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A couple of rumours about Samsung’s smartphone future have emerged, claiming that the company’s forthcoming Galaxy S III will arrive powered by a quad-core processor — and a separate 3D Galaxy phone is also on the way.
It’s pretty much guaranteed we’ll see a Galaxy S III announced at next February’s Mobile World Congress event, where the mobile makers of the world show off their new products for the year. What we don’t know, yet, is much about the phone, so Korean site ETNews’ claim the Galaxy S III will arrive with a quad-core processor could well be right.
The site also claims Samsung will have a 3D capable Galaxy phone next year, too, with the “Galaxy 3D” set to arrive from Q2. Given that no one was particularly excited by LG’s Optimus 3D or HTC’s EVO 3D, that’s a rather odd decision. [ETNews via TNW]
I would buy a 3D phone if more content was in 3D, more android games were in the 3D, you could record and mirror display to a 3D tv, and the screen size was above 4 inch. All of this would make a Samsung galaxy 3D phone a better purchase than a 3D Nintendo DS!
I might upgrade to this when my contract on my SII runs out. Thing is, my SII has ran everything I’ve threw at it.. no slowdown etc.. still feels out of the box (albeit with some custom roms).
If the SIII isn’t a massive improvement, I’ll keep my handset and get a rolling SIM only contract.
Safe to say it will be Quad-Core. Not really noteworthy.
However a 3D model would be nice to see (I would personally never use a 3D phone) Currently have the SGS2 and love it, and everything I throw at it is handled easily, also when using custom ROM’s it’s simple to over-clock, were going to need a spectacular phone to cause users to have an early upgrade.
3D ??? Do they know something about the sales of 3D phones that we don’t? My understanding was that the Optimus 3D & Evo 3D were not big sellers.
Yeah agree, at the moment 3D is not big, same as tablets never used to be, it needs someone like Apple to go 3D!
I might have been misinformed, but I think I read somewhere that currently Android doesn’t even fully support dual core? So what’s the point of making it quad core, also wouldn’t this drain your battery really quickly? Or do they use same voltage/power somehow?