Since Intel showed off their first demo Medfield handset, we’ve only seen a production offering from Lenovo, and that’s only going to be available in China. rumour has it, though, that this is Motorola’s first Intel offering.
That Lenovo K800 phone, just announced at Intel’s CES keynote and running off of the company’s 32-nanometre mobile 1.6GHz Medfield chip? It’s here. I played with it. It’s… OK?
Intel would be the first to admit that it’s fallen far behind int he mobile game. The company desperately wants in on the post-PC land grab, but so far hasn’t been able to put out a chip that’s not a battery-draining false start. Medfield is the processor that’s supposed to change all that. And based on our brief hands on, it honestly just might.
It’s all very wink wink, nudge nudge, hush hush, but the odour that Intel is giving off in this Fortune article about the Medfield project is that Intel’s trying to shrink x86 down to smartphones.
