News - HTC Ville with Sense 4.0 and HTC Edge first quad-core phone?

[HEXUS]

Two new HTC models on the horizon...

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[shaithis]

Damn, still have year left on my contract....gief edge!

[bobharvey]

very daring product name. One 'l' less and it changes meaning altogether!

[crossy]

very daring product name. One 'l' less and it changes meaning altogether!

That's what I read it as first off. I really need to get these glasses checked...

Not convinced by the looks of the Edge, quad core or not. Actually while I'm on it, I'd more or less got HTC down as a "sausage factory" that turns out new models every 3-4 months and then forgets about them - certainly based on the number of folks complaining that they're not getting Gingerbread/ICS upgrades. Is this still the case or am I being unfair to them?

Boy Genius Report claims to have the scoop that HTC Ville will be announced and showcased at the Mobile World Congress in February and will go on sale in April 2012.

Announced in February and then on sale two months later - that's moving quickly! Think that there's going to be a lot of exciting models at MWC2012 - not least of which being the much anticipated SGSIII, and presumably something more from Nokia?

July next year could be a good time to be in the market for a new phone!

[shaithis]

HTC have recently released updates to quite a few older phones, so I feel that's quite unfair....as for ICS - give them a chance!

HTC also do not try and block rooting, allowing after-market ROMs to be installed.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

i thought the new HTC device will be named HTC AWSOMENESS.

We ave already have desire and sensation.

[Biscuit]

How about the HTC Sextastic? I would buy it

Looking good, more options are sprinign up ready for my upgrade time in a few months... exciting

[Lee H]

I can't really see the point of the quad core at the moment as half the applications and software available doesn't really take advantage of dual core based phones so whats the point of the other 2 cores if they're not going to be doing much work at all?

Instead of the all this willy-waving about 'quad core' processors, why can't they improve the lifespan of the battery instead of people like myself having to charge their HTC phones twice a day, and increase the internal RAM of the hardware?

[Brewster0101]

I can't really see the point of the quad core at the moment as half the applications and software available doesn't really take advantage

This is generally true of all modern computer technology - technology is ahead of the software. Although I too agree that it would be nice to develop dual core applications and hardware first. Seems like HTC clearly want to have the first quad core phone, regardless if there is any point to it.

Comments about HTC and software updates is also unfair. If you buy a phone and it works out of the box then why should the consumer expect free software updates. Updates to fix or improve features yes.

We don't expect Microsoft to dish out free copies of Windows every time it progresses just because you brought a version 2 years ago.

When you buy a branded computer, you don't expect free software every time it gets updated/replaced.

Why should mobile phone companies be any different. If you want to upgrade the software to a newer version, I think the user should be responsible for doing it on their own back. HTC can't afford to keep updating older models.

[Lucio]

I can't really see the point of the quad core at the moment as half the applications and software available doesn't really take advantage of dual core based phones so whats the point of the other 2 cores if they're not going to be doing much work at all?

Instead of the all this willy-waving about 'quad core' processors, why can't they improve the lifespan of the battery instead of people like myself having to charge their HTC phones twice a day, and increase the internal RAM of the hardware?

Sadly the battery tech is the one that's proven most resistant to improvements, with approx 10% improvements being seen in a similar time frame to a doubling of the CPU output.

Mind you, quad core could be useful if the phone's OS was programed to sit on two of the cores, whilst the additional apps sat on the other two, reducing the chances that a crashed app also screws over the OS

[Funkstar]

For general use, I still bet the screen and the radio will be the most power demanding parts of the handset rather than the processor.

In fact, you may well find that these quad core processors are more energy efficient than the single core processors used in previous generation handsets. Especially at idle, I think some of them are incredibly frugal.

[FRISH]

We don't expect Microsoft to dish out free copies of Windows every time it progresses just because you brought a version 2 years ago.

People pay for windows. Android is free.

[miniyazz]

HTC have recently released updates to quite a few older phones, so I feel that's quite unfair....as for ICS - give them a chance!

HTC also do not try and block rooting, allowing after-market ROMs to be installed.

This is a key point. Being able to upgrade the handset yourself to a later version of Android is at least if not more important than the original manufacturer upgrading the software themselves, and IMO is why Sony Ericsson failed so hard. Not only were the handsets not upgraded, but the bootloader was locked so those that wanted to upgrade couldn't upgrade to a custom ROM, and so they kicked up a stink and caused bad press/bandwagon for those who actually didn't care that much, or didn't realise they cared (aka 60+% of consumers).

I can't really see the point of the quad core at the moment as half the applications and software available doesn't really take advantage of dual core based phones so whats the point of the other 2 cores if they're not going to be doing much work at all?

Instead of the all this willy-waving about 'quad core' processors, why can't they improve the lifespan of the battery instead of people like myself having to charge their HTC phones twice a day, and increase the internal RAM of the hardware?

It's a quad core no further point needed.

As for battery life - well, I charged my Desire HD last night, and after finishing my 12 hour shift today I checked the battery and it was on 90%. Since then I've had the display on for over an hour while checking emails/playing games, and it's down to 73%. I'm pretty happy with its battery life at the moment

[Brewster0101]

People pay for windows. Android is free.

Manufactures time and resources are not free though.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Blame HTC, etx for not upgrading OS on there older devices. they do this so they force you to buy the next HTC device marketing it by saying "brand new htc device with ICS OS on it"

[shaithis]

It's not entirely the batteries at fault......it's screen tech. Stats on my phone shows ~75% of battery is used on screen.

As for quad core being needed....once it's out there we will start to see apps written for it.....in fact a quad core with HDMI out may even end up being a great little media renderer for HD video (as an example)