With four cores against Apple

Now details have been revealed for the first four-core smartphone in the world.

HTC seems to be gearing up a major attack on Apple's iPhone. The branch-site "Pocketnow" reports on technical details of the HTC smartphones "Edge", which is expected in spring 2012 on the market. The highlight: the world's first mobile phone it should have four processor cores.
Computing power would have the phone so tired - to each of the four cores of the Tegra processor 3 may be clocked at 1.5 gigahertz. An additional low-core clocked savings will take according to the manufacturer Nivida less computationally intensive, the standby mode to save power.
According to the report with the latest mobile phone technology will be provided. In addition to one with 4.3 inch large display right include an 8-megapixel camera, a large memory (1 gigabyte), the wireless Bluetooth 4.0 interface and plenty of storage space (32 gigabytes) for photos, videos and apps. The display with 1280 x 720 pixels makes it possible to watch movies at 720p HD resolution in full bloom.
Among the highlights is the software sound technology "Beats by Dr. Dre" from the same manufacturer of high-quality headphones. Not yet known is the industry portal, according to whether the "Edge" will feature LTE, the mobile communications standard of the latest generation.

HTC wants to score with content. Pre-installed apps will allow access to the stores from HTC - "HTC lists" for music, "HTC Read" for e-books, "HTC Play" for games and "HTC Watch" for movies that will soon be available in HD-Quality to.
Whether the Android smartphone can use the full potential of quad-core chips also will only be able to show the practice. Benchmarks and practical tests show regularly but that many gigahertz and seeds are not everything. For most tasks, which are currently being done with smartphones, the processor should be oversized anyway.





Source: http://www.handelsblatt.com/technologie/it-tk/mobile-welt/mit-vier-kernen-gegen-apple/5821838.html