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If you liked the look of Motorola’s recently-announced RAZR M, but reside on the other side of the Atlantic, you might get what you want — with some internal changes. While Intel and Motorola’s London event isn’t for another two weeks, according to Pocket-lint, it’ll possibly be a Medfield-powered version of Motorola’s smallest new addition waiting for British phone-shoppers later this month. The Intel mobile processor would replace the Snapdragon S4 residing in the US version, but the rest of the phone’s specification (and dimensions) will remain unchanged. We’ll be checking in on this Intel iteration at its launch event on September 18th.

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Motorola bringing RAZR M to Europe with Intel mobile chip originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This week at IFA 2012 the folks at ZTE have introduced a brand new fabulous-looking Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone with an Intel Medfield processor inside. This device has an Atom X2460 under the hood for next-level processing power and works with a casing that’s quite unique to the world of smartphone in its hatched-back battery cover physical patterning. The rest of the device looks rather like a Galaxy Nexus, and certainly hasn’t changed a whole lot since we saw an earlier iteration just a few months back.

This smartphone has a 4.3-inch 960 x 540 pixel resolution display and it sports a powerful 8 megapixel camera on the back with single LED flash. Inside you’ll find ZTE’s custom user interface over Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, this affording you all the great features of the next-to-newest operating system from Google with ZTE’s bubble flair. You’ll see rounded corners around square icons and your very own high definition widgets with weather, time, and date as well.

This device will work with 4G HSPA+ up to 21Mpbs and has Intel Hyper-Threading Technology embedded within. With this technology and the Intel XMM 6260 Platform you’ll be working with ultra-fast web browsing and an all-around super speedy user experience throughout the device.

Under the hood you’ve also got a 1650mAh battery for all-day up time as well as 1GB of RAM with either 4 or 16GB of ROM. You’ll also have the ability to expand your memory by 32GB with this device’s microSD card slot. You’ve got a front-facing 0.3 megapixel camera for video chat, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 + A2DP, Dolby sound, RM Radio, Accelerator, Gyroscope, Compass, Proximity senros, and Light sensor as well.

Have a peek at the timeline below to see more on the history of this model as it appeared earlier this year with slightly different specifications – and note that what we’re seeing above appears to be the final version, coming out in Europe at the start of next month!

ZTE Grand X IN appears as first ICS smartphone with Intel Inside is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Motorola and Intel have been in cahoots since this past January, but so far their relationship hasn’t yielded any new gadgets to lust after. That should all change very shortly though, as the two companies have been busy sending out invitations to a big September 18 press event in London this morning.

As for what the two companies plan to share, well, that’s still tough to discern. The (frustratingly vague) invitation urges us members of the tech press to let them take us “to the edge” — should one succumb to the urge to read too much into things, it’s possible that the line is a not-so-sly reference to a smartphone or tablet design with an edge-to-edge display.

There is also the matter of that striking Medfield-powered smartphone design that first started making the rounds back in February — Motorola may finally be planning to push that little guy (or some variant thereof) into the market. Considering that Motorola and Intel told us to expect a Medfield device launch in 2012, this is likely our winner.

It’s worth noting that the newly-leaked Droid RAZR M for Verizon bears a striking resemblance to that early render though, so it wouldn’t be a shock to see an Intel-powered smartphone with a slightly different look to help differentiate it.

Even though other Intel-powered Android devices have beaten Motorola to market — there’s the oddly-named (and India-exclusive) Lava XOLO X900 for one — Motorola’s is the biggest hardware name attached to the chipset maker right now. Whatever those crazy kids end up unveiling is going to be worth paying attention to, although I imagine some people will still be too wrapped up in whatever Apple announces the week before that to care much.

The Intel-powered mobile machine has been slowly picking up pace this year. Now, the chip-maker has signed up a new partner in the form of Russian operator MegaFon. So, it looks like we might see another (and we must say familiar looking) network-branded Android Medfield phone in the form of the MegaFon Mint. The spec-sheet, again, poses no surprises, with the same 1.6GHz Z2460 chip 1GB of RAM, 4-inch screen and 8-megapixel camera only further enhancing the sense of deja vu. What will be unique, however, is the price, which looks set at 17,990 Rubles (about $565), available from today.

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Intel brings Medfield to Russia with the MegaFon Mint originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intel has revealed that it’s working on bringing Jelly Bean to its low-power Atom architecture. In an email to PC World, company rep Suzy Greenberg confirmed the project was ongoing, but didn’t offer a timeline as to when the latest flavor of Google’s mobile OS would arrive on a device. It’s the same story regarding when Ice Cream Sandwich would turn up on Medfield-powered devices like the San Diego and its brethren. The report also pours cold water on hopes for Clover Trail powered Android gear — saying that it’s pencilled in as a Windows 8-only platform.

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Intel porting Jelly Bean to its Atom architecture, is in no hurry to tell you when it’s done originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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