Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' spied in benchmark results

Samsung may be doing an Apple. Since it isn't releasing the Galaxy S III at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show later this month, how about a tweaked version of its current flagship instead? Enter - maybe - a reference to the Galaxy S II Plus, seemingly keyed into the An3DBenchXL benchmark app by Samsung itself. All we can …

[fLaMePrOoF]

No, sorry, but this is bollocks not worthy of the screen inches.

[Miek]

Well, my Samsung Galaxy S2 has android 2.3.5 installed (Samsung not Cyanogen). I doubt an updated handset will be at an older android revision that it's predecessor.

[uhuznaa]

Strange kind of "+"

Still 800x480 on 4.3", still no Android 4.0...

I would say this is just another angle from which to spray subtly different models all over the market. Samsung has always been very good at that.

[James O'Brien]

They could do it but

Apple would sue them due to that being their preferred business model.

[tmTM]

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The current CPU already happily overclocks to 1.5Ghz.

[AdamWill]

never mind that

They've already released several SII variants with *stock* clocks of 1.5GHz. And larger screens (4.5" and 4.7").

This whole article reads like it was written by someone who isn't aware there are already about seven bajillion 'Galaxy S II' phones, some very different from others. (My husband's 'Galaxy S II' has more in common, hardware-wise, with my MyTouch 4G Slide than most other 'GSII' variants). Which I suppose is understandable if you're in Europe, where you mostly just get the actual original model. But if you're in NA, it's a rather different story. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II

for all the gory details.

[Stefing]

No

The test allows you to modify the default model when submitting results.

Non story.

[AdamWill]

the story...

you didn't read very carefully: the story claims this result was submitted by Samsung itself.

[republic84]

My Galaxy S2 already beats/matches most of those specs stock. The US T-Mobile version came with a 4.52" screen, 1.5ghz dual core processor and I'm currently on android 2.3.6 and has HSPA+ so I average 14-19mb/s download and 2-4mb/s upload. Although I didn't make a note of what the article said the bench was, my quadrant score averages 3350 or higher. The other two US carriers have a slower smaller version that closer matches the European/world version. But the Samsung 1.2ghz exynos processor is just as fast as the 1.5ghz snapdragon, so other than screen size they are all the same. I have a feeling the graphic here was falsely created just to make a story unless they are putting an LTE radio in it which would only slow it down and shorten battery life.

[AdamWill]

there's already...

...an LTE model. The SGH-I727, branded 'Skyrocket' on AT&T and "Galaxy S II LTE" on Rogers in Canada. The Rogers variant is the 'SGH-I727R' but I don't think there's actually any difference beyond the carrier name stamped on the case.