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Intel Stretches the iPhone and Brings Moorestown

More of an extra-long stone

By Elena Balan, Communications News Editor

21st of September 2007, 09:40 GMT

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Intel's concept running on a Moorestown processor
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Intel has just added one more device to those inspired by Apple's iPhone that have managed only to copy it instead of breaking it. This new handset is surely going to need some space in the crowd, as it comes in some unbelievable sizes, with a length that will surely scare many people away. Good thing it's only a concept.

In order to best present the capabilities of
its new Moorestown processor, Intel has showed everyone a device that uses this component. It's a super-slim UMPC with phone capabilities, highly similar to the iPhone. When it comes to design, it is almost identical to Apple's phone, were it not for the incredibly huge length that makes the way it will manage to impress anyone uncertain.

When everybody is looking to make mobile phones as compact as possible, a huge device will fail to be groundbreaking, no matter how good its display looks. It looks like Intel has played a bit with Apple's phone and developed a new concept that literally "stretches" its limits to the next level. The advantage of Intel's new concept phone is that it can run for 24 hours between charges.

The special thing about this device is what triggers it in the first place, meaning its processor. In fact, Intel considers that even Apple might have wanted this solution for its iPhone, but it was not available at the time. Their concept device uses a low cost, low power x86 processor, which makes it capable of even higher performance than other devices similar to Apple's phone. With this new solution released, the "iPhone killer" wannabes have higher chances of succeeding in their attempts of surpassing their main competitor.

Moorestown is supposed to be capable of reducing overall package size and power down to half and idle power down by a factor of 10x. Intel also presented several devices that could use this processor. The tall iPhone one is only a concept, although the company went to the trouble of actually building a version of it. Could this mean that there actually is a future for such a device?

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