The point is that the user experience using these new Octo-Core processors will be far better than anything currently on the market.

It was noticeable on iOS 5 when I had a 4s. But seems fine now on iOS 6.

You should definitely ditch the N4 I found it to be a poor phone when compared to the S3.

One would hope these new phone with Octo cores will out perform current generation phones. That's how technology works/advances.

Little point if they don't.

I love certain Luddites who claim everything is pointless until Apple release it. We have had the screen bump excuse when 3.5 was simply perfect. I wonder what the squirming will be when they go bigger or move to quad core when its not needed or oled if they can ever source them.

It must be so difficult defending inferior tech but does show blind devotion

It's hard to say really. Doesn't the iPhone 5 with its dual core processor out perform the quad core handsets in speed tests?

I'm sure I read somewhere that Samsung are looking at ditching Android as well so you may well find that the new OS they're looking at (name escapes me..) might be optimized enough to take advantag of all these cores.

But then, as has been said, it will live and die by the battery life.

I'm no Apple fan, but you are right. Multi core CPUs don't automatically mean better performance. OS optimization counts for a lot more. Iphone 5 has the edge over most of the current quad core Androids. The New Blackberry phone, at least the developer Alpha phone is running a dual core chip and that too, has been beating the quad core S3 in browser tests for example.

Don't get lost in the cpu core race. I am sure they will get faster and more complex, but then as Android gets more feature rich, you will likely need big CPUs to run it, there is a lot going on with Android operating systems, and the OEM skins like sense and touchwiz, again, slow the OS down. So looking at it like, big powerful cpu equals better performance is too simplistic a view point. There are other factors which can affect performance, especially when it comes to Android and it's many flavours.

i just checked. The 4S does NOT lag doing what he described.

With the Nexus i experienced exactly this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFtjWTClo3Y
On two separate phones.

That would be Tizen

http://www.crazyengineers.com/tizen-...mwc-2012-1626/

Yep, that's it. Big gamble from Samsung though, but i suppose it could be their iOS if it comes off.

But then the pictures don't look a whole lot different to Android

Apple users are very defensive these days

For goodness shake, they are phones people, just bloody phones. even my cheap and Huawei does a pretty decent job. and it got a single core 1Ghz processor. the problem I have with it is the screen have a fault and the ring tones are too quiet.


i really don't understand this need for having a faster phone to do the same thing as someone else.

I can understand with laptops and desktops because people do many different things with computers, but not with a phone or a Tablet to be honest, because they are a closed system and the software is limited.

Oh well, you spend £300 or more on a phone every couple of years, it is your money.

No wonder phone manufactures are rolling in it.

Your point being ?

It's all been done? Not sure where you get that from. If that was the case, we could all stick to our phones and never buy a new one again till it dies. See through screens, folding screens pop to mind, god knows what other crazy things they come up with.

What is that all about?

I wasn't saying it will happen or that I want it. Just saying there is probably still a lot to come.

Something like this maybe
http://forum.pclayer.com/userspix/20...pt-pclayer.jpg

Sorry, I realised you were just making reference. It is just when I read it I seriously wondered what application a see through screen could have on a phone.

I agree though, I sure they will keep trying of thinking up ideas for selling us new phones.

And as the sad techno nerds we are, we'll keep buying them

although that said, if i can lower the price of my current virgin sim only deal a bit more, I might actually be "retiring" from the world of mobiles as i'll have an unlocked S3 and 2500 minutes with unlimited data/texts/landline calls to use on it

Jason. If you ring up they are doing that deal for under £10pm according to HUKD. There is a post about the retention deal on there.

Or perhaps like the millions of other note/Note 2 users he doesn't care what some random stranger in Asda thinks. Still, if point and laugh at the silly man floats your boat, crack on.

That's how I got this deal in the first place - I rang them on Friday. I did have 1200 minutes, 5000 texts and 1GB of data.

I'm a bit miffed that others in an identical situation, including not being existing virgin media customners, have gotten the same offer for under £10 quid though, so i'm going to ring them back and see if anything can be done.

Yes it does. Posts on the apple forums describe it as well.

Here is one a start:- https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0


Thats not normal for a start! I have one and its never done that. Ive also played with several in shops that get hammered each day and they didnt do this either. Apart from that video i cant find anything else that describes this. There is a severe lack of ram on that video which means he has something huge running in the background.

I am pretty sure that you didn't read that Samsung are ditching Android as I have never seen or heard anything of the kind. However they will release some Tizen devices. Tizen is an open source OS based on Linux (like Android) and the Tizen project includes Intel and Sprint (US carrier). There is no way at all that Samsung will ditch Android in the short to medium term as they completely own that market and make large profits from it. In the long term who knows but why not develop another OS. Remember Bada? Another Linux based OS develpoed by Samsung that no one used.

Tizen will be thrown in the mix with Firefox OS, Jolla (derived from Meego) and others as Linux based open source operating systems. Who knows if any will stick when competing with iOS, Android, WP or BB10. There will probably be a market in developing countries but I can't see a major manufacturer making the switch away from Android for there handsets in the first world.