Sunday, March 17, 2013

Galaxy S4 Snapdragon 600 to Europe, Exynos 5 U.S., or not?

Galaxy S4
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has officially announced two days ago in New York, but during this great show was not entirely clear what exactly was with the chipset used. Also, there was some confusion on the website of Samsung and staff did not much clarity. There is now more clear about the chipset!

Samsung Galaxy S4
The Samsung Galaxy S4 features a 5 Exynos chipset Snapdragon or 600, depending on the region and also has access to 2GB of RAM. Previously it was the site of Samsung (link from press release) to read that or Snapdragon S4 Pro, or 5-Exynos chipset would be later revealed that no Snapdragon S4 Pro, but a Snapdragon 600. After it was clarified, the question remained, of course, what version comes to the Netherlands and Belgium?

The standard rule is, America gets the Snapdragon 600, the rest a 5-Exynos chipset.
However, the countries where 4G is available will first Snapdragon 600 version get and later, when the 5-Exynos chip is ready, the octa-core version. In summary, the Galaxy S4 will be launched with a Snapdragon chipset 600 in the Netherlands and Belgium, we also find in the HTC One, then the Galaxy S4 equipped with a 5-Exynos chipset. When this will be, is not known.

Further, the Samsung Galaxy S4 a 5-inch full HD, Super AMOLED screen with a whopping 441 pixels per inch. Storage capacity 16, 32 or 64 GB available, may be expanded with a microSD card. At the back we find a 13 megapixel camera, a front 2 megapixel cameras. Furthermore, this new --running Android 4.2.2 with TouchWiz, Samsung's own GUI. Here are our first impressions of the Samsung Galaxy S4 already read back.

Availability
The Galaxy S4 will be available from the end of April in the Dutch and Belgian shops are in the colors white and black. The suggested retail price is € 699 and the device is already pre-order through various retailers, possibly in combination with a subscription.

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