HTC Edge Superphone Leaked: Quad-Core Tegra 3 Processor
HTC Edge Superphone Leaked: Quad-Core Tegra 3 Processor
Posted 11/07/2011 at 3:38pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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On the heels of HTC’s recent announcement of the Rezound smartphone for Verizon Wireless, a new device has been leaked that may give any potential phone-buyer a case of cold feet. The HTC Edge is a monster of an Android device with a 720p screen at 4.7-inches, 1GB of RAM, and a crazy Nvidia Tegra 3 processor with four 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 cores. The Rezound only has a dual-core chip.
This is the first quad-core phone to be leaked that we suspect actually exists. The choice of processor is actually very interesting, if accurate. HTC has always used Qualcomm parts in its phones, and the new Krait-based Snapdragons are on the horizon. This could be a sign that Nvidia is really stepping it up to get phone makers on board. No mention of LTE capability was made in the leak, just HSPA+ at this point.
As for software, the Edge is expected to bring a new version of HTC Sense, but it is unclear if it will be based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. We have to believe so, as the phone is not expected until late Q1 or early Q2 of 2012. Another thing to note, the HTC Edge render shows the phone with buttons, which is a very un-ICS design.
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ZayLay
November 08, 2011 at 7:12am
oh look, i'm rendering video and playing video games on my phone LOL.
Vatigu
November 08, 2011 at 3:35am
Anyone paying attention to Kal-el specs would point out that although it is technically a quadcore phone it has a hidden 5th core that is designed on lowpower silicon, basically this extra core runs at 500mhz, and extremely low power while parking all the other cores and runs background apps and even audio playback, so battery life may actually be fairly respectable. I'm personally pretty excited about this phone. But I'm really liking my WP7 so I'm kinda hopin that Nvidia and M$ shake hands, I mean the zune HD was the first device to ship Tegra. Maybe WP7 will get some tegra3 love ^_^
Ghost XFX
November 08, 2011 at 1:52am
And this is why I no longer care for smart phones. Everytime you buy one, just wait 3-4 months, the next big thing is out with nearly the same contract and price...
kixofmyg0t
November 08, 2011 at 10:34am
The same thing happened to PC's until about 2009 dude.....the moment you bought something it was outdated.
The PC ecosystem has slowed to a proverbial crawl in the last few years.....
thetechchild
November 09, 2011 at 12:00am
Actually, PCs are advancing faster now than ever ("double" exponential growth) -- it's just that corporations are wising up a bit to having less releases with bigger improvements. If you change your product line and have 50 diff. products with 50 diff. names, it's actually not as good for business as 5 modern but well-known product lines.
AETAaAS
November 07, 2011 at 11:26pm
Holy hell that is going to be one enthusiast phone. 4.7 inches is fine by me but I already use a 5.3' Galaxy Note so I may be weird that way. :p I too am wondering what the quad core will do for battery life; a 4.7' device can hold a big battery. The Note's standard battery is a 2,500mAh to offset the screen, so I hope HTC are taking notes (sorry for the awful juxtaposition >.<).
The quad core may be excessive to some but if HTC keep going the way they are with 720p displays on their phones (and a 4.7' screen deserves at least that), the Tegra 3 may be the best bet for rapid 3D games.
Having buttons on the bottom does not exclude ICS, since a number of current phones will be getting it plus there is a lot of time for them to change before release.
qhoa1385
November 07, 2011 at 8:36pm
4.5-inches is really pushing it, and now 4.7....
4-Cores so what? the question is, will apps and android be optimized to harvest those power?
because last time i check, my damn Sensation with dual core runs laggier than my Inspire...
HTC does actually poop out a new phone every sec...
saffy
November 07, 2011 at 7:59pm
At 4.7 inches, I don't really consider this the size of a pocket phone anymore.
My question for this phone is, "What are the specs for? Nothing so far actually uses 4 cores so it's most likely just a flashy tagline. And, what about battery life?"
kixofmyg0t
November 08, 2011 at 10:36am
Generally the larger the phone....the larger the battery. But this IS HTC we're talking about here.....so it'll prolly have a 1,200mAh battery. :/
avenger48
November 07, 2011 at 3:55pm
HSPA+? I thought that was a GSM technology. Verizon's 3G is CDMA-based, EV-DO to be specific.
Hamburger
November 07, 2011 at 5:26pm
HSPA+ could mean it's target for AT&T and/or T-Mobile. Also it's still way early yet... designs change like we saw with the Bionic from Motorola.
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