LG X3 Quad-Core Smartphone Coming Soon?

A new generation of power-packed smartphones is due to be presented at the World Mobile Congress next month in Barcelona. LG will no doubt use that opportunity to present a new sleek, speedy, top-of-the-range smartphone with a quad-core processor.

One of the most important events in the mobile technology calendar, the Mobile World Congress, is due to be held from 27 February to 1 March 2012. Word is that LG could be gearing up to unveil a new smartphone for the occasion, loaded with a 1 GHz quad-core processor (Nvidia's Tegra 3, perhaps?) and running on the latest version of Google's Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich ... or at least, that's what Pocketnow reckons ...

As well as its new powerful processor, the LG X3 is apparently a pretty big handset, packing in a 4.7-inch LCD (1280 x 720 pixels). It's rumoured to have an 8-Megapixel rear-facing camera (compared with 12 Megapixels for the Samsung Galaxy S III) with autofocus and LED flash, plus an additional front-facing 1.3-Megapixel camera. Internal memory is said to be 16 GB with a microSD card slot on hand to give storage a boost.

Connectivity includes Wi-Fi (b/g/n), Bluetooth, Near Field Communication (NFC) and Long Term Evolution (LTE).

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