which according to the company’s ready-to-use would be as a platform for manufacturers. The 10mm thick device runs Android Gingerbread and is equipped with a camera with 16 megapixels, and an hdmi output, and an nfc antenna. In burstmode with the camera ten p-pictures per second are made. The standby time of the device would be fourteen days, while eight hours, etc. Video and audio playback respectively six hours and 45 hours.
