Signs of a possible “2K-capable” Samsung smartphone have been appearing online for some time, but today there’s fresh evidence that 2014 might yet yield a Galaxy phone with the super-high-density 1440p panel Samsung itself said was coming this year.
Is Samsung testing a phone with a ‘2K’ display?
Benchmarks spotted on GFXBench show a Samsung “SM-G906S” device rocking a 2560×1440-resolution display. To put that model number in context, the Galaxy S5 is SM-G900, and the letter at the end usually corresponds to a hardware or carrier variant. Benchmark results themselves are all over the place, which isn’t surprising for a product presumably still in development.
Update: The benchmark listing now offers additional info on the hardware lurking inside this beastly phone. The SoC is listed as a quad-core Qualcomm CPU at 2.5GHz with an Adreno 420 GPU — so it’s almost certainly Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 805. In addition there’s a little under 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, a 15.8-megapixel camera and a 2560×1400-resolution 5.2-inch display.
We’ve mulled over the possibility of a Samsung “super flagship” with a higher-res display (and similar specs) appearing later in the year, so check out the article linked below for our thoughts on how (and why) Samsung might do a 1440p smartphone.
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Source: GFXBench; via: PhoneArena