LG adopts Tegra 2, dual-core smartphones on the way
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- Anonymous
- sya
- 07 Sep 2010
Great work but i think Lg might be a bit too late here. Samsung and HTC have taken so much of its market share in the smart phones area.
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- lollypop
- wHR
- 07 Sep 2010
Anonymous, 07 Sep 2010I agree with general centiment here. Battery life is becomi... morei feel u bro...damn!
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- 5ushi
- uBM
- 07 Sep 2010
Tegra (gen 1) has been around for a while. You see them on the latest, high-end Zune players and the Samsung YP-MB1. I remember nVidia showcasing a CPU/GPU hybrid they made a few years back; it was running that was the size of a laptop (12' screen with keyboard, flip screen etc etc) despite managed around 8 hours of 1080p video.
People say that with mobile processors on the rise we can expect to see netbooks go out of fashion. Heck, from what I'm seeing now I'd say the mainstream laptop is being threatened.
Which one of you does anything intensive on a laptop these days but check Facebook, watch a few youtube clips, and type up essays? Only the high-end users (ie, the industrial levels) really need such power. And if you tell me you play 3D games on your laptop then you're an epic fail, period. You fell for a marketing gimmick where laptop makers say their laptops are portable gaming PCs.
Laptops are NOT designed for gaming; the small chassis isn't designed to dissipate heat AND keep up with the graphics demand of high-end gaming today. The best thing you'll see with such machines (the Dell M11x for one) is a premature death or a fire. Though I can understand professionals (ie, studio video editors for one, which I'm in the category for); for stuff like on-the-go broadcast editing, my VAIO VGN-Z is a nice companion
...Getting back on the subject... I'd love to see something like the Sony Ericsson W900 back on the market. That was a mean as phone in its days with a GPU built-in. That plus, a decent camera and unique form factor (for the time period). Tegra 2 just takes it up a level.
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- nishit joshi@3
- P$u
- 07 Sep 2010
i do understand that the phones with more powerfull processors are needed in this age but its not only the revolution in processors is needed but the revolution in the battery specs is also essential and the last company who really concentrated on it was nokia so i think giving more computing power to a phone is worthless if a equivalent battery technology is not produced to support wat will u do of a phone if it works with a walljack
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- nishit joshi@3
- P$u
- 07 Sep 2010
i do understand that the phones with more powerfull processors are needed in this age but its not only the revolution in processors is needed but the revolution in the battery specs is also essential and the last company who really concentrated on it was nokia so i think giving more computing power to a phone is worthless if a equivalent battery technology is not produced to support wat will u do of a phone if it works with a walljack
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- LOOOOL
- 4Ax
- 07 Sep 2010
WTF? LG? r u kidding me? NO WAY. LG is like the weakest company after blackman''s berry
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- sam
- ix9
- 07 Sep 2010
all inovations are wellcome, thats the way human kind as evolved sin e we discovered fire, stop saying i dont need this or i want that, in the end the comsumers will benefit and thats a fact, otherwise we still be using smoke signal to comunicate with each other.
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- Anonymous
- sya
- 07 Sep 2010
Well thats right, i dont think thikness will be a big deal for consumers if they understand that the capabilities of the phone are improved and battery is improved. I think people would be happy to carry a sort of mini tab sized phone around. Like a galaxy s but another 5-8mm thicker to incorporate a decent battery.
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- toorop
- T4d
- 07 Sep 2010
Yeah battery life is getting worse. My iPhone 4 is enogh for what the iPhone (or the Samsung GS too) is designed for.
And even games like Epic Citadel are possible with only 1 core 1GHz and are visually more than enough for a portable gaming device so why going further and dropping battery life?
On my iPhone 4 I play 30 minutes to 1 hour games per day and the battery lasts for 1 and 1/2 day, that means I have to sharge it every day.
This means maybe that phones will go thicker coz of battery. After they got thinner for a while...
It's like the phones got smaller and smaller until 2004/2005 and than they got bigger and bigger... The same could happen with the thinness.
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- Anonymous
- sya
- 07 Sep 2010
Laptop batteries are huge for a reason. I wouldnt mind paying alot extra for phone if it had some sort of new battery in it thaat could last as long a my SE k800i. I wasnt that great but it wasnt guaranteed to die before i got to bed to charge it. Everyone of my phones since have been terrible. My galaxy is the worst, not because its a bad phone. Quite the opposite! Its an excellent phone, it so good i use it 24/7 and hardly use my laptop anymore. So its dead by 8pm at night. We need better batteries. The better pones become, the more we're going to use them and thats a fact. example, WHO THE HELL USED SLOW ASS WAP INTERNET??
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- Anonymous
- p7K
- 07 Sep 2010
Seriously why do we need this. High res video plqyback, even higher than screen resolution. We'vw been hearing about these dual cores for ages yet we have yet to see anything. Pointless, andas every1 is arguing battery life would be unsatisfactory
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- Grent
- UDN
- 07 Sep 2010
Haha we need quad-core battery then :D
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- SKT
- 2Z4
- 07 Sep 2010
What about battery...??
performance ∝ 1/battery
so it sucks battery....!!!
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- Rick
- iic
- 07 Sep 2010
Perfect :) I need a single device for work and play: phone, radio, GPS, camera/VDO HD, Modem, Media player to watch movies, listen to MP3s etc, talk to my fitness monitors, play games and the like. I don't want to carry 3 devices at a time on average (including notebook or Ipad Equivalent. this is where the market is heading and that is why we need these high powered technology to help achieve this. If you want a basic phone, they are around, just stick to it. But have an appreciation for how it enhances our lives and lifestyles through the technological developments. Samsung, LG, HTC, etc Keep it up! :)
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- Anonymous
- sya
- 07 Sep 2010
I agree with general centiment here. Battery life is becoming a real problem with all the high end phones. My galaxy is great. Absolutely awesome for showing off. But the other night i was out with friends, wanted to get this girls number, but y damn phone was dead. Ita not the first time either. Speed is excellent but battery is better. At least a day and a half with decent use would be good. Phones that are dead before beddtime are annoying. Slow down on thw processor stuff. Start working on making better batteries.
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- j0c
- 07 Sep 2010
While this is a technological advancement, its none of the consumers business. What rational individuals wan't are phones that perform and have good battery life. It doesn't matter whether it utilizes a single, dual or quad core cpu.
I'm stressing this because of those dumb tards who are sure to come here to a-ranting hopeless trash shortly.
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- kamejoko
- u7c
- 07 Sep 2010
Samsung's Orion is the 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9. The freshly announced dual-core Orion promises to whip us all into a frenzy of geek lust with "5 times the 3D graphics performance over the previous processor generation from Samsung," 1080p video encoding and decoding at 30fps, embedded GPS, a native triple display controller, and on-chip HDMI 1.3a interface. Those last two bits mean you can drive two displays on your mobile device while feeding a third, such as a HDTV, all thanks to the one all-powerful chip inside. Availability is coming late this year, with mass production set for the first half of 2011
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- Grent
- UDN
- 07 Sep 2010
Who need dual core CPU on a phone damn it >.<
What I need is a phone that can last 1 year without charging(or changing battery)..
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- Anonymous
- fvS
- 07 Sep 2010
Unfortunatly , as new processors , gpus and so on are released it seems that manufacturing a mid-sized smartphone (3.2-3.7 inch screen) is becoming impossible which sucks big time... 4-4.3 inch phones are ridiculously big ( its supposed to be a phone afterall).. and it seems this is where the market is heading too
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- Anonymous
- PUm
- 07 Sep 2010
WOW ! Something better than all major phone manufacturers !!! Awesome...Will it be patented ? If other follow the suit, they gonna get ass whipped