HTC Glacier - dual processors!
 

Interesting reading, never imagined phones would move to dual cores

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardwar...details-leak/1

Re: HTC Glacier - dual processors!
 

Soo when is the new amazing ubertechnology for batteries coming I wonder..

Re: HTC Glacier - dual processors!
 

Funny that it's called the "Glacier", I bet it won't feel so cold with dual core processors running @ >= 1GHz. However still sounds cool, so maybe it's warranted.

Re: HTC Glacier - dual processors!
 

the next step for arm has been announced as being dual core. Hopefully Nokia is going to be bold and introduce this with the first Meego device! timeframe should be about right.

Re: HTC Glacier - dual processors!
 

super awesome. Although the article claims it didnt score that much higher than the galaxy s with its 1ghz hummingbird processor in the benchmark tests. Im not sure how dual core 1.2 ghz processors dont own noobs against a single 1ghz, but anyways :P

I feel like HTC is really leading this crazy with the 1ghz processors for the last year. where the heck is our super awesome Nokia :P

BTW, at some point these inferior, mortal operating systems wont know what to do with all the cpu power, and thats when our amazingly ambitious mobile computers will shine, riiight? :P

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Dual core ARM is nothing new. Cortex-A9 core based cpus were shown by few manufacturers already.

I played with dual core U8500 (ARM cpu from ST-Ericsson) running Android in 2009.

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Initial releases won't bring (too) much improvement as most OSs and benchmarks are not optimized for multicore hardware. On a side note - Maemo/MeeGo requires the least amount of 'tweaking' to work nicely with multicore.

Re: HTC Glacier - dual processors!
 

when has it been announced? please keep in mind that a device needs approximately 1-2 years from start meeting to working product that can be sold....

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OMAP4 has been announced in February 2009, with silicon available from February 2010 and volume production in late 2010.

EDIT: Though it might be counterintuitive, dual core processors might actually mean better power saving in certain scenarios (having two well utilized cores at 500MHz can be less drain than a single core at 1GHz (as power consumption increase is not linear).

EDIT2: OMAP4 brings also many more interesting things, not just dual cores and general efficiency - take for example the video/image segment, stuff like multi-display output, support for image stabilization, 1080p level of video muscle, picoprojectors and even 3D content should that become an important thing.

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And it was already said, that the first MeeGo device won't run on a dual-core chip.
It will run on a (hummingbird-like) Cortex A8 clocked at 1Ghz.