With two days to go until its official unveil, we have two leaks confirming the Samsung Galaxy S4′s appearance and specs — one leak from Samsung itself, and another from China, where a Galaxy S4 seems to have fallen off the back of a truck.
First, the official leak: The image that you see below comes directly from Samsung, to drum up some interest for the Galaxy S4′s launch event on March 14. The image essentially shows that the Galaxy S4 will look identical to the S3. If there’s meant to be a new forward-facing camera for eye tracking, it certainly isn’t visible here. The bezel seems to be unchanged, too, suggesting that the Galaxy S4 won’t have an edge-to-edge 5-inch screen.
The second, unofficial leak is far more interesting: A user of the Chinese forum 52Samsung seems to have found himself in possession of a Samsung Galaxy S4, and taken lots of photos and video (embedded below) to prove it. In this case, the phone is slightly larger than the Galaxy S3, and has a 5-inch display along with a smaller bezel. The photos confirm that the S4 has 2GB of RAM, a 1920×1080 display, Android 4.2.1, and that this particular handset is a dual-SIM model (GT-i9502) destined for use on China Unicom’s network.
Running Antutu on the phone reveals that it has a quad-core “Universal5410″ CPU. 5410 is the model number for Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa SoC, and “Universal” is probably just a case of the benchmarking software not recognizing the new chip. As for why it reports four cores instead of eight, it’s probably because the Exynos Octa only has four “main” cores (Cortex-A15), plus four low-power big.LITTLE companion cores (Cortex-A7). On the GPU front, Antutu shows the tri-core PowerVR SGX544MP3, which is essentially the same as the iPad 4/A6X GPU — but the iPad has four cores, not three. The Exynos 5 Octa (5410) is an utter beast of an SoC, but it’ll be very interesting to see if the big.LITTLE arrangement can squeeze all-day battery life out of the power-hungry Cortex-A15 cores.
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