Technology analyst group UBM TechInsights has today announced its discovery that the Samsung Wave S8500 will have have exactly the same ARM Core processor as the iPad.
The shared processor is the 1GHz ARM Cortex A8. This Core is based on the ARMv7 architecture and is aimed at power-optimised mobile devices that need to operate in less than 300mW.
“By investigating the Samsung S5PC110A01 application processor and comparing it to the A4 application processor found in the Apple iPad using our specialized lab techniques, we were able to confirm that not only is Samsung the manufacturer of both application processors, but both application processors feature the same 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 core manufactured using a 45-nanometer low-power fabrication process,” said Young Choi, Senior Manager of the Technical Intelligence Group.
Clearly the success of the iPad has Samsung rushing to ride on its coat-tails. Not only is it enploying the Cortex A8 in its Wave S8500, but UBM TechInsights believes Samsung will also use it in the Android-based Galaxy S smartphone. If this is true then it may also be stuffing it into the recently announced Galaxy Tab, Samsung's direct rival to the iPad. That would mean that its smartphones are just as powerful as its tablets, however, which may not sit well with consumers looking for something portable, but with a bit more punch than a mobile.
UBM TechInsights found that Samsung maintained its dominant position in the application processor market in recession-ridden 2009 and that it will continue to assert its dominance in the years to come with current and new application processor models.
Now.
Stop.
And imagine 6 months after you bought the Galaxy. You’re angry. You been lied to. The promised updates never come. There are real problems just using the phone. Forums like this fill with users like you, angry, dumping the phone, and comparing how little the can get for it on craigslist. $150? If you’re lucky.
You’ll never buy a Samsung product again. Samsung has hired a PR firm to try to hide the real problems you and thousands of others are having with the phone.
This is real.
Do some research on the Samsung Behold II. This is Samsung’s business model.
1) Shiny new phone with promised updates
2) Wait… there’s no money in supporting a phone, only in selling new ones.
3) Refuse promised updates on under plainly false pretenses.
4) Go to step 1.
5) Profit.
Please, do not buy this or any other Samsung phone. HTC and Apple make nice phones that they support. Tell your friends.
I’m just a regular guy who fell for their lies. Don’t be me, 6 months from now, in a forum, writing this same message.
Your scenario is the same for any other phone on the market. After 6 months, any phone can be had on Craigslist for $150 no matter how much it costs to start with.
Samsung's phone have one feature I've personally not seen any any of the HTC or iPhones I've ever used. Samsung's best feature is it's call quality. In all but one Samsung phone I've used, they all have had 10 times better call quality, better voice sound and much better reception than any HTC or iPhone ever made.
You are obviously under some kind of spell. Stop before you make more mistakes.
What is not clear to me is, are they saying that the Chips are the same with just the external packaging being different. Or that they both use Arm Cortex A8 based cores.
If it is the later ie they both use Arm Cortex A8 core, then I dont think it is that difficult for anyone to guess that. Rather Arm Cortex A8 is the core in most of the high end Smart phones for some time now, and will be the case for may be another 6 months or so, till SOCs with A9 core come out. Even N900, Motorola Droid, even iPhone 3GS etc use the same core at a lower clock. Obviously the SOC there could be some small changes (say in iPhone 3GS compared to other 2 which I mentioned). Even Snapdragon should be very similar to Cortex A8 (if not the same), havent checked any docs yet, but less likely to be different.
It's not the same processor.
Same cores =/= same processor.
Apple made some custom tweaks that made the Snapdragon look like a Pentium 4