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IDF Day 1: Intel goes Android lovin'

Written by Zeljko Djuric

Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:28

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Here on the IDF, one of the biggest surprises was Andy Rubin appearance during Paul Otellini keynote. Andy is Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, and his appearance on stage is important indication of strong cooperation between two companies. He and Intel' CEO Otellini on stage demonstrated smartphone based on Atom Medfield architecture. Presentation was brief, but enough to see that it is working on latest Android OS for mobile phone 2.3.5.

Otellini said that Android is now optimized for Intel architecture as well, and that they are on the track to see Atom based Android smartphones to the market in H1 2012. It wasn’t only Android surprise, as Cisco demonstrated their new business oriented VoIP, working on Intel Architecture. Phone was working on Android OS, and beside business oriented apps available through Cisco market application, it also support all regular Android market apps. Best part is that screen can be detached from the base and carried around and used as a tablet.