Intel has yet to release an X86 powered smartphone on the market, we got our hopes up at for Medfield and we have our fingers crossed that we’ll be seeing something at CES next month. Its not surprising that there is speculation that Intel and Samsung have teamed up to launch the first Atom-powered Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone.
Android and Me is claiming to have several sources stating that Samsung will launch the world’s first Android smartphone with Intel’s architecture for Sprint.
The company had a version of Android 4.0 for Medfield up and running within a day of Google open sourcing the OS, and now packages for smartphones and tablets with Medfield drivers are available to device makers, said Alec Gefrides, head of the Google Program Office at Intel.
Intel is working with device makers to optimize and fine-tune the OS for specific platforms and products based on Medfield chips. While the OS is expected to be ready in time for the product releases, it will be up to the device makers to decide whether they want to implement the OS in smartphones or tablets.
“We’ll see products next year on Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich and Honeycomb,” Gefrides said, referring to Android versions 2.3, 4.0 and 3.x. “Every OEM has to put a stake in the ground to get a product delivered.”
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