More evidence of US Variants getting a S4 Krait.

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http://www.gsmarena.com/dualcore_sna...-news-4244.php

Originally Posted by SlimJ87D

http://www.gsmarena.com/dualcore_sna...-news-4244.php

Att is getting the exynos quad-core version like Rogers.

Sent from my HTC One X on Leedroid's ROM v5.1.0.

This isn't a bad thing, but it is also underwhelming. Every high end phone released in the US markets has the same SoC. Software battles are not very interesting, at least to me. On ATT both of the high end Android phones are very similar in terms of hardware with the HTC One X arguably being better since it is already out and has a better screen. Not sure what samsung was thinking with putting out a phone with the same internals as a rival a couple months later.

Originally Posted by ceo.mtcl

Att is getting the exynos quad-core version like Rogers.

Sent from my HTC One X on Leedroid's ROM v5.1.0.

And who said that Rogers is getting an Exynoes version... the only evidence was a ad generated by google... unless you have another source.

Originally Posted by SlimJ87D

And who said that Rogers is getting an Exynoes version... the only evidence was a ad generated by google... unless you have another source.

This ad banner...



Until something more concrete appears, I'm going with this from the article...

"Of course an ad banner is hardly conclusive"

http://www.androidcentral.com/ad-ban...s-chip-and-lte

From the New Orleans event. Note the use of the word "optimized."

“Samsung Mobile is planning a U.S. version of Galaxy S III, optimized for the fastest LTE and HSPA+ networks in the U.S., which will be available in the summer of 2012. Exact timing and retail channel availability is not being announced at this time. We believe the Galaxy S III is the most anticipated product in the 20-year history of Samsung Mobile; therefore, we will continue to share information as it becomes available.” – Samsung

This could play out two ways...

1) Samsung's developed a GSM LTE-capable version of the Exynos chip and it will be used everywhere it can be. In North America that would mean Rogers, AT&T, and Sprint. Since CDMA's so limited, the VZW SGS3 would likely use the S4 chip. T-Mobile would likely get S4 also because S4 supports AWS and when faced with the same choice in the SGS2 they went Qualcomm vs. developing their own AWS radio. If Samsung was going this route, there's no reason they wouldn't have said so at the UnBoxed event.

2) LTE and AWS SGS3's will all be S4. Either because Samsung didn't have time to integrate LTE, couldn't match the S4's fantastic battery life, or that it might actually be cheaper. Samsung builds great SoC's but they have no track record (yet) in radios. There were no repercussions (other than some customer disappointment) when Samsung went this route last time. Also, when they did, they waited until right up to launch to disclose that the U.S. market wasn't getting Exynos (except the non-LTE AT&T version).

I have no idea which way it'll go (and neither do any of you). I wouldn't bet odds in Vegas based on a misplaced banner ad.

If you think AT&T is going to fragment the sales/updates as far as one that is quad-core/hspa/3G and one that is Dual-Core/HSPA/LTE, you are mistaken. Ain't. Gonna. Happen.

There will be one model, one that is usable on the LTE network.

Originally Posted by bbeelzebub

If you think AT&T is going to fragment the sales/updates as far as one that is quad-core/hspa/3G and one that is Dual-Core/HSPA/LTE, you are mistaken. Ain't. Gonna. Happen.

There will be one model, one that is usable on the LTE network.

Yeah sure. Too bad that's not true with the SGS2 and the SGS2 Skyrocket....

Originally Posted by SlimJ87D

Yeah sure. Too bad that's not true with the SGS2 and the SGS2 Skyrocket....

That was last year. We're into the LTE (True 4G) era.

Regardless. I'll have fun watching some of you waiting on that Quad Core.

Originally Posted by bbeelzebub

That was last year. We're into the LTE (True 4G) era.

Regardless. I'll have fun watching some of you waiting on that Quad Core.

Again, no evidence whatsoever that you will be getting a Exynos + 4G LTE radio with Verizon.

Originally Posted by SlimJ87D

Yeah sure. Too bad that's not true with the SGS2 and the SGS2 Skyrocket....

That U.S. introduction of the SGS2 was one of the strangest launches ever. First, it took Samsung and the U.S. carriers six months after the UK launch to bring it to the U.S. Then all but the AT&T version were totally different phones based on the Asian Celox and SGS2's in name only. If you remember the launch event, the T-Mobile version was locked in a Plexiglas box and not allowed to be touched. VZW skipped the SGS2 entirely. On top of that, two weeks after it launched, AT&T announced the SkyRocket which was a Celox variant and closer to the other U.S. carrier versions. Samsung’s in a much more powerful position than they were last go round so hopefully the phones will be less molested and the introduction better synchronized.

When the OG SGS2 launched on AT&T they hadn't even lit up their first LTE city. It would be strange for them to launch another high-end HSPA+ phone with as fast as they are growing (and pushing) their LTE network. But, based on the SGS2 launch, anything's possible.