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Dmick90 on 15 March 2013
JoeTheBro said:
Old news man.

It actually looks nice. I enjoyed the conference.


It was yesterday...



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Pavolink on 15 March 2013

Nothing that make me want to upgrade. Maybe I'll buy later a Note 2.



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Baalzamon on 15 March 2013

If you really want to know what I'm getting at. The S4 doesn't have a Snapdragon S4 Pro in it. It has a 600 in it.



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disolitude on 15 March 2013
Baalzamon said:
disolitude said:
Baalzamon said:
disolitude said:

I'm not impressed at all. Looks like Samsung is going the apple route of providing incremental updates while keeping the design and feel the same. What we have here is a Galaxy S3s.

1mm Thinner, 1 gram lighter, more megapixulz...innowayshun!

Snapdragon 4 pro and not 600/800, same cheap and plasticky design as last year...i guess they figure they made it and they can ride their success to the bank.

I find it interesting that you cite the lack of a Snapdragon 600, when pretty much the only noticeable difference between the two is 1.9 vs 1.7 GHz clock speed. Same cache, same gpu, same instruction set. It becomes even more ironic when the Snapdragon S4 Pro in the S4 will have...wala...1.9 GHz.

The 800 is a whole different story, but I don't think anybody in any way whatsoever expected the 800 in the S4. I'm sure cost is significantly higher, not to mention it isn't even available yet, which would have delayed the launch of the S4 by several months.

If you don't want a cheap plasticky design, then go buy a DNA, it's a solid phone.

From anandtech - http://www.anandtech.com/print/6754

" This is quad core Krait 300 (as opposed to 200 in MSM8960 or APQ8064) which brings a 15 percent increase in IPC as well as higher clocks (from 1.5 to 1.7 GHz), for about 20–30 percent higher overall CPU performance."

APQ8064 is S4 Pro.

The difference isn't huge (10-15% manye) but it's important to note that HTC One is getting 12000+ on quadrant while Galaxy S4 is going to get ~8000 if it's in line with current S4 Pro scores.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/HTC-One-with-its-Snapdragon-600-blasts-away-through-benchmarks_id39973

You do realize that this (supposed) S4 Pro has 1.9 GHz instead of the max clock on any other S4 Pro of 1.7 GHz, as well as DDR3 memory instead of the DDR2, right? Because those are the major differences between the S4 Pro and the 600. The only other difference (which based on how different this processor already is from the S4 Pro, we aren't really sure if this is still the case) is the increased inter-process communication in the 600.

Yep I did see that. We will see how much DDR3 impacts performance, but its most likely to be all GPU related. CPU on these devices can't even keep up with DDR2 ram.

As far as 1.9 Ghz vs 1.7, It really won't make a big difference. Most Android apps are single core with some maybe being 2 core optimized. S600 has a faster single core per cycle operation at same clock speed so for majority of apps

Benchmarks will tell I guess but I am fairly confident HTC One will perform faster. Sony Xperia Z has the same S4 Pro and every review has stated its noticably slower than HTC One. We ned to see is the 0.2 Ghz more and DDR3 ram make up the performance gap. 



disolitude on 15 March 2013
Baalzamon said:
If you really want to know what I'm getting at. The S4 doesn't have a Snapdragon S4 Pro in it. It has a 600 in it.


If it does, that's not what was initially reported. 



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Baalzamon on 15 March 2013

You've seen the pre-release antutu benchmarks, right? Cause they are just as high or higher than the HTC One



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disolitude on 15 March 2013
Baalzamon said:
You've seen the pre-release antutu benchmarks, right? Cause they are just as high or higher than the HTC One


Yes, but those leaked before the phone was shown. You could be right and they both are using Snapdragon 600, in which case The Verge and Engadget need to write their articles better. 



Dmick90 on 15 March 2013
MoHasanie said:
I watched the press conference, and thought it was joke. It was pretty bad, and they hardly told us much about its specs and features.
Also, this phone is just a bigger version of the S3. They should have made a brand new design. Also, the features aren't that special in this phone, and will probably be outdone by some other phone makers in a few months.


I was expecting a new design too. I think it's funny how Samsung is trying to be Apple now with the way they present the Galaxy S4.

Why do people need a phone that big? 5 inches really? At some point they have to stop increasing the screen size, because people have to be able to fit it in their pockets. I'll stick with the iPhone thanks, I don't need that piece of junk. iPhone is the perfect size, it fits just right in my hands and it is lightweight.



theARTIST0017 on 15 March 2013

I guess I'm the only one who likes the S4.



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disolitude on 15 March 2013

Regardless though... Here is an article which kind of explains what I am on about with my posts here.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/15/samsung-htc-design-marketing-battle/