Snapdragon 600
Here’s yet another reason Americans might want to hold off on the Samsung Galaxy S4: a potential software update could boost performance by 10 percent, but only on Exynos 5 Octa variants.
Popular Android ROM CyanogenMod 10.1 has been successfully ported to the T-Mobile Snapdragon 600 Samsung Galaxy S4.
We already know that the United States and most of Europe will be getting a version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 with a Snapdragon 600 processor. But new benchmarks definitively show the Exynos 5 variant is the fastest mobile device on the planet.
Last week, a leaked list showed that the Samsung Galaxy S4 would be released in countries with LTE networks featuring a 1.9 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor.
Yet another European country will be getting the version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 with a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, not the Exynos 5 Octa eight-core processor.
We’ve known for a while that the Samsung Galaxy S4 will come in two varieties, each with a different processor, just like the Galaxy S III.