LG recently showed its first quad-core Android phone well ahead of the others and also the Mobile World Congress in the form of the Optimus 4X HD. We can safely say that the quad-core phones are the superphones of 2012. Seriously, quad-core? On a phone?
The LG Optimus 4X HD uses NVidia’s Tegra 3 quad-core processor making it one helluva powerful smartphone in today’s standards. But quad-core? On a phone? I keep on asking what good will a quad-core on a smartphones do when its highly unlikely you will be doing your video editing or code compiling on a phone. We’ll get back to that later.
Anyway, not considering the quad-core processor, the Optimus 4X HD is just like your typical 4.7-inch (1280 x 720) phone with an 8.9mm thin form factor that runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Then there are the usual goodies that are standard on a high-end phone: 16GB storage, 1GB RAM and 8-megapixel camera capable of full HD video recording. No word on NFC or HSPA+ but still it’s shaping to be one badass phone from LG.
Ok back to quad-core phones. The game changer. What can a phone do with four cores? Well the main thing I can think of is a zippy performance when switching between apps. But isn’t that what we said when we saw the first dual-core phone? And I believe ICS was further optimized on how the Android OS handle multiple apps. I’ve been using the HTC Sensation for quite awhile and here’s one thing I noticed, just like desktops, it gets laggy at times in the long run so I guess more cores are welcome but I do wish they also increase the RAM.
On the issue of battery life, the Tegra 3 on this phone uses what NVidia calls a 4 plus 1 architecture. It’s necessarily a 5-core processor with the 5th one being a low-powered core for low-resource tasks like e-mail, music and messaging to save on battery.
Well be on the lookout for more info about this phone once MWC 2012 commences.
| LG Optimus 4X HD Specs: |
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| Nvidia Tegra 3 Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A9 |
| ULP GeForce |
| 4.7″ HD-IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 1280 x 720 resolution |
| Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) |
| 16 GB storage, 1 GB RAM |
| 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash |
| 1.3 MP front-facing camera |
| Full HD 1080p video recording @ 30fps |
| HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps |
| TV-out (via MHL A/V link) |
| WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP, EDR |
| 8.9 mm thickness |
| Li-Ion 2150 mAh |
6 comments
Meh… i have no use for 4x core phones. pataasan na lang ng ihi ito. what’s next? plug it into a monitor? use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard tapos may super portable PC ka na running on Android? 🙂
lol. I was actually thinking of that portable PC idea sans plugging it into a monitor.. Although you can technically do that on more affordable Androids too.. LG is trying to do the whole first to the scene with a quad core phone. Same thing they did with the Optimus 2X. It’s best to wait for a few reviews before buying this, seeing as the 2x was buggy as hell when it first came out. Still, it looks like LG is ramping up their game.
The concept of connecting your phone to a monitor and using a wireless keyboard/mouse has been around for a while. This is supposedly aimed at a full desktop experience.
“A full Ubuntu desktop, on your docked Android phone”
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
“In every dual-core phone, there’s a PC trying to get out.’
“A full Ubuntu desktop, on your docked Android phone”
“Your next desktop could be a phone.”
“Just cause for more cores!”
LG focus more on hardware specs. They should pay attention with the design and other application that smartphone can possibly do.