MIT lauds Intel Medfield-based Android phone and tablet

Intel’s Medfield-based smartphone and tablets seem to be ready for the competitive mobile market as Intel gave some hands-on time to MIT Technology Review. Intel developed a reference design smartphone and tablet running Android OS, which the MIT praised for its performance.

Medfield is the newest chip in the Atom line and unlike previous Atom processors, this is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) which are widely used in mobile devices.

The smartphone ran on Gingerbread OS and it was found to be “at par with the latest iPhone and Android handsets.” The phone is said to be lighter than iPhone and ran HD videos pretty smoothly along with a decent web browsing performance.

The reference tablet on the other hand, ran the latest Ice Cream Sandwich OS update and was “noticeably nicer to use” than tablets based on Honeycomb OS.

Devices running Intel’s Medfield are expected in the first half of 2012, which means Intel might have something to show at the CES next month.

[MIT via The Verge]

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