PocketNow, which is putting forward the “leaked” images, says the Edge will have the same specs are the recently unveiled Rezound, with the exception of four cores and Tegra 3, of course. No word on LTE, however — lacking that would be quite a shame, given the hardware muscle inside this son of a gun.
I wonder, though, how much we can really use this four-headed chimera. What app needs that much power? PocketNow says to expect the Edge in the first half of next year — what the hell is going to be so demanding by then? Foursquare? Angry Birds running on the Unreal Engine? A really, really angry email? [PocketNow]
Leo
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 10:17 AM“What app needs that much power?” – Oh sure, and 64k ought to be enough for anyone. :p
Steve
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 6:36 PMThat’s not analogous. This isn’t the 90s PC market where manufacturers were struggling to keep hardware up to date with the software needs. We’re at the point where programming demands have plateaued. Apps are increasingly streamlined to sip as little power as possible, as well as run on the broadest range of devices (especially the low end). A Quad Core phone is the very definition of ‘ahead of its time.’
warcroft
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 10:48 AMYAY! One hour battery life!
anonymouse
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 11:02 AMMore cores = Better Battery Life
Better multitasking =D
Use 1 core for the OS, 1 core for the camera (so it’s almost instant start up) and the other 2 cores for your 2 most recent applications.
Liam Johnson
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 12:56 PMIf that is indeed the device up top, I wonder some things… for example, obviously this device would ship with ICS, yet it still has hardware buttons.
Now, there’s been huge discussions on XDA (especially in the Galaxy S II forum) about ICS, which uses software buttons, and it’s compatibility with existing hardware buttons. The best logical conclusion people came to is that the back button on the GSII will keep it’s existing function, while the menu button stays as is when just pressed, but when held, becomes the multitasking button.
I guess what I’m saying is, did HTC know of the software button support in ICS when developing this, or is it just that maybe not many people will follow suit of the Galaxy Nexus and adopt said buttons?
David
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 1:38 PMThis is the future, people are becoming more tied to their phones than their PC’s one day soon people will be walking into the office and docking their phone where their laptop docking stations once was.
David
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 1:38 PMThis is the future, people are becoming more tied to their phones than their PC’s one day soon people will be walking into the office and docking their phone where their laptop docking stations once was.
MotorMouth
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 5:17 PMExactly! I’d love to be running Win8 on my next phone.