Ever since we learned that AT&T’s HTC One X was going to lose it’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor in its move to the U.S. (and adoption of LTE), the worry that performance would suffer with two less cores was in the back of many peoples’ minds. An Android Central forum member by the name of “Phonegeek” just so happens to have a couple of the aforementioned phones in his position, and has put them through several passes of Vellamo (browser...

Qualcomm’s had a good run so far. The company’s current crop of single and dual-core SoC hardware is powering a considerable chunk of the mobile market. But it’s going to get even better. According to the roadmap above, next-gen S4-powered hardware will be designed on a 28nm level and feature single, dual, and quad-core processors clocked up to 2.5 GHz as well as dual and quad-core Adreno GPUs, supprot for 3D and 1080p, 3G and LTE! Slightly less...

Now that “4G” has been watered down to an almost useless term when used in the same sentence as “AT&T” and “next-gen network”, it seems phone manufacturers have their own keywords to milk. The new Chinese-bound Motorola XT882 features a “dual everything” nickname thanks to it’s use of dual-core processor (Nvidia Tegra 2), dual-SIM card support, and dual network support (either 2 GSM networks or 1 GSM and 1 CDMA). A...

Nvidia’s Tegra 2 may be the go-to standard for dual-core tablets in the here and now, but things will soon change if Qualcomm has their way. At Computex this week, Qualcomm had several different hardware vendors on display showing off their new dual-core Snapdragon processors. One such manufacturer, Quanta, demoed the device you see above. While it’s not known whether the this tablet is powered by the same MSM8660 that’s in the HTC Sensation or the...

Nvidia may be once again beating Qualcomm to the finish line with their quad-core Kal-El mobile processor, but that thankfully isn’t stopping Qualcomm from pushing onward with their own ventures. The previously announced 28nm Snapdragon processor (“Krait”) will be quite the performer on its own. How does a 2.5 GHz clock speed sound? Single, dual, and quad-core (APQ8064)? What about a claimed 65% increase in efficiency over current hardware? All will be...