We now have CPU-Z for Android from CPUID, and it works just like you'd expect it to if you're familiar with it on the desktop. For end users and enthusiasts, there remained the need for something beyond lots of searching, pouring through kernel sources, or kernel messages (dmesg) on devices. Today vendors and operators are considerably less opaque about what's inside their devices (proving yet again that the 'specs are dead' line is just false hyperbole), but unless you know where to look or who to ask it's still sometimes a mystery. I remember wishing for a tool like CPU-Z for Android so many times, and I remember trying to explain to someone else just how dire the need was for something like it. There was a pervasive sense of contentedness everywhere you turned with the current model where what was inside a handset was largely a black box. Manufacturers weren't yet open to disclosing what silicon was inside, and there wasn't any SoC messaging or branding from any of the numerous silicon vendors. About three years ago, I remember one of the biggest problems I had while sorting out phones was figuring out what SoCs were inside them.
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