We’re at Showstoppers at CES in Vegas, and we just got a first look at Lenovo’s new K800 smartphone, the first in the world to run on Intel’s Medfield chipset. We liked the design of the phone’s hardware, though it’s a little thick. It will run a heavily skinned version of Android 4.0 (though the model we saw ran Android 2.3.7), which looks similar to the skins on Lenovo’s tablets. It’s got a 1.6GHz Intel processor, a 4.5-inch 720p HD TFT display, an 8-megapixel camera, a WCDMA HSPA+ 21Mbps wireless radio, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, and GPS onboard. It’s also got WiDi onboard, which Lenovo says “enables screen sync to a TV at 720p30.” The phone felt pretty snappy, but we’ll reserve real judgment for when we can spend more time with the device. It’s going to launch in China in the first half of this year, and there’s no word on when (or if) it will be available stateside.
Lenovo K800 hands-on: first Intel-powered phone, with Android 4.0 and 720p display
We take a first look at the Lenovo K800, the first Intel-powered phone.
We take a first look at the Lenovo K800, the first Intel-powered phone.
is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
Thomas Ricker contributed to this report.
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