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lol, yeah, iOS apps because there are no quad core iOS devices. You're having yourself on, here. I think you know we're right you're just eaten up in the moment of the new release to admit it.
And yeah quite a few games take advantage of and push the quad core. Dead Trigger, Shadowgun, Riptide GP (especially when enabling the Tegra 3 effects, on the SGS3,for Dead Trigger and Riptide.) It's not unrealistic for a mobile device. Seriously, are you just kidding yourself here?
You keep talking about how much superior Cortex A9 quads are but you're forgetting the fact that the A6 SoC sports a PowerVR SGX543MP4 (same GPU as the PS Vita), which will be at least twice as fast as your international S3's Mali 400.
I rather much take a dual core Cortex A15s + SGX543MP4 over a slightly faster CPU in multi-threaded apps + a much slower GPU.
And all those games you listed will benefit more from the superior GPU over the A9 quad.
Agreed, considering I can underclock a 18 month old phone to 800Mhz and not see the difference on Android in nearly anything, there's no reason to have a quad core on a modern phone, in any case I'd rather have the extra battery life than the slight performance increase that an extra 2 cores may or may not give you.
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Clairvoyant129Â
You keep talking about how much superior Cortex A9 quads are but you're forgetting the fact that the A6 SoC sports a PowerVR SGX543MP4 (same GPU as the PS Vita), which will be at least twice as fast as your international S3's Mali 400.
I rather much take a dual core Cortex A15s + SGX543MP4 over a slightly faster CPU in multi-threaded apps + a much slower GPU..
That's like saying you would sooner play your PC games at 1920x1080 with a GTX 680 instead of 2560x1440 on a 7950...
No, it's not? Saying anyone needs/uses a quad core on a phone is like saying you
need a 2500k for gaming on GPU limited games.
The resolution is smaller, yes, but his post was about CPU performance and not GPU performance.
I'll hazard a guess that anyone saying they'd rather an A9 quad over an A15 dual (Remember, the A15 is made to clock higher than the A9 and is 40% faster in IPC) wouldn't be saying it if it was Samsung, Nokia, HTC, etc who had released the A15 phones.
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lordikonÂ
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Also, I wonder where those same dual core CPU's would come now against those exact same CPU's in modern games now they're more multi-threaded?
I was wondering the same thing, I'd like to see a Q6600 against an E8400 in BF3.
Much slower, nearly every E8400 owner has upgraded because of being slow, but the Q6600 still has a few users, I imagine that 3930Ks will last a lot longer than 2600ks too.
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The legacy apps will get fixed in no time though, My thing is say you play a video on it, How much of that 4" screen is going to be consumed by black bars unless you zoom/crop half the image away?
My question is are 720P videos going to be down scaled properly? 640P is a pretty odd resolution. 800x480, 960x540, and 1280x720 are the most common resolutions for a smartphone, and have been for some time now. 1154x640 is a weird one.
It's actually fairly common, iirc most Xbox 360 and PS3 games are 640p.
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Not to mention that other phones can survive being dropped.
I'm pretty sure that a lot Android phones use glass on top of the screens that can shatter when dropped too.
Being fair, there's a difference as the Android phones tend to not have it as a main thing.
You could sell them anything
Though I hope WP8 phones sell well, so that Windows Phone OS can continue to be a part of the Phone OS wars. 
