Intel-powered Android Smartphone Headed to Orange

This past year at CES, Intel made quite a splash when it unveiled the first Intel-powered smartphone. Since then we've heard surprisingly little about Intel's plans for the smartphone market. However, just because the company has been staying relatively quiet about its smartphone plans, that doesn't mean it's been resting on its laurels. This past weekend at Mobile World Congress, European wireless carrier Orange confirmed that Europe was to get its first Intel-powered Android device in the form of the Santa Clara.

The Santa Clara packs that all-important Atom Z2460 1.6GHz processor, a 4-inch (600x1024) display, an 8-megapixel camera (1080p video and burst capture of up to 10 shots a second), HSPA speeds of 21.1Mbps down and 5.6Mbps up, HDMI-out, and NFC. Orange says that the phone will be aggressively priced when it does launch this coming summer. However, the name probably won't stick. 'Santa Clara' was billed as a codename only and we imagine Orange will have something a little catchier by the time the summer rolls around.

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olaf 6 years ago

EU FTW! take that US with your freaky networks
fellskrazykayaker 6 years ago

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.

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olaf 6 years ago

EU FTW! take that US with your freaky networks
fellskrazykayaker 6 years ago

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.
Anonymous 6 years ago

FIRST!!!!!!
pollom 6 years ago

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

the atom is x86
jaber2 6 years ago

Where Intel goes AMD will follow.
tmk221 6 years ago

I guess that atom will be much much faster than ARM but what about battery life? I think it's much more important.
Anonymous 6 years ago

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 6 years ago

It's all about battery life!
JOSHSKORN 6 years ago

Makes me wonder, will there be a Haswell Smartphone?
back_by_demand 6 years ago

hmmm, x86 on a smartphone
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I'll give it 2 weeks and someone will have Window XP running on it
ojas 6 years ago

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 6 years ago

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 6 years ago

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 6 years ago

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 6 years ago

to bad Orange blows chunks .... droped calls, over taxing, shoddy 3G
sonofliberty08 6 years ago

jaber2Where Intel goes AMD will follow.

Fixed: where AMD goes Intel will follow since the K8
GreaseMonkey_62 6 years ago

Quote:

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.

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