Rumor: Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini gets Qualcomm Snapdragon 400-soc
The Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini smartphone would be equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400-soc. This is apparent from the system information of a benchmark app, of which screenshots have appeared online. The S4 Mini would be presented soon.
The Snapdragon 400 is a soc that many manufacturers use in midrange models; Samsung uses the soc in the Galaxy Express, while HTC uses it, for example, in the Facebook phone First. The soc has two Krait processor cores, which in the S4 Mini would be clocked at 1.6GHz, reports AllAboutSamsung.de. The soc has an Adreno 305 GPU, also from Qualcomm. That combination does not yet exist; all socs with an Adreno 305 GPU have a maximum clock speed of 1.2 or 1GHz.
An earlier rumor indicated that the S4 Mini would get an Exynos soc from Samsung. It could also be that, just like with the Galaxy S4, versions with different processors come out. The Snapdragon version could then be released in the United States and Europe, for example, while the Exynos version is sold in Asia. The S4 Mini would be an Android phone with a 4.3″ screen, with a resolution of 960×540 pixels. The phone would get many of the same functions as the ‘big’ S4.
Samsung would like to present the S4 Mini at its own event on June 20 in London. There will probably also be new tablets and hybrid notebooks with Android and Windows announced. In addition to the S4 Mini, Samsung is said to have two more variants of the Galaxy S4 in the pipeline: the camera-focused S4 Zoom and the waterproof S4 Active.