The Galaxy Note II is T-Mobile's first device with a quad-core processor, featuring Samsung's 1.6GHz quad-core Exynos processor.
That's not to say we won't see an array of smaller Android slates with faster quad-core CPUs, eye-popping high-res displays or a plethora of Windows RT hybrids -- we surely will.
Fortunately, you won't have long to find out the true home of the quad-core Snapdragon S4, as Qualcomm has also revealed that LG plans to release its next superphone for commercial availability this September in South Korea, with other territories to follow.
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Nets point guard Deron Williams and shooting guard Joe Johnson, who practiced on his sore heel and quad after missing the last four games, didn't know if they would have considered signing with a rapper when they entered the league.
Alcatel wasn't shy about letting the world know that it'd debut a quad-core 5-inch smartphone here at CES, but now we have a better understanding of the company's lofty ambitions for the One Touch Scribe HD.
Images were bright and fluid on its massive screen and Huawei's lightweight Emotion UI didn't appear to compromise the device's performance on the 1.5GHz quad-core processor.
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Adding more ambiguity to the speculative fire, ASUS' Chairman Jonney Shih recently confirmed to Forbes that an updated Transformer is on its way, saying only that it'd be very "impressive, " and would be available before CES. Jonney didn't comment on the upcoming slate's supposed use of NVIDIA's quad-core Kal-El, but with the chip's promised August launch date, we wouldn't rule it out.
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Apps can randomly crash and the OS doesn't always respond to my inputs with the speed I'd expect of a quad-core device.
Alas, we couldn't get a more specific time frame, but assuming Xiaomi wants to deliver its first quad core device to the Europeans as well, it'd likely be within the first half of next year, well before the next August 16th announcement (the company's managed to stick to the same date so far).
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As if the display wasn't enough, LG tops it off with one of the world's first Snapdragon 600 quad-core processors, 2GB RAM and a 13MP rear camera with all the trimmings.
The site found that both the screen and the 8-megapixel camera were a vast improvement over the Galaxy Nexus, however benchmarks showed that while it's quad-core Snapdragon outpaced last-year's Nexus, it didn't put up the staggering numbers many were expecting.
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He took the quad out of his short program a few weeks ago because of back problems, though he didn't need it Friday with everyone else falling.
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