Handy progress
The mobile device market is already white-hot, but the imminent arrival of Intel is set to make it yet more competitive.
Intel's lowest-powered chip yet - Moorestown - is set to make an appearance in commercially available tablets before long and Intel already has it up and running on a demo platform made by Aava.
But Intel has to not only prove Moorestown is low-power enough to run a handheld device, it has to integrate it into a software ecosystem that's quite different from the Microsoft-dominated PC platform.
So, as part of the build-up to the commercial launch of Moorestown, Intel is talking-up the capabilities on x86 (as opposed to ARM) architecture on not just the MeeGo operating system - to which it is contributing so much, but Google's Android too.
MeeGo announced that yesterday was ‘day one' of the MeeGo Handset Project, which means the handset baseline source code is now available to the development community, in anticipation of the release of version 1.1 in October. You can read more about this on the MeeGo blog and here's a vid.
