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<title><![CDATA[As Android for tablets falters, opportunity for Intel]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Intel has been criticized here and in other venues for being late to thetablet party. But Android's slow start in tablets may mean latecomers aren't necessarily losers.Intel was demoing an Atom-based tablet at its developer conference in Beijing this week(Credit:Intel)A stroke of serendipity has arrived in the form of a tepid consumer reception so far for tablets beyondApple's iPad. Sales of the Motorola Xoom are, to date, anemic, while the sell-through to consumers of Samsung's Android tablet has also been underwhelming. And Digitimes reported today that tablet suppliers Asus and HTC are delaying Android tablet rollouts. Meanwhile, RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook--which is more like an appendage to a BlackBerry phone than a standalone tablet--is not targeted at the high-volume consumer space. So, with tablets based on chips from companies like Nvidia (Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab) and Texas Instruments (PlayBook) not likely flying off the shelf, are Intel's chances any better now &quot;The door to this market is open. The longer it takes for these other products to get rolling, the more opportunity there is for Intel,&quot; said Richard Shim, an analyst at DisplaySearch. And others see an opening for the world's largest chipmaker. &quot;Though Apple has set the bar, it's not going to be alone in this space. Right now it looks like Android will have the majority of tablet sales (outside of Apple), and Intel has a dedicated team of people to make Android work the best it can on its Atom chips. They have a lot resources they can apply,&quot; said Jack Gold of consulting firm J.Gold Associates, who wrote about this yesterday. And Intel, despite its unimpressive start, has another advantage. Atom is not just another cookie-cutter design from U.K.-based ARM. Intel can bring to bear all its manufacturing, security, and media processing know-how, according to Gold, who believes Intel will continue to whittle away successfully at the inherent power-efficiency advantage of ARM chips. &quot;My take is that Intel can capture 20 to 25 percent of that remaining market outside of Apple.&quot; Shim has a few words of caution, however. &quot;It all depends, of course, how well Honeycomb (Android 3.0) runs on Atom,&quot; said Shim. &quot;That's a big if.&quot; And Shim also warns Intel not to put too many eggs in the MeeGo basket, which is a hard sell to developers in a field crowded with Hewlett-Packard's WebOS and RIM's QNX, in addition to Android. (See demo of an Intel tablet at the Intel developer conference in Beijing this week.) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reports: Nokia gung ho for Windows Phone]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>TrAlfandkl</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Nokia CEO Stephen Elop(Credit:Nokia)It looks increasingly likely that Microsoft'sWindows Phone 7 will get a starring role in Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop's attempt to turn around the ailing phone giant.Reports from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal indicate Nokia's turnaround plan will involve phones using Microsoft's new and still immature mobile operating system. Elop plans to detail his strategy for overhauling Nokia tomorrow at an analyst day in London.Google's Android, another contender for a software alliance, doesn't look like it has good prospects at Nokia at present. &quot;Two turkeys do not make an Eagle,&quot; tweeted Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google, including a &quot;feb11&quot; hashtag to make it clear he was referring to Nokia's event on that date.Elop, who arrived from Microsoft to take over Nokia a few months ago, offered a scathing assessment of Nokia's phone strategy thus far. In his &quot;burning platform&quot; memo, he said Nokia failed to answer Apple'siPhone at the high end, respond to Google's Android operating system spreading to the midrange and lower-end smartphones, or stem the tide of inexpensive Chinese phones. And its own operating systems are a mess, with Symbian not up to the modern smartphone challenge and the higher-end MeeGo only just dipping its toes into the waters with a single phone coming late in 2011.It's easier for an outsider to be brutally honest, of course--especially when it's all part of a campaign to pave the way for the would-be answer. Elop plans to deliver that half of the speech tomorrow.An alliance with Microsoft makes sense at one level: both companies are powerful but at a serious disadvantage to incumbent players--Apple, Google, and a host of phone makers including HTC, Samsung, Motorola, Sony, and LG Electronics that have embraced Android.Nokia has clout in the mobile market--deep relations with carriers and phone retailers, for example. And Microsoft has clout with developers. An alliance between the companies could convince developers that Windows Phone 7 is more likely to get the critical mass needed to justify writing software.But it's no slam dunk. Windows Phone 7 is already a late arrival, and it's not clear how many application ecosystems developers want to support. And unlike Android and iOS, it doesn't span to thetablet level, where Microsoft prefers its older Windows ecosystem.Relying on another company's operating system yields a lot of control of the ecosystem to that company, as countless Windows PC companies and Android phone makers know. Apple has a great deal more control over its destiny with its own integrated hardware and software for mobile devices--control that's nice as long as you have a relevant ecosystem developers are eager to sign up for.Nokia still has that possibility of unified hardware and software with MeeGo, of course. But the more serious its commitment to Windows Phone 7--and thus the more likely that initiative will be to succeed--the harder it will be to convince developers to later add MeeGo to the mix. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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