After all the ultra-book talk here’s what we got is something new. On Tuesday, Intel spent a significant portion of the keynote address to focus on company’s role in the smart phone processor market. Intel showed a smart phone reference design running android on a new chip called Atom Z2460.The special thing about the device it is not intended to be a end market product instead it will be used by other smart phone manufacturers to build a handset based on Intel chipsets.
The main purpose of giving a look of the chipset is that manufacturer’s can compare the smart phones build on other processors other than Intel with Intel.
Intel’s reference Android runs one of the company’s Atom Z2460 processors, clocked at 1.6GHz. Of course, Intel’s using it’s own GPU, and the phone’s radio supports 21Mbps HSPA+.
This design features a four-inch display, an eight-megapixel main camera with 1.3-megapixel front-facer, with support to HDMI-out and NFC, which we’ll hopefully see in other phones based on Intel’s chips.
