Samsung Galaxy Note 2 - Hardware disappointment
I watched the Samsung Unpacked 2012 keynote and was a little underwhelmed. The magician's card tricks amazed me but the Note 2 didn't. I was underwhelmed that Samsung chose to put their Exynos 4412 which is already present in the Galaxy S3 mobile just with a higher CPU clock speed (1.6GHz). Hey WHAT? How can you say that? The Exynos 4412 in the S3 is creaming the competition right now??? Well the Exynos 4412 SOC includes a rather old and overclocked Mali 400MP GPU. It's already 2 generations behind ARM's latest and greatest being the 2nd generation Mali 6xx series. These top of the line GPU's are several fold faster in all aspects of graphical processing plus adding additions like GLES 3.0, DirectX 11a and so on so forth. Samsung had previously announced their Exynos 5250 and in the process (no pun intended) got our hopes up. The 52xx Exynos series promises a processor based of ARM's latest SOC architecture being A15. This design is said to bring performance a...