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Intel's first smartphone is a foot in the door. But it isn't a flagship. Intel needs an updated Atom architecture, it needs to be on 22nm, and it needs a faster GPU - at a minimum. All of this needs to come in a reference design that's not just good enough, but better than the rest.

The X900 is a solid, well-built Android phone, period. Medfield isn’t ready to take on the iPhone 4S, and carriers are going to be gun-shy until Intel has a device they believe could challenge Apple.

While the Lava XOLO X900 performs pretty well for its price, the positioning as well as the branding might well end up hurting the phone.

A very solid start for Intel, but what we are really waiting for is a real “I want this” device.