When Samsung announced their Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches running Tizen, they only vaguely mentioned a dual core processor running at 1 GHz powered the devices. SamMobile reports the two watches should be powered by a new processor called Exynos 3250 with two cores and clocked at 1 GHz as initially announced.
Ifixit also made a tear down of the Gear 2 watch, and at first, it seems Exynos 3250 is nowhere to be seen, but it turns out it’s probably combined with a DRAM (and Flash?) package named KMF5X0005M, and shown inside a red square in the picture above.
Samsung Galaxy Gear, the company’s first smartwatch, was a modified version of Exynos 4212 dual core processor, but using only one core and downclocked to 800 MHz. SamMobile thinks the Gear 2 can use a dual core processor @ 1 GHz, due to battery life gains achieved by replacing Android with Tizen operating system.
Beside the Exynos processor, ifixit teardown shows other components such as the 2MP “RINATO” camera, 300mAh battery, 1.63″ display (320×320), accelerator, gyroscope, and more. The watch is said to be easy to open, and the (non-standard) battery can be replaced without special tools.
Via Liliputing
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Gear S2 powered by a dual core “Pega-W” processor:
http://www.samsungmobilepress.com/2015/08/31/Samsung-Comes-Full-Circle-with-Introduction-of-Samsung-Gear-S2