{"id":40245,"date":"2011-12-22T10:43:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T08:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=40245"},"modified":"2011-12-22T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T08:47:17","slug":"intel-shows-off-prototype-smartphones-and-tablet-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/40245-intel-shows-off-prototype-smartphones-and-tablet-pcs.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel shows off prototype smartphones and tablet PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Technology Review<\/em> has had some hands on times with smartphones and tablet PCs based on the new <a title=\"Intel\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307489-Intel\">Intel<\/a> Medfield architecture, Intel\u2019s latest mobile offering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect products based on these to be announced in the first half of 2012,&#8221; said Stephen Smith, vice president of Intel\u2019s Architecture group.<\/p>\n<p>The current prototypes are known as reference designs, and will be sent out to manufacturers to serve as a guideline for building mobile phones based on Intel\u2019s technology. &#8220;They [manufacturers] can use as much or as little of the reference design as they like,&#8221; said Smith, who also hinted that Intel devices may make an appearance at the CES 2012 electronics show.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype devices were running the Gingerbread version of <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google\u2019s<\/a> <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> operating system, and were reportedly able to play Blu-ray quality video without a hitch.<\/p>\n<p>Smith also noted that Intel has built circuits into the Medfield chip specifically to speed up Android apps and Web browsing.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Technology Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/computing\/39378\/page1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has demoed smartphones and tablets running off their Medfield range of mobile processors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":25021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,167,131,7613],"class_list":["post-40245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-google","tag-intel","tag-stephen-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40249,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40245\/revisions\/40249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}