Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million

Android phone responsiveness varies by a huge amount. Some are lightning fast while others just have lots of lag throughout the ui. I have found lg phones to be in the latter category.

That's pretty odd since I have a HTC Desire (single core 1GHz) which works really well. (Never been an iPhone owner though)

It's certainly a good indicator of smartphone demand, although I'm not sure it's comparable with iPhone 4S pre-orders. I suspect that a lot of the S3 pre-orders are direct from carriers, rather than individuals, so it's more of a 'product shipped' rather than 'product sold' statistic.

I could of course be totally wrong, although as it's a leaked stat it's hard to know exactly how a 'pre-order' is being defined...but in my office (of about 180 people, all mobile facing) far fewer people have pre-ordered the S3 versus the iPhone 4S.

  Chipset 	Exynos 4212 Quad
  CPU 	        Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9
  GPU 	        Mali-400MP

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9300_galaxy_s_iii-4238.php

The Mali-400MP is quad-core (x2 from before) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exynos This seems feasible, with similar battery life, as they've shrunk the process to half the area: 45^2 vs 32^2.

Its performance per core is comparable the sgx543 of the iPhone/iPad. http://www.arm.com/products/multimedia/mali-graphics-hardwar... vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_5XT (though depends on the clock actually used)

So, this phone's GPU is similar to the "new iPad"3 (quad-core sgx543). (Apple have also done a shrink, but it's only used in the old iPad 2 so far...)

I think quad-core CPUs are past the point of diminishing returns (consider the latest Transformer); multi-core are still hard to code for, and they are usually underutilized on desktops.

Note: the iPad 4 is likely to have the next in the GPU series (Rogue 6200), which apparently is comparable to the xenos GPU in the xbox360. So, it's leapfrog, jumping x2 as far each year.

This is a myth, introduced by an uninformed Google intern in a blog post. Hint; start Skype on an iPhone, switch to another app, and scroll a list. Note how your Skype call continues.