I recently saw a tweet about dual core phones today and it got me thinking about them some and what it would be like if the Wave III were to be a dual core phone. Dual core phones seem to be all the rage across the globe these days whether you are on Android, Windows Phone, or heck…even webOS. However, are dual core phones really necessary? And is the next generation Wave III going to be a dual core? While no one really knows if the next Wave will pack a dual core…it would make sense for Samsung to do it. If they are serious about keeping bada up to speed with todays competition then they should have it running on dual cores. The problem with that is would it really make a difference? bada 2.0 was designed to run on a single core processor and to my knowledge, has not been optimized for dual core processors so if Samsung were to stick it on a dual core phone…it would actually make it operate a little slower. Speeds would not be noticeable to the average user but benchmark speeds would be lower. This begs the question though…are dual core phones really all that necessary or is it overkill?

To me it seems like overkill. I mean think about it…when you are on the phone, how many open applications do you have showing on the screen? Only one right? Phones that have multitasking (if done right) kill the app when it is in the background and the app that is showing on the screen is the only thing using processor power and resources. There is no need for a phone to have dual cores. In fact, I see no lag when I am doing multiple things at once on my single core phone as it is now. What would be nice though is if Samsung gave the Wave 3 a nice processor boost in terms of speed and more memory. Having the phone run an OS optimized for a single-core at 1.5GHz with 1GB of memory would not only run extremely fast but it would also give greater battery life than a phone with a dual core. Like I said above, to achieve the greatest speeds and efficiency, the OS has to be optimized with the hardware and if Samsung sticks bada 2.0 as it is right now on a dual core chip…then I see it as a waste. Give the Wave III a speed boost and memory boost, optimize the OS a little more and make it more refined and you will have a real winner! Oh…and put a SAMOLED+ display on it please