This year has been the laden with the launch of multi-core mobile phones and within the next couple of months there will be a wide variety of these sorts of highly powered smartphones in the market for you to choose from. Other than just hike in the speeds of these mobile phones one can expect a lot more of features irrespective of whether they are all crammed into an iPhone 5 or a Galaxy S 2 from Samsung. Some of the prominent features that one can see in the new generation phones that will soon be in the market are listed below.

Greater Power
The HTC desire HD and iPhone 4 were some of the most powerful smartphones that were launched last year, powered by 1 GHz single-core processors and are believed to be so packed with power. However the new dual-core processor phones that are being launched will beat these out of the race. The great news is that these new dual-core processor phones will practically cost the same as the high-end model of today. The plus points of a dual-core processor are that it can do more things simultaneously, expend more power, hiking up the general performance and do things that the earlier smartphones could not do.

Great Gaming Experience
There are plenty of people who are online gaming fanatics and to this end the dual-core processor smartphones are one of the best devices. There are so many intricacies of gaming which could not be carried out in the single-core processor phones that can be comfortably and easily done using the dual-core phones. For example shifting more polygons, offer more complex and elaborate texture and generate higher frame rates, provide superior graphical methods like anti-aliasing etc are some of the benefits of the dual-core phones. In fact gaming on the smartphone will be akin to what you would play on the gaming console.

Other than just the graphics, the in-game physics and artificial intelligence will be at a higher level. Usually all multi player games have command a high level of strain on the processor, and in the single-core processor this was evident with many limitations.

1080p Full-HD Video
Another advantage of dual-core processors is that they facilitate a resolution of 1080p video, both for taking pictures from the phone's in-built camera as well as for playing them back. To date phones could only deal with resolutions of 720p video, however the new phones would be able to get the optimum video that can compare with the resolutions that you find in the high-end TVs.

Even the manufacturers of the mobile phones are beginning to become well versed in matters regarding video, and are adding features like DLNA wire-free streaming, HDMI outputs, etc, thereby giving people the opportunity to see programs from the mobile phone on the TV at home without any trouble. If you can cram in your mobile phone with movies and other programs that you would like to see it will turn out to be a carry-around home-media device for you. These dual-core mobile phones with high resolution cameras can also shoot 1080p video.

You can get more done from a dual-core phone at one time
With two heads working instead of one in a dual-core phone, you will find that getting more things done simultaneously is really simple. In the case of a single-core processor phone applications were processed in single files, though they were so fast that you felt that things were getting done together. In the dual-core phones things really get done simultaneously. This implies that more applications can be opened together and there would be no slowing down of performance. There are so many things that you can done at the same time.

This is nothing when compared to the multi-core platforms that will be found in mobile phones pretty soon with a number of individual applications on-screen at one time.

More Complex applications can be utilized
Multi-threading can help the user utilize more complicated applications on a dual-core processor phone. Multi-threading is akin to multi-tasking, however the difference would be that multi-threading can be done inside a single application, with many processes happen together. This aids to take advantage of the power of the dual-core processor to the last drop. Even video and photo editing become a real pleasure in these phones. Of course how the applications work will all depend on the people creating these applications, but if they can create mobile applications for so many different types of mobile phones with varying kinds of processors, it will not be too far away to see great applications that can help you do a whole lot of other things too.

Life of the Battery
Though this may not seem as great as the other beneficial features another terrific feature of the dual-core system would be the life of the battery. You can well imagine that with two heads working instead of a single core, battery can be easily drained. This is where a feature that helps allowing one core to take rest when not in use becomes really useful. When not in use the unused core can be allowed to rest, always ready to wake and start working when the need arises. As explained, when a phone has a dual-core processor, both cores need not necessarily have the same power, this means that one core can be kept in abeyance and this could reduce the usage of energy.

In the earlier single-core phones, makers had the art of lowering power usage of the processors to maintain the battery life, but in the dual-core processor phones this is carried out quite well, though of course you cannot expect batteries in the dual-core phone to last as long as those that you had in the days before the launch of smartphones, but at least you will not have to charge your dual-core phones on a daily basis.