Friday, August 16, 2013

A Snapdragon 800 version of the Galaxy S4 coming soon?

As you know, the Galaxy S4 sold in North America comes equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor. On top of this, around 70% of all Galaxy S4 models sold worldwide come with this CPU, with the rest running on Exynos 5 Octa chips made in-house by Samsung.
Today, the AnTuTu benchmark database saw the apparition of a new entry in the shape of a Galaxy S4 equipped with a Snapdragon 800 running at 2.3GHz. The device runs Android 4.2.2, is 4G/LTE enabled, and the scores an underwhelming 24179. Oddly enough, the older, slower S600 performs better on the same hardware and software specs. It is likely, however, that this is only a prototype which has yet to be optimized at all.
Depending on the source, if such a model was released, it would be a release limited to South Korea in September. In any case, if a new version of the S4 was released with a third different processor, it would further complicate following the hardware lineup, but that’s what we’re all about here, so we’ll do our best to clarify the state of things to come.

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