Top 5 smartphones of 2012
- Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE. It should come as no shock to most of you that the brilliant Samsung Galaxy S3 – voted Best Smartphone at the uSwitch Mobile Awards 2012 – should lead the charge of the year’s very best releases.
- Apple iPhone 5.
- Nokia Lumia 920.
- HTC Windows Phone 8X.
- Samsung Galaxy Note 2 LTE.
What does quad-core mean on a phone?
Cores = little processor bits. Dual-core processors have two cores, quad-core processors have four cores, and so on and so forth. The processor, by the way, is the thing that drives the phone. The more power in the processor, the more stuff you can do with your device, and the faster it can do it.
What is the oldest Samsung phone?
It was announced on 27 April 2009 and was released on 29 June 2009 as the first Android-powered device from Samsung Mobile, and the first in what would become the long-running Galaxy series. It is succeeded by the Samsung GT-I5700 Galaxy Spica….Samsung Galaxy (original)
| Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 with a screen protector on | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Samsung |
What were phones like in 2012?
Top 10 smartphones to kick off 2012
- Number 1: Apple iPhone 4S.
- Number 2: HTC One X.
- Number 3: Nokia Lumia 900.
- Number 4: Galaxy Nexus from Samsung.
- Number 5: HTC Titan II.
- Number 6: HTC One S.
- Number 7: Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx.
- Number 8: Samsung Focus S.
Is quad-core good?
4 cores. Quad-core CPUs allow you to render video (slowly) or play games (at lower resolutions) in addition to all your regular work or school tasks. Most gamers will be fine here as long as you are not playing the most processor-intensive games and you have a dedicated GPU.
Which is better quad-core or octa?
Is an octa-core smartphone twice as fast as a quad-core one? No. An octa-core processor is faster than a quad-core processor only when it’s running an app that takes advantage of its abilities or when you’re multitasking. For example, one core may be at work on your web browsing while another is standing by.
What Samsung phone came out in 2011?
Galaxy S II
Galaxy S II (2011) The global version of the Galaxy S II (or S2) became a much more modern-looking phone. Its screen size crept up to 4.3 inches. It also got a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, an 8-megapixel camera in the back, a 2-megapixel camera in the front and a 1,650mAh battery.
Which is the first quad-core smartphone?
First out of the gate is HTC, which launched the first quad-core smartphone in the market. Officially named the HTC One X, it runs on NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor with its 4+1 set up involving a companion core for menial tasks, and is clocked at 1.5Ghz.
What happened to Android smartphones in 2012?
In 2012, we saw the Android smartphone world reach heights that I don’t imagine many predicted. On a spec front, 2012 was the year of quad-core processors, 2GB of RAM, HD displays, longer battery lives, and incredibly thin bodies.
What are the best Android phones of 2012?
Top 10 Android Phones of 2012. 1 1. Samsung Galaxy S3 ( review) No surprise here, but the Galaxy S3 tops my list of phones for 2012. It was hyped as much as the next iPhone, yet it 2 2. LG Nexus 4 ( review) 3 3. Samsung Galaxy Note 2 ( review) 4 4. HTC DROID DNA ( review) 5 5. HTC ONE X ( review)
Are dual-core phones a thing of the past?
It seems like just yesterday that we were asking DL readers if they had a dual-core or single-core phone, yet here we are, with dual-core phones already becoming a thing of the past. On a manufacturer front, 2012 was the year that Samsung proved that it really was the only big fish in a bowl full of minnows.
