Do you think the shortage of s4 chips well throw a kink in this debate of exynos vs krait coming to the US? Or will we just get it late again?

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Originally Posted by Cryosx

not sure what the extra performance would for... if the ui, games, whatever runs perfectly smoothly for the next two years this phone is on contract then i'm fine. personally i like having one reliable battery that i don't have to touch then three backups i have to keep carrying around, i like it light

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not too worried about only having dual core. they seem to run plenty fast the way they are now so it isn't the end of the world

Originally Posted by trell959

Regardless of what processor the US varient of the sgs3 will have, I'm still going to buy international

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Yeah me too. No more USA Variants since the Captivate. Not paying $800+ for two years of 3G+ Carrier Data No LTE here until late 2013 and I don't need those speeds.

Why are people blathering on about Tegra3?

Just because the Krait spanks the S3 says nothing about how it'll compare to the 4412.

Nvidia is notorious for being first to bump up the core count while also delivering poor performance-per-core - especially since it's not just about the CPU, but about the peripherals on the chip too (such as hwaccel video). For most workloads, even Samsung's old Hummingbird could spank the Tegra2 as an example. Yeah, the Tegra2 did great on some benchmarks, but if you actually USED your device - a Hummingbird-based device was more responsive, and if you wanted to watch H.264 video - no contest, Samsung's MFC smoked whatever Tegra2 had and I expect that to continue.

That said, Exynos 4210 is good enough now for most uses.

Qualcomm-based GSIIIs will suck, and it has nothing to do with the actual CPU performance and everything to do with the fact that they'll be niche devices with inferior software support. THAT is why if I get this (probably not, doesn't offer enough over the Note to be worth it), I'll be going international.

Samsung should get wise and sell unlocked devices in the US WITH US warranty support - combine that with Straight Talk's BYOD SIM plans and they can finally start getting control away from carriers.