Intel at CES 2012: ultrabooks, K800 Medfield smartphone, new prototypes, and more! – The Verge

Intel Windows 8 tablet with Clover Trail first hands-on pictures

2012-01-11T11:28:45-05:00

Intel Clover Trail

Here's your first look at a tablet running Intel's 32nm Clover Trail processor and Windows 8! Unfortunately, precious little is known about this tablet since it was teased last night at the Intel keynote beyond the fact that it has Intel's new 32 nanometer chipset inside and tablets like this are destined to take on ARM-based devices head-on. Intel is keeping this tablet under glass but we managed to get a good look at the ports, which consist of a single USB port, HDMI-out, an SD card slot, a 10-pin-style connector on the bottom, and lastly a SIM-card slot - the last of which obviously implies that there's a cellular radio inside.

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Lenovo K800 hands-on: first Intel-powered phone, with Android 4.0 and 720p display

2012-01-10T21:03:12-05:00

Lenovo K800

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 …

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Intel announces reference tablet with sliding keyboard

2012-01-10T20:24:36-05:00

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Intel just announced a new reference design for a tablet with a display that slides along the keyboard and folds onto it to work in either laptop or tablet mode. It looks a bit like the sliders from Sony and the Samsung Sliding PC 7. The tablets will run on Ivy Bridge silicon - probably including the integrated graphics - and have built-in NFC, which was shown this morning. Intel demoed some games with the ability to use your phone as a remote control, and the processor's ability to eat up a live remote video feed.

To deliver TV and Movies to the tablet, Intel has partnered with Technicolor and Dreamworks on an app called M Go available in …

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Intel teases Windows 8 tablet with 32nm Clover Trail SoC

2012-01-10T20:09:20-05:00

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What's this? Intel just pulled out another device on stage, a Windows 8 slate, and says it's running on a 32nm SoC but didn't specify Medfield. Thankfully, a little bird (and a PR representative) tell us it's Clover Trail. Sorry, folks, that's really all we know right now.

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Motorola to make Intel-powered phones and tablets, first phone coming in the second half of 2012

2012-01-10T19:59:11-05:00

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You've read that headline right: Motorola and Intel have inked a multi-year, multi-device partnership, meaning Motorola will be making both phones and tablets powered by Intel's new Medfield, Atom Z2460 processor. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha is expected to take the stage with Intel's Paul Otellni here at Intel's press conference to announce the partnership, and while they are not expected to demo a phone, Intel confirmed that Motorola will ship an Android phone in the second half of this year with the new processor and chipset. Carrier validation will begin this summer. Our guess is that it will be an ICS device, and that we'll learn more about …

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Intel details new Medfield Atom processor, announces added Android app support (update: video)

2012-01-10T19:55:12-05:00

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We've spotted a couple of devices today with Intel's new Medfield chip, and this evening the company is finally coming clean about its forthcoming Atom processor, which is now confirmed to be coming to Lenovo and Motorola phones and tablets later this year. The single-core, 32nm processor, which is now called the Atom Z2460, is clocked at 1.6GHz and supports hyper-threading. That processor is then bundled with the Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX540 graphics, and Intel's 6540 HSPA+ modem inside the reference design. While Intel was showing an Android 4.0 tablet, the reference design is running Android 2.3, but battery life seems much imp …

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Intel’s Medfield reference design smartphone first hands-on

2012-01-10T12:05:04-05:00

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The floodgates have finally opened here at CES 2012 and we've just played with Intel's reference design smartphone on the show floor. This prototype smartphone is running Android 2.3.7 on the company's Atom Z2460 Medfield processor we've recently heard about. Clocked at 1.6Ghz, the 32nm X86-architecture chip supports hyperthreading, Intel's graphics media accelerator for video and up to a 24 megapixel image sensor. The device has a 4.03-inch 1024×600 display, records 1080P video on its 8 megapixel camera on the rear, and has a 1.3 megapixel shooter up front. It's running on AT&T's HSPA+ network and has 16GB of built-in flash memory.

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Intel shows ‘Nikiski’ laptop prototype with full-width, see-through touchpad

2012-01-09T12:50:42-05:00

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This is wild. Intel won't say who it's partnering with, but it just showed off a "Nikiski" laptop prototype at its CES 2012 keynote. It's mostly a regular laptop, but the whole palm rest is a glass touchpad. Outside of being full-width (hopefully with great palm rejection), the LCD can shine through the wide strip of glass when it's closed - turning the bottom of the laptop into a Windows 8-like widget display. Check out our hands-on right here!

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Intel demos NFC capabilities in Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks

2012-01-09T12:37:40-05:00

Ivy Bridge NFC Ultrabooks Mastercard

As part of its press conference this morning, Intel is demoing ultrabooks running on Ivy Bridge, complete with built-in NFC supported by the Mastercard Paypass system. Intel has built in identity protection technology that only allows it work with a specific card. The company's also shown off plenty of DirectX 11 demos on Ivy Bridge, and the graphics looked pretty great fantastic from our seat in the audience.

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Intel including touchscreen capabilities in future ultrabooks

2012-01-09T12:31:01-05:00

Intel touchscreen ultrabooks

Intel has just announced that it intends to add touchscreen capabilties to future ultrabooks. Intel VP Mooley Eden said that "people want the real keyboard and touchscreen" and showed some demos of people reaching out to touch a Windows 7 laptop. Despite some thoughts that raising your arm to touch a laptop screen wouldn't be ergonomic, Intel's done testing that shows people don't mind. Given the expanded touch capabilities built into Windows 8, we wouldn't be surprised to see this technology make it into consumer's hands sometime this year, but Intel didn't say when these models might be available.

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