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Samsung has been quietly poking around in a new direction for its laptops, and a mysterious machine just showed up in the Geekbench database that has people talking.
The device is listed as the Samsung XE940XSA, and it’s running Android 17, not Windows, not ChromeOS. That’s a big departure from the previously announced Galaxybooks. It raises a question: Is Samsung about to jump into Google’s new Googlebook category or build its own Android-powered Galaxy Book with One UI features?
Under the hood it’s packing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite (the 12-core “Hamoa” chip), paired with an Adreno X1-85 GPU and 16 GB of RAM. In Geekbench 7 it scored 2,513 single-core and 15,214 multi-core, respectable numbers that put it in the same ballpark as a lot of premium thin-and-lights.
Google only officially launched the Googlebook platform in September with machines from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Those are desktop-style Android devices designed to work closely with phones and get long software support. The Samsung unit’s hardware lines up pretty closely with the Snapdragon-based Googlebooks already out there, which is why a lot of folks are assuming that’s what this is. Then again, Samsung’s been rumored to be working on its own Android Galaxy Books, so this could also be something more independent.
If it does make it to market, it would give Samsung a proper seat at the table in this new class of premium Android notebooks, ones aimed at people who want their laptop to feel like a natural extension of their phone and tablet. Until the company actually confirms anything, though, the XE940XSA is just an intriguing early glimpse at what Samsung’s laptop strategy might look like next.
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(Source: Geekbench)
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