Smartphones and tablets that run Intel chipsets will be present in the mobile market early next year. The second gadget is ready to challenge the dominance of Apple’s flagship gadget, the iPhone and the iPad.
A magazine published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology said it had tested the prototype smartphones and tablets are equipped with Intel’s latest mobile chip, dubbed Medfield. This product is also running Google’s Android mobile operating system.
“We expect Intel-tech products will be announced in the first half of 2012,” The product prototype, known as the “reference design” was launched to create new markets in an effort to persuade manufacturers to begin assembling a new device Intel tech.
The prototype smartphone is similar to the dimensions of the iPhone 4 but it feels lighter. This model is more powerful and fun to use, equivalent to the latest iPhone and Android handsets. In addition, the phone can play Blu-Ray quality video and download the streaming TV if desired, Web browsing is also much smoother and faster.
A remarkable feature of this phone is the camera mode “burst mode” that can capture an image size of 10 from 8-megapixel camera at a rate of 15 per second.
For Intel-tech tablet, this gadget is also running the latest version of the Android system, which has a slightly larger screen than the iPad 2 but with the same thickness and weight. According to observers, this gadget should get a trial because it is better than the Android version of the old tablets.
Intel also has been tested against several references leading mobile phone handsets sold today and the tests showed that the Medfield offers faster performance for browsing and graphics, as well as lower power consumption.
Intel announced a partnership with Google that aims to enable the Android system in an effort to support the architecture’s largest chip producer in the world.
Intel has long struggled to gain the attention of the market of smartphones and tablets. Most of today’s mobile devices using chips based on the architecture of ARM Holdings, which is considered to have more power efficient than Intel’s products. Nokia is also planning the production of a smartphone with Intel chips this year, but then shifted to the ARM-based mobile phone with Windows Phone 7.
