Android 2.2 coming to Intel Atom in next two months

Posted on Monday, June 28 2010 @ 19:49 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Intel revealed a x86 version of Android 2.2 "Froyo" should be available within the next two months.

But Intel has been adapting Android’s open source code to run as a native x86 operating system so that its army of hardware partners can use Atom processors for Android tablets, netbooks and, at some stage in the future, smartphones.

“Our expectation is that (native x86 Android) will be based on the Froyo release and will be available this summer to developers” Renee James, Intel’s senior veep for software and services, told APC.

James says the process of ‘Atomising’ Android “wasn’t tremendously difficult, as we have a lot experience in Linux”.

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