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Leaked image of the HTC Edge, possibly the world’s first quad-core phone
If you think the current set of devices are powerful, it’s best you hold tight as quad-core smartphones are coming up soon! The above pic is what’s being called the HTC “Edge” and apparently it’ll be available late Q1/early Q2. This Android device is expected to come packing some serious power: NVIDIA AP30 Tegra 3 1.5GHz quad-core CPU, 4.7-inch touchscreen display with a 720p HD resolution, 10mm thin, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel camera with 28-millimeter, f/2.2 lens. In addition, the Edge might come with Beats Audio, HTC Listen (music store), HTC Read (bookstore), HTC Play (gaming hub), HTC Watch (movie portal) and possibly the first smartphone with Sense 4.0… sounds very promising!
Source: PocketNow
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Remember the days when phones were going smaller. If the trend keeps up tablets will be the new phones
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You know.. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case.. We’ll probably end up having the giant suitcases with the phone attached except it’ll be high tech with a touch screen..
Ouu la la
But yeah this phone looks sick!
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android will still lag on a quad core, make it 8
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What’s with the 1gb of RAM still? Are we never going to cross that barrier?
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My point is that current high-end phones have 1gb of RAM, so why wouldn’t a high-end phone 6 months from now have more!
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Where do I sign up?
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Looks like a Flyer and the Wildfire made a baby.
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What a sexy design
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Dual core CPUs are powerful enough. Give us more battery life please.
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Tegra 3 has 5 cores, remember? There’s the 4 primary cores for real hard work, and then there’s a 5th “companion” core clocked at 400 mhz that will control stuff like wifi and handling incoming and outgoing data. That means while your phone is off, or when you’re just checking your email, it’ll have extremely minimal battery drain. Not until you fire up your browser or play a game or watch a movie will the other cores be required to boot up. Tegra 3 is supposed to have much better core management which will hopefully yield great battery life.
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Good grief… 4.7″… please just stop already.
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WOW — There really is no stopping HTC!
Having said that, I think this tablet…er..I mean phone is TOO MUCH. It’s really not necessary IMHO.
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Then don’t buy it. When this phone will be out Sensations will probably be around $250 on kijiji.
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looks a little chubby :p but i think thats just the image dimensions
definitely has that premium design feel to it, while slightly reminding me of my htc desire (one of the best phones of its time). woot!
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Looks like a must buy for me.
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These companies won’t stop increasing their phone sizes. And americans will keep buying, coz of their *ahem* insecurities.
We are doomed, I want a phone not a tablet in my pocket.
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cool hardware buttons bro, and 4 of them even. Ever heard of ICS?
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i don’t think those are hardware buttons -.- more like capacitive buttons?
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Samsung Galaxy S2 is the perfect size for me. Nothing smaller and nothing bigger.
Specs look pretty good though.
I’ll hold my judgement until Samsung announces the S3. Hopefully they’re smart and keep the same size but increase the resolution.
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Exactly!!
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Personally, I like the big screens. Anything passed 4.7″ might be a bit too big, though.
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As nice as this phone will be but I would like to see a cell phone wristwatch.
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Looks like a beefed up Nexus One / Desire. That is, super sexy.
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i was going to go get the GS2X tonight… now i wanna wait! lol
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I purchased the GS2 X yesterday and I was going to sell my GS2 from Bell. However, after playing with the GS2 X, I was quite disappointed with the performance, or lack there of, of the GS2 X and returned it a hour later. Exynos truly does perform better than Qualcomm Snapdragon. I witnessed it first hand. On paper, the GS2 X is better than the GS2 but in reality, not so much. My two cents.
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Capacative buttons?
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Okay.. these phones now are more powerful than the desktop PC that I am using.
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If this phone has ICS why the buttons?
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Absolutely love it! Have to see what the battery will do but if you can get a full day with medium use then I’m buying!!!
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Sounds awesome! and surprising that HTC would go for Nvidia’s chip considering their tight relationship with Qualcomm. But it’s a great choice.
I’m not sure about HTC’s marketing though. It’s been what 4 days since they announced the rezound? They should do a better job with these leaks, but meh, still finally a good sounding device from HTC.
Sense 4.0 with less bloat would compliment this package nicely too.
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Damyummm!
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Couldnt care less about quad core, however THAT is one sexilly designed phone! HTC are masters.
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4.7″ is too big for my female hands…
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Such an awkward time to be buying an android phone. I wish nvidia could have stayed on schedule with Kal-El and had it out for August. I know whats going to happen I will get the Galaxy Nexus and then phones with Kal-El will come out and that little evil gear monkey will be on my back poking me making me want the quad core goodness and I will just end up selling the Galaxy Nexus. Problem is I don’t have a phone at the moment and need one. Arrhggh dam you technology! ; P As fo this phone for the most part I like the design but for many reasons refuse to buy HTC phones. Hopefully we see a few more leaked phones that will be using the Tegra 3
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sexy animal, but *puts on sunglasses* it’s too BIG!
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man, this thing better have like a 5billion mAh battery or be able to shut off processors when not needed or something…
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sense 4.0!! wonder wat thats like
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Honestly, if you don’t like the size, don’t buy it. I don’t really care if it’s too big for you. Not all of us have tiny little hands which only take up a cm of screen real estate.
I personally love that we’re finally seeing some smartphones with bigger screens like this.
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Jizz. in. my. pants.
Holy s**t, i want that!
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I’ve used dual core phones and they’re certainly fast enough
their priorities should be battery life, RAM, software and I wouldn’t mind good cameras :3
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Question: what is the quad core for really?
Since android is still rocking iOS ports, the originals work flawless on a much inferior phone in terms of specs (i.e. the iPhone).
Unless you got the software what is the point of this madness? Now that ICS has (hope it is true) default gpu accel, dual core should be overkill for a mobile OS…..
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Try loading a 2.7meg one page blueprint pdf on a galaxy s 2 and you will find that the gpu or the cpu are just not fast enough to pinch in to get one peice of info sent to you in the field, while it would be nice to have a laptop with a stick in the field i just cant justify the cost for the once a week I need it.
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Just curious, what is the major advantage to a quad core if its running at 1.5Ghz, arent we looking for a faster proccesor? Dont get me wrong 1.5 is nice I just would imagine it being faster. Does having more cores mean you can run more stuff and still maintain that speed? Please educate me I honestly dont know much about this type of situation. I guess my qu
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Man… This thing looks so awesome! I have been a GS II fan boy but this phone may change that!!!
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Technically Ice Cream Sandwich will fix the issue. GPU rendered desktop composition will make Android as silky as IOS.
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