For Those Not Happy with Captivate: Dual Core Phone to Come to AT&T Late January

[aohus]

FYI, This is NOT just another phone.

This will be the FIRST phone with dual core processor on AT&T. Up to now, all phones, including Android and iPhones, were based off of ARM Cortex-A8 processor (single core). FYI, just because its dual core, does NOT mean it will have bad battery life. In fact, dual core processors were engineered to reduce power consumption. You will be seeing dual core phones that are MUCH faster and efficient than its Cortex-A8 predecessors

Most premium smartphones coming out in 2011 will be multi-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor. This is a true next generation phone. For those that have been waiting for THE phone, this is the one. In fact, almost all premium smartphones will be MUCH better than its predecessors.

This phone will have for a fact:

• Tegra 2 processor
• Dual core processor
• Front Facing Camera
• Gingerbread 2.3 (Android OS)

Tegra 2 slide (I assure you battery life will be out of this world good)

Evidence 1 (From Barron's)

Investors are concerned about the effect of the imminent iPhone launch at Verizon -- we believe the likely hit to Verizon's Droid sales in first-quarter 2011 will be ameliorated by the new support for Motorola from AT&T.

We expect a turning point in Motorola's AT&T relationship will come in first-quarter 2011, when a new Tegra 2-driven high-end Motorola Android model will debut at AT&T.

We expect AT&T to respond to the loss of the iPhone exclusivity by increasing its Motorola support robustly and using the new flagship Motorola as its key smartphone of first-quarter 2011.

Evidence 2 (As of now, its on Froyo 2.2, but will be pre-installed with Gingerbread 2.3 on launch slated for late January)

OEM : Motorola
Device : Olympus in preproduction
Type : Phone
Chipset : nVidia Tegra 2
ABI : armeabi-v7a
PRODUCT : olyatt
FINGERPRINT : MOTO/olyatt/olympus/olympus:2.2.1/OLYFR_U4_0.145.0 /*********:userdebug/test-keys
MEMORY : 837332 kB
CERTIFIED? : NO
UserAgentString : Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2.1; en-us; MB860 Build/Blur_Version.4.0.1450.MB860.ATT.en.US Flex/P013) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

Evidence 3 (twitter android device spy, was right before)

Evidence 4 (wifi certification)

Evidence 5 (From Digitimes)

Nvidia's ARM-based Tegra 2 processor is expected to be a focus at CES 2011, as several PC and handset vendors are set to showcase tablet PCs using the processor, including Motorola, HTC, Asus, and LG.

 

[Culverin]

Wow, late january?
That's crazy.

I'm on Rogers, and the Captivate has been out for less than 1 month here.
It's hilarious cause Rogers might not even release Froyo by the time this phone drops. hahahaha

P.S.
The Samsung Flagship Phone has all been rumored to pack the Tegra 2.

 

[NorCal Einstein]

As long as there is a decent dev community like there is for the Captivate, and granted the phone doesn't look like crap...I'll buy it.

I've been itching to pick up another Android phone and get a better taste of what's out there

 

[fireonhigh]

wow! awsome phone,but will the gps work?

 

[BigCiX]

I'm willing to pay full price for a new dual core phone with a working gps and something higher than 2.1. This waiting is getting old. I have lag worse than playing call of duty via dial-up.

 

[Snow_Fox]

well.. my upgrade is in feb... awesome.

And very true about dual cores not automatically equating to bad battery life...

I would just say they also have the potential to have worse battery life..I mean.. temptation sucks.. and there will be temptation to do a lot more now.

Dual core hummingbird would be a mind**** for me..