LG Electronics on Tuesday announced a new series of smartphones with next - generation dual - essence processors , which should cater a big leap in operation while maintaining machine battery biography .
LG ’s new Optimus line will include smartphones flow on Nvidia ’s Tegra 2 three-fold - essence chip , which will also allow handsets to act 1080p high - definition TV , LG tell in a program line .
Most of today ’s smartphones get along with undivided - core central processor and are capable of represent only 720p resolution picture . Beyond full HD support , double - core processors could enable smartphones to run more demanding applications like videoconferencing .
The Optimus smartphones will “ debut ” in the quaternary quarter of this twelvemonth , the company said in a statement . The company did not specify when the phones would be in general available for purchase .
The new smartphones will come with two 1GHz processors . The Tegra 2 chip will allow for double the Web browsing and up to five clip faster gaming performance over single - core 1GHz chips , the company said .
Some of the most advanced smartphones today , include Motorola ’s Droid X , Apple ’s iPhone 4 and HTC ’s Evo 4 G occur with single - heart 1GHz Arm processors .
Nvidia announced Tegra 2 in January , initially targeting the chips at tablets . The company has since said smartphones with Tegra 2 cow chip would embark later this year . Tegra 2 pair processor substance based on Arm ’s Cortex - A9 design with other ingredient such as Nvidia ’s GeForce graphics centre .
LG is one of the former companies to declare a dual - meat smartphone , and major earpiece makers are await to follow as chip shaper bring out double - core chips . Arm licensee Texas Instruments has said it willship its first dual - core OMAP4430 chiplater this year . Qualcomm has already ship its firstdual - core C.P.U. , the MSM8660 , and plans to start testing samples of a faster twofold - Congress of Racial Equality chip , the QSD8672 , afterward this year .
Samsung also jumped into the dual - Congress of Racial Equality smartphone processor race on Tuesday . The South Korean chip shaper announced its first dual - essence mobile processor , code - named Orion , targeted at pad , netbooks and smartphones . Hunter have two 1GHz branch Cortex A9 cores , and will be able to record video at a 1080p resolution . The central processing unit will be useable for testing in the 4th fourth part and will be mass raise starting the first half of 2011 .
