After several years of promises, Intel has finally brought Medfield platform to the commercial stage : at the Mobile World Congress 2012 Orange, Lava International and Visa, introduced a smartphone reference design, which will be available later in this year.
The smartphone has a fairly conventional size - 123 x 63 x 9,99 mm, weight is also low - 117 grams. For comparison, the thickness of previous reference design reaches 11 mm, and weight was 10 grams more. Diagonal of screen - 4.03 inches, Resolution - 1024 x 600 pixels.
The base of the hardware platform is a new single-chip system Intel Atom Z2460, which includes single-core CPU at 1.6 GHz, 512 KB cache, memory controller LPDDR2 and GPU, running at 400 MHz. The RAM is 1 GB (and this is - maximum), the amount of integrated flash memory - 16 GB. The list of other equipment include camera with 8 megapixels, microUSB port and Mini HDMI. For wireless is responsible XMM 6260, which is realized through communication support HSPA +.
Initially, the smartphone will come with a preinstalled OS Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but are expected to appear later upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The approximate price of each will be about 300 euros.