LG became the first handset maker to announce a dual-core Android smartphone with the Optimus 2X. Powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip at 1GHz, it offered faster web browsing, smoother gaming, and near-instant touch response compared to single-core phones at the same clock speed.
Key specs included a 4-inch touchscreen, an 8-megapixel rear camera, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, 8GB of internal memory, microSD expansion, HDMI mirroring, 1080p MPEG-4/H.264 video recording and playback, DLNA support, a Micro-USB port, and a 1500mAh battery. The phone launched in Korea in January 2011, with Europe and Asia to follow. It shipped with Android 2.2 with an upgrade to Gingerbread planned.
