The most important reason to have this new processor, besides the obvious gain in image quality is that it should use
a lot less battery power, which is crucial on phones.
Not exact matches
iPhone is much
less autonomous than Kindle because it's not meant to run long on a single charge but more importantly because when you are reading an eBook a back - lit display is drawing a
lot of
power from the
battery.
If you were able to plug a hybrid in overnight, you could potentially use a
lot less gas by cruising for long stretches on
battery power only.
There's also the
battery saving element (if a pixel is off, it's drawing a
lot less power... actually, pretty much none) so that's a benefit too.
The Snapdragon 210 chipset doesn't use a
lot of
power because its not that powerful so
less battery is required.
Lots of smartphones come with
batteries claimed to allow for two days of
battery life or more, but most of those phones come with 3,000 mAh or
less for the
battery capacity, and it can be easy for
power users to drain that
battery life pretty quickly.