14 DAY TRIAL // The smartphone segment of the market is reportedly moving towards the emergence of devices that would pack processors of higher speeds. We already learned that Qualcomm was working on 1.2GHz and higher processors, but it seems that these little chips might jump up to 2GHz before the end of the ongoing year. Additionally, we should expect for the first handsets to pack dual-core processors to become available before 2011. Interestingly enough, Taiwanese handset vendor HTC Corporations is the company rumored to plan launching them.
Some of the previous rumors on upcoming powerful smartphones suggested that Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system would power such devices, yet it seems that other platforms would also be present in the mix. Google's Android 3.0 Gingerbread solution would also be present on such devices, something that might have been already previsioned based on the news regarding hardware specs requirements it would impose. Available details on the operating system flavor suggested that phones should pack processors clocked at least at 1GHz.
At least two new devices were recently rumored to come to the market running under Google's Android operating system while packing higher speed processors. Among them, we can count a HTC handset that would sport the name of Sabor, and which is rumored to sport a 2GHz CPU. The rumored specs of this device include a touchscreen display of a resolution higher than 1000, as well as two cameras, one of which would be of around 10-megapixels, with 1080p video recording capabilities. According to Android Guys (citing an art on DroidDog), the phone might get released at Sprint.
Increasing the speed of the processor results in better performance levels, and the same applies to increasing the number of cores a CPU has. Current handsets have single core processors, but rumor has it that the first dual core ones would arrive before the year's end. One such device is rumored to come from HTC and to be on its way to T-Mobile as HTC Vision, again with Android 3.0. Rumored specs include a 4.3-inch touchscreen, 800MHz dual-core processor, a QWERTY keyboard and an 8-megapixel camera. The said device would be part of Project Emerald, TmoNews reports.