These days, smartphones are getting rather snappy with their heart. It would be rather dated if your product does not feature at least 1GHz CPU, unless you’re aiming at the budget market. Looking at the runaway success of Apple and its iPhone, Intel is throwing in their Moorestown CPU into the smartphone warzone.

But it won’t be dropping by anytime soon. Intel’s CTO Justin Rattner gave Wired.com a hint of Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas next January, in their interview about Moorestown-based tablets. Yes the Moorestown has been powering a large number of slates, but it is still slightly too massive for smartphones that requires long battery life and remains cool in the pocket.

The massive smartphone in the photo is an LG GW990 with 5-inch screen. Dual cameras front and back, with capability to record and playback 720P video. 16GB of build-in flash memory, and 512MB of RAM. It’s running on Intel’s Linux-based Moblin OS. These spec doesn’t seemed all that flashy, as the new iPhone 4 already has similar specs and is already on sale. Memories and storage can easily be upgraded as time goes by, but Intel really needs something more up its sleeves if it really wishes to play with the rest of the cool kids. 5-inch seemed too bulky to me. Maybe a 3.5-inch would be good. Dual core smartphones anyone?

[via Tomshardware]