Samsung Prepping Galaxy S II Variant With OMAP4?
Well, this is odd. We knew Samsung considered going with other chipsets for Galaxy S II variants in certain regions (namely, NVIDIA’s dual-core Tegra 2) but we never imagined they’d ever work with Texas Instruments for the flagship device. According to some leaked specs for a GT-i9101 found on Samsung Singapore’s Facebook page, though, they could be doing just that.
It would be TI’s OMAP4430 processor, a dual-core beast. ARM’s Cortex A-9 processor provides juice at 1GHz per core alongside a PowerVR SGX540 GPU clocked at 300MHz, which is theoretically supposed to provide 50% more speed over the original (which was found in the original Samsung Galaxy S).
This thing may not see the light of day outside of just a few obscure regions, but it’ll be interesting to see how all these different chipsets stack up against Exynos. [via GSM Arena]