Quad-core processor will rule this year’s smartphones – Part 1

Though AsusTek was the only company to rise to the horizon with a quad-core processor in a mobile device, their flagship tablet called the Eee Pad Transformer Prime. In January the tablet received its update to the Ice Cream Sandwich, giving it the missing oomph in the software department.

Since the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 wound up earlier in January, the buzz created for the quad-core processors in smartphones has taken beefed up to such an extent that February’s Mobile World Conference (MWC) might see a host of new devices centred at quad-core processing units.

Last November proffered the first peep about the HTC Edge, an Android phone that’s expected to have a 4.7-inch 1,280×720-pixel HD display, an 8-megapixel camera, an Nvidia Tegra 3 1.5GHz quad-core processor, and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Also boasting the quad-core Tegra 3 chipset, or so we’ve heard, is the LG X3. Its specs are similar to those of the HTC Edge, with a 4.7-inch 1,280×720-pixel HD display, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, and Ice Cream Sandwich.

Next in line, there’s Samsung’s third version of its insanely popular Galaxy S series Android smartphone. Although the Galaxy S II phones only landed in the U.S. just a few months ago, they launched at last year’s MWC. It’s very likely that we’ll see the quad-core successor, the Samsung Galaxy S III, shred its previous records in processing power in this global upgrade.

And let’s not forget that hands-off Fujitsu phone from CES.

Although it’s no longer expected to launch at MWC, theHTC Zeta is a 2.5GHz quad-core concept phone.

If you’re familiar with dual-core phones, quad-core follows the same principle. Put simply, the handset’s central processor (CPU) contains four cores for divvying up tasks, rather than one or two CPUs.

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