HTC unveils One series with dual and quad core phones

  
BARCELONA—HTC has announced its One Series of smartphones at Mobile World Congress (MWC), including a quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 based device and another boasting Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon S4.

The series includes the HTC One X, the HTC One S and the HTC One V, all running Google’s Android 4.0 (Ice Cream) with HTC Sense 4 layered on top.

The X comes in a polycarbonate unibody shell, sports a .7-inch, 720p HD screen and runs on Nvidia’s 1.5GHz “4-PLUS-1” quad-core processor. The 4-plus-1 referring to the chipmaker’s “secret ninja core” which can power up to give an extra burst of power for gaming or photo intensive applications.