Rumor: Samsung round smartwatch has an Exynos processor

The upcoming round of smartwatch from Samsung would contain an Exynos processor. That reports Samsung fan site SamMobile. The predecessor of the Tizen smartwatch, the Gear S, has a Snapdragon 400-soc from Qualcomm.

The watch with the presumably name Gear A would be an Exynos 3472-soc, a dual-core with a maximum clock speed of 1.2 GHz, assisted by a Mali 400 MP4 GPU at 450 MHz. Little is known about this soc, but Samsung presumably based the processor cores on the Cortex A9 or A7 microarchitecture. The Exynos 3250 is based on Cortex A7. Samsung only started counting with the Exynos 4 series with the Galaxy S II and is now in the Exynos 7 series for its high-end products.

According to information from the usually well-informed SamMobile, the watch has a working memory of 768MB and a storage of 4GB. The battery has a capacity of 250mAh, slightly less than the 300mAh of the Gear S.

The size of the screen is still unknown, but the resolution, according to previously discovered information, is 360×360 pixels. The Gear S has a curved screen with 480×360 pixels. The rest of the specifications do match last year’s Gear S, such as the presence of a barometer, gyroscope and tilt sensor.

The Gear A runs on Tizen, which Samsung has been using for watches since the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. A release of the SDK for Tizen already showed the way of operating the round smartwatch, which Samsung is developing under the name Orbis. Samsung might present the Gear A on August 12, when it announces the Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Note 5. The Note 5 would not be released in Europe, whether that will happen with the Gear A is unknown.

Image of an emulator from the Tizen sdk