The Dual Core Smart Phone Thread!

ashatron

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At the moment im settling on the LG optimus 2x.
-its build is excellent (from reviews)
-ips screen (not pentile like the atrix)
-tegra 2 chipset (which im interested in, i think it will get a lot more attention and optimised apps than other chipsets)

-better games performance than atrix 4g (due to the optimus's lower resolution)
-better flash performance than the samsung s II
(i imagine its flash performance will be almost identical to the atrix 4g)

Also despite it having half the ram of the atrix 4g the optimus only performs about 5% worse in serious benchmarks that stress the ram and cpu.

Samsung galaxy s II is intended to have samsung's own Exynos 4210 processor, however samsung have admitted that some may have tegra 2.
 
The Optimus 2X looks fairly ok, the only problem is that its made by LG :p and dont let the screen fool you, its quite good but it is not in the same class as the SGS2 or even the iPhone 4 screens.
 
Robboftw said:
The Optimus 2X looks fairly ok, the only problem is that its made by LG :p and dont let the screen fool you, its quite good but it is not in the same class as the SGS2 or even the iPhone 4 screens.
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from what ive read, its also not a pentile display, like the first gen galaxy s. which is a nice improvement. but i prefer a 4" screen myself. Maybe ill be tempted when i see it in person :p
 
Ashatron - have you seen the pentile screen of a desire?

i assure you that pentile doesn't automatically equal fuzzy or not sharp.

Nor does IPS screen automatically make it a good screen.

Its all how its been designed and implemented.
 
Dual core phones are sooo last year.

Motorola Targa - Quad core - expected Q4 2011

verizon-motorola-Targa.jpg

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Motorola-DROID-X-2-DROID-3-and-Targa-to-come-after-the-BIONIC_id17437

(now Motorola and nVidia are best buds, it's probably tegra 3/Kal-El)
 
Robboftw said:
Poor dual core phones, out of date before they are even released :(
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I know man :(
although I highly suspect nvidia would release a better chip than tegra 2, only months after tegra 2's release. It's just not business smart. They should get lots of tegra 2 sold for a year or so, then release better chips.

Bit like the iPhone, release a version with a crap camera, then release one with a good camera, forcing users to upgrade.
 
Been using a multi core phone (of sorts) for awhile :D

Ok in this case its 528mhz ARM1136J(F)-S with an integrated ARM926EJ-S Coprocessor@274MH with the co-processor dedicated to phone functions, connection management, etc. its nice in that things like music playback isn't interupted if other phone functions become busy tho.
 
^ That's Motorolas new 'webtop' layout they introduced with the Atrix, hopefully it'll fit the same laptop/desktop docks.

Rroff said:
Been using a multi core phone (of sorts) for awhile :D

Ok in this case its 528mhz ARM1136J(F)-S with an integrated ARM926EJ-S Coprocessor@274MH with the co-processor dedicated to phone functions, connection management, etc. its nice in that things like music playback isn't interupted if other phone functions become busy tho.
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Something like Tegra 2 has 3 cores then :D (Two A9s and a ARM7 for dataflow, power management etc)
The true tri-core designs in 2012 will be interesting though. Two 2.5Ghz A15 cores for apps with a 1Ghz A5/A9 core for the OS (and the usual 6+ other processors for encoding, decoding, graphics, audio, ISP, dataflow etc)

xibinim said:
Why aren't more phone makers going with PowerVR? They seem to blow the competition out of the water!
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ST-Ericsson are the ones you should be looking out for (only formed in 09)
They could be making NGPs quad core monster and with any luck the second gen xperia play will use a Nova A9600, the first to use a powerVR series 6 gpu (they've quoted 210 GFLOPS :eek:)
 
Yeah this has 3 cores ostensibly, ones dedicated to graphics and the other 2 as listed above :D not quite the spirit of true multi-threading tho.
 
ashatron said:
I know man :(
although I highly suspect nvidia would release a better chip than tegra 2, only months after tegra 2's release. It's just not business smart. They should get lots of tegra 2 sold for a year or so, then release better chips.
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It is business smart, They can't afford to artificially hold back a release because they are by no means the only smartphone SOC maker out there. Better chips are going to be out in a few months whether nVidia likes it or not.
 
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