Intel, Google Team To Optimize Android For Smartphones

angry tapir writes "Intel and Google announced on Tuesday that they would partner to optimize future versions of the Android OS for smartphones and other mobile devices using Intel chips. Intel CEO Paul Otellini demonstrated a smartphone with the upcoming Medfield chip running on Android during a keynote at the Intel Developer Conference being held in San Francisco. However, Otellini didn't mention the version of Android running on the smartphone. Intel wants to make x86 the architecture of choice for smartphones, and porting Android will provide a larger opportunity to the chip maker in the smartphone market, Otellini said."

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Android Plain Sucks

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Oooh a x86 in my pocket, yeah ! Can't wait. My balls are a bit cold. Now seriously. Now we know the google way : Troll ppl up with something mildly cool, and once everybody is hooked up, turn it into a big pile of crippled, proprietary horseshit. Android is SO lame it makes me want to check WinPhone out !! Just kidding. Oh wait, a new community SSU on my Nokia N900 ! We are basically 42,5 people/geeks to own a Maemo phone. The vendor itself dommed it, and the OS with it. And yet there is every kind of possible - useful - app, a real user base, now even managing OS updates. You don't see this kind of user commitment to Android. Why would you ? Come to think of it, Apple made a very good job at ruining the whole smartphone market.