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Samsung introduces the Orion: a dual-core CPU that blows the Hummingbird out of the water
September 7, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson
Android, Android News, Android Phones, Samsung
Samsung’s Hummingbird chipset is able to process a whopping 90 million triangles per second, three times more than the iPhone 3GS, and it’s still the fastest Cortex-A8 CPU available for mobile devices.
Now Samsung is trying to outdo itself and already render the relatively new Hummingbird obsolete with the introduction of the Orion: a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with “5 times the 3D graphics performance over the previous processor generation from Samsung.”
The Orion will feature an embedded GPS, 1080p video encoding as well as decoding at 30fps, a native triple display controller and an on-chip HDMI 1.3a interface. To optimize the performance of the CPU, Samsung has included a few bonuses as well such as a 1MB L2 cache and support for DDR3 memory.
The Orion will be available to “select customers” around the end of the year and Samsung will start mass producing the CPU in the first half of 2011. It is likely that the company will use its latest and greatest processor for the next generation of Galaxy devices, and I’m thoroughly looking forward to the first Android phone rocking the Orion. One can only imagine what games designed for devices featuring this beast will look like, especially since the Orion should have more graphics processing power than the PlayStation 3 and almost as much as the Xbox 360.
Via [Engadget, AndroidandMe]
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Because what a phone you depend on all day long really needs is higher power consumption and more battery drain…
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New processors generally come with more advanced power saving features, so the battery life might even be better during normal usage than with the previous generation of CPUs. For example, the Snapdragon is designed for low power consumption and the Tegra 2 has an “ultra low-power GeForce GPU”
Samsung cripple their handsets though, meaning they need all the extra HP just to keep up with the competition!
Until they officially recognise a policy of supporting consumers handsets for the warranty period (24 months) then I'll be steering well clear and living with the 'slower' but still powerful handsets that are optimised well!
Samsung Epic Fail!
Evo FTW!
Cannot trust Samsung, they abandon their customers who need OS updates.
What good is a phone that does not get updated and left behind. So you're forced to buy again.
Bad business model. Bad Quality Control, Good Amoled screen quality (thats about it)
If you want a HDTV maybe, but cellphones are a NO GO from Samsung.
what do you think?
Samsung is slow on updates, I think the evo is pretty
underpowered as compared to the epic.
joe samsung epic is a much better processor than htc so how can it be better ! The slow snapdragon of the htc vs the high speed hummingbird in the samsung . The screen is much better in the samsung and does not reflect as much and all you can see in the htc is your reflection !
Might look awfully good, but since I presently own a Galaxy GT-I7500 from Samsung which they seem unwilling to update to a version higher than 1.5 (cupcake) I have decided to ban Samsung products altogether from my future purchases until such time that they update the Galaxy 7500 to Android 2.1 or 2.2 (which may indeed never happen!!!!!)
Samsung sucks!!
Everyone abandons their products… yes even HTC!
My old HTC Magic won't see a version higher than 1.5 even though it is almost identical spec wise to the Hero.
I have a I9000 that I got for christmas. I really dislike that samsung hesitates to develop 2.3 Gingerbread for the phone.
However, I have already broken the warranty since I flashed a custom kernel for it. Guess what? It’s like a new phone!
Got better performance AND less powerconsumption.
Anyways, if you have some older device then why don’t you look around. Maybe there’s a Custom rom for your handset.
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