Last November proffered the first peep about the HTC Edge, an Android phone that's expected to have a 4.7-inch 1,280x720-pixel HD display, an 8-megapixel camera, an Nvidia Tegra 3 1.5GHz quad-core processor, and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. (Read more on HTC's alleged plans.)

Also boasting the quad-core Tegra 3 chipset, or so we've heard, is the LG X3. Its specs are similar to those of the HTC Edge, with a 4.7-inch 1,280x720-pixel HD display, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, and Ice Cream Sandwich.

Next in line, there's Samsung's third version of its insanely popular Galaxy S series Android smartphone. Although the Galaxy S II phones only landed in the U.S. just a few months ago, they launched at last year's MWC. It's very likely that we'll see the quad-core successor, the Samsung Galaxy S III, shred its previous records in processing power in this global upgrade.

And let's not forget that hands-off Fujitsu phone from CES.

Although it's no longer expected to launch at MWC, the HTC Zeta is a 2.5GHz quad-core concept phone.
Fujitsu, quad-core, Tegra 3

You have to take Fujitsu's word that this smartphone has an Nvidia quad-core processor, but at CES, it did run Android games like nobody's business.
(Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET)

What quad-core does for you
If you're familiar with dual-core phones, quad-core follows the same principle. Put simply, the handset's central processor (CPU) contains four cores for divvying up tasks, rather than one or two CPUs.

The benefits are many, but distill into two overarching results: dramatically faster performance and better battery life. In other words, each core can work less to accomplish a task; and because tasks are split, each core requires a smaller battery contribution (at a lower voltage) than if fewer cores strained with heavier workloads apiece (requires higher voltage per core).

In a practical setting, quad-core processors promise to support sharp screen resolutions; load apps and render photos and Web pages faster; quickly and smoothly process HD video; and improve the quality of gameplay to bring it much closer to a desktop standard.

Just how much faster are they supposed to be? Nvidia has claimed that its Tegra 3 processor completes tasks up to five times faster than its Tegra 2 dual-core predecessor, and its chip for processing graphics (GPU) grew from 8 cores on the Tegra 2 version to 12 cores in Tegra 3.

Impressive as quintupling the phone's speed is, at least in theory, it's nothing compared with Nvidia's plan for exponential increases with added cores. The following release, code-named Wayne, will promise speeds up to 10 times faster than Tegra 2. Logan, the processor after Wayne, will clock speeds 50 times faster than those dual-core phones we're seeing now. In some senses, Tegra 3 is a small taste of your smartphone future, not just from Nvidia, but from all the chipmakers.

Read more: http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-57364255-85/quad-core-smartphones-this-is-their-year/#ixzz1kcFSNZje

battery life wadaun lyi u have to turn the sync off bro

samsung galaxy s2 di batter iphone 4s nalo wadia akyunki sync off ho janda ohde chiphones ch shayad nahi hunda

Ya i phone is crap i hate it

Whats the point of making quad core phones when dual core phones aren't fully successful yet. The biggest problem is the battery life. Most of the dual core phones have crappy battery life and I can't even imagine quad core. If you have a rooted android phone, you can clock the processors to 1.7 or above. Of course the phone will be faster but the battery life will suck. Companies will say anything to make people buy their product.

Edit: Rahul veere tusi wi pangey lende phone naal. Mein te sochaya cara naal hi lende sige :hehe:

haha nice that sucks :/

I agree

no need a quad core phone
am using my samsung galaxy s1 rooted and its fast enough.

thats my fone's screen shot :

Custom Rom and Custom kernel are the way to go and Rooting is the way to discover android fully :smile:. You get way better battery life and a faster phone. Leaked updates :love: ICS 4.0 running on HTC sensation

Worst thing with ice cream sandwich bro , you cannot install the apps and stuff from pc you have to buy them
not sure abour rooted firmware yet
am gona get a new phone in 2-3 months time.
and ya root is the way to go

i rooted so far abt 4-5 fones , my mates  had prob with factory firmware

Not the case with HTC sensation, ICS was very buggy when it was first leaked. The developers fixed most of the issues but still it's not perfect. I'm going to wait out few more weeks until developers make it perfect. Sense 3.5 leaked was perfected to the max. I plan on going back to that as it was way better.

I heard they gona make ICS for galaxy too lets see

I hope so, because there is a source out for galaxy 1 ICS.

Kehra phone len da plan ah next veere :happy:

yaar koi hai hi nhai haale wadia jeha
tusi dekh ke dasso kehra layeie

Oh te 2-3 months tak pata laggu, hale te pata ni kehre phone release hon 2-3 months wich. Es time te HTC Sensation/ HTC Amaze ja fer Galaxy S2 are running strong.