There are dreamers, and then there are dreamers. The former are those who imagine a better world, a better product, a better method and go out to find ways to achieve that. The latter, are those who dream up the zaniest things that almost always never see the light of day. There’s a secret third group of dreamers, and they all work for Turing Robotics Industries (TRI).
Every once in a while an announcement for a phone comes out that is -- for lack of a better term -- bananas. If you didn't know better, you might think the report covered a concept phone created by someone who doesn't have a very good understanding of how technology works. Is that what we're seeing with the Turing Phone Cadenza? There’s a very small possibility that it’s a farce but the news seems to be really be coming from TRI.
The claim is that in 2017, TRI will release a device called the Turing Phone Cadenza that has specs that are too insane to be believed. The Cadenza is said to be powered by two (yes two) Snapdragon 830 SoCs. The 830 is planned for release in early 2017, but why a phone would need two of them is hard to imagine. Maybe it's because the Cadenza is also supposed to ship with 12GB of RAM and the Snapdragon 830 only supports up to 8GB of RAM, so you would need two in order to make use of 12GB of RAM.
The Cadenza is said to have dual 20-megapixel front cameras and a 60-megapixel "iMAX 6K Quad Rear Camera, Triplet Lens/T1.2" which makes no sense unless you assume that's a typo and it actually should be an F1.2 aperture lens. Of course, that only helps it make sense in terms of using real terminology. Obviously, a camera that captures 60MP photos or 6K video would need a lot of storage so the device has 1-terabyte of storage and two microSD card slots.
For connectivity, you'll get four nanoSIM slots (because why not?) and WiGig. And, obviously powering a device like this will take a lot of juice, so the Cadenza will have maybe the least believable thing on the whole spec sheet, which is 100wh from three power sources: a 2400mAh graphene superconductor battery, a 1600mAh lithium ion battery, and a hydrogen fuel cell. If you’re into mechanics and automobiles, a hydrogen fuel cell is used to power space shuttles, as well as electric and hybrid cars. Imagine THAT in a phone? Blown away yet?
And, just in case all of that isn't crazy enough, there's also the Swordfish OS (supposedly a variant of Sailfish) capable of deep learning, running a neural network, natural language processing, and using differential privacy. The device is built out of Graphene Oxide body with the second generation liquid metal structural frame.There are no proper pictures of this phone out there but hopefully TRI might release some concept pics soon.
It's honestly like someone at TRI just put together a spreadsheet of buzz words and the silliest collection of specs and justified it by saying "It is our belief that we can disrupt the status quo by bringing the Turing Phone Cadenza from the future to the present." Apart from 5.8-inch 2K Display, none of the specifications will be seen on any smartphone, at least for the next few years. This is a phone that would have been possible in 2050. But in 2017, when we’re still figuring out how to get good battery power as well as computing power in a phone, TRI goes and does this.
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Display 5.8" IPS LCD (2560 x 1440 pixels)
Processor Dual Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 SoC (16 Kryo core Processor)
OS Android
RAM 12 GB
Camera
Rear - 60 MP
Front - 20 MP + 20 MP
Memory Internal - 1 TB
External - Dual Expandable Memory up to 256 GB (microSD)
