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Smartphones with dual-core processors are still a bonus—but what about four of those goddamn things? The alleged Android-y HTC Edge packs that, plus a sizzling Tegra 3 package. That’s one spicy processing meatball, if PocketNow is correct.
PocketNow, which is putting forward the “leaked” images, says the Edge will have the same specs are the recently unveiled Rezound, with the exception of four cores and Tegra 3, of course. Will it come with a quad-core burger? The cross-promotional potential is huge!
I wonder, though, how much we can really use this four-headed chimera. What app needs that much power? PocketNow says to expect the Edge in the first half of next year—what the hell is going to be so demanding by then? Foursquare? Angry Birds running on the Unreal Engine? A really, really angry email? [PocketNow]
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My god that thing looks gorgeous.
Fuckyeah4cores.
I have no idea what to do with 4 cores in a phone, but I’ve got them. Sorry, do you mind if I just plug my 4 core beastphone in to your power, I did charge it half an hour ago but fuckyeah4cores.
Counter intuitively more cores often means less battery use! This is because with tasks divided between more cores the clock speed of those individual cores need not be as high to get the same amount done.
In very simplistic terms if you have 4 tasks to do you could get them done in the same period of time by running a single core CPU at 1GHz or a quad core CPU at 250MHz and a CPU requires a whole lot less power to run at 250MHz than at 1GHz (in the same way a car uses a whole lot less petrol to drive a mile at 30MPH rather than 230MPH)
Of course it depends on the tasks themselves, how good the scheduling algorithms are, ect. there will be an overhead to dividing the tasks between cores so in the real world the benefit wont be as much but the principal is there
So that phone is more powerful than all my computers. We’re now at the point where I feel like we could get rid of our pc towers and just carry around a phone that plugs into some sort of base station to connect it to your keyboard, monitor, power supply, and a few extra ports and peripherals. It’d be a brilliant to have your computer with you at all times and save a load of space.
Maybe this is where Microsoft can try to gain some market share with closer integration between windows mobile and windows 8? It all depends on people’s willingness to adopt a new OS such as chrome I’d guess.
Think that’s the way it’s going and indeed Motorola did try exactly that with the Atrix and it’s laptop dock, I think it was stripped back version of Linux but enough for a full firefox browser