First Samsung Galaxy S III Specs & Features Unveiled? [Samsung Believed to Work on a Quad-Core Exynos Chip for Next-gen Galaxy S Flagship Android Smartphone]

Posted on TFTS by Chris Smith on Monday, 21. November 2011 under: Mobile/Cell Phones

After the Galaxy Nexus, which is currently taking its time to arrive in various markets, Samsung’s next flagship Android smartphone is most likely going to be the Galaxy S III, the third handset in the series, which is expected to be officially announced at MWC 2012 in Barcelona, Spain.

And while it may be too early to look at leaked images showing the upcoming device, there’s already speculation of one important hardware component of the upcoming Galaxy S III, its processor. Apparently PocketNow discovered a potential processor candidate for the handset, the Exynos 4412.

Samsung already announced the Exynos 4212 as a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 clocked at 1.5GHz. That processor was rumored last month to power the Galaxy S III. But it now looks like a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 Exynos 4412 processor, also clocked at 1.5GHz, has been found on the Kernel Git page. And that’s the SoC that the next Galaxy S would use.

NVIDIA unveiled a few weeks ago its own quad-core mobile platform, the Tegra 3 SoC that will be used by various Android smartphones and tablets in the following months. Therefore we’re certainly not surprised to hear that Samsung is working on its own quad-core processor that would equip some of its own devices in 2012.

In addition to last month’s unconfirmed leak, other specs and features for the Galaxy S III are not available at this time, but we can only expect the device to sport some impressive hardware, which is a characteristic for the Android environment. A brand new Android flagship handset is right around the corner in most cases, and manufacturers are always trying to beat the competition, and their own previous devices, with better and better specs. That’s why we expect the Galaxy S III to be better than its predecessor, the Galaxy S II, but also than the Galaxy Nexus, Google’s third Nexus-branded smartphone.

Do we already need quad-core processors inside our smartphones and tablets? Of course that question has been answered by NVIDIA and there’s no going back. Since the company already launched its Kal-El platform, it’s only logical to see certain manufacturers want to use it in future handsets and tablets. And their competitors will not afford to push out flagship devices powered by single-core or dual-core CPUs, will they?

Anyone already interested in the Samsung Galaxy S III?

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