The British operator Orange in collaboration with Intel, the Santa Clara smartphone announced. There is a Medfield chip at 1.6 GHz built in, which makes the device one of the first is that with an Intel chip to be released.
The Santa Clara was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The screen has a diagonal of 4″, with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels. There is an 8-megapixel camera built in for photo’s. This would be able to 10 photos per second shooting in burst mode. Furthermore, it is a mhl port built-in, usb and hdmi together. In addition, there is support for the korteafstandstechnologie nfc. The Taiwanese Gigabyte has introduced the smartphone for Orange manufactured.
Intel, the Medfield-soc designed for use in mobile devices. Recently, it was the porting of Android 4.0 for the Intel architecture completed, so the road is free to make devices with the Medfield chip. The Santa Clara, however, on Android 2.3.
Orange is not the only Intel-powered smartphones will be released. Also from other manufacturers of devices expected. Motorola’s Android-smartphone with Intel chip appeared images. Also LG are soon to be Intel devices expected. Orange brings its Santa Clara, the final name must be decided, it was not until around the summer.
