HTC Pyramid Packs Dual-core 1.2 GHz CPU

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Randomacts

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I told people last year to wait to get their next smart phone and BOY was I right. These things are 100x faster and more powerful then phones from last year.
 

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Awesome, one of those cores should provide roughly the same performance as a Hummingbird processor at those speeds.

I guess that means it's probably just under/over twice the performance of my Galaxy S.

Oh and Tom's I think my prize arrived at the post office, going to pick it up today and see if It is w00h00! (From Gigabyte/Zalaman etc contest)
 

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One thing they fail to mention is battery life. Have I missed some major technological advancement in the last 6 months? Seriously? Current smartphones struggle to last a business day as it is. Although I do like the idea of carrying a dual core cpu around in my pocket ;) Just need the batteries that can match the rest of the hardware.
 

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Dual core Snapdragon, so it performs similarly to a dual core Cortex A8? From the benchmarks I've seen the Cortex A9 performs considerably better.
 

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[citation][nom]pcgamer2097[/nom]A dual core processor on a phone?!? Is that really necessary?[/citation]

It is important to the people who rather live with their phone than the people around them and its equally important to the e-peen people who need the latest and the greatest but they won't ever take advantage of it.
 

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@Champski: My current phone (Galaxy S) has a 1300 mAH battery, while the dual core Atrix 4G will have a 1930 mAH battery.

Also a dual core phone can complete tasks faster than a single core obviously, which is a lot more economically. So all in all the new phones should have a battery life similar to the current generation phones.
 

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for mobile devices, the most important specs would be the battery life. The dual core processors will not function without power in the middle of nowhere.
 

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To those arguing that the battery life is going to be atrocious, this is not true. Two cores working at half speed provides more efficiency than a single core processor running at 100%. Since most tasks done on a phone do not require the use of all of a dual core's power, it is speculated that the new phones will be getting BETTER battery life than the current single core smartphones.
 

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Considering that HTC kind of f'ed me with the Hero, it's not likely that I will buy anything of theirs again. They made it clear - with the Hero - that they don't understand what a usable phone is.
 

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Does Tegra 2 use the British made ARM CPU for it's main processor or is the integration of ARM and Nvidia hardware something for the future?
 
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