The smartphone goes to the quad-core era

Although there was no Apple or Google on CES in 2012, Microsoft was also the last exhibitor. This year's CES is still worth seeing. At the 2011 CES, the dual-core smartphones were only just starting. In the following year, the smart phone market had a dual-core wind. At this CES, dual-core processors have become standard, and smart phones are beginning to enter the four-core era.

At the beginning of last year, Nvidia launched the Tegra 2 dual-core processor, setting a new hardware standard for the global smartphone. In the process of upgrading to a quad-core processor, Nvidia once again took the lead. On the first day of CES, Fujitsu took the lead in launching the world’s first Arrows prototype with a Tegra 3 quad-core processor, clocked at up to 1.4GHz. According to reports, manufacturers such as HTC, Samsung, and LG are all actively developing quad-core smartphones. In addition, as an important competitor to Nvidia, Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 is also looking forward to.

However, although the quad-core has led to hardware upgrades, it can further promote the improvement of operating performance. However, in terms of software, manufacturers also need to consider whether they have matching content and applications. In fact, in the dual-core era, smart phones have always faced this problem, hardware went up, and software did not keep up.

At this CES, Intel's performance shines. Lenovo introduced the first Intel Kedera smart phone K800. It is understood that Intel has also reached a cooperation with Motorola, the future Motorola will use Intel's mobile processor on its Android device. Traditionally, Intel processors have adopted the x86 architecture and have high energy consumption. They are mostly used in large computers and other devices, and mobile processors are almost entirely based on the ARM architecture. As a result, Intel's route into the mobile terminal will be more clear, in the future will form a competitive trend for Qualcomm, Texas Instruments.

At last year's CES, 4G smart phones had already appeared, but they were seen as a gimmick for corporate advertising. Although there are several 4G smart phones at this CES, it is still not mainstream. Huawei's smart phone Ascend P LTE is the main 4G LTE function. LG also released a new Spectrum, which supports Verizon's 4G LTE network. However, compared to 3G smart phones, 4G smart phones do not have much innovation. Whether 4G is truly suitable and meets the needs of users remains to be seen.

It is not difficult to see from the appearance of the exhibits that the display screen of smart phones has become larger and larger. Samsung, Sony, HTC, Lenovo and other mobile phone manufacturers have introduced new products, and their screens are almost all over 4 inches. The large screen has become the mainstream of smart phones. trend. In addition, products with 720p HD resolution screens are gradually increasing, and screens with WVGA and qHD resolutions are gradually relegated to the second line. With the continuous expansion of smartphone screens, the demand for people to use mobile phones to play games and watch videos is further satisfied. The 720p resolution will bring better visual experience to mobile phone users.

However, both the replacement of processors from dual-core to quad-core and the expansion of mobile phone screens mean that new products will be more power-consuming and energy consumption problems will be further highlighted. From the CES show point of view, the problem of lack of standby time has long been plagued by the attention of consumers, such as some manufacturers are developing the latest power-saving technology, and some are improving battery life. The development of smart phones depends not only on the continuous upgrading of hardware, but also on the improvement of software and its continuous improvement in endurance.

Expert opinion Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha <br> <br> smartphone look forward to groundbreaking innovation

Motorola has released Droid Razr Maxx and Droid 4 and purple version of Droid Razr at this CES. Sanjay Jia said that Motorola Mobile had previously postponed the release of Droid Bionic, mainly because the time to market of the product was too close to Razr, and the number of new smart phones released this year was smaller than in previous years.

A large number of serious homogenized new products will not push the smart phone market to a new level. Motorola has many excellent ideas, but it is not a breakthrough. Motorola Mobile will concentrate more resources on a few new products to develop better products. In addition, Motorola will release smartphones using Intel Atom processor and Android platform in the second half of this year. This collaboration also includes tablet PCs that combine Intel's leadership in silicon technology and computing innovation with Motorola's expertise in mobile device design.

Li Xiaolong, vice president of Huawei mobile phone products, will not become mainstream in recent years

The study found that the experience of the naked eye 3D display technology to the user is not very good. Before the 3D technology has achieved a breakthrough, the 3D mobile phone will not become the mainstream of the market within a few years.

Currently, although the dual-core processor has become the mainstream configuration of smart phones, dual-core processors still have certain limitations when users perform some large-scale web browsing, flash playback, etc. Therefore, for smart phones, quad-core processors Undoubtedly the future development trend.

In addition, the performance improvement brought by the quad-core processor also brings more room for the development of the smart phone's functional experience. In particular, more and more large-scale games have begun to be ported to smart phones, and future quad-core processors With support, smartphone game performance will become an important experience requirement. At present, Huawei's quad-core mobile phones are also under development.

<br> <br> technical solutions show support for the Nokia Lumia 900 4G

Nokia and AT&T launched the smartphone Lumia 900, Nokia's first Windows Phone smartphone to support 4G LTE connectivity. The mobile phone uses a 4.3-inch AMOLED display, which continues the design of the lumina 800 and has built-in applications such as rich social networking and Internet services. In addition, the shooting feature is a major feature of the phone. Lumia 900's main camera is not only equipped with Nokia's unique Carl Zeiss lens, also has a large aperture and wide-angle focus, even in low-light shooting conditions can also get high-quality original 16:9 images to ensure that users in various conditions Both can get clear and bright images.

Chinese companies look at HTC released 16 million pixel mobile phone

On the eve of the show, HTC launched the first HTC TITAN II for Windows Phone, which supports 4G LTE connectivity. The phone features a large and bright 4.7-inch Super LCD touch screen, which optimizes the browsing experience for web browsing, games, and video viewing. In particular, the HTC Watch service via Wi-Fi enables you to access the latest movies and TV programs, or Experience Xbox LIVE mobile games everywhere. In addition, TITAN II equipped with Qualcomm 1.5GHz single-core processor, can provide AT & T fast 4G LTE web browsing, video streaming and download speeds.

Huawei pushes the world's thinnest smartphone

At CES, Huawei exhibited a total of 9 LTE ​​terminal products, of which Ascend P1 lte as the world's thinnest smartphone became a highlight of the show. It is understood that the phone's thickness is only 6.68 mm, equipped with a 1.5GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 Cortext-A9 dual-core processor, pre-installed Android 4.0 operating system, using 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen resolution of 960 × 540 . Since it is an LTE mobile phone, users can use the latest LTE technology to enjoy a fast data transmission rate directly on a smart phone and experience a fun network application.