The first Intel smartphone in Europe will arrive June 6, the company announced today. Orange's prepaid service will be the lucky carrier of the Intel San Diego, an Android smartphone with an Intel Atom processor that moves still closer to ARM's territory.

The San Diego will use Atom Z2460 processors, the same model as the Xolo X900 smartphone that was released India in April 2012. The Medfield-based Z2460 is a 1.6GHz single-core hyperthreaded 64-bit x86 CPU with a 400MHz PowerVR SGX 540 GPU. Intel doesn't specify other internals like memory, but the phone will have a 4.03-inch display and an 8-megapixel camera that can take 1080p video and photos in burst mode. Unfortunately, the phone runs only Android 2.3 Gingerbread, with the usual overtures about an eventual upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, with a rumored delay until October.

A modest Intel phone on a pay-as-you-go service is a small blow, if anything, to ARM's dominance in Europe, and the chip has yet to make its way to the United States. But the processor has been well-reviewed so far, and while it can't match ARM processors quite yet for power or performance, the San Diego smartphone should pave the way for the dual-core Z2480 set for later this year.

The San Diego will be priced at £199.99 without contract and will be sold exclusively for Orange Pay As You Go service starting on June 6.