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Intel Sends in the iPhone Clones at IDF '07

Intel showed off some intriguing devices today at the ultramobility keynote at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) Fall 07, and the most notable example was this strange-looking cellphone/portable PC, which is pretty much an iPhone clone running on Intel's Moorestown platform. More pics and context, post-jump.

If you're not familiar with Moorestown, it will be packing 45nm processors, and integrates the graphics, video and memory controller all in one efficient chip, sipping battery power so frugally that devices using it'll be able to go 24 hours on a charge.

This piece of vaporware appears to be a stretch iPhone, looking just like Apple's cellphone darling but twice as wide, giving you enough room for a virtual keyboard to slide in on each side without obstructing your web browsing. But sheesh, how is that sucker going to fit in your pocket? Looks like a rearview mirror. Don't expect to see this as a shipping product until at least 2009. [Anandtech]

4:33 PM on Wed Sep 19 2007
By Charlie White
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yoshi at 04:43 PM on 09/19/07
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The more and more I see these other devices, it makes me think Apple copied their iPhone UI.
Kricket at 04:43 PM on 09/19/07
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jeebus! i dont think i have pants with pockets big enough to hold something like that!
luckypictures at 04:48 PM on 09/19/07
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this is a joke, right?
Geisrud at 04:49 PM on 09/19/07
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rearview mirror is right. I wouldn't want that in my pocket. People might think I'm happy to see them.
Angus at 05:07 PM on 09/19/07
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i'd take one. i might not want to use it as a phone, but i could see this easily taking off as a laptop substitute or pmp
blargh at 05:10 PM on 09/19/07
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does it come with a Foleo?
wetworker at 05:16 PM on 09/19/07
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Ya YOSHI, they copied the Lg prada.
but they've got to make that thing smaller
Mixiboi at 05:30 PM on 09/19/07
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Well at lease they aren't RAZRing it yet...
gadgetfreak at 05:37 PM on 09/19/07
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if the battery dies, you could use it as a skateboard ramp...
ctfoley at 05:47 PM on 09/19/07
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it's very nice, but too wide. other than that, these things are gonna make the iphone a footnote in history
Kaiser-Machead at 06:04 PM on 09/19/07
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@yoshi: I've yet to see a product on the market with an identical interface. Vaporware don't count.
iPhoney at 06:37 PM on 09/19/07
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@yoshi:

LMFAO - you're a natural, that's too funny.

Be sad if you actually believed that...
w00zzy at 07:07 PM on 09/19/07
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Jeez, with the size, well let's just say that I don't think it'll be lost. This is crazy. CRAZY I TELL YOU!
ChadLondon at 08:55 PM on 09/19/07
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iPhone clone?

Can someone tell me what the hell the person who wrote this is talking about?
gadgeteeronline at 09:19 PM on 09/19/07
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wow, no, that aspect ratio is totally reasonable... not too wide at all.

are you suppoesed to have special leg long pockets to use this thing, it looks like a fricking paint mixing stick.
doctorSpoc at 10:21 PM on 09/19/07
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put that in your pocket and go to the bars and the girls will be lining up!
mudman at 01:52 AM on 09/20/07
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This is very cool looking, but it is definitely too long. I appreciate the Apple "inspired" design concept and tried making a device with no moving parts, but this screams for some sort of folding or sliding action.
Mongoose at 12:52 AM on 09/21/07
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@mudman: Bingo. If this folded in half in the middle, it would be an incredible browsing device. like it is? It's a pocket-jutter or a purse-stretcher.