Windows Phone getting dual-core CPUs and LTE soon

Microsoft has always done things a little differently. It introduced the Windows Phone as a single-core device and even with the Mango update, Microsoft smartphones run on 3G. Though it might seem odd, given that the competition is heading towards dual-core processors and LTE in a big way, the company has its reasons.                               

In an interview with All Things Digital, Andy Lees, Chief, Windows Phone, explained the company strategy. He had this to say about Microsoft’s handsets that run on single-core Qualcomm processors, “They’re all single-core, but I suspect that they will be faster in usage than any dual-core phone that you put against it, and that’s the point.” 

Microsoft wants to wait till its Windows Phone software can support a dual-core device without any glitches before its release a machine powered by such a processor. In fact, the company is working on dual-core smartphones that will most likely be ready to hit the markets next year.

The same is the case with LTE. Said Andy Lees when he spoke to All Things Digital, “The first LTE phones were big and big users of the battery, and I think it’s possible to do it in a way that is far more efficient, and that’s what we will be doing.” 

Till the faster network can be used optimally without compromising the life of the battery, Microsoft is resisting retailing LTE phones. Developing LTE phones is very much in the pipeline though, but it is yet unknown when the finished devices will be ready for consumers. Windows enthusiasts are hoping that they will get their hands on Microsoft’s LTE phones in 2012. 

If Microsoft is indeed able to make its software compatible with dual-core processors and come up with LTE devices that do not guzzle up battery, it might just be able to realise its dream of coming 3^rd in the OS world. With new devices expected from its biggest competitors Apple and Android in the near future, Microsoft has a lot of work to do in the coming year.