Microsoft Promises Windows Phone Devices with Dual-Core Processors, 4G/LTE

From X-bit Labs: Even though the first breed of smartphones based on Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" operating system will feature morally outdated system-on-chip devices and will lack support of high-speed wireless Internet, eventually they will catch up with flagship models based on other platforms, Microsoft Corp. claims.

The explanation why the brand new smartphones with the brand new OS will lack modern system-on-chips with two general purpose ARM cores, improved graphics performance and faster data transfers is rather simple: there are no WP-programs that can take advantage of two cores, but those cores will be power consumers; 4G/LTE communication chips consume a lot of energy and also do not provide benefits everywhere. Moreover, Microsoft believes that even with single-core SoCs Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" handsets will provide better experience than Google Android-based dual-core smartphones due to better software optimization and the fact that Andoid uses virtual Java machines to run programs..

"The [first Windows Phone 7.5 smartphones] are all single-core, but I suspect that they will be faster in usage than any dual-core phone that you put against it, and that’s the point,” said Andy Lees, president of Microsoft’s Windows Phone division, in an interview with AllThingsD.

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