| Rainbird said: We agree then, dual cores do take some extra juice, but LTE is the bigger juice sucker. I just don't see how great the advantage of having a dual core in your phone is at this point. Regardless of how optimized ICS is for dual cores, how is it going to be notacibly faster than 2.3 on Galaxy S II for example? When I think of apps that benefit of added power, it's mostly games that rely on the GPU. So while the CPU is of course important in that aspect as well, it's not really the focus point. But I don't have a lot to base this on, it's just a feeling anyway. The one place that probably sees a noticable boost is webbrowsing, but even when you compare the HTC Titan (single core, 1.5G Hz) to the Galaxy S II, they're not even that far apart. I have no doubt that single cores CPUs will be ditched for smartphones when dual cores are cheap enough and power friendly enough to replace them, but to me, most smartphone tasks are too leightweight for it to make a great difference. |
I'm completely basing my opinion on dual-cores on differences in home computers/laptops, tablets, and various sites like BGR, engadget, etc.
From everything I can see your overall experience is just flat out better as the phone is far more responsive in everyway and I expect that to greatly improve (as in test cases of iphone4 with ios5 installed vs ios4 vs iphone4s as well) for android phones when android 4/ICS is launched.
