Insane, 24-core phone sounds like vaporware, but we still want it

In a few hours, the iPhone 7 will be unveiled, and — based on rumors about the phone's specs — many are already bashing Apple for its lack of innovation. 

On the other end of the spectrum, a little known company called Turing Robot Industries has announced a phone that's totally, utterly, completely off the charts by any of today's metrics, but we're very suspicious of whether it will ever see the light of day. 

Spotted by Android Police and announced via Turing's newsletter, signed by company CEO Syl Chao, the Turing Monolith Chaconne is a 6.4-inch phablet with a slide-out keyboard. It will have — wait for it — three octa-core Snapdragon processors working in unison (that's a total of 24 cores), a 4K screen, 18GB of RAM and 1.2TB of SSD storage.  Read more...