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    News - Samsung previews Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy Mini 2

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    Re: News - Samsung previews Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy Mini 2

    800mhz dual core, interesting proposition instead of a 1.2ghz single core?

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    Re: News - Samsung previews Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy Mini 2

    Quote Originally Posted by 3dcandy View Post
    800mhz dual core, interesting proposition instead of a 1.2ghz single core?
    Would be interesting to see a like for like comparison between a slower dual core CPU and faster single core CPU in a phone.

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    Re: News - Samsung previews Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy Mini 2

    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    Would be interesting to see a like for like comparison between a slower dual core CPU and faster single core CPU in a phone.
    Would have thought that this would have been difficult to be specific about - meaning that the best you could do would be to say "phone X feels faster than phone Y". Sure, you can run benchmarks, but I'm not convinced that this'd be a suitable metric on how good or bad a particular configuration is.

    Gut feeling is that a multicore phone should be better than a single-core one - simply because if you're doing a cpu-intensive task then you can dedicate a core to it, whereas with a single-core phone you're limited to whatever time is available after other tasks have been carried out.

    My other question would be whether a dual-core system would be more power efficient than a single core. If I assume that it's possible to totally power down an unused core then the answer has to be "yes". This being because even if the phone's "idle" there's a small amount of cpu needed to run screens, check for mails/updates/etc. So your faster single-core processor will always be active.

    As you say though ... it'd be interesting to see someone do some testing.

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    Re: News - Samsung previews Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy Mini 2

    Well, the Ace 2 is now on pre-order for £280 sim-free at some stores.

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