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Why would a newer CPU matter, unless it's more battery efficient? I've yet to run anything on my 920 and think "gee, I wish this was faster".
Why would a newer CPU matter, unless it's more battery efficient? I've yet to run anything on my 920 and think "gee, I wish this was faster".
People want big e*****.
Why would a newer CPU matter, unless it's more battery efficient? I've yet to run anything on my 920 and think "gee, I wish this was faster".
Specs only matter to android users. Because the OS is so buggy, they think faster processor etc will make it run better.
But 8 cores and 16gb of memory, the phone will run just as sluggish because that's how the OS is. It's not optimized. Its so fragmented .
I remember a friend once told me his bb10 is better than my Lumia because it has more memory. Its just how people think these days that more is better.
a windows phone with a quad core processor and 2GB would strike my fancy.
Because people buy a phone that lasts 18 to 24 months. A Q1-2012 CPU is great for now, but how will it perform in 12 months or in 18 months?
2 Years ago a lot of people, including myself, said "Who needs more than 8GB storage" and back then I was only using 2.4GB and 8GB seemed a lot. The more pictures I take, the more video I shoot, the more offline navigation I use, the more space is needed. I am now using 7.4GB.
Plus, from a marketing perspective it would be better to have a newer CPU+GPU.
Because people buy a phone that lasts 18 to 24 months. A Q1-2012 CPU is great for now, but how will it perform in 12 months or in 18 months?
When paying a premium price, you want the best for your money. When there are phones out there with Q4-2012 CPU and GPU and even Q1-2013 CPU and GPU that are 2x as fast (even if you don't need it now) for the same price. It is a bummer.
2 Years ago a lot of people, including myself, said "Who needs more than 8GB storage" and back then I was only using 2.4GB and 8GB seemed a lot. The more pictures I take, the more video I shoot, the more offline navigation I use, the more space is needed. I am now using 7.4GB.
Plus, from a marketing perspective it would be better to have a newer CPU+GPU.
a windows phone with a quad core processor and 2GB would strike my fancy.
For which apps?
My guess would be hardware taxing games that hopefully come out over the next 2 years.
a windows phone with a quad core processor and 2GB would strike my fancy.
Because people buy a phone that lasts 18 to 24 months. A Q1-2012 CPU is great for now, but how will it perform in 12 months or in 18 months?
WP8 and its app model are designed and spec'ed to run efficiently and deterministically with limited resources, the most important of those resources being RAM. As a result, even if a WP8 device had 128GB of RAM, WP8 would never use more than 1GB of that amount. Likewise, having 2GB of RAM would achieve/improve absolutely nothing. RAM utilization won't change until WP9. For all these reasons, wanting 2GB on WP8 is rather ridiculous.
Not quite as ridiculous, at least in theory, is the desire for a quad core CPU. The misunderstanding here is, as always, that more cores=faster. We've already seen dual core CPUs blow quads out of the water (last years snapdragons) but apparently, people prefer the simple spec sheet numbers over actual benchmarks. Fancy faster CPUs, not more cores, otherwise your just following the carrot that marketing departments dangle infront of those that don't actually understand CPU tech.
More CPU cores = faster video processing in Premiere Pro and After Effects because it can render multiple frames simultaneously..