
Why oh why
are news Android phones still being released on ICS? Give em JB.
Motorola Mobility has introduced its first Intel-based smartphone: the Razr i. In addition to the 2GHz Intel Atom Z2460 - based on the chip giant's single-core Medfield design; 2GHz is a peak, if-the-phone's-cold-enough burst speed - the i has a 4.3in (almost) edge-to-edge OLED display frame in aluminium and a Kevlar casing …
Oh the irony of all the fandroids who claim that it's the phone manufacturers and network operators that hold back updates to Android causing it to be so fragmented then they go and announce a new smartphone made by a company they own that's already a version behind. You couldn't make it up
Didn't I read something about compatability issues with the Intel silicon? Like they only run apps that are tweaked for 'em?
Otherwise, it looks really cool.
Agree about JB, though: I mean, this is Google, FFS! They have absolutely no excuse for punting something with 1 year old version of the O/S.
...a very good point actually. Once having gotten past the locked bootloader - Motorola do love a locked bootloader - I'm sure it won't be long before the clever folk over at XDA Developers get Ubuntu, or even XP, running on this.
I really wouldn't want to touch one of these, given how many things are actually dependent on the underlying CPU, Dalvik or no. Lots of stuff hits the NDK, and even some browsers require specific CPUs in order to be supported. There has been a lot of doom mongering about fragmentation on Android in the past, but this might be the prime candidate for a more real world example.
(Unless I am missing something bloody obvious, which is possible, I am a bit short on sleep today)