Taking the power of the Atom from Notebooks, Intel looks set to putting the same into a phone. Add this with an almost 9 inch screen, 533 MHz processor, 1GB of RAM and 8GB onboard storage and you’ll have a beast.

Outlined as a “command center for the home”, the Media Phone is a calendar, digital photo frame, mp3 player, news device, Internet, communications medium, home security centre – oh and a phone. Made four times larger than an iPhone, the phone will be released with Moblin, the OS based on Linux of Intel.

Included within the device will also be 6 USB ports, Ethernet port, HDMI, audio interface, WiFi, Bluetooth and a WebCam. Handsets for around the home will help make the device the home centre for communications. As demonstrated through the video below, the phone captures every aspect of daily life with the technology available today. There does not seem to be much that has not been thought of in this one. It’s a cook book, directory, camera, traffic and weather station while being a touchscreen phone. As Intel suggests, “who thought the phone would be fun again?”

[via MobileHub]