14 DAY TRIAL // Intel's Atom Moorestown processor may be just the milestone before the big breakthrough, but this definitely didn't stop Intel from showing off its ability to service multiple kinds of electronics. No doubt the MeeGo-loaded tablet with 720p video support has already entranced its fare share of end-users. Nevertheless, even though the chances of success on the smartphone market are slim at best, the Santa Clara, California GPU maker's mobile chip still wouldn't let Computex go without getting inside a couple of handheld devices.
Most smartphones on show in Taipei boast chips/SoCs made by NVIDIA, ARM and Qualcomm, but Ava Mobile was willing to build a few prototypes around Intel's part. MeeGo is the software platform featured on the larger number of them, but there were also some pre-loaded with Android 2.1. At least, this is what Engadget reports.
Of course, as consumers are probably accustomed to hearing by now, the actual specifications of the phones were not made available. They also were not exactly connected to the web, and lacked any pre-loaded videos or music files, which means that the multimedia capabilities weren't exactly up for scrutiny.
On the other hand, the team was able to get a general idea of the performance, though it didn't seem to be any better than what a 1GHz Snapdragon brought to its own line of mobiles.
That AVA Mobile would experiment with Moorestown is not all that surprising. In fact, the company actually demonstrated such smartphone concepts at the Mobile World Congress back in February. Said devices were supposedly going to bring PC capabilities to a small form factor, including Full HD video support and HD video conferencing. It is unclear how much of this has made it into the models currently on display at Computex, but the idea itself is interesting even if not yet achieved.