I just wanted to write you guys a short note to say that my work here at Intel’s developer pragram is done and i’ll be back in the Omnia Pro seat by Tuesday of next week.

IDF was very interesting indeed. Not just for MID fans but for high-end smartphone fans too. I saw the first ever public demo of a smartphone-style device based on Intel’s Moorestown platform and the Moblin 2 OS. It really does work in devices that are smartphone-sized! We have to look towards the second-half of 2010 for the first devices but at that point, the processing power should be 2-3x what you’ll see on a Cortex A8 platform and 4-6x what we’re seeing on the Omnia Pro. Where the Omnia is taking 20 seconds or more to load a web page, a Moorestown-based device will be able to do that in about 10 seconds. We’ll also be getting hardware encoding for 720p video too, full Flash, Adobe Air and Silverlight support and at 720p quality hardware decoded video. Don’t forget that Moblin is LSB-compliant so it will be hitting the ground with hundreds of applications. 2010 will be a very interesting time for the high-end smartphone market.

In the meantime though, we have the Omnia Pro.

In two weeks i’m travelling to Amsterdam for the Maemo summit and hands-on with the N900 (and a possible review loaner) so it will be very intersting to put the 400 Euro Omnia Pro next to the 500 Euro (street prices have dropped in Germany) N900.

Expect a video overview of the Omnia Pro on Wed or Thursday next week with a review following soon after that. Thanks for your patience!