Samsung Galaxy S3 to pack 1.5GHz quad-core CPU?

Samsung‘s third-gen Galaxy S handset, imaginatively codenamed the Galaxy S3, will reportedly arrive packing a quad-core processor.

That’s according to AndroidAndMe, who has heard of Samsung’s plans to equip the Galaxy S3 with its “newly discovered” Exynos 4412 chipset, which will supposedly employ four cores clocked at 1.5Ghz. They also guess that Samsung will pair this chipset with the Mali-T604 GPU, which delivers up to 5x the graphics performance compared to previous Mali graphics processors.

The site’s tipster added that Samsung has a few devices coming in early 2012 that will “blow minds”, and which will be a “big step past the Galaxy Nexus class, in every way.”

If previous speculation is anything to go by, the handset will be Samsung’s most impressive phone yet.  It will also reportedly arrive touting a Galaxy Nexus-esque 4.6-inch (1280 x 1024) Super AMOLED Plus HD screen, a 12 megapixel camera with 1080p HD video, 32GB included memory, NFC, and the latest version of Google’s mobile software: Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).

Expect to hear more about the Samsung Galaxy S3 at February’s Mobile World Congress, followed by a Q2 2012 release.

[Source: AndroidAndMe]