While we are still waiting for the South Korean manufacturer Samsung to reveal the official date for the update of the Samsung Galaxy S2 to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), the trickle of information continues about the next generation of the Asian multinational's leading mobile: the Samsung Galaxy S3.
Through the site specialized in news of this firm, Sammy Hub, we have learned that system information dedicated to the hardware that the next Samsung flagship could carry has been uncovered. It has been on the Kernel Git page where the existence of the new Samsung Exynos 4412 processor has been revealed, a chip that has the peculiarity of having four cores as guarantors of the power of this unit.
The new Exynos, a processor based on ARM Cortex A9 architecture, represents the renewal of the processor that currently powers the first range of the Samsung Galaxy S2. It should be remembered that there is a version of this device that does not carry the Exynos, or Samsung Orion, but is fed by an NVIDIA chip, specifically, the Tegra 2, also based on a dual-core heart, although at a power of a GHz, compared to 1.2 GHz provided by the native unit of the Seoul- based firm.
On the other hand, the new quad-core processor of the supposed Samsung Galaxy S3 would operate at a speed of 1.5 GHz, further expanding the power compared to its predecessor described above. And as if that were not enough, following the line of this manufacturer, other sections of the technical profile of the device would also gain muscle. This is the case of RAM, which would grow to 1.5 GB, according to the Android and Me site .
Among the improvements that the new processor of the Samsung Galaxy S3 will bring with it would be, in addition to a consequent increase in power, a 50 percent increase in graphics performance, in addition to greater efficiency in energy consumption, presenting up to 30 percent. percent less battery consumption than the previous generation.