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Re: Multi-core smartphones! (Not the iPhone, yet)

kellypatrickrobinson — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:29:38 -0000

Hype over the iPhone, on a Tech blog; The nerve!

Let's try to put the religiosity aside for once and stick to the business at hand. This was supposed to be news about smartphones, and here you've gone and ruined it by mentioning the iPhone in context.

Re: Multi-core smartphones! (Not the iPhone, yet)

Engago team — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:26:43 -0000

Thus if you buy an iPhone, then Samsung gets paid too.
Thus who is ruling this mobile market? Nokia or Samsung?

Re: Multi-core smartphones! (Not the iPhone, yet)

K-party — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:51:28 -0000

This guy managed to take a story about multi-core processing support on a Sony phone running Symbian and turn it into hype for the next Jesus phone. fanboy alert?

Re: Multi-core smartphones! (Not the iPhone, yet)

kellypatrickrobinson — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:47:07 -0000

Ah, the PASSION of the Android user!

It's science, my friend. Multi-tasking and running background processes takes a big toll on performance and battery life.

Say what you will about Steve Jobs or Apple. Yammer, yammer, MC Hammer. The bottom line is that mobile performance is a problem, and multicore processors in mobile phones will be a nice step forward for all of these devices.

Re: Multi-core smartphones! (Not the iPhone, yet)

Ryan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:43:33 -0000

"For proof of this, try running multiple apps in the background on a G1 Android-based phone — the battery life is awful, yes, even by iPhone standards."

First of all, this is not entirely true - it depends entirely upon the nature of the background applications you are running. Secondly - which situation would you rather have... One where YOU can decide how much you want your phone to do in the background and make the decision weighing battery life versus functionality - or one where you are not even given a choice but the decision is made for you because Steve Jobs knows that you would rather have your battery last 30 minutes longer than have your phone turn its ringer on or off automatically based on location or time while you have a Google Talk IM client running?

The android comment is really not true - properly designed background apps work just fine.

Anyone who wants to see the iPhone get better should be rooting for Android, Palm, etc - because Apple will certainly hold features back as long as they can (front facing camera? video conferencing? copy and paste? flash player?) when they don't feel competition breathing down their neck.