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Samsung teases Exynos news for CES 2014

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

Samsung is hoping to be one of the early Android OEMs making the move to 64-bit devices, as it works to release hardware running 64-bit versions of the company’s Exynos SoCs. We’ve been talking about these chips first finding their way into commercial hardware as we start moving into 2014, but just when will that be? The question is back on our mind this evening as we see Samsung tease some sort of Exynos announcement for the CES. The thing is – will this necessarily be about 64-bit chips? Samsung’s tweet and ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 063: Apple soars, BlackBerry plummets, and HTC & Beats divorce

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Michael Fisher

The mobile space is full of profound juxtapositions this week as Apple can’t make enough iPhones to meet demand, while BlackBerry can’t keep its head above water long enough to sell existing stock. Meanwhile, Microsoft announces its second round of Surface products, while soon to be-acquired hardware maker Nokia (allegedly) prepares its own Windows tablet – and the horrible marriage of smartphone maker HTC and audio baron Beats finally, mercifully, dissolves. That’s the big news for the week ending September 27, 2013, and all of it -plus iOS 7 literally making ...

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Exynos 5 Octa software update tipped to bring HMP performance

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

This summer, we’ve already seen Samsung introduce a refreshed Exynos 5 Octa, the 5420, with a slightly higher clock speed and a new GPU. We also heard a rumor about another improvement coming to Samsung’s chip, with the suggestion we’d be seeing some variant using all of its big.LITTLE cores at once in heterogeneous multi-processing mode. Sure enough, Samsung confirmed this development yesterday, announcing that an HMP solution would become ...

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Samsung could be making a true eight-cores-at-once Exynos

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

We only just heard from Samsung that it had sent its Exynos 5 Octa SoC, one of the chips powering this year’s Galaxy S 4, back to the drawing board in order to beef it up with a new GPU and other enhancements. This new component is the one we expect to see in upcoming Samsung flagships like the Galaxy Note III, but could Samsung already be at work to outdo even this new Exynos? A new rumor suggests that the company is crafting an octa-core Exynos that doesn’t ...

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Samsung boosts GPU performance in new Exnos 5 Octa

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

Last week, we heard Samsung announce that it was planning to reveal a new version of its Exynos 5 Octa SoC. So far, we’ve seen what the original Octa can do in the Galaxy S 4, and were curious to learn what improvements might push Samsung to come out with a new revision this early in the chip’s short life. Well, today the manufacturer has gone ahead and made this new SoC official, announcing the Exynos 5 Octa 5420. For those of you keeping track, the Exynos 5 Octa ...

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Samsung teases improved Exynos 5 Octa

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

Back at the CES in January, Samsung unveiled the next generation of its SoCs, announcing the Exynos 5 Octa. Since then, though, the chip has kept a seriously low profile, so far only popping up in the Galaxy S 4, and even then not for every hardware variant. We expected to see the same chip turn up in future devices like the Galaxy Note III, but now it’s sounding like that won’t quite happen. At least, while ...

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Why Isn’t the Exynos 5 Octa Operating at Peak Efficency?

Posted on May 2, 2013 by admin

With the launch of the (international) Galaxy S 4, Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa SoC and its two banks of four cores is now a reality. There’s a whole lot of potential in that advanced silicon, and we’ve heard promises of next-gen performance alongside some appreciable power savings. Why is it, then, that the Exysos 5 Octa in this phone isn’t managing its cores in the most optimized fashion? There’s more than one way to choose which cores are running what in a ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 042: HTC One-and-a-Half, Galaxy S 4 Octa, & Super-Cheap Windows Phones (Podcast)

Posted on May 1, 2013 by admin

Not all of us have read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so not all of us were exactly qualified to make the lame joke that kicks off this week’s podcast. But we made it, and we stand behind it. Because as hundreds of fifth-rate “manufacturers” well know, sometimes you just have to fake it. But we’re not talking about secondhand knockoff products in this episode of the Weekly. Rather, we get serious about octa-core comparisons, the till-recently-mythical HTC M4, the insanely cheap new Lumia out of Finland, and just how tired we are or aren’t of the ...

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Octa VS Quad: Galaxy S 4 Snapdragon vs Galaxy S 4 Exynos (Video)

Posted on April 30, 2013 by admin

The Galaxy S 4. It’s a name that commands respect: one that strikes fear into the hearts of other smartphones, and incites envy in the eyes of would-be buyers. As our full review reinforces, it’s a name that represents one of the best Android smartphones you can buy today. But the Galaxy S 4 isn’t just one phone: it’s a device family comprised of many globally-specific variants. The SPH-L720 we reviewed last week was built especially for the American carrier Sprint, and while ...

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OCTA UNBOX: Exynos-Edition Galaxy S 4 Unboxing and First Boot (Video)

Posted on April 27, 2013 by admin

Yes, yes: we know the official English-language prefix for “eight” is “octo,” but you have to agree that octa just sounds -and looks- a whole lot better. And based on Samsung’s choice of spelling on the box that just rolled into our office, the company agrees with us. Besides, admit it: after a week spent watching us dissect the quad-core American variant of the Galaxy S 4, you’re hankering for a peek at its Exynos-powered eight-core sibling, no matter how we spell ...

Samsung Confirms Exynos 5 Octa Supports 20 LTE Bands; So Why a Snapdragon in the LTE GS4?

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

Sometimes there are good technical reasons for why one version of a smartphone runs one chipset, and another version of the very same phone is powered by different silicon. A lot of times, that has to do with wireless connectivity, and especially with the rise of LTE over the past few years, that could mean that LTE-supporting hardware had to be put together with alternate chipsets. You might think that was the same case with the Galaxy S 4 and the Exynos 5 Octa, since the LTE version of the phone, model GT-I9505, runs a ...

Samsung Galaxy S IV Rumors Return to SoC Choice

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

Wouldn’t it figure; we just get done giving you a summary of what to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy S IV when a new rumors comes our way, causing us to (once again) question what Samsung’s preparing. Like so many of the phone’s rumors lately, this one is looking at the choice of SoC Samsung uses in these handsets, and attempts to throw Exynos chips back in the running. To recap, at first everyone was talking about the GS4 being powered by Exynos chips, and the Exynos 5 Octa in specific. Then we ...

The Pocketnow Weekly Podcast, Episode 030

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Michael Fisher

Even if it takes six Skype calls to make a podcast happen, we’re gonna do it for you folks, because that’s just the kind of guys we are. And it’s a good thing, too; while the news cycle has calmed down somewhat in the wake of last week’s big BlackBerry event, there’s still plenty to talk about from the worlds of Android and Windows Phone, from rumors and speculation to … well, no, just rumors and speculation, really. But it’s scintillating stuff, especially if you’re into things named “M7″ and “Nokia Tablet.” All that, ...

Samsung Exynos 5 Octa Close-Up Has Us Salivating a Little

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

There are plenty of next-generation SoCs on the horizon, from NVIDIA’s Tegra 4, to Huawei’s K3V3, to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800. While they’ve all got their own reasons why we should look forward to them, Samsung may have one of the most eagerly-anticipated chips of them all, its Exynos 5 Octa. After all, even if it’s not crunching numbers with all eight cores at once ...