Not long after Nvidia welcomed the new year with the announcement of its new quad-core Tegra 4, the successor to the popular Tegra 3 mobileprocessor, Qualcomm followed up with two new quad-core additions to its Snapdragon portfolio.
Improvements to the Xperia line aren't merely cosmetic, though: Sony's added a 13-megapixel camera (featuring the HDR video-capable Exmor RS sensor) and a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro -- Qualcomm's most potent mobileprocessor currently available.
Built to run on the company's quad-core Kal-El processor, it shows us the first example of true dynamic lighting on mobile devices and also throws in some impressive physics calculations like fully modeled cloth motion.