Why should you buy SGS2?

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I personally don't fancy the new SGS for the following reason:

SGS2 scores on stock rom 100 points more in Quadrant than my SGS1(~1500). Dual cores are not going to be used for the next 1 year, only a few minor apps.
So why should I buy SGS2?
For bigger screen? 4.0 is already big enough in my pocket.
Samoled+? I don't think it's so much nicer, the one without + is awesome enough!

I don't see too much improvement in SGS2, I'd rather give Optimus 3d a go!

Are you one of those people who decided to stick with 32-bit processors because there's not much to gain from buying a 64-bit one?

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Haha, lol no I have 64bit.

I'm talking about the fact, that dual cores are not going to be used too much until the end of this year. Devs are making apps to popular phones/systems. They will only implement dual core acceleration if they see it's enough users.
So for 1 year you'll only see several apps using dual core, so it won't worth buying. Only reason to buy is maybe multitasking. But that's alone is not enough for me.

I would buy it because the Captivate was so well supported by Developers and made the Captivate an amazing device. Atrix looks like a fail out the gate not allowing kernel development.

So far i like what I see here...although Samsung is not customer centirc in the US anyway.

A lot of devices will be available on ATT this year 11 Android phones. Lots to choose from

Originally Posted by Soniboy84

I personally don't fancy the new SGS for the following reason:

SGS2 scores on stock rom 100 points more in Quadrant than my SGS1(~1500). Dual cores are not going to be used for the next 1 year, only a few minor apps.
So why should I buy SGS2?
For bigger screen? 4.0 is already big enough in my pocket.
Samoled+? I don't think it's so much nicer, the one without + is awesome enough!

I don't see too much improvement in SGS2, I'd rather give Optimus 3d a go!

1) Why are people so obsessed with a synthetic benchmark?! It's just stupid. My HTC Desire gets 2100 and it lags more than my San Francisco (~900), it proves nothing. Furthermore the Exynos is rather new, I'm sure there is a lot of headroom for optimisation in the driver department.
2) A single app may not be using boh two cores at the moment. But are you running a single app on your phone at once? No. You're running an app, lots of services, broadcast receivers, and the system itself. Enough to keep both cores busy.
3) About the screen read here. It will be nicer by a fair amount.

I assume that even if apps won't immediately be using both cores to their advantage, the Samsung system will, considering... well, it's natively made for that particular model.

There will probably be some sort of system or optimization that will separate tasks for the Android system (or parts of it) to use one core, and applications to use the other core (or possibly use both if the option is enabled).

Hell, at this point, for all we know, the system is completely optimized for this dual core process and controls every aspect so not only is the entire phone running at it's most efficiency with the cores in respect, but it's also possibly saving battery life.


Hard to know considering the specs were only released a while ago. It also doesn't help that there's only one other dual-core phone that is out right now to compare, and it was only released a few days ago, so developers still have to see how exactly the Android system handles the technology.

Originally Posted by martino2k6

1) Why are people so obsessed with a synthetic benchmark?! It's just stupid. My HTC Desire gets 2100 and it lags more than my San Francisco (~900), it proves nothing. Furthermore the Exynos is rather new, I'm sure there is a lot of headroom for optimisation in the driver department.
2) A single app may not be using boh two cores at the moment. But are you running a single app on your phone at once? No. You're running an app, lots of services, broadcast receivers, and the system itself. Enough to keep both cores busy.
3) About the screen read here. It will be nicer by a fair amount.

Just a bit of fix here, just a bit of improvement there, I see no inventional feature in the SGS2 to make me buy it. On the other hand, Lg....

I will tell you why you want the new device:
Because you got a thing for shiny new gadgets like all of us!
You must resist the force.

I want to get this one because I am fed up with my SE Walkman 580i. Perfectly valid reason I think ?

Originally Posted by martino2k6

2) A single app may not be using boh two cores at the moment. But are you running a single app on your phone at once? No. You're running an app, lots of services, broadcast receivers, and the system itself. Enough to keep both cores busy.

Yes allow me to agree here
Multicore support is already there in linux.
Should also be used on some native linux apps.
Looks from http://developer.android.com/sdk/and...ighlights.html that only the java apps don't benefit from it yet.