Samsung plans on joining the 64-bit party parade in 2014

September 12, 2013

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Well actually I'm not sure you can call it a parade just yet. As you might be aware Apple announced the new iPhone 5 S and said that it would include support for 64-bit processing. You don't think Samsung is going to sit back and watch that happen do you? Well Samsung’s mobile business chief Shin Jong-kyun said. “our next smartphones will have 64-bit processing functionality.” Translation: Galaxy S 5.

What's most interesting is that we don't even know if Android 4.4 KitKat will even support 64-bit, let alone the fact that 64-bit is worthless unless RAM surpasses 4GB.

It has always been a spec war folks. While companies like Motorola are staying clear from it, for whatever reason Apple is jumping in, and Samsung took the bait.

source: Korea Times

Robert Nazarian Author

Robert lives in upstate New York where he was born and raised. Technology was always his passion. His first computer was a Radio Shack TRS80 Color that used a cassette tape to save programs, and his first laptop was a Toshiba T1200FB that sported a CGA greyscale screen and two 720kb floppy drives (no hardrive). From the early 90’s through late 2011, he only owned Motorola phones starting with the MircroTAC all the way through to the Droid X. He broke that streak when he bought the Galaxy Nexus. Now he's sporting a Galaxy Note 4, and absolutely loves it. He has a wonderful wife and a 6 year old son. In his free time he enjoys sports, movies, TV, working out, and trying to keep up with the rapid fast world of technology.

1 comment

Kary says:

September 12, 2013 at 11:14 AM

You hit on the issue I raised elsewhere. What is the benefit of 64 bit in a smartphone. My thoughts were it would help if you had over 3GB of ram and possibly gaming. I still have some 64 bit desktops running 32 bit Windows, so seemingly this wouldn’t impact my smartphone purchase decision.

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