News - Samsung Galaxy S4: no octa-core Exynos for the UK

[HEXUS]

But the 1.9GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 version is pretty nippy.

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[Obscurity]

I enjoy seeing the iPhone have such sucky scores compared to other phones of lesser price.
However I was looking forward to experiencing an 8 core phone

[aeonf242]

More "placebo tech effect".....I want 8 cores...duuno why, but it's a bigger number so has to be better :-)
Waiting for the cries of "We're being ripped off, so unfair, etc :-)"

[HalloweenJack]

placing bets that `octo core` wont get LTE....

[Kushan]

I want LTE more than I want 8 cores.

[crossy]

I want LTE more than I want 8 cores.

I think I can quite happily live without either at the moment. LTE is a waste of time unless you live in one of the few cities that have it at the moment, and octacore is merely bragging rights.

[Jingee]

Waiting for the cries of "We're being ripped off, so unfair, etc :-)"

WE'RE BEING RIPPED OFF! SO UNFAIR! THEY TOOK OUR JOBS! etc.

[NortyOne]

More "placebo tech effect".....I want 8 cores...duuno why, but it's a bigger number so has to be better :-)
Waiting for the cries of "We're being ripped off, so unfair, etc :-)"

Totally agree. To be honest i think Samsung have got this spot on really. the UK are all about performance lines and i think the 1.9Ghz quad will top the benches. Snappers are great cores. The Octo is most likely not going to be a true 8 core device, but a 4 and 4. It will use the lower four for normal everyday stuff and trigger the more powerful cores only for bigger tasks. in fact i'd go out on a limb and say the us version wont beat the HTC one. place your bets....

[idris]

I want:
S4 internals in a HTC One chassis!
WITH MiSD slot!

(I can live without having a replaceable battery as it's 2300mAh is good enough for me)

;-P

[avi8tor]

Whats stopping me buying this phone off ebay from a US phone importer? I do all the time with cameras, tablets and my current phone. Only issue is I need a UK plug converter.

[watercooled]

The US version uses the Qualcomm SoC too.

It could be capacity related i.e. Samsung might not be capable of producing every phone with an Exynos, and/or ensuring redundancy. I'm also wondering if the Exynos version will lack LTE though, but it would be a bit strange considering Korea and Japan aren't included in the Snapdragon markets?

Performance/battery life comparisons should be interesting.

[Rob_B]

Meh - The 'octo core' has technically got 8 cores but they're not all the same, so probably no big deal.

Ignoring the 4 low power cores (as surely the SD 600 will downclock/turn off cores in low power mode anyway so do we know if battery life/performance in a low power state is even going to be different between the 2 versions?..) are the 4 x snapdragon 600s @ 1.9Ghz going to be hugely slower than the 4 x 1.6Ghz Exynos ? quick google shows no definitive benchies other than exynos quad vs snapdraon but no low power core comparison.

Oh and 2 other things...

1) iPhone insult in the first reply, wow, that's original and relevant to the article.

2) It is pronounced 'theytukuurrjerrrrbs'

[watercooled]

What?

[Brewster0101]

This is somewhat outdated already.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/5051...ssor-countries

The UK could still see the octocore device.

[kingpotnoodle]

So why can't Samsung serve all markets with Octa when they can with other Exynos chips (i.e. Note II is LTE capable and uses Exynos in UK doesn't it?). Surely it can't be fab capacity? This is Samsung after all, they've surely got enough fab capacity to churn out their own chips, and surely that's better than buying them in from Qualcomm.

Seems like a bit of a fail really that they can't manage a phone with just the one type of CPU in all markets, especially when that CPU is one of the headline features.

Edit: The Octa SKUs don't do LTE? Can't Samsung make LTE work with their latest and greatest CPU? That seems also a bit of a fail.

[99x]

SGX544MP3 >>>>> Adreno 320

The CPU in the Snapdragon 600 may be faster than the iphone 5's, but the GPU is not.

I wouldn't mind so much getting the Snapdragon 600 if it was paired with the 544MP3.