Whoa! If you thought quad-core smartphones were already overkill, then next year you’ll surely be singing the same tune. The popular Chinese company ZTE apparently has plans to release their own flagship beast of a smartphone called the ZTE Apache. Complete with an impressive Cortex-A15 based 8-core processor. Yup, we said 8. More details after the break.
According to the China Times ZTE and the popular chip manufacturer MediaTek have been hard at work on the A15 based octa-core processor that will power this new smartphone. Reports suggest MediaTek beat out NVIDIA and Qualcomm with their new option, but most likely it’s also based on pricing being a cheaper Chinese manufacturer. When we hear “Apache” all we think about is the image below.
Reports are stating the ZTE Apache will rock essentially all the top-tier specs we’ve come to expect, and then some. Details claiming a 1080p HD display, 4G LTE support, 13 megapixel camera, 1080p video, a massive battery, and of course that octa-core processor keeping things moving along with no problem. Impressive right?
Huawei tried to do the same this year with their own in-house design quad-core processor, with the somewhat impressive Ascend D Quad XL (see our review) but still haven’t managed to break into the mainstream outside of their respective area. Whether or not ZTE can do the same or more remains to be seen. Huawei was more than 6 months late after missing their deadline, and hopefully the same doesn’t happen to ZTE. We’re hearing a May release for testing, so probably can’t expect smartphones with their 8-core processor to hit the shelves until late summer, or even later.
Would you buy an 8-core processor if the battery life was good enough? Or is that just outright overkill?
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would love to get this in the OUYA so its future proof
Now as long as it’s not a stupid size it’ll be exactly what I’ve been waiting for!
Define stupid size. Or I guess, a size that isn’t stupid.
My bet, it’ll be 8 core but only 4 of those will be A15. The other 4 will be A7’s. big.LITTLe setup will be sweet.
Yup. Probably right
perfect, now I can call my friends single core lumia 900 a laggy slow phone compared to this 8 cores of power!
I would love to see what size battery it comes with.
Overkill? No. I want my phone to have two sets of A15’s.
8 cores in this case will not serve any better than 4… I see bottle necking happening with an 8 core system… and to be honest apps made for phones aren’t even close enough to using that much power. This will be a phone that will be way way before its time…. and by the time it is useful there will be a ton of newer better phones out there to choose from. Don’t get me wrong, The benchmarks will be pretty interesting… but will probably be moot in the end. Samsung just makes a better quality chipset… just ask Apple. It is going to be real hard to find a competitor to step up to them. I’m not looking for more power at this point. I am looking for a smooth solid open source operating system… Android is getting there. And Apple is not open source but they have a smooth and solid operating system… guess I’ll just have to settle for one or the other. But as far as processors are concerned, most of the newer phones these days… would never use that much power.