Report: Quad-core HTC Zeta Packs 2.5 GHz CPU

Wow. Quad core phones next year? Can't wait to see what will be available after my contract expires in 2 years. Hexa... Octa-core? Breaking 3ghz barrier?

Sweet crap. And just a decade ago, a Pentium III 500 MHz with 64 MB RAM and a monitor showing 1024x768 (lower pixel count that this phone) was a decent desktop computer...

Gawd, and I just got the Sensation thinking THAT was fast. I'm going to cry.

Can it play Syrim?

Bring on the iPhone jokes... followed by the "will it play Crysis?"

Whats the battery life 1 - 2 hours?

you guys shouldn't compare these chips to an x86 its like coparing apples to potatoes... I happen to love both... they are both food... both can be delicious mashed... both can be made in pies... hmm apples and potatoes are pretty similar actually >_< bad analogy. but still ARm and x86 are very different, btu I am very impressed at these latest multi core arm offerings. I only hope that app makers will start using multiple cores. heck ieven now on pc's there's alot of programs not taking advantage of extra cores. hopefully phoen app developers will show up to the party quicke rthan they did to the multi-thred programing pc shindig... everybody was fashionably late for that

that's insane. too bad it's too big to fit in that side pocket on my jeans. 4.7"! freaking huge (not that big is a bad thing by any means!)

I'm excited for these next gen phones with quad core CPUs. i do think that this is WAY overkill for most users but as someone who loads 3rd party firmware to get the most out of my 1.2ghz Evo3d, i cant wait for these quads!.
What i want even more than the quad cores, would be a hybrid type phone, check out the Samsung Galaxy player (http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/mp3-players/YP-G70CWY/XAA) with its 5" screen, its absolutely amazing and i think with its small borders, they could pack in a 5.5" screen that would still be easy to handle, tack on Ice Cream Sandwich and one of those quad core chips, i would definitely pay up to $400 at the 2yr contract subsidized price or $800-$900 w/o contract. It would be slightly awkward to hold up to your ear for extended periods of time but the larger screen means i don't have to carry around 2 devices makes this WELL worth it.

On a plane ride i've watched movies on a little ipod 1.5" screen as well as my 9.7" ipod screen. and obviously its nicer on the larger screen but totally unnecessary at the same time, i think this hybrid would be the swiss army knife of tablets/phones, just please make sure not to short out on storage, maybe toss in a 2nd microSD port!

Thumbs up if you would like a phone/tablet hybrid device

If HTC is putting a 1830mAh battery in it, you can be sure it needs a 2300mAh battery.

Of course the performance of this quad core cpu is dubious and debatable but still it's a quad core running at 2.5Ghz. I am mad and aggravated ! This means all x68 models sold today are basically junk.

Ok, so when do we stop calling it a phone and start calling it a mini computer that can do it all?

I like that the phones become more powerful, meaning the relative speaking weak cpu's don't have to run everything remotely demanding (decoding/encoding ect) through dedicated hardware for that but rather in software meaning any format can be supported and not what the maker decides what to place the chip budget on.

This makes the PSP Vita quad core look less impressive. There will be more phones on February that will be equipped with quad core. But do people really need quad core phones? Are there a lot of apps on phone that scale well up to four cores? Softwares on desktop can't even keep up with the hardware like AMD with 8 cores.

With a whopping battery life of 2 hours.

I haven't even had my Atrix for a year. Thing with technology is, never buy until you absolutely can't use your old tech anymore. Chasing trends is expensive. If we've got quad cores @ more than double the clock speed as phones from just a year prior, what the heck will be there when my contract has expired another year later??

It would be easier if I just stopped following the news until I'm ready to move on...

32GB internal and no SD card slot, thanks but no thanks!

Toshiba has a 128GB chip for internal storage since last year, so it is about time that cell phone manufacturers start to step up and increase the internal storage capabilities now that we have HD video on these phones.

I like the design for the Zeta. The hardware is good too, but not so worried about the specs any more.

For people not familiar with smartphones, the battery is probably around 10hours-day worth of medium usage on average.

No battery jokes for these phones.

I can't wait until we have phones so powerful that they read our brain waves and control our thoughts.

they were reporting that is was just a concept on engadget.com

2.5Ghz Quad core Phone.
I'm not impressed at all, I predicted long ago that Phones will be the dominant computer in the near future. The same way that minicomputers eclipsed mainframes, and desktop PCs eclipsed minicomputers, phones will eclipse PCs. Soon we will either carry our phone for mobility and dock into a 32" screen and use it as a traditional desktop (that you can take away in your pocket). This phones have more computing power than 90% of users actually need in a desktop (90% of tom's readers belong to the other 10% users).

I'm ashamed to write this comment from a noisy 2 GHz Dual core Desktop, that weights like 10 pounds and consumes 200-300 W :-(