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Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today. Not only has he singlehandedly steered Microsoft out of some of the fastest growing and most lucrative tech markets (mobile music, handsets and tablets) but in the process he has sacrificed the growth and profits of not only his company but “ecosystem” companies such as Dell, Hewlett Packard and even Nokia.
— Oops! Five CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired (Cisco, GE, WalMart, Sears, Microsoft) - Forbes
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Intel has partnered with Indian manufacturer Lava International to bring its chipset to market, and the result is a new Android phone: the Xolo X900. (via The first Intel smartphone: comfortably mid-range, eminently credible, and quietly revolutionary) The phone is not available in the US. It sells in India for about $420. The phone’s specification is at the upper end of mid-range: 1024×600 4” screen, 8 MP rear camera with 1080p30 recording, 1.3 MP front camera, and 16 GB of storage. It runs Android 2.3.7, with an upgrade to version 4 due later this year. So far, so ordinary. The thing that sets it apart from its competition is its processor. It’s called an Atom Z2460: a 1.6 GHz single core, hyperthreaded 64-bit x86 CPU, paired with a 400 MHz PowerVR SGX 540 GPU, and 1 GB RAM. AnandTech and ExtremeTech both have good, thorough reviews of the handset. The consensus is, well, it’s a typical mid-range Android phone, running essentially stock firmware (though it also includes the Swype keyboard). The camera controls are probably the only unusual part—the X900 has a lot of settings and allows quite fine control of the camera’s behavior.

Intel has partnered with Indian manufacturer Lava International to bring its chipset to market, and the result is a new Android phone: the Xolo X900. (via The first Intel smartphone: comfortably mid-range, eminently credible, and quietly revolutionary)

The phone is not available in the US. It sells in India for about $420. The phone’s specification is at the upper end of mid-range: 1024×600 4” screen, 8 MP rear camera with 1080p30 recording, 1.3 MP front camera, and 16 GB of storage. It runs Android 2.3.7, with an upgrade to version 4 due later this year. So far, so ordinary. The thing that sets it apart from its competition is its processor. It’s called an Atom Z2460: a 1.6 GHz single core, hyperthreaded 64-bit x86 CPU, paired with a 400 MHz PowerVR SGX 540 GPU, and 1 GB RAM.

AnandTech and ExtremeTech both have good, thorough reviews of the handset. The consensus is, well, it’s a typical mid-range Android phone, running essentially stock firmware (though it also includes the Swype keyboard). The camera controls are probably the only unusual part—the X900 has a lot of settings and allows quite fine control of the camera’s behavior.

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