Comments on: Samsung May Go With Qualcomm Chips in Galaxy S4 Instead of the Octa

By: R7ex

R7ex — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:13:00 +0000

By: R7ex

R7ex — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:11:00 +0000

But 330 only 50% over 320. Mali or PowerVR better.

By: R7ex

R7ex — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:09:00 +0000

Won’t be surprised to see Note 3 with 800 in LTE regions.

By: R7ex

R7ex — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:08:00 +0000

Reduce bezel size, increase screen size and keep phone size the same (or increase slightly).

By: Jun Chang

Jun Chang — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:21:00 +0000

Snapdragon 600 is great but would rather wait for something with the 800 in the summer

By: angermeans

angermeans — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:47:00 +0000

Different opinions I guess. Until Samsung can make a half decent device with great hardware they will never be ahead of the iPhone. My gs3 was one of te cheapest feeling phones I’ve ever owned. I won’t be buying Samsung again until they step it up. If your going to copy apple in everything then try at least a little to make better hardware.

By: angermeans

angermeans — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:44:00 +0000

Ain’t that the truth. It’s just two quads. Snapdragon is once again going to have a successful year with the 400, 600, and 800 (can’t wait to see a phone with this in the coming months).

By: angermeans

angermeans — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:39:00 +0000

That’s not true at least if your talking about iOS.

By: angermeans

angermeans — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:38:00 +0000

Sadly I don’t think this can be done without an almost full OS rewrite.

By: rickneworleansla

rickneworleansla — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:52:00 +0000

Hopefully. The wake with voice (Snap Dragon Voice Activation) would be a nice feature to have.

http://www.qualcomm.com/media/blog/2013/02/20/snapdragontm-wakes-mobile-world-snapdragon-voice-activation

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:21:00 +0000

The whole big.LITTLE concept is just throwing more money and silicon at the problem. It seems ARM is having some problems getting higher performance without overly increasing power consumption.

AnandTech has an article on the Octa and it can draw up to 6 W of power. That’s more than Intel’s Atom. It may even be more than Intel’s next generation Bay Trail quad-core Atom.

By: btod

btod — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:28:00 +0000

I think the better solution is to make it so that the software can keep with with all those features you mentioned. What’s the point of having all that if you can’t because its slows down your phone so much?

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:29:00 +0000

I’d bet the octo core will be in the Note 3. Samsung likes the Note series to be just a little bit better than the S series when it comes out 4-6 months later

By: Michael Javier

Michael Javier — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:38:00 +0000

Wow. Too many folks around here seem to be obsessed with benchmark-topping GPUs and CPUs. Just wondering if you guys really play THAT much 3D gaming in your phones. And why the need for 200fps capable GPUs if the screen can only display 60fps? I must’ve missed the announcement that Crysis for Android is going to be released soon. I mean, c’mon, let’s stop obsessing with offscreen Egypt GL tests and Quadrant scores. I’d rather have a more balanced SoC design: decent (but not necessarilly chart-topping) benchmark scores, good battery life (modern .28nm or less fab process and properly dynamically clocked and power gated SoC design), built-in global basebands (GSM/HSPA+, LTEadvanced, CDMA/EVDO,) 802.11a/b/g/n/ac wifi with Miracast streaming, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS/GLONASS, etc. The Qualcomm SD800 fits the bill nicely. Samsung should delay the GS4 for a couple of months to wait for it or release a “Plus/Pro” version later to compete better with Q3/Q4 releases of the competition. They should stay true to their “function” over “form” approach. I’ll take polycarbonate casing/backing any day. It’s lighter than aluminum and more flexible than glass. This “cheap plastic” is the same material as the F-22 cockpit canopy. Also please don’t get rid of the options to change my own batteries (which can only be recharged 300 to 500 times), and to add additional storage (microSDXC). I mean streaming from the cloud is nice and all, but it does use mobile data, battery power, and can be unreliable in certain areas.

By: snapdragonFan

snapdragonFan — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:28:00 +0000

No, snapdragons are the most efficient arm processor out there today in the smartphone space. And by efficient for this topic of discussion, its the best power per performance where high performance is needed. Surely you could put an A7/A5 etc in a smartphone, but it wouldn’t work well.