A little-known company called Turing Robot Industries has announced a phone that is completely off the charts by any of today's metrics, but we're highly skeptical it'll ever be released.
Spotted by Android Police and announced via Turing's press release, signed by the company's CEO, Syl Chao. The Turing Monolith Chaconne is a 6.4-inch phablet with a slide-out keyboard. It will feature – hold on – three octa-core Snapdragon processors working together (that's a total of 24 cores), a 4K display, 18GB of RAM, and 1.2TB of SSD storage.
Want more? The phone will include a 60-megapixel rear camera, combined with a dual 20-megapixel front camera. It will also have a 3,600mAh “graphene supercapacitor battery” combined with a 2,400mAh Li-Ion hydrogen fuel cell.
The icing on the cake is the OS this thing is supposedly running: The "deep learning" capability of Swordfish OS (based on Sailfish, a Linux-based operating system that actually exists), with terms like "running a convolutional neural network," suggests this thing will be smarter than us.
Although the release date you say is 2018 makes it a little more realistic, we're still not too sure it will ever actually be released.
So far, Turing has only made one phone – the Turing Phone – which, after many delays, launched in July. It’s an interesting device, but it’s nothing like the promising Chaconne. The company also announced another phone with incredible specs last week, the Turing Cadenza. This one “only” has dual Snapdragon 830 chips and a 2017 release date.
Turing's official Twitter and Facebook accounts do not mention these two new phones, which is highly suspicious.
We remain cautious, but we give Turing the opportunity to prove to us that it can build things that surpass even our wildest imagination!
