Samsung Galaxy Premier (GT-i9260) appears in GLBenchmark, confirms Android 4.1.1 on-board

What exactly is the Galaxy Premier? Well, Samsung isn’t saying anything, but the device has a knack for showing up quite often and make us wonder what purpose it serves. After we saw its Chinese variant show up in a benchmark, the international variant has done the same, confirming that it will run Android 4.1.1 out of the box.

What is interesting to note in the benchmarks is that the GPU is mentioned to be a PowerVR SGX544, and since the only chipset currently known to use the SGX544 is TI’s OMAP 4470, it points towards the Galaxy Premier indeed being an upgraded version of the Galaxy Nexus, which uses the OMAP 4460 chipset with the PowerVR SGX540 GPU. Of course, that is just some guesswork on my part, but it does seem likely, though Samsung could also be making an Exynos chip of their own and using the PowerVR GPU inside (similar to their Exynos 3 aka Hummingbird processor first used in the Galaxy S).

The benchmark also confirms other specs, such as a 1280×720 HD display (likely 4.65″ like the Galaxy Nexus) and a processor speed of 1.5GHz. Other rumored specs of the Galaxy Premier include an 8 megapixel camera, and 8/16GB of internal storage along with a microSD card slot, but we’ll have to wait till another day for some confirmation of those.

All of this seems to point towards Samsung using the Galaxy Nexus hardware, upgrading the internals, putting their TouchWiz-ed version of Android on it, and positioning it at the mid-high end in their portfolio of Android smartphones. What really happens though, only time will tell.