Intel CEO Unveils x86 Moorestown Smartphone
With all the hubbub surrounding its new app store, the fact that Intel is showing off the first phone based on its Moorestown platform went largely unnoticed.
Shown off by CEO Paul Otellini, the LG-manufactured GW990 is more of an MID or 'superphone' than it is a smartphone. Packing a 5-inch screen with 720p HD video playback, two cameras (one forward facing and one traditionally placed on the back of the device) the device runs on the Linux-based Moblin OS.
Describing the Moorestown platform, Otellini said, "It's smaller, faster and better than anything we've done before." Based on the x86 architecture, Moorestown is set to launch this year.
"Two years ago I showed a suite of futuristic, compute-intensive applications for handheld devices," Otellini said. "The computing was really done on a desktop PC behind the curtain because handhelds didn't have the processing capability yet. Two years later, the future is here."
While details about the phone are scant, Otellini says it will ship in the second half of 2010. The introduction of Intel chips to mobile phones comes as Atom chips begin to see some serious competition in the netbook space.
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Does that mean we can take two pictures at the same time??
j/k...or am i?
likely the forward facing cam is for video conferencing, skype / IM programs, etc... since it is described more as a MID than a phone.
Nice picture of Otellini, shame about no picture of the actual phone
I did find some already elsewhere but its a bit rude posting a link to a rival tech website
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?
"the LG-manufactured" -LG don't usually make durable phones. At list from what i have seen. I mean most of the models.
Nice picture of Otellini, shame about no picture of the actual phoneI did find some already elsewhere but its a bit rude posting a link to a rival tech website
Not really considering most articles here are "So-and-So reports..."
It's just as powerful as a NVidia Tegra (based on spec capabilities listed in this article). With NVidia coming with the Tegra 2, will it keep up?
"Intel chips to mobile phones comes as Atom chips begin to see some serious competition in the netbook space"
Yea, not really. Are there other options, yes... is anyone buying them... no.
So when are we going to start seeing 1Ghz Ti-109 calculators with 512MB flash memory? It's not fair phones get all the glory I want a super computer in my math class in the palm of my hand
Does that mean we can take two pictures at the same time??j/k...or am i?
Actually I think that would be pretty damn cool. Or how about live video? So you can see what's behind you?
Will it play Crysis?
2 cams?
"the LG-manufactured" -LG don't usually make durable phones. At list from what i have seen. I mean most of the models.
Doesn’t Mather because all actual x86 processor’s have a module to convert x86 to reduced instructions set, the processor module is to similar RISC, and the module is short in the processor DIE if you remove the module is not a big difference.
For mobile phone I prefer ARM core
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?
"the LG-manufactured" -LG don't usually make durable phones. At list from what i have seen. I mean most of the models.
Doesn’t Mather because all actual x86 processor’s have a module to convert x86 to reduced instructions set, the processor module is to similar RISC, and the module is short in the processor DIE if you remove the module is not a big difference.
For mobile phone I prefer ARM core
2 cams, one high def cam (most likely 3Mpix) for photo's and video's, and one low def cam (most likely 1.3mpix) for video conf.
Technically you could be able to take 2 pics at the same time, with some soft, but what would the purpose for that be?
Nice picture of Otellini, shame about no picture of the actual phoneI did find some already elsewhere but its a bit rude posting a link to a rival tech website
Nahh..... it's not rude at all:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipse [...] spx?i=3716
Actually I think that would be pretty damn cool. Or how about live video? So you can see what's behind you? )
It's not some super x-ray camera you know....
Why does Intel keep trying to trow the x86 instruction set at devices where it does not belong?
What about a phone with crystal clear receive and transmit sound quality for calls
"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.
Coool
Actually I think that would be pretty damn cool. Or how about live video? So you can see what's behind you? )
Lol isn' that the truth... TI is making a killing on 20 year old tech.... you would think that they would really update their graphing calculators or cut the price in half or more...
They are really out dated... I am sure you have seen the $300 HP graphic calculators that are out there...
My next TI 89 or 92 needs to have an atom processor and be running windows 7 netbook edition on a 720p 16bit color display and cost $50
What a scam they have running with all the high schools requiring them...
^^^^ and the graphing calculator app needs to run 10 times faster and compute 100x more complex math than the current model does now.
opps, responded to the wrong post... its 3:30am here... :-(
Ican't help but notice the phones are getting bigger.
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?
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..
A horribly power-inefficient architecture like x86 running a smartphone sounds like a terrible idea to me.
"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.
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.
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.
Would've loved to see that thing running a flavor of Windows.....Mobile 6.5 preferably
When are they going to shrink an Itanium? That's a futuristic CPU that gets brushed aside way too much.