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Quad-Cores or the Galaxy Nexus

No offense, but I think you guys are missing the big picture. This quad-core is very likely to be faster and use less battery on the single- and dual-thread environments you already use. It doesn't matter whether you run apps with a zillion threads, the Tegra 3 is probably a better solution for you no matter what you're running right now!

True and maybe. But how much faster does one need to be when navigating through an operating system? I love more cores, but in a phone at this point in time and for the next year or two; I don't see the point. I'd get one, though, but i don't see the point.
 
True and maybe. But how much faster does one need to be when navigating through an operating system? I love more cores, but in a phone at this point in time and for the next year or two; I don't see the point. I'd get one, though, but i don't see the point.
Good points. And for a smoother experience just using the phone, upgrading to ICS (which can finally use the GPU to speed GUI operations) is probably a lot more important than making the CPU faster.
 
Not a gamer and very seldom listen to music via the phone so don't need a quad core yet. Nexus will be just fine for me till 2013. lol
 
Personally, I'm not going to wait for quad core phones, for several reasons. 1. Flagships of new technology usually aren't the best of their type (Thunderbolt comes to mind), and it takes a while to perfect them, so we probably won't see good quad cores take over for a least a year. 2. The Gnex is the newest and polished version of everything Android can and will become. We don't represent the average consumer. We want something that is like the OG Droid but updated with the best of what today's technology has to offer, and then we can mess with it all we want. It seems to me, every Droid up to this point has all led to the Gnex, and we all want that!

The only possible deal breakers for me are the solidity of the handset, due to the fact I've felt Samsung devices seem very flimsy to me, which I realize is very subjective. Also, I haven't really seen enough high resolution video or pictures to really understand the deal about the buttons, which ones are now on screen only? Everything but the screen on/off? I will have to try one to be sure, but more than likely it's my future phone.

Just my 2 cents worth.
 
I'll take the Nexus with a dual-core now, get the Nexus with a quad-core next year and pick up the octo-core Nexus with 1080p screen, 4 gigs of ram, 1 TB of storage and 1 Gbps LTE the year after that. :D As everyone has said, there will always be something better down the road. Find what you can use and what you believe will last you for a year or two and go get it........or in our case, wait just a little longer for it.
 
I will probably do like I ddi with my PC: I didnt get a dual core until 2008, and I'm still rocking that dual core. Now, quad cores on PC seems to finally got the heat use better under control so I'm probably gonna get one next year.

On phones? I will definitely let other folks be beta testers for quad core on phones...lol At what point do we say: what do we need it for anyway? Yea the difference going from 500 Mhz to 1Ghz cpu's, 256MB & 512MB to 1GB ram can be felt... but going from dual core to quad core? Unless more ram is added I just dont see the need.

I did like the demos of Tegra 3 tho, I wont lie.
 
The quad core Edge that was leaked for Q1 still has 1G of RAM. You can have all the speed you want, but need the RAM to keep everything running smoothly. My guess is next fall the flagship phones will be launching with quad cores and 2G of RAM. That's the time to talk. Everything up until that point will be a test dummy.
 
I will just get a quad core transformer prime the dual core galaxy nexus will be just fine for me at this point.
 
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