But having said all that. Clearly Android apps are able to take advantage of multi-core processors and big.LITTLE allows the scheduler to pick the best core combination for the current workload. If you still hear people saying things like “but a smartphone doesn’t need 8 cores” then just throw your hands-up in despair, as it means they don’t understand Heterogeneous Multi-Processing and they don’t understand that big.LITTLE is about power efficiency and not overall performance.