Samsung announces Exynos 7 Octa based on 14nm process

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Samsung announces Exynos 7 Octa based on 14nm process

Samsung has announced the industry first chip based on 14nm 3D FinFET processor. This is a marked improvement over the 20nm planar process used to manufacture the current generation Exynos 7 processor.

According to Samsung, the new Exynos 7 Octa based on the 14nm process is capable of 20 percent faster speed, 35 percent lower power consumption, and 30 percent productivity gain, thanks to the adoption of the 3D FinFET process.

Samsung will be applying the new process to the Exynos 7 Octa and we will like see it first in the upcoming Galaxy S6 this year.

Finally Lollipop update starts seeding to Exynos Galaxy S4 in India

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Finally Lollipop update starts seeding to Exynos Galaxy S4 in India

Samsung has already updated the GPE model and the I9506 Galaxy S4 with Android 5 Lollipop. It recently begun seeding Lollipop to the Exynos-based I9500 Galaxy S4 flavor in Russia, too.

As promised, the I9500 is the next major Samsung Galaxy S4 model to get the latest Android version. The second market to get the Lollipop treatment is India. The update is now available there over the air and weighs about 990MB. This means you must have at least 3GB free space before updating.

Naturally, if your Samsung Galaxy S4 model is locked to a specific carrier it may took some extra time before the Lollipop updates reaches you because of the additional testing required.

The Snapdragon 600-running I9505 Galaxy S4 will be next to taste Lollipop. The update is already in testing and should begin rolling out very soon.

Exynos-powered Samsung Galaxy S5 gets Lollipop too

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Exynos-powered Samsung Galaxy S5 gets Lollipop too

Samsung begun seeding the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the Galaxy S5 in December. Naturally the update was compatible with the Snapdragon 801-powered model and the first country to taste it was South Korea.

The update continued to roll out in stages through Poland, Spain, UK, among other countries. Verizon's Galaxy S5 users were the most recent to get the anticipated upgrade.

As of today Samsung has started to update the Exynos-powered G900H Galaxy S5 model too. The first market to get Lollipop is Kazakhstan, but we expect more countries to get the new firmware very soon.

In case the Kazakhstani ROM works for your device, you can grab it from the link below.

Android 5.0 brings a host of improvements to Samsung Galaxy S5. The OS is TouchWiz-ed with just a pinch of Material design, so the user experience will not be dramatically different from the one in version 4.4. However, thanks to the brand new ART runtime, you should feel a noticeable improvement in the responsiveness of the device