But that's not the point I was trying to make. I was trying to state that having to give up a quad-core phone in favor of a dual core, just to have LTE, is really a backwards way of doing things.
Removing a quad with 4 ARM Cortex A9 cores in favor of a dual with two Krait cores (basically - A15 class, performance-wise) may not be the step backwards that the blogosphere loves to say that it is.
Drawing conclusions on quad vs dual without all of the factors considered is like comparing a V8 engine with a V6 without considering fuel intake, displacement, horsepower or torque.
And if you still don't believe that, you can always buy the quad from an international source and get it going 3G and sometimes a bit more on our GSM carriers.
I think most people would do very well to ignore the blogosphere, get the supported and fully functional S4 dual core on the carrier of their choice and marvel at having a phone that's basically faster than you and faster than anything you imagined before. And then, plus on top of that, get LTE because it's there.
But - that's just me.
But this isn't just me - the idea that present quad cores are above the S4 dual because of unwashed blogs claims is basically nonsense.
The present quads seem to offer GPU advantages, good for gamers, over the S4. That doesn't affect the UI or videos because the modern cores don't use the GPU for that, they have other cores for that job (among which, the S4's are top notch).
So, if you're a gamer wanting a little more GPU horsepower, fine, but if you're thinking quad vs dual CPUs is a slam dunk, you're in for a disappointment. For every task that one does better than the other, the opposite example exists.
