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PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:50 pm    Post subject: First Intel-powered smartphone to be launched in India Reply with quote

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17769049

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Intel has confirmed details of the first smartphone to be powered by one of its processors.

The XOLO X900, made by the Indian manufacturer Lava, will go on sale on 23 April priced at about 22,000 rupees (£265).

Lava has teamed up with Indian retail chain Croma to distribute the device across the country.

The move follows Intel's previous failed attempt to break into the smartphone market.

A tie-up with manufacturer LG in 2010 fell flat, with no models going into production.

Meanwhile, chips designed by British-based ARM and the American firm Qualcomm now dominate the market.

Details of Intel-powered smartphones made by Motorola Mobility and Lenovo are expected soon.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lies.

And people think the BBC is of any higher quality than the next three-letter network.

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Intel itself is being quite careful with the wording, claiming on only that the XOLO is "India's first smartphone with Intel inside", our emphasis, but that's not stopped the BBC and other's calling it the "First Intel-powered smartphone".


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/19/intel_android/
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Geez, that makes all the difference. :roll:
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, yeah, 'cause that makes this something other than their first phone.

Oh, never mind. You didn't RTFA.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, yeah. :roll:
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

:lol: :lol: :lol:

:roll: indeed

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Intel chips powered a range of BlackBerry handsets, and a generation of Windows Mobile based devices, including

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This world's first Intel smartphone is monstrous. No, not its size, its specs.

It has a 400MHz graphics processor along with the Intel CPU, which runs at 1.6GHz. Can do HDMI and shit.

Okay, so, this HDMI thing in mobile phones is common these days? Which other phone has it?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lava, as in, 'Benny Lava'?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

youtube it
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hear it's a good phone. Not great, but good. A respectable first offering.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Still isn't their first.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought x86 was only on android 4.0?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

genstorm wrote:
Lava, as in, 'Benny Lava'?


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