Lenovo show off first Intel smartphone

This week at CES expo in Las Vegas, which is lasting into saturday, Intel and Lenovo have announced the first smartphone model based on an Intel chip. Yes, you have heard that right: after years of promising it and not delivering anything even remotely credible, Intel have finally managed to foist one of their silicon slabs onto hapless Lenovo, who will be selling their K800 smartphone in China only. The poor Chinese.
Unfortunately for Intel, they are releasing into the wild a one-core chip, which was the standard about two years ago, while the Nvidia's and Qualcomm's of the world are now all announcing upcoming smartphones with their latest quad-core processors.
This said, aside from the fact that Intel's x86 architecture is an awful mess that is totally not suited for mobile computing-or any kind of computing for that matter-the big hurdle that Intel salespeople will have to overcome will be to convince the millions of mobile developers to adapt and recompile their apps to work on Intel. This might have been realistically attainable two years ago but now that there are literally hundreds of thousands of apps that have been written for the ARM architecture on both the Google Android and Apple iOS platforms, Intel will have their work cut out for them. And since software emulation is bound to be a drag on power consumption, it looks to me like Intel will almost certainly fail in their latest mobile effort.