I had a stroke of luck this morning as I was waiting for Sascha from Netbooknews to do a video of an LG netbook today, I wandered across the booth to look at the smartphones and there it was. The LG GW990 built on Intel’s Moorestown platform. Intel’s first ever phone. (Announced back in Feb) The display included some specifications so I’ve listed those below.

Gallery of GW990 at the LG booth

At the Intel keynote a few hours later, the GW990 appeared again along with a note from Paul Otellini that not only LG are partnering on Moorestown but Nokia are too. I’ll just say that again. Nokia are partnering with Intel with the Moorestown platform. This is significant.

Finally, after the keynote, we managed to get hands on with a live demo. Here’s the video which, according to Intel, was the worlds first public demo.

We were all impressed with the UI transitions and smoothness of the Mobiln 2.1 for handhelds but questions remain about the web experience (we assume it will continue with a Mozilla based browser) and general usage in terms of phone, connectivity and a million other aspects but this is a fantastic first outing for an Intel smartphone.

Specifications confirmed:

• Intel Moorestown platform with HD 720p encoding and 1080p decoding.
• 5mp cam (ingle led flash)
• 1850mah (single cell I assume) battery
• A-GPS
• Compass
• HSDPA/HSUPA
• Q3 availability

Unconfirmed:

• 1024×480 resolution

My guess right now is that we will see a lot more of this, and other Moorestown devices, at MWC in Feb.

Note the marketing: Multi-Tasking.

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