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LAS VEGAS--An Intel executive gave a surprisingly in-depth
demonstration of a future LG GW990 smartphone from LG Electronics here
at CES.
Pankaj Kedia, director of Intel's Global Ecosystems Program for Mobile
Internet Devices and Smart Phones, walked me through the phone's
interface (see above video) on Friday. It runs on Intel's Moblin
operating system and was surprisingly functional for a phone that is
due, most likely, in the second half of the year. Intel CEO Paul
Otellini brandished the LG GW990 during a CES keynote on Thursday but
he demonstrated nothing approaching what Kedia showed me.
To state the obvious (or maybe not so obvious to some), the world's
largest chipmaker doesn't make chips for smartphones. It makes
processors for virtually every other kind of personal computing
device, but not for the burgeoning smartphone market. At least not
yet.
Intel's "Moorestown" system-on-a-chip, due in the first half of this
year, will contain an Atom processor and is targeted at smartphones
and other handheld devices. It will be more highly integrated than the
current Atom processor used in Netbooks and much more power-efficient.
The chipmaker is working with both LG Electronics and Nokia to bring
out smartphones packing the Moorestown chip.
I was pleasantly surprised at the device's interface and its ability
to multitask. Again, see the video for a demonstration of how adept
the phone is at multitasking and other features.