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Intel completes port of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to Medfield

by Alistair Lowe on 13 September 2012, 10:00

Tags: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)

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It was promised by Intel that it would come and now it has; Google's Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has been successfully ported to the Atom-based Intel Medfield processor.

The news was revealed by mobile group general manager, Mike Bell, who confirmed that not only had the OS been ported but that it was running happily on employee mobiles, including his own device.

Intel Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

It'll be some time before we find Jelly Bean out in the open, running on Intel-based consumer devices. This means that from a core OS point-of-view, this places Intel Medfield devices in the same standing as those based on ARM designs. There is still the little niggle of native C apps running on x86, though the vast majority of Android apps are written purely in Java, enabling them to work seamlessly on the alternative platform.

With this announcement, we wonder if Intel will make another push to place its chips in more smartphones, as the market continues to be wholly dominated by ARM.



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For a tablet, a dual boot Android win8….
That would ne awesome.
ChuckyDB
For a tablet, a dual boot Android win8….
That would ne awesome.
I second that, good point!
ChuckyDB
For a tablet, a dual boot Android win8….
That would ne awesome.

Only if it could hibernate one OS and switch to the other in seconds, otherwise it'd ruin the benefits connected-standby-always-on, hell I sleep my gaming PC rather than turn it off… hate turning things off or restarting them it's so tiresome…
kingpotnoodle
ChuckyDB
For a tablet, a dual boot Android win8….
That would ne awesome.

Only if it could hibernate one OS and switch to the other in seconds, otherwise it'd ruin the benefits connected-standby-always-on, hell I sleep my gaming PC rather than turn it off… hate turning things off or restarting them it's so tiresome…

Without trying to sound rude, but isn't that just laziness? Most computers now especially SSD equipped boot in seconds.
Caveman
Without trying to sound rude, but isn't that just laziness? Most computers now especially SSD equipped boot in seconds.

Still means closing down all applications and then slowly reopening them all up again.

Sure I guess you could open them automatically if it matters that much..


As for me, I don't like to restart often because of the above but also because I have some hardware with fussy drivers installed - and so not only do I need to disable driver signature enforcement manually every boot, I also run the risk of it not working properly and requiring a further restart. At least with leaving it on all the time means I only run the risk of blue screening it if I accidentally unplug it :p