cardioblast differentiation
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0010002
The process in which a relatively unspecialized mesodermal cell acquires the specialized structural and/or functional features of a cardioblast. A cardioblast is a cardiac precursor cell. It is a cell that has been committed to a cardiac fate, but will undergo more cell division rather than terminally differentiating. [ GOC:go_curators ]
Synonyms: cardioblast cell differentiation, cardiac precursor cell differentiation