Intel CEO Paul Otellini just told investors that the company’s first smartphone is ready for launch. On a Q1 financial earnings call, he said that “the launch of our first Intel architecture-based smartphone” will occur “later this week.” You shouldn’t necessarily expect to get your hands on a new Atom-based smartphone yourself, though, because last we heard the Lenovo K800 will be the first Intel phone, and that particular 4.5-inch, 1.6GHz Atom Z2460-powered Android 4.0 device is only slated for China right now.
First Intel smartphone launching ‘later this week,’ says CEO
Intel CEO Paul Otellini just told investors that the company’s first smartphone is ready for launch. On a Q1 financial earnings call, he said that “the launch of our first Intel architecture-based smartphone” will occur “later this week.”
Intel CEO Paul Otellini just told investors that the company’s first smartphone is ready for launch. On a Q1 financial earnings call, he said that “the launch of our first Intel architecture-based smartphone” will occur “later this week.”
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Feel free to live vicariously through us, though, by watching our CES 2012 hands-on video of the Lenovo K800 below, and look forward to Intel phones from Motorola and other OEMs over the coming year.
Update: We’re hearing that rather than the Lenovo K800, the first Medfield smartphone might be the Lava Xolo X900, which is rumored to launch in India on April 19.
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