Samsung’s ‘Project K’ May Be The Premium GALAXY S5 That Fans Have Been Waiting For | TechTree.com

Samsung’s ‘Project K’ May Be The Premium GALAXY S5 That Fans Have Been Waiting For

Internally known as ‘Project KQ’, the device never saw a release thanks to component shortages.

 

If you are holding back on purchasing that shiny new GALAXY S5 this month, you are doing the right thing. Recent reports from insiders have pointed out that Samsung, despite denying the premium GALAXY S5’s existence is indeed building the QHD specd device.

The news comes from our friends at SamMobile who seem to have some eye-opening insider information. It seems that Samsung has indeed been working on a device internally referred to as ‘Project KQ’. No, we have no clue what the ‘KQ’ stands for just yet; but what we do know is that Samsung has been working on the QHD device for a very long time.

Why did they not release it at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) then? Well, that would be thanks to component shortages because it makes no sense announcing such a product and then not making it available within the next six months. As the source points out, the details that have now come to light belong to the first two versions of the GALAXY S5. Yes, there were actually ten revisions in all with the first two devices being the QHD ones. The current Samsung GALAXY S5 which is on sale is apparently the fifth revision which got approval to enter into production.

As for the chipset on the QHD version of the device which did not reach production just yet, it seems to pack in some completely new Exynos silicon. The Korean version sports a octa-core Exynos 5430 chipset which features quad 2.1 GHz Cortex-A15 and quad 1.5 GHz Cortex-A7 cores in addition to the 600 MHz ARM Mali GPU. As you can see such processing power was easily overkill for the QHD display and would easily be able to handle a pixel dense 2560 x 1440 resolution.

Another interesting addition was the inclusion of Intel Intel LTE modem (XMM7620) which supports speed of up to 300 Mbps for downloads and 150 Mbps for uploads making 3G a thing of the past.

Samsung may eventually announce the premium version once the current GALAXY S5’s sales begin to drop since the device has already picked up momentum. Competition from Oppo’s Find 7 and the LG G3 may eventually force Samsung to out a QHD display sporting device which may happen in a few months from now.
 


TAGS: Mobile Phones, Android, Samsung

 
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