We continue to review the new products presented by mobile device manufacturers at the consumer electronics show CES 2013, currently taking place in Las Vegas.
Yesterday we already talked about the tendency to increase the screens of smartphones. The Lenovo IdeaPhone K900 device based on Android 4.1 is another confirmation of this. It is equipped with a 5.5-inch IPS display with Full HD resolution. However, this is not the trick. The Chinese gadget is one of the first smartphones equipped with a dual-core Atom processor from Intel. Lenovo’s PR staff also claim that their device is one of the thinnest in the world in its class (6.9 mm), and also boast of the metal body of the novelty.
And everything would be fine, but judging by the video, the IdeaPhone K900 looks very bulky in the hands. In addition, due to the use of metal, the device can be very heavy, and also be, literally, scalding. Also, it is not clear how long Intel’s mobile processors hold a charge.
The Chinese from ZTE also boasted about the small thickness of their flagship (the same 6.9 mm), introducing the five-inch Grand S. However, according to the characteristics it is closer to Sony’s Xperia Z – quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro at 1.7 Ghz, 2 GB of RAM and a suspiciously small battery at 1780 mAh. The design is borrowed from last year’s HTC One line of devices (this did not prevent him from winning the prize for the best design at CES).
The thinnest smartphone, however, eventually turned out to be a conditionally budget gadget from Alcatel – One Touch Idol Ultra. Its thickness is 6.45 mm. But the characteristics of the One Touch Idol Ultra are noticeably inferior to the already mentioned devices of other companies: a 4.7-inch screen, a 1.2 Ghz dual-core processor, and 1 GB of RAM.
It is impossible not to mention the companies that showed new solutions in the field of processors for mobile devices at CES 2013. So, Samsung demonstrated its first mobile system-on-a-chip Exynos 5 Octa with an 8-core processor. Intel introduced the quad-core Atom Bay Trail processor platform designed for tablets, and Qualcomm introduced a new line of Snapdragon 800 mobile processors (with a quad-core Krait 400 processor with a frequency of up to 2.3 GHz) and Snapdragon 600 (with a quad-core Krait 300 with a frequency of up to 1.9 GHz).
Photo sources: The Verge, Gizmondo and Android Police