These days we have smartphones and tablets with single cores, dual-cores, and we’re talking about quad-cores. What is a “core”? What does it do? Why do we need so many? And how many cores is “enough”?

That’s what we’ll find out in this week’s Android Guy Weekly!

0:30 – Terminology

1:25 – How can things be made “faster”?

1:49 – Subway analogy

4:20 – Parent and Children tasks

5:35 – Applying the analogy to phones and tabs

6:00 – Battery constraints

7:11 – Dual-core versus dual-cpu

8:50 – Smartphones versus small tablets

9:35 – 10″ tablets

12:00 – My thoughts: How much is enough?

14:10 – Your turn!