Samsung Reassures: 'Perfectly Similar' Performances in Galaxy S II

Samsung has confirmed that the replacement processor the firm has been using in the Galaxy S II has no effect on the phone's performances.

Yesterday, we reported a curious case of processor switching in the Galaxy S II. In fact, it seems that Samsung's star Android handset is now being loaded with a different internal processor (a TI OMAP 4 4430) to the one initially used (an Exynos 4210). Several readers have been in touch to report this. While the two processors have an identical clock speed of 1.2 GHz, the chips' architecture and graphics processing units are different. This could, in turn, reduce performance in the 'new' S II handset (reference GT i9100G) compared with the original model (GT i9100).

According to Samsung, however, there's no difference in performance between the two models. One of the firm's reps (Samsung France) reassured us that 'performances, tested by our engineers in Korea, are perfectly similar in the two handsets,' before adding that 'Samsung has had to source other processors [Ed. rather than its own] in light of the high demand for GS2s'. However, there's no mention on Samsung's site that two versions of the same phone are now in existence ...

Obviously, we're keen to get to the bottom of things, so we'll be testing this new Galaxy S II (GT i9100G) very soon. Stay tuned for the results!