The world's first 10-core smartphone is nearly here

Qualcomm might hold the record for the most powerful, tech-filled processor in the world with its upcoming Snapdragon 835 - but it only has 8 processing cores.

Not that it matters, but it's a great technological achievement to have more CPU cores in a system-on-chip (SoC), with Chinese smartphone maker Vernee teasing during CES 2017 last month tht they would have the first MediaTek Helio X30-powered smartphone that would be released in February.

Well, it's February now - and we're learning more information on the new smartphone. The Helio X30 itself is a 10-core smartphone, made on the 10nm process, featuring IMG 7XTP-Mt4 GPU which is powerful on its own. We should expect MediaTek's new Helio X30 to be just as good as the best chips from Qualcomm, Samsung, and Huawei.

The upcoming Apollo 2 smartphone from Vernee will come in two versions:

6GB LPDDR4 RAM + 64GB storage

8GB LPDDR4 RAM + 128GB storage.

Apollo 2 will rock a QHD display, and is shaping up to be a thin smartphone, too.