Review of the First Medfield Phone 66
Google85 writes "Beginning April 23rd, Intel, through Lava International, began selling the Xolo X900 smartphone in India for $420, Anandtech has just published a review of the smartphone which runs Android on x86 and uses binary translation as the mitigation for both libraries and NDK applications that haven't yet been ported to x86."
Emulation layer? No thanks. (Score:0, Insightful)
So - the first mobile x86 system requires an ARM emulation layer? This is not progress. In fact, it feels like a giant step backwards. Whoever thought that designing a future product to use an ISA from the 1970s which emulates an ISA from the 1990s would be a good idea?
Oh yeah, marketing trumps technical merit if you actually want to sell things. I forgot.