UK-bound Samsung Galaxy S 4 gets benchmarked, specs revealed

6. tech2 posted on 13 Mar 2013, 04:43 14

Tegra 4 - Power Hog.

The idea behind Octa cores is not to triumph benchmarks but to yield better battery life. Quite frankly even Snapdragon S4 enough to get good performance yields in day to day life !

30. CanYouSeeTheLight posted on 13 Mar 2013, 08:42 3

WOW, in 2012 and 2011 Exynos was "the fastest chip in the world!!11!!1! It's the best on benchmarks" according to Samsung fans, now it is to yield better battery, seriously guys you are starting to get like Apple fans.

33. Taters posted on 13 Mar 2013, 09:41 1

Of course you choose to ignore the facts like a typical Samsung hater. The Tegra 4 is rumored to be a tablet beats like the power hungry A6X and Exynos 5 dual. If you want to compare cell phone processors, compare the Octa with the Tegra 4i, the really gimped out version of the Tegra 4 that they designed for small cell phone batteries.

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35. Taters posted on 13 Mar 2013, 09:47 2

You are a more of a delusional HTC fanboy than I thought.

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31. AamirSIII (banned) posted on 13 Mar 2013, 09:14 0

its not that big of a deal to be power hog! and its just a bubble made by the competitors thats tegra 4 is power hog! if u want to have ur mobile's battery last like million days go get a nokia 3310... its 2013! its power age and i want raw power! rarrrrrrrrrrrrr

34. Taters posted on 13 Mar 2013, 09:46 0

It's not a bubble. A15 doesn't work well for cellphones without the big little configuration. And the one power saving core in the Tegra 4 wasn't enough, hence the tegrav4i.

If power didn't matter the Exynos Octa and Tegra 4i wouldnt exist. The Exynos woukd be blazing the quad A15 at all times and crush every benchmark.

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7. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 13 Mar 2013, 04:43 3

You are so gullible. What makes you think Nvidia didnt apply some extreme form of cooling and overclocking? Its only the final product that counts

15. zaryab_hussain77 posted on 13 Mar 2013, 05:14 7

IDK whether Tommorow we'll be surprised or disappointed :/

23. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 13 Mar 2013, 06:13 1

Well, typical Nvidia, they said the same thing when the Tegra 3 was under development, That is why I dont trust them , plus you have to wonder why handset makers are reluctant to get the Tegra 4 chip which means, it wasn't designed for battery efficiency. You can't just brag on how fast your chip runs on Antitu while disregarding the rest, Nvidia thinks thay can lure customers that way...

29. xperiaDROID (limited) 6 days ago posted on 13 Mar 2013, 06:56 0

Yeah, I hope we will not be disappointed.

9. GALAXY-STORM posted on 13 Mar 2013, 04:53 7

In case if you don't know there is a tweak in which your 64gb sd card can be used as internal memory while switching the phone'sinternal memory to become an sd card. This requires rooting and stuffs and works in sgs3 and sgn2.
You can find it in xda-developers.com.

11. mariosraptor posted on 13 Mar 2013, 05:01 4

ofcourse i know. i want it out of the box to be superior.
the trick as you say from Mattiasdj is great but have a lot of drawbacks.
in case you are wondering the internal memory has a lot better R/W speeds than the external.

13. spideyhead256 posted on 13 Mar 2013, 05:09 7

yeah but i'm sure alot of us don't wanna root our phones.

14. mariosraptor posted on 13 Mar 2013, 05:13 2

Amen brother

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16. TROLL (limited) 5 days ago posted on 13 Mar 2013, 05:20 2

Also if 2GB of RAM is not enough there's a software called "RAM EXPANDER" in play store which if you have a 16, 32 GB memory card class 10, that it lets you interchange the memory of you're to the phone memory, so this will turn you're phone giving up to 6gb of RAM. Like galaxy storm said Rooting is required.
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18. mariosraptor posted on 13 Mar 2013, 05:29 2

i am sure 2gigs of ram are more than enough. but the first issue is getting dissappointing.
what dissapint me also is Samsung's lying policy about all the wonderful accessories that eill go along with your device, such as wireless charging kit for the S3 and Note2 but those also never appeared in the market.
do not get me wrong i always have bought Samsung especially because of their unlocked BL and great support @ XDA, but this is getting quite boring on never delivering on their promises.
Atleast other manufacturers deliver what they promise. Peace

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39. _PHug_ posted on 13 Mar 2013, 10:58 0

One of the many reasons that
I WILL NEVER BUY A PHONE WITHOUT SD EXPANSION!

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24. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 13 Mar 2013, 06:24 0

I tried that tweak and it messed up the camera function....somehow I dont recommend tweaking your device in order to accommodate more storage.

26. TylerGrunter posted on 13 Mar 2013, 06:45 1

Right? That's the same I thought when reading the article.
UK is getting the Snapdragon 600, both the 1.9 GHz in the clock of the CPU (Exynos octac uses 1.8) and the GPU Adreno 320 says that.
Nick, please correct that "presumably the Exynos 5 Octa"!

21. TROLL (limited) 5 days ago posted on 13 Mar 2013, 05:45 0

600 is just an overclocked CPU giving an extra 200Mhz, 1.7 Ghz

27. TylerGrunter posted on 13 Mar 2013, 06:46 1

In this case yes: both the 1.9 GHz in the clock of the CPU (Exynos octac uses 1.8) and the GPU Adreno 320 confirms that.

38. PhoneArenaUser posted on 13 Mar 2013, 10:28 0

LCD is good news!