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September 15, 2012

Intel Medfield Processor Now Supports Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

(GSM Insider) - Can you imagine when majority of our smartphones run on Intel Inside? This might not happens in near future. But coming soon to the future. Intel successfully ported Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to its low power Intel Medfield processor.



"I'm running it," said Mike Bell, Intel's vice president and general manager of the mobile computing group, during an interview at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. "We can't put it on the phones. We have to give it to the carriers to put on the phones and they go through acceptance testing," Bell said, adding that he can't announce Android 4.1 testing or deployment on behalf of carriers or device makers."A year ago people were saying 'can Intel do a smartphone?' and now people are saying 'how long till you [grow]?' It's a much better question to deal with," Bell said.

There are only a few smartphones that run on Intel Inside. Orange Santa Clara is of them. Besides Android and Windows 8 tablet run Intel inside their devices, Tizen operating system shown interested in this as well. Can Intel success in the smartphone and tablet market? [Source]

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