Dual Core Mobile Phone, Worth It? Digging In

[suresh_linga]

There are differential opinions on dual core mobile phones in tech communities. Some people say OS is not optimized. Some people say dual core is useful in rendering webpages and loading fast. Others say not enough apps.

As a business and marketing agenda regardless of the efficacy of the devices companies will bring new products to the customers, and some category customers always inclined towards to such products without knowing their real worth at that time.

 

[aradhakr84]

It's like putting an average granny in a Ferrari. The Ferrari (multi-core processor) has an huge potential, but the granny (Android) doesn't know how to handle it. She will be able to drive a little faster (improved benchmarks), but driving a Ferrari is an art, not a trick. I think that the benchmarks of the HTC Flyer won't be outmatched by the dual-core processors too easily. Honeycomb does make use of dual-core power, but we'll have to see if it makes optimal use of it. And then there's the apps. There aren't any apps that are optimized for a multi-core processor yet, because Android, as a whole, doesn't support it. And what the system can't do, neither can the apps.

Does that mean it doesn't bring any advantages at all? No, of course not. It stimulates your battery life, as shown in the picture above again. But again, the OS has to really be built in a certain way to take full advantage of this feature.

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of having a multi-core processor in my device, but I won't really love it until Android fully optimizes the possibilities

This does not mean I do not like the idea of having multiple core processor in my phone, but it would be useless until Android fully optimizes it to its potential. This will, hopefully taken care of with ICS update.

So atm, I would vote for not worth it unless you know the uses and would utilize it to your needs.

 

[comp@ddict]

It depends on what you "WANT" rather than what you "NEED"

 

[Shripad]

Android has been natively multi threaded since long time. Its not just honeycomb that supports it. Even Eclair or IIRC Donut can support dual core. Some manufacturers had left the second core disabled in the code on earlier builds, but that does not mean Android is or was not ready. It has been ready since before Dual core chips even came into the market. It is ready even now.

These modern dual core chips are actually more power efficient than some of the high clockspeed single core SOCs.