At Hot Chips this past week, Intel’s Rajesh Patel revealed more details of the chipmaker’s upcoming Moorestown platform. Patel, who is the lead architect of the platform’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) part, also made it clear that he really does believe that Moorestown is a bona fide “smartphone” platform that will give us the world’s first x86-based phones. I wasn’t actually at the presentation, so I …
We’ve seen quite a few wireless carriers institute policies wherein new activated smartphones are required to sign up for some sort of wireless data plan too. This makes sense, I suppose, for the iPhones and BlackBerry devices of the world.
Chinese site Sina has snapped a ton of clear photos of the Dell Mini 3i, their China-only Android-based smartphone. It looks like a genetic experiment between the Palm Pre and the iPhone. …
There’s good news for those who are looking forward to seeing more webOS-based smartphones: mentions of several upcoming models have shown up in both Sprint’s and Verizon’s inventory systems.
The provider hopes smartphones from Dell, HTC, Lenovo, and others will help drive mobile data adoption in the world’s biggest mobile market.