Lenovo Intel who will first enter the embrace of Windows Phone 8?

Lenovo's senior executive JD Howard said that Lenovo "is planning to bring Windows Phone 8 devices as early as possible this year".

This statement is not surprising. Lenovo and Microsoft are close partners, providing services for consumers and business users for many years through multiple brands such as ThinkPad and IdeaPad. Although Lenovo currently uses the Android operating system on mobile phones, the launch of the Windows Phone operating system has no insurmountable challenge for Lenovo to expand Microsoft's ecosystem services. What's more, Lenovo's earliest smartphones use the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system.

But JD Howard is also very clear that Lenovo is currently only considering launching Windows Phone products, because this (compared to Android) is also a good opportunity. JD Howard believes that Lenovo "will consider any promising mobile operating system", and now Android is in a state of flux, so Lenovo's current main force on the Android platform, the meaning of Lenovo is not limited to only use one operating system. JD Howard believes that Windows Phone 8 systems are more concerned with security and ecological health, so Lenovo will consider potential users who care about this need.

Although Lenovo is not listed on Microsoft's first Windows Phone 8 partner list (Nokia, HTC, Samsung, Huawei), but with years of successful cooperation with Microsoft in the PC field, and in recent years in the smartphone The experience accumulated in the market, Lenovo's involvement in Windows Phone 8 is not too high a threshold. The same as Lenovo, is another industry giant Intel, will continue to cooperate with Microsoft on the X86 platform PC products to jointly launch Windows Phone products based on Intel X86 architecture? After all, Lenovo has launched the K800 with the Intel X86 processor, Microsoft, Intel, Lenovo, such as "all-star" combination, will always make people think.

Recently, Microsoft Senior Marketing Manager Greg Sullivan was interviewed by ComputerWorld when asked if Microsoft would launch Windows Phone 8 with Intel X86 architecture processor, even though he said that it is currently unavailable. ”, but also expressed their own point of view:

“ Our operating system architecture is independent of hardware. Windows 8 runs on ‘Wintel’ devices, and Windows Phone runs on Qualcomm hardware. Our system architecture is completely optimized for mobile products. ”

Greg Sullivan's answer sounds weird, but in fact there is something in it. On the latest Windows Phone 8 operating system, Microsoft finally unifies the kernel architecture of its Windows operating system. With the same NT kernel architecture, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 have essentially no insurmountable boundaries, so Greg Sullivan can say Microsoft's operating systems are all mobile. Since the technical use of X86 architecture processors in Windows Phone 8 is no longer a problem, then the question becomes why the Intel X86 architecture processor is not the ARM architecture processor?

We know that mobile devices are far more power-hungry than traditional PC devices in terms of performance, and ARM architectures are now more balanced in performance and power consumption, so they become mobile devices. The mainstream choice. However, Intel's new Atom brand X86 architecture low-power mobile processor in the past two years has enabled the industry to gradually see the X86 chip's performance and power balance to meet the needs of mobile devices. Even media evaluation shows that the latest Intel. The energy efficiency of the Atom processor is amazing.

Any company's business decisions must be profitable, when Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 shows a better market prospect, when Intel's X86 architecture mobile processor has more energy efficiency than ARM, in baseband technology There is a better solution, no matter which brand, it is not impossible to launch Windows Phone 8 with Intel processor.

Tags: Atom, Windows Phone 8, Lenovo, Intel

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