Samsung Galaxy S III variant for Korea may be the world's first quad-core LTE smartphone

2. Mitchel (Posts: 228; Member since: 25 May 2012)

Because it's their beloved country.. They don't want LG to dominate there.. And some trivia here, they are the largest company on South Korea & their former CEO is the richest man on their country too.. lol

8. remixfa (Posts: 14604; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)

I/O is a junk meter at this point. Its a number thats easily fluffed and has been for a while.

18. Ubi2447 (Posts: 131; Member since: 14 Feb 2012)

Never gunna happen. Imagine that drama from people after the phone has already been pushed back and back and then had another version sold prior to this. People would be rioting that they got a dual core but the guys a week later got a quad. It would fuel peoples notion that Verizon is money grubbing and they would say "Oh here we go again. It's the Razr all over again... 'The Samsung Galaxy S3 Maxx!' blaw blaw"

The best thing to hope for at this point is for Samsung to put it in the US variant of the Galaxy Note 2 and that Verizon will get it. It's only a few months away so we'll wait and see.

11. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1543; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)

It's not the quad core that is not working.
LTE radios in US are different than in Korea or Europe. So in order to make it work in the US you need to add a second chip for LTE, which in order causes a lower battery life (as you need two different chips, one for CPU and one for radio). In order to avoid that they normally use the Qualcomm ones that have the CPU and the LTE (US) radios integrated and use a lot less battery.
Apart from that some of those LTE radios chips are built in 45 nm and not precisely efficient, which has caused that the first LTE models in the US were battery hoggers. They are trying to avoid the same mistake.
But saying that the S4 performs as the Exynos Quad, well... repeating a lie as it were a Mantra doesn't make it more true. Exynos Quad is around 30 to 40% better performer both in CPU and GPU.

13. nnaatthhaannx2 (Posts: 820; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)

Okey dokie.

Thanks man.

You get cookie.

19. Ubi2447 (Posts: 131; Member since: 14 Feb 2012)

It's also important to note that a Quad core LTE chip is not very high on most companies's priority list (well, maybe higher now than a year ago due to demand) because 2 of the biggest markets for smartphones is the EU and Asia, which doesn't have nearly as wide of LTE coverage and therefore very little demand for a LTE chip. LTE is very new and often none existent in much these markets so there's not much point in devoting a bunch of research, time and money to build a new chip which will only be sold in a couple markets around the world. It makes sense to provide for the majority first. It's a smarter financial choice to build one or two chips that will make everyone (world wide) happy.

I do look forward to seeing what becomes of these. Maybe we'll see this chip in the Galaxy Note 2.

16. remixfa (Posts: 14604; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)

not true at all. once Android was optimized for multiple cores with Android 3.0 and 4.0, it can take nearly every variation of multiple cores. As long as the hardware manufacturer updates a few lines of codes, Android can handle the extra cores with ease.

17. SmartPhoneStream (Posts: 162; Member since: 21 Jun 2012)

what i mean is that many of the games in the Google Plays tore aren't optimized for Quad core and even dual core, while Android itself can handle Quad Core few games can. and most games that can are made for Tegra 3 and Tegra 2 (Tegra Zone) And Battery Life is very important to me as i'm not always near an outlet to charge my phone so that's why i would choose the Snapdragon version.

20. ph00ny (Posts: 1471; Member since: 26 May 2011)

Games are optimized for GPU not SoC and many of these SoCs even in their dual core formats have had multiple GPU cores

Did you know that you can play tegra optimized games even with AA turned on with a simple plugin that translates tegra "optimized" code into standard openGL?