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Qualcomm's 1.5GHz Dual-Core Snapdragon Benchmarked

Leading mobile chip maker Qualcomm is expected to bring to the market in the not too far future a new product that would fit inside high-end smartphones, the MSM8x60 chipset, which was recently benchmarked and reviewed inside Qualcomm's own mobile development platform (MDP).The chip is reportedly headed to the ...

2 April 2011
12:01 GMT

HTC Pyramid to Land in Europe Next Month

One of the most interesting smartphones that Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is rumored to plan on making available for purchase around the world would be the HTC Pyramid, and some more info on the device's arrival on shelves emerged recently. Apparently, the yet-unannounced mobile phone is exp...

2 April 2011
03:58 GMT

LG Optimus 2X Now in Stock at Expansys at £449.99

LG Optimus 2X, the first smartphone in the world to have been launched on the market with a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 chip inside, is now in stock and available for purchase via Expansys in the UK.The smartphone sports a price tag of £449.99 (around $720) at this retailer, a little lower than the $800 price tag...

2 April 2011
03:06 GMT

HTC Pyramid in New Photos, Full Specs

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has been long rumored to plan the launch of a new, highly appealing handset, the HTC Pyramid, and some more info on the device emerged, along with more photos of it. We already had the chance to take a look at this handset, as well as at some of the hardware specs it wo...

31 March 2011
01:58 GMT

LG Optimus 2X Now Shipping in Australia

LG Optimus 2X, the first Android-based smartphone in the world to include a dual-core application processor, is now shipping in Australia from MobiCity, with a price tag of $799.00 attached to it.The new device was already made available for purchase in a wide range of markets around the world, and should be release...

28 March 2011
05:54 GMT

T-Mobile Intros G2x by LG with Dual-Core and 4G Speeds

Just as expected, mobile phone carrier T-Mobile USA went official with the T-Mobile G2x, an Android-based smartphone made by LG, which comes with support for its 4G Network. This is the latest device included in the company's G-series devices, and packs an NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile processor with dual-core CPU, ...

22 March 2011
02:55 GMT

T-Mobile's G2x Spotted at CTIA 2011

Mobile phone carrier T-Mobile USA is expected to unveil new devices during the CTIA Wireless show in Orlando, Florida, and the already rumored G2x is as good as confirmed to be one of them.The mobile phone would be none other than the already launched LG Optimus 2X, the very first smartphone in the world to include ...

21 March 2011
17:06 GMT

HTC Pyramid Spotted in New Photo [Updated]

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC has been long rumored to plan the release of a new, highly appealing handset, called HTC Pyramid, and a new photo with this device has just emerged into the wild. Coming from Techblog.gr, the new photo with Pyramid shows the device next to a HTC Desire HD, but specific info on the ha...

21 March 2011
04:44 GMT

HTC Pyramid Benchmark Results Underwhelming

One of the mobile phones that HTC Corporation is expected to bring to the market during the ongoing year would be the HTC Pyramid, which made it to the headlines quite a few times before, and which was rumored to prove one of the most appealing new handsets from the company.However, it appears that things might not ...

17 March 2011
06:49 GMT

Five A-Series Llano Fusion APUs from AMD Set for July

Advanced Micro Devices doesn't have mainstream Fusion processors on sale yet, but it plans to unleash its first batch in July, a collection that will include five models with two or four cores each. Advanced Micro Devices may finally be dealing in its long-awaited Fusion chips and chipsets, but its APUs (acc...

16 March 2011
03:35 GMT

New AMD E-Series APUs Come in Third Quarter of 2011

AMD's low-cost mobile processors with built-in graphics are just now getting popular on the laptop market, but it really looks like the company is already done planning on when the successors will debut.The E-350 is a dual-core accelerated processing unit that features Radeon HD 6000 series DirectX 11 graphics....

8 March 2011
09:55 GMT

T-Mobile USA to Launch LG Optimus 2X as 'G2X'

Mobile phone carrier T-Mobile USA is reportedly gearing up for the release of yet another highly appealing smartphone running under Google's Android operating system, namely the LG Optimus 2X.The smartphone was officially unveiled to the world in December 2010 as the first Android handset in the world to sport ...

7 March 2011
11:31 GMT

First Core i3-2310 and Core i5-2410 Powered Notebooks Go on Sale

Intel's recently launched dual-core Sandy Bridge processors have started to make their way into the market as two laptop models, powered by such CPUs, have been spotted in the wild and are already available for purchase. Both notebooks are built by Acer, pack Nvidia discrete graphics cards and can be configur...

4 March 2011
02:47 GMT

Samsung Confirmed to Plan Tegra 2-Based Galaxy S II

Last month, during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung unveiled to the world the second gen Samsung Galaxy S device, and rumors on a new flavor of this handset being set to land on shelves soon have started to emerge. The original Galaxy S II device was announced wi...

3 March 2011
04:53 GMT

Intel Atom N570 Dual-Core Processor Makes Official Debut

Already spotted in some of the netbooks currently on display at CeBIT 2011, Intel's new N570 dual-core Atom CPU has also made its somewhat official debut, getting a dedicated page on the company's site as well as an entry on the company's official blog.Without a doubt, Intel's Atom line of process...

2 March 2011
01:04 GMT

MWC 2011: LG Optimus 2X Hands-On

The first dual core mobile phone in the world, namely the LG Optimus 2X, has made an appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and Softpedia managed to spend a few minutes with it to snap a few pictures for your viewing pleasure.Not only does this smartphone include a powerful application processor insid...

15 February 2011
11:51 GMT

Samsung GALAXY S II Now Official

Yesterday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics announced officially the release of a new smartphone running under Google's Android operating system, the Samsung GALAXY S II (Model: GT-I9100). The new device sports a thin design (8.49mm), complemented by a large t...

14 February 2011
02:09 GMT

Leaked Info on HTC Desire HD2 Surfaces

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is expected to announce officially at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a new Desire HD device, more powerful than the first one, but which should retaining the same looks, it seems. According to leaked info that emerged over at Pocketnow, the upcoming mobil...

11 February 2011
08:43 GMT

HTC Pyramid to Land at T-Mobile with 1.2GHz Dual-Core CPU, 4G

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is expected to bring to the market in the near future its first smartphone to include a dual-core application processor, and rumor has it that this device would be the HTC Pyramid. Apparently, HTC would have the new mobile phone powered by a dual-core 1.2 GHz Snapdragon p...

3 February 2011
05:04 GMT

Chances Are 'High' for Dual-Core iPhone 5, Industry Sources Say

iPhone 5 will have to cope with graphically intensive 3D games and HD video, therefore will most likely sport a dual-core processor, as most major handset makers already plan for their own products, says a report by tech-industry publication Digitimes. The report cites industry sources as saying that the majority ...

27 January 2011
10:28 GMT

LG Optimus 2X on Sale in Korea, to Arrive in White Soon

South Korean mobile phone users have now the possibility to purchase a new high-end device that runs under Google's Android operating system, namely the LG Optimus 2X. The new handset was already put on sale in the country, after being announced officially in late 2010 as the first smartphone in the world to pa...

25 January 2011
05:00 GMT

Samsung Galaxy S2 to Sport Dual-Core CPU, 1080p Video, Android 2.3

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has been long rumored to plan the release of a Galaxy S successor during the ongoing year, and some more info on the said device started to emerge recently. The new smartphone, expected to run under Google's new Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, the...

22 January 2011
09:41 GMT

Motorola ATRIX 4G Videos Show Specs and Features

During the Consumer Electronics Show that took place in Las Vegas in early January 2011, mobile phone maker Motorola went official with what they call the most powerful smartphone, the Motorola ATRIX 4G, set to make an appearance on shelves at the wireless carrier AT&T. Undoubtedly, the new mobile phone comes to ...

22 January 2011
06:10 GMT

Texas Instruments Tackles NVIDIA's Tegra 2 With Dual-Core ARM Chip

Texas Instruments is said to be planning on assaulting the market for higher-frequency ARM central processing units by developing a certain dual-core chip based on the Cortex A9.While NVIDIA does seem to be holding a sort of monopoly on the so-called market for dual-core Cortex A9 chips, this situation will eventual...

13 January 2011
10:21 GMT

Samsung Galaxy S2 Rumored Again for a February Release

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has been long rumored to be on its way to reveal in early 2011 a successor for the high-end Galaxy S smartphone launched on the market last year with Google's Android platform on board. Apparently, the upcoming handset, which might be called Galaxy S2, is ...

12 January 2011
02:50 GMT

LG Optimus 2X on Pre-Order in the UK for £499.99

LG's first dual-core smartphone, the LG Optimus 2X, is now listed as available for pre-order on the UK market, with a price tag of £499.99 attached to it, via online retailer Expansys. The new mobile phone, powered by Google's Android 2.2 operating system, was unveiled officially last month, when rum...

11 January 2011
09:08 GMT

LG Bets on Optimus 2X and Black for Strong Growth in 2011

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is confident that it would manage to greatly increase smartphone sales during the ongoing year, when compared to the last year, and says that the newly launched LG Optimus 2X and Optimus Black should prove of great help in this direction.These two devices were announced...

11 January 2011
06:44 GMT

RIM Confirms Dual-Core BlackBerry Devices Running QNX

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion confirmed officially a few days ago plans to bring to the market dual-core smartphones too, in line with the latest trends on the market, and with previous rumors on the company's plans for the future. During the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last wee...

10 January 2011
15:51 GMT

Dual-Core Phones and Tablets and LTE WP7 Devices from Samsung in February

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is expected to come to the market with dual-core handsets and tablet PCs at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, the company unveiled at the CES show in Las Vegas last week. At CES, Samsung brought to the spotlight a nice range of new devices, most of...

10 January 2011
06:39 GMT

Dual-Core Motorola ATRIX at Orange UK in Q2

Today, wireless carrier Orange UK and mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility announced officially the launch of Motorola ATRIX on the local market, a dual-core smartphone that runs under Google's Android operating system. The new device is set to offer impressive levels of performance when made available for purc...

6 January 2011
06:00 GMT

VIA Promotes Dual-Core Nano X2 CPU for Desktops and Notebooks

Coming to complete the trio of companies with new CPUs on hand, VIA Technologies has issued a press release in which it presents the dual-core Nano X2 energy-efficient processor.Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have, as end-users probably know, already released their respective Sandy Bridge and Fusion processors.As ...

4 January 2011
06:00 GMT

Dell Refreshes Its Latitude 2120 Netbook to Feature Atom Dual-Core Processor

Together with its XPS, Precision and Latitude laptops lines, Dell deiced that is also time to refresh the popular Latitude 2110 netbook, this to be available with a dual-core Intel Atom N550 processor starting January 2011, as the system will be officially unveiled during CES.As some of you already know, the Latitude...

30 December 2010
10:25 GMT

LG Optimus 2X Emerges in Sweden at €555

LG Optimus 2X, the first ever Android-based mobile phone to pack a dual core processor inside, has just made an appearance at a Swedish e-retailer, where it is currently listed with both on and off contract options.The price tag for this device seems to have been set at 4999 Swedish kronor, which is around about &eu...

19 December 2010
13:11 GMT

LG Goes Official with Dual-Core Optimus 2X Android Phone

The first dual-core smartphone has just become official. It is none other than the LG Optimus 2X, which was spotted into the wild before, and which is the first Android-based mobile phone to pack an NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip inside. The smartphone should be able to offer increased levels of performance when put on sale in...

16 December 2010
01:45 GMT

LG's Dual-Core Smartphone 'Star' in New Photos

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is set to bring to the market some pretty appealing new mobile phones in the near future, and the long rumored LG Star would be one of them, it seems, while the just released LG LU3000 would be another. Both of these handsets run under Google's Android operating sy...

8 December 2010
12:41 GMT

Texas Instruments Intros Dual-Core 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU

Today, Texas Instruments announced officially the launch of the OMAP4440 applications processor, with impressive performance enhancements when compared to the company's OMAP4430 CPU. Among these improvements, we can count the speeds of 1.5 GHz per ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore the new CPU can achieve. The new OMAP4440 p...

8 December 2010
09:36 GMT

NVIDIA Whitepaper Promotes Multi-Core Tegra Chips

It seems that NVIDIA is quite set on making sure it secures a fair chunk of the mobile market, so it will focus much of its resources on the Tegra family of SoC, even multi-core models according to a recent document.Though Intel may have managed to drive NVIDIA out of the x86 chipset business, the Santa Clara, Calif...

3 December 2010
08:36 GMT

NVIDIA Says Quad-Core Smartphones Will Come Soon

NVIDIA's Tegra 2 chipset is currently the most wanted dual-core solution for high-end devices out there, with a nice series of smartphones or tablets running under Android already announced or rumored to be on their way to the market with this chip inside.The chip includes two ARM Cortex A9 CPU cores, along wit...

2 December 2010
03:43 GMT

Samsung Preps a 'Galaxy 2' GT-i9100 with Dual-Core

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is reportedly preparing the launch of a new Android-based handset, one which would prove to be the true successor of the Galaxy S smartphone, and which would sport the model number GT-i9100. It appears that the new mobile phone might arrive on the market as Galaxy ...

15 November 2010
01:44 GMT

Intel Sandy Bridge Chips Enter Mass Production

While they won't actually become available in the market for some time yet, the Sandy Bridge series of central processing units from Intel has reportedly already entered mass production stage, with revenue units slated for Q4.The Sandy Bridge series of CPUs will be superior to the current core series not just i...

13 October 2010
10:56 GMT

All Acer Dual-Core Netbooks to Get Android and Windows

Even though netbooks have, thus far, mostly stuck to the Windows 7 operating system, Acer may be meaning to put a stop to this situation by loading all of its future dual-core netbooks with two operating systems instead of just one.According to a report issued by Digitimes, Acer may be intent on combining Android wi...

7 October 2010
03:16 GMT

Quad-Core Sandy Bridge Consume As Much as Dual-Core Calpella

Intel's Sandy Bridge central processor will debut sooner or later and it seems that the Huron River platform which they will be part of will actually have great benefits in terms of power consumption, compared to existing solutions.As consumers may know, the Sandy Bridge series of central processing units will ...

1 October 2010
10:14 GMT

AMD Brings Out New Athlon II CPUs

After presenting six new central processing units not so long ago, Advanced Micro Devices appears to have once again supplied the market with new CPUs, this time aimed at the low-power market, the chips being four new Athlon II units. Eager to keep expanding its product lineup to all segments of the market, Advanced...

23 September 2010
09:00 GMT

ASUS Already Selling a Netbook Based on Dual-Core Atom N550

Since Intel recently announced that its Dual-Core Atom N550 mobile processor would power a new generation of netbooks, PC makers were quick to oblige, but ASUS appears to be a step ahead of the rest, having already started to ship the Eee PC 1015PEM.The Atom N550 CPU that Intel trumpeted not so long ago is the new d...

25 August 2010
05:09 GMT

ASUS Eee PC 1215N Netbook Bound for September

Entry-level mobile computers are known for not being very capable when it comes to anything besides document viewing and basic web browsing. Still, even in this market segment, there are those products that can be seen as more high-end than the others, and ASUS is almost ready to bring out one of them, though it may...

5 August 2010
08:29 GMT

HTC's First Dual-Core Handset to Be T-Mobile's HTC Glacier

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is reportedly gearing up for the release of its first device to pack inside a dual-core processor. Moreover, it seems that this device is nearing a market release on T-Mobile's airwaves, and that it should land on shelves under the name of HTC Glacier, while packi...

4 August 2010
04:28 GMT

Dual-Core AMD Ontario With Graphics Has 18W TDP

Even though they are still a long way off, AMD's upcoming generation of central processing units, or accelerated processing units (APUs) in the case of Fusion, are already the subject of rumors and reports. Each week, some new leak manages to reveal alleged traits of these chips. One of the more recent ones now ...

26 July 2010
05:59 GMT

AMD Preps Faster Dual-Core Athlon II For Q3

Advanced Micro Devices, not long ago, finally took on Intel on the mobile computer front, with all of its new central processing units, but it also refreshed its desktop chip line somewhat. Still, there is always room for more and, with Intel periodically releasing new chips, it falls to AMD to do the same. As such,...

5 July 2010
08:33 GMT

1.6GHz Dual-Core VIA NANO Chip Plays 720p Video

When thinking of central processing units, one's mind immediately goes to either Intel Corp., or advanced Micro Devices, or both. What may have escaped some people, however, is that there is a certain other chip maker out there which, though more stealthy, can still surprise the consumer base. VIA decided to tak...

2 June 2010
10:10 GMT

Qualcomm Completes Dual-Core 1.2GHz Snapdragon Chipsets

Handset and smartphone developers everywhere now have another reason to rejoice as the new, very fast and multi-cored ARM-based Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets have made their official debut. Dubbed the Mobile Station Modem (MSM) MSM8260 and MSM8660, these fresh platforms, as the third-generation in their line, are the ...

1 June 2010
03:07 GMT


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