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Samsung Galaxy S4
MrSuper
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To be announced allegedly on March 15th and released in 2nd week of April. Available in black and white.
Alleged specs - Exynos 5 Octa (8-Core) CPU, Mali-T658 (8-Core) GPU, 4.99' Super AMOLED Full HD resolution display, 2GB of RAM, 13MP rear facing camera capable of shooting 1080p Full HD videos at 30FPS, 2MP front facing camera capable of shooting 720p HD videos and running Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean.
http://www.sammobile.com/2013/02/06/rumor-samsung-will-unveil-the-galaxy-s-iv-on-march-15th-and-on-sale-from-early-april/
Alleged specs - Exynos 5 Octa (8-Core) CPU, Mali-T658 (8-Core) GPU, 4.99' Super AMOLED Full HD resolution display, 2GB of RAM, 13MP rear facing camera capable of shooting 1080p Full HD videos at 30FPS, 2MP front facing camera capable of shooting 720p HD videos and running Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean.
http://www.sammobile.com/2013/02/06/rumor-samsung-will-unveil-the-galaxy-s-iv-on-march-15th-and-on-sale-from-early-april/
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Just EE to bring out a decent 4G tariff/allowance now at a normal price at the same time and i'll be happy!! lol
Why, at the moment, would a phone need a 8 core processor?
4 cores for light tasks and 4 HARDCORES for the intensive stuff, gaming, video playback etc.Dunno if its going to have any real gain in real world use, but I think the point is, it will be better for battery life, the 4 lower powered cores will not use up so much battery. So for your basic phone use, emailing etc, you won't need the powerful cores handing a process.
From a marketing perspective, it will be great! Introducing OCTOCORE!!! We kept him dormant at the bottom of the ocean for millenia, Now we, Samsung have brought him back. Can you handle the power?? Can you??? Cue the Advert with a huge shadow rising behind little iphone hipsters running for their lives, Maiden's Run to the Hills as the soundtrack. .
Ha, ha! That was a good one!
And I do not doubt at all that eight cores will be mainstream. But we just got four and it seems like they are doubling them every year.
Ah well!
I think you could be right!
To be announced Feb 24th at MWC.
http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_ascend_p2_spotted_in_blurry_shots_1080p_screen_on_tap-news-5487.php
Is that really the case?
Is there anything lacking with the current high end phones that mean we cant watch HD video from Youtube or stream it to a TV? They seem to be up to the job dont they?
Personally I feel they need to spend far more time reducing the size and power consumption of existing processors and increasing the size/capacity of the batteries.
Also, think that they have made a mistake increasing the screen size. I have a Note 2 and I can see that for many people its too big. My wife has the S3 and like the HTC One X I had before the Note2, its a good size to suit the masses. Big enough to be able to play games and watch video, browse etc yet small enough to manage and carry.
It will make scrolling smoother.
Not sure if that was meant to be a joke or a serious comment, as I think scrolling is pretty smooth on the Nexus 4.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. This is what should be important but it seems everyone's afraid to put in bigger batteries for fear of making the phone that slightly bit thicker.
I'm also worried about the increase in screen. I would have bought the Note 2 in an instant if it wasn't so bloody damn big! I've seen people with it and it just looks huge. Way too big for me personally. So hope the S4 isn't that big.
More evidence to support the screen size and display:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_might_start_production_of_the_5_1080p_display_this_month-news-5490.php
Don't get me wrong, I agree completely that scrolling is already pretty smooth. But presumably it will be a bit smoother still.
Bear in mind that is going to be the Chinese price (plus it's not even 100% confirmed yet) It'll cost a lot more in the UK/USA.
The chip they would have needed to do the DC at the time probably wasn't ready or ready in the quantity they needed.
That said, I'd still be a little surprised if they put the Exynos5 Quad or Octa into a handset.
So far only the Exynos 5 Dual has been used in any devices and they've been much larger devices which can more efficiently deal with the heat produced. A smaller device with a potentially hotter SoC doesn't sound like a great combination.
Increasing the screen size and increasing the size of the handset as a whole are not necessarily one and the same.
Matter bugger all if the software doesn't use the cores.
Not really as the chips usually operate on 1 core, but for gaming or using the 8 cores they wake up and are in use only when needed.
The question is, will there be an LTE version I can buy that will work with UK frequencies. As I want to buy it in April ready for the LTE launches so I can be first to test (not bothered about EE, looking for 3's budget deals and the low frequency launches).
Well Apple did it, samsung did it for their LTE version, sony have done it, LG have done it, so have Nokia so i'm not sure that's the case and if it is, would it be ready now
4 of them are low-power cores, they're only used when the handset is idling/not being pushed. Then when needs demand, the 4 main cores are used instead. But it's only ever one set or the other.
The LTE variant of the S3 that EE sell supports the 800, 1800 and 2600 MHz LTE bands.
The LTE variant of the Note2 covers all that plus the 900MHz band.
There's no way that Samsung's next flagship handset would be a step back from that, at least not from the S3 - it's possible the 900MHz band would be dropped for UK/European handsets as it's a frequency that almost no networks here use.