The next Samsung Galaxy S smartphone is set to be unveiled next week, and the Korean manufacturer is aiming to get the masses excited about it a few days early with word that the handset will come packing a quad-core processor.
Reuters is reporting that the next Samsung Galaxy S smartphone will feature a “faster, energy-saving quad-core mobile microprocessor” when it’s finally announced at the company’s “Mobile Unpacked” event in London on May 3.
But the Korean consumer electronics giant has bigger designs than simply beefing up its latest handset -- it plans to also offer the new processor to other manufacturers as well.
“Samsung said it is sampling the chips to major handset makers as it seeks to expand its customer base from Apple Inc. to its handset rivals such as Nokia, HTC and Motorola,” the report reveals. “The South Korean firm is the world's top manufacturer of mobile application processors (AP), enjoying booming sales of Apple's iPhone and iPad as well as its own Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets.”
Samsung’s Exynos 4 Quad -- based on ARM Cortex 9 technology -- promises to “enable more tasks in a shorter period of time,” such as streaming video on one core while the other three tend to background tasks for other apps.
While Samsung hasn’t officially confirmed the handset’s name, it’s widely being referred to as the Samsung Galaxy S III, the third generation of the company’s wildly popular Android smartphones.
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Geoduck
April 26, 2012 at 8:14am
Big Fat Hairy Deal
It's not about the specs it's how the system works. I have a 4th Gen iPod Touch. It runs a single core (please correct me on this) 800 Mhz processor and it does everything I want. It plays video, it runs apps and games, it plays music. I buy apps and surf the web and check e-mail and IMs. A quad or eight, or sixteen core iPod Touch wouldn't work any better for me it would just tax the battery more.
This is the Mhz Myth round two.
brandonwalkermedia
April 26, 2012 at 12:44pm
Better processors mean batter graphics and more complex AI (computer)! the better the processor the better the program (provided the programer is good)
