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Nvidia press invite promises quad-core phones at MWC

By on February 9, 2012 at 12:21pm in Mobile News


Nvidia has sent out a press release for an “exclusive event” during Mobile World Congress this month, promising “quad-core firsts” and “great battery life.”

This pretty much confirms what we already suspected: that companies like LG and HTC will be offering Tegra 3-powered smartphones are the convention, though it’s unlikely Samsung will be taking part in the quad-core festivities.

It will definitely be interesting to see how the Tegra 3 chipset, which is only available in the Asus Transformer Prime tablet in Canada, translates to smartphone use. The chip is built with a 40nm process, so it doesn’t have the power-efficiency advantage over the upcoming Qualcomm S4 series, which is built on a 28nm process. Tegra 3 does, however, contain a fifth “companion” core which allows core features to be maintained while the screen is off, such as music listening and voice calls while the rest of the four high-energy cores are sitting idle. The idea is sound, and we found it to do good work in our Transformer Prime review, but it remains to be seen how such architecture translates to the smartphone.

We’ll have more soon.

Source: Android Central
Via: The Verge

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Discussion

7 comments for “Nvidia press invite promises quad-core phones at MWC”

  1. Holding up your $800 phone like that in a roller coaster ride. Yup, looks like the best idea ever.

    I’m sure this would make a fun video, but who would risk that??

    (And I know, not the point of the announcement)

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    Posted by stickwithmobilicity | February 9, 2012, 12:32 pm
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  2. Meh, more looking forward to the next generation Exynos chipsets from Sammy. Still haven’t used anything matching my GS2 (heard the international Note might be even better, but guess what SoC its using).

    Still, quad core smartphones sound fun, better than a lot of people’s personal computers. We’ve come a long way.

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    Posted by Dan | February 9, 2012, 12:39 pm
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  3. I would much prefer to see the S4 qualcomm ones which even though they are dual core are expected to match the Tegra 3. The only tegra 3 device i have any interest in is the Padfone

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    Posted by Sean | February 9, 2012, 12:44 pm
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  4. I wonder if having a quad-core processor in your phone will enable you to become a douche and use your phone on a rollercoaster…

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    Posted by Jesse | February 9, 2012, 1:45 pm
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  5. you guys worry about that..

    i ll take the girl!!! score!!!!

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    Posted by sp | February 9, 2012, 2:56 pm
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  6. 4 hour battery life….. in standby

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    Posted by pats | February 9, 2012, 5:33 pm
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  7. where’s our BULLDOZER 8 core phones? 8 cores > 4 cores.

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    Posted by jon_d0e1 | February 9, 2012, 7:25 pm
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