Intel briefly shows off an Atom SoC powered smartphone

Intel Corp. at its sales conference last week reportedly demonstrated a prototype of a smartphone featuring one of its Atom-based system-on-chip (SoC). The demonstration likely involved an early prototype of a handset running code-named Medfield SoC, which is due to be released later this year.

Anand Chandrasekher, vice president and co-general manager of the Intel architecture group showed off a Medfield-based phone at an Intel sales conference, according to a MeeGo developer who attended the event. The demonstrated smartphone was neither big or small; it was also not clear, which operating system the phone utilized.

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Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation Phone Reviewed, the Xperia Play’s Secrets Are All Out!

The Xperia Play (Or better known as The Playstation Phone) holds no more secrets.

A member of Chinese mobile forum ePrice was able to meet a friend who had acquired an Xperia Play handset, asking if he would be interested in taking a look at Sony Ericsson’s Android-based gaming smartphone. Wanting to know more, the guy travelled to Shenzhen and was treated with a full overview, capturing more high-resolution photos of the device and a demo video, writing a full review in the process.

The  Xperia Play will feature a 1GHz processor with the Adreno 205 GPU, it will have a 4-inch FWVGA screen that is capable of delivering a 854 x 480 resolution, a 5MP camera, noise cancelling dual microphones and dual speakers

This would run on Android 2.3 as no different as shown on the Chinese videos on the internet, and also, there is support for MicroSD, MicroUSB and there is a 3.5mm microphone jack.

We still have yet to know which games are supported on the Xperia Play besides the PS1 games support. Stay tuned for more info!

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