Why didn't Nokia go quad-core for Windows smartphone?

Why didn't Nokia go quad-core for Windows smartphone? - 9/5/2012 - Electronics Weekly

Why didn't Nokia go quad-core for Windows smartphone?

Nokia seems to have played it safe with the choice of a dual-core processor for its first Windows Phone 8 smartphones. The Lumia 820 and Lumia 920 smartphones, which were unveiled today, both use Qualcomm's 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 dual core processor with a 1GB of RAM and not the quad-core Snapdragon processor which is now available to mobile phone firms. Perhaps significantly, Qualcomm will this month supply its quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor to LG for its new smartphone which will soon be introduced in Korea.

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