Now every man and his donkey has a Snapdragon chip in their smartphones, it’s time for Qualcomm to look past the 1.2GHz speeds and bring us a 1.5GHz dual-core. It’s on its way, from late this year/early next year.
The dual-core QSD8672 chip was outed by Qualcomm’s vice president of product management Mark Frankel, and is said to support 1080p playback, along with DDR2, DDR3 and HDMI components. While it’s not expected until early 2011, there’s apparently a good chance it could pop up in a few products before Christmas. [ComputerWorld via MobileBurn via Engadget]
Tim
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 9:56 AMWith battery life for most smart phones barely lasting 24 hours with moderate use, I sure do hope you have a story about battery capacity doubling to go with this announcement!
G
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 12:14 PMi couldnt agree more! they need to realise no one wants a faster processor in a phone until they can improve battery technology to back it up…
matt
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 1:36 PMdear Qualcomm:
wtf do we need a faster cpu in our smart phone for?? its not like we are doing 3D renders, or video encoding, or running massive web servers from them. we don’t need massively powerful CPUs. what we DO need is MORE POWERFUL GPUs! seeing as how your offering on that front is already lagging, perhaps you should focus on that for a bit. people want high pixel density screens, and they want games.
I am still under the impression that the CPU in the iphone 3GS is fast enough.
X
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 2:22 PMPlease, more battery power. I want a colour screen phone that plays music and takes photos that lasts as long as my good ol’ trusty Nokia 3315.
James Carson
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 9:48 PMwow, crazy shit!moors law is still working! i think he was wrong that it’s gonna be obsolete past 2020
Will
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 4:47 PMHAHA moors law is just repeating itself! didnt we go though this with desktops and then Laptops and now its smart phones.