Comments on: Intel's Netbook OS Plans Hint Smartphone Aspirations

By: Palm Hopes WebOS Cornerstone Turns Company Cash-Flow Positive in Two Quarters

Palm Hopes WebOS Cornerstone Turns Company Cash-Flow Positive in Two Quarters — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:31:47 +0000

[...] In terms of the business plan, market opportunity and financials, Palm thinks there is room for three to five players in this space. With Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, iPhone and BlackBerry already in the mix, I wonder who Palm thinks will be “out”? There’s no question for smartphone demand: Palm says that smartphones account for 19% of handhelds in the U.S. and 11% globally, with both figures expected to double by 2013. However, the other players have a head-start and “newcomers” like Intel (s INTC) have smartphone designs too. [...]

By: Qualcomm Turns a Netbook Into a Smartbook

Qualcomm Turns a Netbook Into a Smartbook — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:14:17 +0000

[...] by Qualcomm, have features that will likely appeal to more users. That’s why Intel is pushing its Moblin OS, which steals some UI features from cell phones, and is working on its own integrated chips. [...]

By: Gadget Sleuth

Gadget Sleuth — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:36:27 +0000

No, Intel….just no. Apple, RIM and now maybe Palm have the smartphone market pretty firmly in hand.

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Sun, 24 May 2009 09:40:36 +0000

[...] Intel Netbook OS Pläne deuten auf Ambitionen im Smartphone-Markt hin [...]

By: Frank Miller

Frank Miller — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:10:59 +0000

Intel chips are still many times more power hungry and give off way more heat than any of the ARM chips. Their new generation may address that but I wouldn’t hold my breath on x86 in smartphones anytime soon.

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Links 23/05/2009: EarCandy 0.4, More Android Phones | Boycott Novell — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:09:31 +0000

[...] Intel’s Netbook OS Plans Hint Smartphone Aspirations If the chip maker has its way, Intel won’t be inside netbooks solely from a hardware perspective. Intel helped create the Moblin initiative in the second half of 2007, just as netbooks became a reality. Moblin is the mobile Linux operating system on which Intel and the open-source community jointly collaborate. But while Intel’s Moblin enters the ring to fight the battle for netbook operating systems, I suspect the effort is ultimately a front for the larger prize: smartphones. [...]

By: foo

foo — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:12:55 +0000

Since computers reached a certain speed, I stopped worrying about processor and memory.

Here’s a perfectly fine $250 netbook specification:

- Display: 10 inches
- Battery: 8 hours
- Storage: 8 GB SSD
- Weight: 1 kg
- Processor: 800MHz
- Memory: 512MB

As you can see, comfort and portability are the most important factors.

I’d be more than happy with a 800MHz/512MB netbook as long as it had a decent display and keyboard. All I need is a browser, really.

Thus, a Linux/ARM netbook would fit the bill.

By: Mobile Tracker

Mobile Tracker — Sat, 23 May 2009 05:39:28 +0000

Atom architecture still has a long way to go in the mobile device market. Intel needs to reduce power consumption where ARM beats them and Intel needs to produce a all-in-one kind of a SOC if they are serious about the mobile market. They should stick to what they are good at – chip making – rather than creating a netbook OS and dev platform.

By: Different path

Different path — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:17:00 +0000

I don’t quite understand — “aspiring” for the smartphone? They’ve made it clear they will are aiming for smartphones with their Medfield chip, which is due in 2011. Medfield will succeed Moorestown.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:28:31 +0000

Point taken, but Intel does have established credibility in the smartphone market. Their XScale ARM CPUs owned the early Windows Mobile smartphone market until they sold the business off to Marvell in 2006. Back then I surmised that they weren’t abandoning the handheld market, they were simply looking to go down a different path.