To be honest, I would rather have the new Atom core that's due for the end of this year. Alas, I must "suffer" with my S4 Pro, such first world problems.

Yeah you're right about the 600 and LTE, it's the 800 that supports LTE onboard, I thought it was both. As for the A7 you might be right, not sure -- I remember an anandtech podcast mentioning why they wouldn't/couldn't go for less -- I tried looking it up and couldn't find it. Either way I think Quad A7's are fine due to how often they are used. As for clock speeds: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6832/samsungs-galaxy-s-4-introduction-hands-on Also coming from an opensource fanboy I would have thought you would support the S600 considering samsungs track record for Exynos support 😛 I'd still rather have the snapdragon I think.

To be honest, I would like to see more diversity in SoC design, I do commend Qualcomm for their open source track reecord, but the Exynos team isn't too shabby. What I don't like is that Qualcomm is using its dominance in CDMA technology (that's why they have so much money, they're the Intel of the ARM architectural family) to dominate the SoC market. I would love to see Samsung use their own SoC or even another competitor like NVIDIA or ST-Ericsson for their flagship phones. Plus, I really like the big.LITTLE design philosophy. Though of course I would also want the manufacturers to help champion open source. Honestly, I can't really think of a reason why the North American S4 release are the only ones using Qualcomm's SoC except that probably the American carriers want the Qualcomm SoC due to probable backdoor negotiations since Qualcomm built most of the tech which Verizon and Sprint uses for their CDMA networks. deltatux

OK, I decided to run the same tests on the Nexus 4 (stock firmware, latest update) as this guy ran on the Galaxy S4. Here are the results: Quadrant: Nexus 4: 4927 Galaxy S4: 11782 CPU:10416 CPU:39190 Memory: 7419 Memory: 9662 IO: 4156 IO: 7338 2D: 340 2D: 500 3D: 2303 3D: 2220 (What the heck!?)

OK, I decided to run the same tests on the Nexus 4 as this guy ran on the Galaxy S4. Here are the results: Quadrant: Nexus 4: 4927 Galaxy S4: 11782 CPU:10416 CPU:39190 Memory: 7419 Memory: 9662 IO: 4156 IO: 7338 2D: 340 2D: 500 3D: 2303 3D: 2220 (What the heck!?)

The Adreno 320 is good man.

Antatu: Nexus 4: 16635 Galaxy S4: 20105 CPU: 5384 CPU: 6497 GPU: 8127 GPU: 8574 RAM: 2327 RAM: 4131 IO: 797 IO: 903

Vellamo: Nexus 4 HTML5: 1372 Galaxy S4 HTML5: 2076 Nexus 4 Metal: 618 Galaxy S4 Metal: 824

The Adreno 320 is good man.

The Adreno 320 is good, but the 544MP3 should blow past it on sheer power alone. Anyways, there you have it. Snapdragon S4 Pro vs. Exynos 5 Octa (EDIT: after some further reading, this might have been a Snapdragon 600!). The first official unofficial benchmark of the two.

Here is a definite Snapdragon 600 Galaxy S4. Here's how it compares to the Galaxy S3 and Nexus 4 in Antutu: http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Galaxy-S-4-AnTuTu-2.jpg http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Galaxy-S-4-AnTuTu-3.jpg http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Galaxy-S-4-AnTuTu-4.jpg

Here is my own run vs. the Samsung Galaxy S4 (not sure what version anymore): http://s12.postimage.org/hw6vw7hdp/Screenshot_2013_03_16_17_01_59.png