Samsung Shipping Snapdragon 865 Equipped S20 Units in South Korea

For the longest time, Samsung has sold ii variants of its flagship smartphones around the world. There'due south the Snapdragon-equipped variant, sold in the U.s.a. and Europe, and the Exynos-equipped variants sold in countries like Bharat, and Samsung'southward habitation country of South korea.

However, this year, Samsung made a pretty significant modify — the visitor is reportedly selling Snapdragon 865 equipped Milky way S20 units in S Korea instead of the Exynos 990 equipped models.

In general, that'due south practiced news for Due south Korean customers, peculiarly since the Snapdragon chipsets are leaps and premises ahead of their Exynos counterparts. That much is known to near anybody who follows the smartphone globe. And information technology's non just in terms of performance, Snapdragon equipped Samsung phones are better in terms of battery life also — that's something I observed when I reviewed the Galaxy S10+ last year. In fact, there'southward even a petition doing the rounds on the internet asking Samsung to stop selling Exynos equipped flagships.

The conclusion is a big deal, all the same, considering this is the kickoff time Samsung has decided to stick with Snapdragon 865-equipped S20 units for its home country — a change that has reportedly left the Exynos team at Samsung quite ashamed and humiliated.

The report mentions that Samsung'south decision was based on testing the Exynos 990 multiple times and finding that information technology doesn't hold up to the Snapdragon 865. Moreover, with the company's 5G push being every bit of import as information technology is, especially in Republic of korea which is one of the first countries to get 5G networks, the Snapdragon 865 definitely makes more sense for the company.

The company is definitely non giving up on Exynos chipsets though, and, the report mentions that it will keep working on Exynos to hopefully bring it up to par with Snapdragon chipsets from Qualcomm.

Beebom's Have

Look, I'g just as bellyaching with Exynos chipsets as any rational smartphone buyer would be. Nonetheless, I not only completely understand Samsung's desire to carry on with Exynos, I honestly hope they are able to. Hopefully though, Samsung volition keep pushing Exynos in its mid-range and depression-stop smartphones instead of hamstringing its flagships in half the earth.

At the end of the twenty-four hours, Exynos is the only contest Qualcomm has in the mobile chipsets space, and monopolies are downright bad. Qualcomm has a clear lead, and as of correct now, it doesn't seem similar Exynos is communicable up at any reasonable pace. Notwithstanding, I raise to you the example of Intel and AMD, where up until a few years back AMD was nowhere to exist compared confronting Intel. Expect where we are at present.