Fujitsu has on the consumer electronics show CES the first smartphone with quadcore processor is shown. The unnamed phone is still a prototype and runs on Nvidia’s Tegra 3 system-on-a-chip. The model is only behind glass to admire.
The phone is supposedly only released in Japan, reports Engadget. The device runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The smartphone in the Arrows-line has a 4,6″screen with a hd resolution, probably of 1280 x 720 pixels. On the back is a 13 megapixel camera. The phone is also waterproof and dustproof, features that most Japanese smartphones. The prototype is at CES only behind glass to admire; a version that visitors should try is not until next month at the Mobile World Congress, a telecombeurs that at the end of February in Barcelona takes place.
The Tegra 3-soc is the first quadcore processor which is ready for use in products. For example, Asus already has the Eee Pad Transformer Prime with soc. On the CES, are different tablets announced with this hardware, but no smartphones. The first smartphones with a quadcore processor would be announced at the Mobile World Congress. Among others, HTC and Samsung were smartphones with quad-core processors show.
Quadcores would have an advantage that they have better graphics performance to smartphones and more efficiently with energy than dualcores. In addition, the Tegra 3 has a fifth core with low clock speed for simple tasks.
