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Honestly the biggest problem with smartphones is how fast the technology is advancing; one year old models are out-dated in comparison to the specs of new phones. At what point do we as consumers say, hey I don't need any more power in my phone, it doesn't need to have a bigger processor than my computer.

/HTC is releasing quad-core phones in 2012
//I hate that I think they are awesome

them see me trollin': Honestly the biggest problem with smartphones is how fast the technology is advancing; one year old models are out-dated in comparison to the specs of new phones. At what point do we as consumers say, hey I don't need any more power in my phone, it doesn't need to have a bigger processor than my computer.

/HTC is releasing quad-core phones in 2012
//I hate that I think they are awesome

Not so sure about that... it's like the old Nintendo's system... done right, a game for an older system was on par as a new system... Donkey Kong Country for example...

One of my kids was looking at smartphones last month... we checked all the specs of newer phones and in the end, my year old Pre 2 either outdid them or was on par.. aside the processor, but not by much. So we got him an unlocked one.

When you consider that the "worse" part is that we don't have thousands of repeated apps for it... we can't complain when it's half the price of anything that comes close to it.

All I want is a dumb phone, one that makes and receives calls, and maybe has a camera. I'm never more than a few minutes from a computer with a screen I can actually see.

i'd rather have a slightly under-spec phone with a righteously stripped down and streamlined UI.

kinda like when i played with linux rolling lxde. bloody lightweight and FAST, thankyou. my itty bitty sempron was running far faster than my wife's fancy 5-core intel chip with windows 8.

even running KDE plasma i'm actually running about as fast as her machine, on a single core no less.

so bring on a lower-spec phone i say. just give it a great lightweight UI or give me the option to put one in there without jumping through 20 hoops.

them see me trollin': Honestly the biggest problem with smartphones is how fast the technology is advancing; one year old models are out-dated in comparison to the specs of new phones. At what point do we as consumers say, hey I don't need any more power in my phone, it doesn't need to have a bigger processor than my computer.

/HTC is releasing quad-core phones in 2012
//I hate that I think they are awesome

Then don't buy a new phone if you don't need a new phone. I had the original iPhone 3G, and didn't feel the need to upgrade with the 3GS or 4G. I upgraded to the Samsung Galaxy S2 over the summer, and think it'll last me 3 years again.

buttery_shame_cave: even running KDE plasma i'm actually running about as fast as her machine, on a single core no less.

Kan't believe that; I kall krap. KDE krawls on my komputer.

MrEricSir: buttery_shame_cave: even running KDE plasma i'm actually running about as fast as her machine, on a single core no less.

Kan't believe that; I kall krap. KDE krawls on my komputer.

nice and snappy for me.

maybe upgrade from the pentium 4 and half gig of ram?

joking.

i AM running 64-bit, primarily the plasma shell, bells and whistles. firefox opens in five seconds or so unless i'm running something process heavy. swift-fox is even faster. gimp loads damn near instantly.

the funny part: i'm running it on top of gnome and i've got the eye candy turned way up.

part of it's architecture. part of it is your version. 4.6.x is pretty responsive if you've got a system that's anywhere approaching modern.

maybe it's dependencies and libs that are slowing you down? since plasma will technically run with GTK as well as QT libs, you might not have the QT stuff installed, which would have it just poking along without the right stuff to run well.

them see me trollin': Honestly the biggest problem with smartphones is how fast the technology is advancing; one year old models are out-dated in comparison to the specs of new phones. At what point do we as consumers say, hey I don't need any more power in my phone, it doesn't need to have a bigger processor than my computer.

/HTC is releasing quad-core phones in 2012
//I hate that I think they are awesome

You're looking at it all wrong. Eventually, your phone will be your computer.

I'm seeing something like the Motorola Atrix as the phone/computer of the future, where the phone acts as a "brain" that you plug into different docs depending on what you want to do with it at the moment.

I bough an iPhone 4 last year because it was the only phone that could talk to my bluetooth hardware and servers. I've spent about $40 on apps I don't use anymore. I bought the damned thing because it gets my work done, and I broke my old windows phone.

My ideal smartphone would have been made by Symbol if that option didn't cost twice as much. Now it's all Motorola. Real Motorola, not the division Google just bought.

dictyboy: All I want is a dumb phone, one that makes and receives calls, and maybe has a camera.

OK, so why don't you buy one?

dictyboy: All I want is a dumb phone, one that makes and receives calls, and maybe has a camera. I'm never more than a few minutes from a computer with a screen I can actually see.

Good for you. There's plenty of them for you to choose from.

You're like the guy who goes into every thread about TV shows and talks about how you don't own a TV. What do you want, a cookie?

them see me trollin': Honestly the biggest problem with smartphones is how fast the technology is advancing; one year old models are out-dated in comparison to the specs of new phones. At what point do we as consumers say, hey I don't need any more power in my phone, it doesn't need to have a bigger processor than my computer.

I think we're actually very close to that point. I have a Nexus S and if you told me I could have a phone that's twice as fast, I wouldn't offer you much for it. My phone is right now fast enough. It plays various games quickly enough, does sat nav fast enough, email etc. The slow part of the smartphone is the network.

Most people aren't pushing their PCs. My parents have a single-core laptop and for the things they do (email, surfing, printing photos of grandchildren) it does everything they need. They're not going to spend £500 on a new one with more speed when what they have right now is fit for purpose.

And phones have an even more limited set of uses than PCs because of the form factor. I don't want to write code on one, or play Portal. Simple games, email, information services.

them see me trollin': Honestly the biggest problem with smartphones is how fast the technology is advancing; one year old models are out-dated in comparison to the specs of new phones. At what point do we as consumers say, hey I don't need any more power in my phone, it doesn't need to have a bigger processor than my computer.

/HTC is releasing quad-core phones in 2012
//I hate that I think they are awesome

I had to get a new phone a couple of weeks ago. I had massive issues with my Motorola Droid (had to get it replaced twice in 14 months). I could've gotten a Bionic or something all brand-spanking new like that, but wound up getting the Droid Incredible 2, which isn't dual-core and doesn't have 4G.

I frickin' love this phone. It does what I need it to do and has great call quality. I don't need the newest and biggest and brightest. I need something that works really well. And the fact that it was $30 on Wirefly didn't hurt!

HeartBurnKid: them see me trollin': Honestly the biggest problem with smartphones is how fast the technology is advancing; one year old models are out-dated in comparison to the specs of new phones. At what point do we as consumers say, hey I don't need any more power in my phone, it doesn't need to have a bigger processor than my computer.

/HTC is releasing quad-core phones in 2012
//I hate that I think they are awesome

You're looking at it all wrong. Eventually, your phone will be your computer.

I'm seeing something like the Motorola Atrix as the phone/computer of the future, where the phone acts as a "brain" that you plug into different docs depending on what you want to do with it at the moment.

Along the same lines, I seem to recall that Asus was showing off a prototype of a smartphone that docks into a tablet. I can't remember what it was called, though.