Intel reference design Android smartphone and tablet hands-on

Nearly every technology journalist in North America attended Microsoft BUILD conference yesterday to catch a glimpse at Windows 8, including over very own Marin Perez, but that came at the expense of providing coverage from Intel Developer Forum. There is a reason for this. The chip company has been talking up Intel based smartphone for years without actually delivering, Luckily for the internet, Anand Lal Shimpi of Ananadtech was in attendance and he was able to record three videos. Two showing off an Intel Medfield based Android Gingerbread smartphone thats less than 10 mm thick and one that demos an 8.9 mm thick Android Honeycomb tablet.

Intel says they expect to see devices with their silicon running Android out on the market during the first half of 2012, and while before we would have no problem calling bullshit on that statement, therecent announcement that Google is going to optimize future versions of Android for both x86 and ARM has us mildly excited. Make no mistake, Intel is in a position to dominate the market since they will be able to offer hardware vendors everything they need to build a device. There's the x86 application processor of course, the Intel graphics, which these days is built on the processor itself, and thanks to Intel acquisition of Infineon Wireless Division, they will also be able to supply cellular connectivity.

Videos Below!