14 DAY TRIAL // It’s been a month since Samsung’s glorious press event at MWC 2015, where the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge flagships got launched. Now that our excitement about the new phones has died down a little bit, we can focus on the company’s upcoming flagships.
Like the Galaxy Note 5, for instance. We brought you news related to the luxury phablet a while ago, telling you that the device might come with a super advanced 4K display and a whopping 748 ppi.
Samsung was said to be planning to implement the all new Exynos 7422 chipset inside its next-gen high-end phablet, which should be the company’s first all-in-one solution (ePoP), meaning the silicone will embed the CPU, GPU, RAM, storage and modem on a single chip unit.
The Galaxy Alpha took advantage of a similar solution, albeit more limited, which bundled RAM and storage together.
Samsung is brewing the Exynos 7430
Now, the folks at Sam Mobile bring us word that good old Sammy is currently testing some Galaxy Note 5 units with an Exynos 7430 chipset on the inside. However, it doesn’t seem like the chip is ready for commercial release yet.
The same goes for the 4K display. Samsung is currently toying with this screen standard, but also with the same 2K technology we currently see in the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge.
So it’s actually quite safe to say that Samsung won’t be bringing a 4K phablet at IFA 2015 this year. But who knows, the company might surprise us after all.
Sources familiar with the matter also talked about the Galaxy Note Edge replacement, which is currently codenamed “Project Zen” internally.
Interestingly enough, the device won’t be of the high-end variety. Rumor has it we should expect to see the phone arrive with a 5.4-inch / 5.5-inch Super AMOLED dual-edge curved display, a hexa-core Snapdragon 808 chip (like the LG G4), 16GB of internal storage, a 16MP primary camera with OIS, plus an 8MP front-facing camera. It will also boast an S Pen.
Hopefully, Project Zen will arrive on the market with a more affordable price tag due to the mid-range chipset inside it.