Intel Medfield Developer tablet spotted in the Wild

Even though Intel has a lot of catching up to do with its competitors in the mobile chip market, they are still willing to put it all on the line. We have heard chatter of the new Intel Medfield Atom based SoC. There has been talk of it already being testing in phones and tablets. We saw a look at a device they were testing it in a few days ago, but we didn’t get a chance to see the tablet yet. Well, here it is.

Thanks to a tipster to Android Community, they have a their hands on a rather good collection of images showing off the developer version of the tablet. It is a 10.1″ slate powered by Honeycomb 3.x at the moment. Some recently leaked information puts the dual-core tablet running at 1.6Ghzand supposedly sporting some amazing graphics. The current claim is that it is out performing the NVIDIA Tegra 2 and the Qualcomm S3 1.5GHz dual-core chip found in many newer high-end devices.

“The build of the tablet is actually really great! It doesn’t feel cheap at all – it’s thin but it has a nice weight to it which doesn’t make it feel cheap. It has the power button on the left top of the tablet, with the volume rockers to the right of the power button, and the headphone jack is on the left side of the tablet. To the right of the table is the slot for microSD card and at the bottom of the tablet are three connections – one for the weird power, Micro-USB and a Mini-HDMI connection. The screen retains all the fingerprints so I’m guessing the glass doesn’t have its final finish, that’s why it gets dirty so easily.” – ANON

Looking through the images, the tablet appears to have all the usual ports we would expect to see. You won’t be charging this one on a standard USB though. On the back you can see there is a rear facing camera with an LED flash. That is nice to see. It also appears to be a little more oval shaped on the sides. I can only imagine that it makes the device that much more comfortable to hold.

It should be interesting to see how Intel does when they get all there bugs and kinks worked out. Even though it will be nice for manufacturers to have another chip option available, it will sure split the gap in development of devices a lit bit wider.

Hopefully we can track one down at CES and see it for our selves. What do you guys think so far? If a tablet like this landed would you be on it like white on rice? Or is the failed history of mobile chips from Intel enough to keep your wallet shut and keep walking?

Source: AndroidCommunity