I meant that the price is low for a flagship phone on Verizon. Also I am pretty sure that Sprint and AT&T will have dual cores too because of the LTE chips. Tmo should have a quad core exynos though.
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I meant that the price is low for a flagship phone on Verizon. Also I am pretty sure that Sprint and AT&T will have dual cores too because of the LTE chips. Tmo should have a quad core exynos though.
I believe all US SGS3's will come dual-core, 2GB RAM. This is also the case in Japan and Canada.
Flagship? Please... Nothing new about this phone. Same CPU as a rezound? If it has the quad core in it it might be worth a flagship. Nothing we do on android needs 2g of ram multitasking or not..can't wait to see quad core work on LTE here in the states. At least we are on LTE right.
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Unless you can find a better specced Samsung phone on VZW then it technically is the flagship... kind of like the charge that came out running 1.5 year old hardware was a flagship... at $300.
Okay, wow, major misinformation.
The Rezound has a 45nm dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 processor (MSM8660).
The US-variant Galaxy S III has a 28nm dual-core Snapdragon S4 (MSM8960), a chip which is generally considered as good as, if not better, than the quad-core Tegra 3 in general usage. The S4's GPU also has double the clock speed of the S3's.
What that difference actually means is this: the 8960 performs twice as well as the 8660. Take a look at this, and note where the Rezound is:
As far as the Exynos 4 vs the S4... even that's a bit of a performance tossup. The S4 comes on top in some benchmarks, while the Exynos comes on top in others. Neither is indisputably a better processor, though the Exynos chipset does have a better GPU.
The Rezound has a 45nm dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 processor (MSM8660).
The US-variant Galaxy S III has a 28nm dual-core Snapdragon S4 (MSM8960), a chip which is generally considered as good as, if not better, than the quad-core Tegra 3 in general usage. The S4's GPU also has double the clock speed of the S3's.
What that difference actually means is this: the 8960 performs twice as well as the 8660. Take a look at this, and note where the Rezound is:
As far as the Exynos 4 vs the S4... even that's a bit of a performance tossup. The S4 comes on top in some benchmarks, while the Exynos comes on top in others. Neither is indisputably a better processor, though the Exynos chipset does have a better GPU.
OK just put that into layman's terms for me..
Which one is better for watching porn....
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Which one is better for watching porn....
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Sorry should of said " not literally" when I was referring to the rezound. Im just saying dual core is a disappointment when the international version comes out with quad.Okay, wow, major misinformation.
The Rezound has a 45nm dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 processor (MSM8660).
The US-variant Galaxy S III has a 28nm dual-core Snapdragon S4 (MSM8960), a chip which is generally considered as good as, if not better, than the quad-core Tegra 3 in general usage. The S4's GPU also has double the clock speed of the S3's.
What that difference actually means is this: the 8960 performs twice as well as the 8660. Take a look at this, and note where the Rezound is:
As far as the Exynos 4 vs the S4... even that's a bit of a performance tossup. The S4 comes on top in some benchmarks, while the Exynos comes on top in others. Neither is indisputably a better processor, though the Exynos chipset does have a better GPU.
I agree in part... But if the performance is a toss up plus we have LTE, what's the big deal? The quad core is incompatible with LTE, so what else could we ask for?
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If all you care about is how specs look on paper, okay, sure, it's a disappointment.
If what you care about is how the device actually performs, then it's not a disappointment and is in some ways actually a good thing. 2GB of memory absolutely will make a noticeable difference, especially as apps get bigger and more memory-intensive, which is why a good number of people think the S4 variant is actually better than the original.
http://pocketnow.com/2012/05/31/which-galaxy-s-3-is-better-quad-core-or-2gb-ram/
If what you care about is how the device actually performs, then it's not a disappointment and is in some ways actually a good thing. 2GB of memory absolutely will make a noticeable difference, especially as apps get bigger and more memory-intensive, which is why a good number of people think the S4 variant is actually better than the original.
http://pocketnow.com/2012/05/31/which-galaxy-s-3-is-better-quad-core-or-2gb-ram/
Okay, wow, major misinformation.
The Rezound has a 45nm dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 processor (MSM8660).
The US-variant Galaxy S III has a 28nm dual-core Snapdragon S4 (MSM8960), a chip which is generally considered as good as, if not better, than the quad-core Tegra 3 in general usage. The S4's GPU also has double the clock speed of the S3's.
What that difference actually means is this: the 8960 performs twice as well as the 8660. Take a look at this, and note where the Rezound is:
As far as the Exynos 4 vs the S4... even that's a bit of a performance tossup. The S4 comes on top in some benchmarks, while the Exynos comes on top in others. Neither is indisputably a better processor, though the Exynos chipset does have a better GPU.
Speed-wise I agree it'll be a toss-up between the EU's and the US version. However, quad core consumes less power than its LTE counterpart. Therefore the battery life becomes a bigger issue to consider when you're comparing the two.
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2Okay, wow, major misinformation.
The Rezound has a 45nm dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 processor (MSM8660).
The US-variant Galaxy S III has a 28nm dual-core Snapdragon S4 (MSM8960), a chip which is generally considered as good as, if not better, than the quad-core Tegra 3 in general usage. The S4's GPU also has double the clock speed of the S3's.
What that difference actually means is this: the 8960 performs twice as well as the 8660. Take a look at this, and note where the Rezound is:
As far as the Exynos 4 vs the S4... even that's a bit of a performance tossup. The S4 comes on top in some benchmarks, while the Exynos comes on top in others. Neither is indisputably a better processor, though the Exynos chipset does have a better GPU.2
Go out and ask the average consumer what the latest version of Android is, and I'd be willing to bet that most of them couldn't tell you. To that same effect, ask someone what version their current phone is running, and they also couldn't tell you that. The average consumer doesn't care what version of Android their phone has, just so long as it works.
The enthusiast market makes up probably 1% of the overall market, if it's even that large of a share. People here that phones get updates, but they have no idea what they are being updated to, what they are coming from, or what is different. Samsung is still releasing updates, we're up to the 4th update on the Charge now. A consumer will see that as nothing wrong, bugs are getting fixed and it is being updated, even if it isn't the latest available version. The average consumer will go with whatever is advertised more because they are dumb. Samsung won't see any fewer sales because of not updating to ICS, and if they do, it could just be seen as a slight variance.
Would it be great if every manufacturer kept everything updated all the time? Sure, but how do you justify updating a year old device when you can release a brand new phone that has the updated software and make more in sales? How can you further try to justify the update when the average consumer isn't going to notice anyway?1If all you care about is how specs look on paper, okay, sure, it's a disappointment.
If what you care about is how the device actually performs, then it's not a disappointment and is in some ways actually a good thing. 2GB of memory absolutely will make a noticeable difference, especially as apps get bigger and more memory-intensive, which is why a good number of people think the S4 variant is actually better than the original.
http://pocketnow.com/2012/05/31/which-galaxy-s-3-is-better-quad-core-or-2gb-ram/
