Acer may be better known for its tablets, but the manufacturer continues to dabble in the smartphone sphere; earlier this year, we talked about the Liquid Gallant and Liquid Gallant Duo Androids. According to one exec, the company has another smartphone in the works, with plans to release the handset before the year's out. VP Peter Shieh recently mentioned this phone to reporters, including the important detail that it will run one of Intel's new chips. With the launch of the Motorola RAZR i, such SoCs are finally starting to go mainstream, and Acer's phone, presumably an Android as well, ...

Motorola's announcement of the RAZR i may be the most high-profile usage of the Intel's new Atom-based Medfield SoCs to date, but it won't see a release in the US. As an LTE-crazy nation, it's getting harder and harder to market new smartphones lacking 4G radios, and we haven't seen any of these phones with Intel chips also support LTE. In a recent interview, Intel’s Director of Product Marketing Sumeet Syal commented on the lack of LTE in these first-gen Medfield designs, and touched on where the company is going from here. The good news is that you shouldn't have long to wait before we ...

Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the joint Motorola-Intel event that just happened in London, and where their new RAZR i smartphone was announced, powered by Intel's new Medfield processor. We then talk about LG's Korean announcement of the Optimus G, which we'll see in the US starting tomorrow. Then we go through our recent coverage of Amazon's Kindler Fire 7 HD, which is quickly knocking on a door near you. HTC also made some headlines with some press renders of their One X 5 coming to Verizon. We then end the sow talking about Microsoft's Steve Ballmer providing details on ...

It's finally here: an Android-powered smartphone running on an Intel chip. That's big news, right? Sure it is, but the devil is in the details. The phone in question is the RAZR i -- the "i", if you couldn't guess, is for "Intel", and it's running one of Intel's Medfield-based Atom processors. What's so special about Intel? Intel is world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue1, but they've been somewhat slow getting into the mobile market (and by that I mean smartphones and tablets). The primary reason for that is due to their architecture. When most ...

We knew Intel was going to be part of today's Motorola announcement and we had a pretty good hunch that it will be making the processor which will power whatever phone the company will unveil today. We now have the official info: the Motorola RAZR I is powered by an Intel Atom (Medfield) processor and it's the world's first phone to run on a 2GHz SoC (single-core though, but with hyper-threading). Motorola is proud to call this the biggest launch in the UK since the RAZR. The newborn RAZR I packs an edge-to-edge 4.3-inch AMOLED screen ("with virtually no border") which will appeal to ...

Last week, we got news of Motorola's latest Android offerings, the regular and Maxx versions of the Droid RAZR HD, as well as the more petite Droid RAZR M. Besides those models coming to the US on Verizon, we learned that the international version of the latter, the RAZR M (sans Droid), would be seeing some hardware changes, swapping out its Snapdragon for an Intel chip. Now it looks like Motorola and Intel are trying to drum-up some excitement for the international launch of this handset, releasing a new teaser video. Even if we hadn't already heard about the Intel-powered Razr M, this ...

Intel started out 2012 by giving the impression that it was about to get very involved in the smartphone and tablet scene, thanks to its Atom-based Medfield SoCs. We heard the company announce a multi-year partnership with Motorola that would presumably lead to using these chips in future Motorola hardware, and we even saw a leak of what one of those devices might be, but we've yet to see them come to market; if you've wanted Intel-based Androids in the meantime, you've been stuck with lesser-known names like Xolo. Now, it may nearly be time for this Motorola deal to finally get off the ...

In our last few episodes of the Android Guy Weekly we've talked a lot about processors and SoCs. We've talked about ARM-based CPUs primarily, and one of our readers, Prateek, wants to know: where is Intel in all of this? ARM is a Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) architecture. Intel is a Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) architecture. Android, as we know it, runs on RISC hardware. RISC is generally considered faster and uses less power than CISC. The reasons for this are varied, but one of the factors is that reducing the instruction set offloads the heavy-lifting of the code ...