HTC Glacier - first dual-core phone?

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardwar...details-leak/1

Up to 3 times faster than an EVO 4G in some tests.


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The theory as to the device's speed is the presence of a dual-core ARM chip - the first to be used in an Android handset.
Most likely Qualcomm's dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, the presence of two physical processing cores would explain the extremely high benchmark scores.




Up to 3 times faster than an HTC EVO 4G in some tests, however...


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Interestingly - and disappointingly for HTC if the figures truly are the result of testing on the company's next-generation handset - the scores posted are only slightly higher than the Samsung Galaxy S - which has a 1GHz Hummingbird ARM-based processor at its heart.




So unsurprisingly dual-core isn't much of a benefit unless the workload can be scheduled across both cores, which probably isn't the case for benchmarks or in fact most software targeted for mobiles.
Unless the application and more importantly the OS are multi-processor (SMP) aware, the benefit of dual-core will be minimal.