Last year with the Galaxy S3 the us version came with a dual core processor. International version had quad. We were told because the quad core doesn't work with LTE.
Then the Korean market gets the phone and guess what? LTE works and they also got the 2 gb ram. The ONLY version that should have been released.
Now the international version gets 8 CORES! Now we get 4.
Why didn't they give us the Octacore?
sent from the best smart phone (not phablet) on the worst network- the Galaxy S3 unfortunately on T-Mobile
It's my understanding, samsung was suffering a shortage of lte chips to supply all world markets with the exynos4 and had to use qualcomms chip, as it has all modems, radios and whatnot built in. Also it was the only other comparable processor available for samsung to meet the needs of the U.S. market.
As far as the 8 cores thingy goes, the exynos5 octa is actually 2 quad cores on 1 chip, one for horse power and the other for efficiency when doing lighter tasks. Not sure what the reason for the U.S. not getting it this time is. My guess is one of 2 things, a shortage of lte chips again or they simply can't pop enough exynos5 chips off the die to meet the U.S. launch date. This could also be true for the exynos4, it showed up later in 2012 with the note2 and the demand for the note2 was far smaller than the s3.
Don't be too upset just yet, as we know next nothing of how it will hold up against the qualcomm 600. I would bet on a bit better battery life in the least, with similar performance overall.
Keep that shotgun on safety till we know they skimped.
There will be plenty of people reviewing the two.
My question to those who would rather have the exynos5 over the qualcomm. Would you rather wait another 3 or so months after launch or just take the qualcomm chip to get it sooner?