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Intel and LG Team Up For x86 Smartphone
gbjbaanb writes "I love stories about new smartphones; it shows the IT market is doing something different than the usual same-old desktop apps. Maybe one day we'll all be using super smartphones as our primary computing platforms. And so, here's Intel's offering: the LG GW990. Running a Moorestown CPU, which gives 'considerably' better energy efficiency than the Atom, it runs Intel's Linux distro — Moblin. Quoting: 'In some respects, the GW990 — which has an impressive high-resolution 4.8-inch touchscreen display — seems more like a MID than a smartphone. It's possible that we won't see x86 phones with truly competitive all-day battery life until the emergence of Medfield, the Moorestown successor that is said to be coming in 2011. It is clear, however, that Intel aims to eventually compete squarely with ARM in the high-end smartphone market."
You can take a NIGGER out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the NIGGER!
And these new phones will probably have a fan and require 2GB of memory so it can run Windows. lol. If they only talk about Gnu/Linux then we'll know they are serious but if they pull Microsoft in, you know it's a PR game and like the netbook segment, it'll run the prices up so high few will want them.
Why? I would be happy if my cellphone could run Windows NT or 98. They do not require a lot of CPU power and are much more compatible with modern Windows versions than Linux, Symbian or whatever other smartphone OS.
I would be happy even with Windows 3.11. There is a lot of software even for this version.