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Dual-Core Chips Coming To All Smartphones In 2011

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the waiting-for-the-triple dept.

An anonymous reader writes "All top of the range smartphones will be sporting dual-core chips this year. So is it time to ditch your current pocket rocket? Not necessarily — dual-core will give a bit of a boost to multitasking and media streaming but probably won't persuade iPhone owners to switch to Android, says the writer."

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  1. Re:Can't see why "dual core" would be a selling po by ktappe · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why not? Multi-core was marketed successfully for PCs, what makes smartphones any different?

    Several things:

    1) Most users do not find themselves waiting for their phone to accomplish a task whereas most PC users can easily remember waiting for their PC to perform a task.

    2) Almost every phone owner has found themselves running out of battery. Thus battery life is frontmost in the minds of users and Apple can easily come out with a "Double core? Double battery usage. No benefit." campaign to combat this trend.

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