HTC's 1st quad core phone, the Edge?

[Fire&Blood]

Every HTC phone looks similar to me (with an obvious exception or two).

HTC isn't the only one with the problem. Hard to differentiate phones with screens being 9/10 of the device's front. With ICS, they'll stop making phones with front buttons so even less to differ with from others.

 

[s44]

1GB should be sufficient

Not necessarily with Sense.

Basically nice specs though... except for the lack of SD slot.

 

[poofyhairguy]

What are people going to use quad cores for?

On a tablet?

-Games that use multi-cores like the Nvidia demo
-Real multi-tasking (I can easily peg a dual-core Xoom now)
-Using the extra power to playback all media I have
-Making all Adobe Flash sites submit (even the ones that hurt my SGS2)
-Hopefully one day more accurate PSX emulation. I have been wanting to replay FF7, but the sound quality of current Android emulators destroy the wonderful soundtrack. Give audio emulation its own core and give me back my childhood!!!!

 

[QueBert]

I'm barely understanding the need for dual cores in a phone. 4 cores? Why? What practical phone task does this actually help? (I'm not saying there aren't just I personally don't have a clue what I'd do with a phone that requires quad.)

4 cores might finally make Android's UI smooth, use any Android phone out now, then pick up a WM7 phone. The difference is night and day. WM7 runs so much smoother on hardware that's only half as powerful. Android with WM7's smoothness would be excellent. And quad cores could possibly push Android closer to this point.

 

[kyrax12]

On a tablet?

-Games that use multi-cores like the Nvidia demo
-Real multi-tasking (I can easily peg a dual-core Xoom now)
-Using the extra power to playback all media I have
-Making all Adobe Flash sites submit (even the ones that hurt my SGS2)
-Hopefully one day more accurate PSX emulation. I have been wanting to replay FF7, but the sound quality of current Android emulators destroy the wonderful soundtrack. Give audio emulation its own core and give me back my childhood!!!!

what about on a phone?

 

[dguy6789]

I can't really imagine why the same people who understand why a 266Mhz Pentium II isn't all you will ever need ask why would anyone ever need more processing power in a smartphone. These are computers people. The limitation of processing power is the only limitation to what these devices can do. It's a gigantic bottleneck.

 

[Fire&Blood]

I can't really imagine why the same people who understand why a 266Mhz Pentium II isn't all you will ever need ask why would anyone ever need more processing power in a smartphone. These are computers people. The limitation of processing power is the only limitation to what these devices can do. It's a gigantic bottleneck.

Don't know. Do any of them try to watch videos on the phone/tablet only to realize that the phone/tablet can't play it or it's stuttering so much that watching it is useless? Interestingly, same people tend to have a fetish for LTE, which would expose the internal bottlenecks even more. They should use a desktop with a 5Mbps connection and use internet on it then compare it to phone/tablet with a LTE connection, maybe that would open their eyes.

 

[poofyhairguy]

what about on a phone?

Everything same as a tablet, without the intense multi-tasking.

In fact, on a phone it might be better because I HATE when my phone lags and Android uses the CPU for its GUI. With a quad-core the interface has a full two cores just to stay smooth- no lag ever!