Prospective Samsung Galaxy S4 owners should not care whether the handset has a quad-core or octa-core processor, according to the company's mobile boss J.K. Shin.
Samsung affronted European and US-based smartphone fans when it announced they would only get a 1.9GHz quad-core version of the Galaxy S4 handset, rather than the new Exynos 5 octa-core processor.
However, despite the 8-core variant wiping the floor with the quad-core Snapdragon device in recent benchmarking tests, Samsung Mobile CEO Shin said most folks on the street won't notice a difference.
Shin informed CNET that the average customer experience would not be affected as Samsung had chosen an alternative chipset which would offer a similar consumer experience.
It's a supply issue
Shin also shed light on why different versions of the devices would be launching with different processing units.
Speculation had suggested a lack of 4G support in the Exynos 5 technology - which has since been rectified - was the reason for its exclusion in the UK and US models.
However, Shin says its simply a supply issue: "We use multiple different sources It's a sourcing issue," he told CNET.
Would you be more likely to buy a Samsung Galaxy S4 if it had the octa-core processor on board in your region? Or is Shin right? Let us know in the comments section below.
Source : techradar[dot]com
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