The phone comes with either a 1.9-GHz quad-core processor or a 1.6-GHz octa-core processor, depending on the market.

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Journe created this lightweight Octa Sport with 120-hour power reserve and a variable inertia balance wheel for stability even at high speed.

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The revelation led many tech journalists to speculate that the chip, called the Octa, will be at the heart of the Galaxy S IV phone.

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Bloomberg reports that the phone is unlikely to carry the Samsung Octa-core processor in the US, and eye-scroll will be very limited in functionality, if indeed it appears.

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Just a day after Samsung unveiled the smartphone as its inaugural Exynos 5 Octa device, the company has confirmed that the not-really-eight-core ARM processor should be in mass production during the second quarter of the year, or between April and June.

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We also know that the Octa's graphics performance has largely caught up to peers versus earlier Exynos 4 designs, as Imagination Technologies has confirmed that its PowerVR SGX544MP is providing enough muscle to double 3D performance over the creaky Mali-400 in the Exynos 4 Quad.

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First of all, Huawei will be joining Samsung at the octa-core Cortex-A15 party in the second half of this year, and given what Yu's told us earlier this week, our guess is that this will either be the HiSilicon K3V3 or a sister chipset, again manufactured by TSMC.

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This is the hero, the device chosen to lead the charge for Samsung as it ventures deeper into 2013, and it's fitted with the best of everything: a 1080p Super AMOLED display, 1.9GHz quad-core (or 1.6GHz Exynos 5 Octa 5410, depending on market) chipset, Android 4.2, 13MP camera and a wide assortment of brand-new firmware amenities, to name just a few.

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