Sprint announces the HTC EVO 4G LTE

3. Commentator posted on 04 Apr 2012, 17:02 9

S4 outperforms any processor on the market today, even the Tegra 3 and Huawei's processor.

24. zothen posted on 04 Apr 2012, 19:23 0

Agree. While not the exactly a Cortex A15 core, this part uses A15 based technology with Qualcomm's customizations. Whether it's customized for better performance or for cheaper price like their previous SoCs, who knows until another A15 comes out to compare with.

Either way, it has has already been shown to have huge performance advantages over A9 parts which the current quad cores are using right now. The only processor's on the horizon that may beat this one in real world CPU app performance is OMAP5 or Exynos5 series (A15s)and I don't think they'll be in any phones until late Q3 or Q4. The GPU is not cutting edge and is probably outclassed by the 40nm Tegra3 and the upcoming 32nm Exynos 4212 SoC but at 28nm, they'll be able clock it faster than previously Qcomm SoCs if they want to at the same speeds but at lower voltages (lower power).

I'm sure a few synthetic benchmark will show a quad core A9 having higher performance but I doubt most apps will be written to take full advantage of 4 cores, so it will only help in the cases where multiple apps are trying to execute at once. Not to say that doesn't happen sometimes of course....

26. Mario1017 posted on 04 Apr 2012, 20:50 1

no its customized from the Cortex A8, not the A15. And that is a very big improvement. And most benchmarks, actually, every CPU benchmark I have seen has shown the S4 out perform the Tegra 3

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13. TROLL.ISAHA (banned) posted on 04 Apr 2012, 17:41 0

True. should ev been the tiomap....

20. andro. posted on 04 Apr 2012, 18:35 3

It is a very cool phone,the screen is class indeed,while Ive used the quad core one x i cant say what the dual core variety Will be like but if it performs any way as snappy many will be happy with it

22. Phonecall01 posted on 04 Apr 2012, 19:04 3

lol !! Killing me. What would the "network" support has to do with a quad core processor???

25. rockstarlive posted on 04 Apr 2012, 19:27 0

I meant. Sprint has LTE. The quad One X doesn't work too well with LTE radio. The other 4g is wimax.

27. Mario1017 posted on 04 Apr 2012, 20:54 0

hahah. The amount of cores does not designate if it is compatible with a carrier or not... The One X doesn't work with sprint because the Tegra 3 in the X doesn't support LTE. That is why it has the S4, it has support for LTE.

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5. spanky posted on 04 Apr 2012, 17:07 1

most likely june given the Evo launch history..

11. EclipseGSX posted on 04 Apr 2012, 17:33 6

Seriously, I liked the EVO One personally

12. Commentator posted on 04 Apr 2012, 17:39 0

It's black to keep with the traditional Evo brand. However, both the Evo 4G and Evo 3D did release white versions later, although I personally don't think they looked all that great, compared to other white smartphones.

17. VZWpino posted on 04 Apr 2012, 18:15 0

That is true... more than likely come out with a white version. Although, I'm with you on other white phones. Personally, I like the look and the white on the Samsung phones, such as the Galaxy S II in white.

21. phoenixpr posted on 04 Apr 2012, 18:44 2

Amen to that! Agree!!!

23. lsutigers posted on 04 Apr 2012, 19:07 2

FYI, Sprint is flying with their LTE deployment, they know they are playing catch-up due to the shift from WiMAX to LTE and have expedited their Network Vision / LTE deployment by 2 years. Sprint's currently deployment schedule is expected to bring LTE to all major markets / metro's serving approximately 130 million POP's by year end. Basically the same amount of people serve by WiMAX, just not in the exact same cities. They have mentioned some cities with WiMAX will take a little longer as they already have 4G. Sprint's network will be awesome after the upgrade and those iPhone capacity issues will be a thing of the past.

Check out www.s4gru.com for Sprint 4G LTE / Network Vision updates.