Why not. Is it patented?

If there's demand (rich middle eastern), Samsung will make it.

64bit is natural progression. Intel had talked about it long before apple released one. Apps have to to be re-written to take advantage of it anyway so it may be a year before we can see substantial advantage of 64bit, both iOS or android.


What's wrong with SELinux? It is one of few NSA contribution that is doing good to the public.

Seems like Samsung has been making gold phones a lot longer than Apple made its first phone.

http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=28658

I've just successfully compile the latest cyanogenmod nightlies on i9500. Any cherry pick request? So far it is stock CM with intervigilium github tree.


This post has been edited by gmhafiz: Sep 29 2013, 10:39 AM

camera fix is already incorporated. I'll take a look at odroid's fix

Yup, screw benchmarks.

benchmark scores can be manipulated. Nope, no fixes yet.

This post has been edited by gmhafiz: Sep 29 2013, 10:16 PM

it's the same as runedune build. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2460726

I didn't check on SOT. But standby time is better than stock rom (the first one - I didn't flash any firmware since I bought it when it first came out in Malaysia).

I recommend helium too. It's the same person who made clockworkmod recovery.

It works well through my limited testing. twicca, greader, whatsapp were all restored. Has simpler interface than titanium backup.

Android 4.3 brings TRIM support. So that is very much significant.

Though I'm surprised it took a very long time to inlcude it into android since TRIM was merged into linux kernel long time ago.

This ^

Freedom and control.

These two reasons are why I will sell my sgs4 to get nexus5.

In India, I once sent sgs1 for repair since it was waterlogged. I already flashed custom roms and kernel many times over. But since the phone cannot be switched on, I can't flash it back to stock rom.

However, the technician didn't mind. He replaced the motherboard for a very small fee (warranty still valid but it was a user error ). Furthermore, he finished repair in two days instead of five days as he had promised initially.

Haven't had any experience with malaysia's samsung support yet.

There are two variant of chips in S4. The snapdragon and exynos 'octa' core. The latter has no LTE (which is faster than 3G).

Personally I have no trouble with the octa core chip apart from slower development of custom roms.

If Rm15xx is your budget, I'd suggest waiting for nexus5 for pure android experience.

In the past, true. Though I have seen some pretty good snaps from nexus4 for fb size resolution though.

As for nexus5, we have no idea how the camera will perform until it is released for analysis.

I'm sure NFC security is not that weak. Contactless payment is pervasive in Europe, not in Malaysia yet.

Needs more testing. But a very good news.

Why worry about bootloop. You can always flash back to 4.2.2 and then 4.3.

I've had bootloop many times. It is not a brick. Just remember that you have performed backup beforehand.

If you are going to flash cm10.2, there's no need to flash stock 4.3 rom first

4.3 brings TRIM support. That is a massive upgrade that should have been added since gingerbread.