Preliminary Specs Samsung Galaxy S IV online

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/14/2013 11:07 AM | source: | 30 comment(s)

A couple of photo's and specification details have surfaced on the web with the topic, Samsung Galaxy S IV, yes Sir. The parts and specs explained are preliminary but Samsung seems to be pursuing the Big.LITTLE route. A photo surfaced showing more info alright. Behind closed doors at CES Samsung has been showing the 5" AMOLED screen based phone that handles a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels. The new generation screens should be more energy efficient. The Exynos 5 Octa SoC is likely to be used with the Galaxy S IV, that is an octa-core processor.

Apparently the Exynos 5 Octa does not have an embedded MALI chip for graphics anymore, yet the has bee swapped out for a graphics processor from the PowerVR line of products. Likely the PowerVR SGX544MP3 with it's GPU cores clocked at 533MHz.

Anyway, have a look at the photo's of some leaked slides courtesy of Anand and Beyond3D:

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sdamaged99
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#4500479 Posted on: 01/14/2013 06:47 PM

Waiting for the Note 3

My Note 2 is far and away the best mobile i've ever had, better than the S3

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#4500484 Posted on: 01/14/2013 06:52 PM

Amazing how Samsung have cheap plastic cases whilst HTC have decent cases yet Samsung sell more...oh wait money in marketing and 90% noobs.

Actually that "cheap plastic" is often much lighter and more durable at the same time compared to the "expensive metal & glass" finish. So from the practical perspective it looks superior.

Now that you called 90% of Samsung products users noobs, go and gold plate your phone so it looks more expensive and stick it where sun doesn't reach.

Waiting for the Note 3

My Note 2 is far and away the best mobile i've ever had, better than the S3
I wanted to get Note 2 so bad, but after seeing these demos... well... Note 2? or wait for S4? or for Note 3?

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#4500706 Posted on: 01/14/2013 11:52 PM

i came from s2 and now i have the s3, is a great smartphone, but the pastic cheap case is what i hate the most for the price..

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#4500734 Posted on: 01/15/2013 12:21 AM

is not that im against the future but really? 1080p on a 5" screen? Thats a waste seriously, not even all laptops have that kind of resolution, over 300dpi the diferrence is unnoticeable thus useless, what you gain i bet is a huge fps drop in everything, not to mention the full stress on the phone's hardware sucking all the battery in a couple of hours

maybe im not at all correct, but what im sure is this is not a pro but a serious list of problems, which arent enough reason to compensate for a ridiculous display resolution like this

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#4500751 Posted on: 01/15/2013 12:38 AM

Reminds me of Nvidia's Shield going 4k. I think the resolutions are just marketing. Average Joe knows that 1080p is "good" but really doesn't understand why. He just knows that as far as screens it's something you need. It's "HD".

That's the only reason why I can see them pushing it out to the phones. That, and probably because it's easier these days with all the hardware already supporting it. I suppose another reason might be that you wouldn't have to convert video files, like movies, to odd smaller resolutions.

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