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<\/span><\/p>\n Editors’ note<\/b>: This article originally posted on April 8, 2012, and was updated on December 19, 2012.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Open up your wallet today and there are no fewer than five smartphones you can buy running on quad-core processors<\/a><\/span>. Seven months ago, there was one, the HTC One X<\/a>, and only if you bought the international version, which lacked the 4G LTE speeds coveted by U.S. phone-buyers.<\/p>\n After CES next month, expect the number of announced quad-core devices to double<\/a><\/span> as the core war continues to heat up.<\/p>\n By summer, you may turn up your nose at perfectly fast devices running on dual-core chipsets, wondering if you should saddle yourself with something so “slow.” After all, the more processing power, the better the phone, right? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n #mytable body { #mytable a { #mytable { #mytable th { #mytable .nobg tbody { #mytable td { #mytable th.spec { <\/p>\n Maybe not. A tremendous amount of detailed architecture and circuitry go into processor chips, which can make understanding their exact effects on performance a serious undertaking for most. (Note: If you could teach a class on processors, this article isn’t for you.)<\/p>\n In the end, your smartphone’s internal performance boils down to more than the number of cores. Instead, it depends on a delicate balance involving everything from your base chip and batteries to your operating system, and even on the people who code your favorite apps.<\/p>\n Quad-core is great in theory<\/b><\/p>\n
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\n Who’s who in quad-core (Dec 2012)<\/th>\n Major quad-core phones<\/th>\n Major quad-core tablets<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n \n Qualcomm (Snapdragon S4 Pro)<\/td>\n HTC Droid DNA, LG Nexus 4, LG Optimus G, Aquos Phone Zeta, Xiaomi MI2<\/td>\n None<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Nvidia (Tegra 3)<\/td>\n HTC One X, HTC One X+, LG Optimus 4X HD, LG Optimus Vu, ZTE U950, Fujitsu Arrows Z ISW13F<\/td>\n Google Nexus 7, Microsoft Surface RT, Asus Transformer Pad Series, Acer Iconia Tab series, Toshiba Excite series, Sony Xperia Tablet S, Fuhu Nabi 2 and Nabi XD, Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Samsung (Exynos 4 Quad)<\/td>\n Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Lenovo LePhone K860<\/td>\n Galaxy Note 10.1, Google Nexus 10<\/td>\n \n *This chart represents more major product launches, but is not globally exhaustive.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n