Next-Gen, Dual-Core iPhone May Appear in April

[richmaple]

What's the point of having a faster iPhone when it still makes you wait for the ridiculous fades and wipes and zoom ins/outs it still makes you watch between tasks?! I hate my phone so much. WHY DO I NEED TO WASTE HALF THE TIME JUST STARING AT THESE INANE ANIMATIONS?!

 

[datawrecker]

Dual core..awesome. Now it will get twice as hot twice as fast. Always wondered what it would be like carrying a lava brick in my pants.

 

[chuenl]

This announcement basically implied that all of the single-core iPhones out there will worth less in April.

 

[daworstplaya]

While hardware upgrades are good, what the iPhone really needs is longer battery life through better power management and for Apple to open up all the bluetooth profiles on the phone. Running multiple apps can easily be done if your iPhone is jailbroken.

 

[prakalejas]

what's the point of dual-core if iPhone can basically run only single application? I don't think many applications for iPhone would be capable of multithreading... So what's the point of having dual core CPU if only 1 core can be used?

 

[slipdisc]

[citation][nom]richmaple[/nom]What's the point of having a faster iPhone when it still makes you wait for the ridiculous fades and wipes and zoom ins/outs it still makes you watch between tasks?! I hate my phone so much. WHY DO I NEED TO WASTE HALF THE TIME JUST STARING AT THESE INANE ANIMATIONS?![/citation]

The "fades, wipes and zooms" you refer to is Apple's way of making the interface not stutter or seemingly produce less lag during operations. To most users this provides a better overall user experience.

"Waste half the time staring at inane animations"? Wow so either your phone has a serious lag issue or you are spending about 1-2sec in a app before exiting. Most of the animations a less than one second in length (most 450ms). Thats 450 one hundredths of one second. Seiously? Half the time?

But you had to have seem that the first time you picked up an iphone. So this begs the question, why did you get it in the fist place?

My suggestion is to get a another phone that suits you because the animations are deep within the core of the iphone OS and they aren't going anywhere.