clyzm wrote:Aidan wrote:clyzm wrote:I never understood why phones would need more than 2 cores.
Bill Gates never understood why PC's needed more than 8mb of RAM.
If I'm going to have this phone for three years (because we have godawful three year contracts), I would like to be able in managing newer operating system versions throughout time.
Fast multi-tasking speeds for a low term cost? Why the hell not?
Are you going to be doing video rendering on a phone?
Playing GTA IV?
If I ever needed or wanted an application that required that much processing power, then yes it would prove useful for that. However, that isn't my point.
I use my phone a LOT. I don't like lag, and I've always progressively noticed it when upgrading the firmware/OS. Down the road, I'd like my phone to withstand whatever I throw at it, and maintain the same speeds. Newer applications, and OS versions require more resources, and I would like to have those resources considering I'm going to be stuck with this phone for three years.
It's not technically a phone really. It's a 'phablet' (lol), and I'm buying the device knowing that it will be more like a mini tablet.
I'm not purchasing the Note 2 purely because of the quad core (it's not one of my top priorities). It's one of the features I'm not too concerned about; but I do know it could prove very useful down the road.
My dual-core iphone is slow as shit now. Where It used to be fast when i bought the device; it now lags from performance hogging updates. I barely have any apps on it as well.