Samsung unveil a whole bundle of awesome new phone tech

As things stand right now, in the mobile world, the crown for the most powerful processor around goes to the Snapdragon chip, made by Qualcomm. You know the one. It’s that 1GHz monster used in the Toshiba TG01, and the upcoming HTC Leo/Touch HD2/whatever it ends up being called. It’s really rather powerful.

However, it looks like it ain’t gonna be staying at the top of the heap for much longer, because according to BGR, Samsung have announced a whole bevy of chips that, when combined, have the potential to give the Snapdragon an utter kicking.

First up are a pair of 1GHz processors, which both have 512kb L2 cache, and which both draw significantly less power than other mobile CPUs on the market, which’ll make for phones with loads more power, but which don’t sacrifice battery life to get it. Oh, and of course, they also have full 3D support, and genuine HD output, at 1080p resolution. Couple that with their new super-fast OneDRAM memory, and you’ve got the basis of a bleedin’ powerful mobile phone.

They haven’t just been working on the never-to-be-seen bits that go inside the phone, though, as they’ve also unveiled some new stuff to do with the screen and the camera. For the screen, they’ve made it a lot easier for phones to use capacitive screens, by building all the controls a capacitive screen needs into the display driver chip itself, thus streamlining the hardware even more.

And finally, there’s the camera, and here, Samsung have gone all out to make a SoC. Or, to give it its full name, a System-on-Chip. So, they put a 5MP camera, and an image processing thingamiewotsit onto one chip which, incidentally, will also record full 1080p HD video, at 30 frames per second. And that’s all on one teeny little chipset, mind you, without needing separate components, or a million lines of software code to run it.

That’s rather impressive. But what does it all add up to?

Well, I’m thinking this: imagine a Samsung i8910 HD, but that will have the raw power of the TG01, and will record 1080p HD video, and will do lush 3D graphics easily, AND may actually be powerful enough to break reality…

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