Samsung Galaxy S4 Gets Early Teardown

Inside the next Galaxy.

Samsung yesterday took the wraps off of its next world beating Android phone, and one unit in China's already been splayed open for the world to see. Like with the Galaxy S3, Samsung will likely offer different variants for different world markets, including different CPU choices -- such as in-house-designed Exynos 5410 octa-core vs. the just-revealed Qualcomm Snapdragon 600. The Chinese model featured in the teardown has the former SoC, and even has dual-SIM support.

What's impressive is that the S4 has a best-in-class 2600 mAh battery that is removable, which completely erases the argument that sealed batteries lead to larger capacities.

Check out the full teardown photos here.

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tarzan2001 , March 15, 2013 6:14 PM

I just hope the US market doesn't get shafted again when it comes to the CPU like they did with the Samsung Galaxy S3. Yes, I know a dual-core is "good enough" to do pretty much everything, but they marketed the S3 as having a beastly quad-core, and then gave the US market a dual-core, albeit with 2 GB of RAM. Now that we've been hearing about the S4 having a new 4+4 "octa-core" design for so many months generating so much interest for the phone and its potential, it would be extremely disappointing to see it being sold with "only" a quad-core (just like all of its competition) here in the US.
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tarzan2001 , March 15, 2013 6:15 PM

hunshikiWhat? Note 2 comes with 3100mAH and it's removable..

The Note 2 is also much larger and therefore has the space and the NEED for a much larger battery.
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belardo , March 15, 2013 6:19 PM

The USA is not the largest market for cellphones, that is why. We don't have the fastest or cheapest phone or Internet service. There are far more models available everywhere else in the world, but here. Like in the old FeaturePhone era, Sony would have about 8-10 current phone models available in the USA. Go to UK or Europe in general, you would have over 40 to choose from.
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lp231 , March 15, 2013 7:16 PM

Quad Core for the US is everyone ain't willing to spend more than $100 and expect to get a product that's worth $600. If they spend too much, then all they do is bit*h and whine. Samsung should release both versions and let the consumer decide what they want. If someone is willing to spend extra for the 8 core, then let them have the 8 core, don't let them get shafted just because others aren't willing to spend the extra money.
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slomo4sho , March 15, 2013 7:53 PM

Hmm... If the 8-core version is available in the US it may be time for me to sell the Nexus 4 and upgrade to this. No memory expansion in the Nexus 4 severely limits my music library(no I don't want to stream from cloud)
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Vladislaus , March 15, 2013 7:57 PM

kj3639Shafted? The US Galaxy S3 has a dual core Cortex-A15, while the international has a quad core Cortex-A9. They're roughly equal in performance, but the dual (Scorpion Snapdragon) has the LTE chip embedded into the SOC, as well as having asynchronous processors. I prefer dual over the quad any day.

The US Galaxy S3 comes with a dual core Snapdragon S4. The Krait core isn't a Cortex-A15.

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belardo , March 15, 2013 6:19 PM

The USA is not the largest market for cellphones, that is why. We don't have the fastest or cheapest phone or Internet service. There are far more models available everywhere else in the world, but here. Like in the old FeaturePhone era, Sony would have about 8-10 current phone models available in the USA. Go to UK or Europe in general, you would have over 40 to choose from.
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tarzan2001 , March 15, 2013 6:15 PM

hunshikiWhat? Note 2 comes with 3100mAH and it's removable..

The Note 2 is also much larger and therefore has the space and the NEED for a much larger battery.
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tarzan2001 , March 15, 2013 6:14 PM

I just hope the US market doesn't get shafted again when it comes to the CPU like they did with the Samsung Galaxy S3. Yes, I know a dual-core is "good enough" to do pretty much everything, but they marketed the S3 as having a beastly quad-core, and then gave the US market a dual-core, albeit with 2 GB of RAM. Now that we've been hearing about the S4 having a new 4+4 "octa-core" design for so many months generating so much interest for the phone and its potential, it would be extremely disappointing to see it being sold with "only" a quad-core (just like all of its competition) here in the US.

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