Samsung’s LTE-Advanced version of its Galaxy S4 handset complete with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 800 CPU has appeared online in rather detailed unboxing.
Samsung CEO JK Shin confirmed his company was working on an LTE-Advanced version of the Galaxy S4 last week, we just didn’t expect to see the device so soon.
Reports suggest Samsung will launch the Snapdragon 800-rocking Galaxy S4 on Korea’s SK Telecom LTE-Advanced network very soon. Sadly there’s no word on whether this version will come to the UK.
We had a rather extensive hands-on benchmarking session with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 chipset yesterday. The new silicon from the mobile space’s biggest chipmaker is beyond impressive surpassing everything we’ve previously seen inside Snapdragon, Tegra, and Exynos.
Alongside the recently launched Sony Xperia Z Ultra, the Snapdragon 800 variant of the Galaxy S4 will be one of if not the most powerful handsets on the planet. Being LTE-Advanced, the new Galaxy S4 handset will also be able to access even faster mobile data speeds – we’re talking the upper thresholds of LTE here (100+mbps).
Shin confirmed that the LTE-Advanced version of the Galaxy S4 will cost more than the normal4G-enabled variant but did not give any details regarding wider availability or a release date.
Customers who had purchased the Snapdragon 600 have already expressed their dissatisfaction of Samsung's move to launch a more powerful version of the phone just two months after they've bought theirs, claims GSM Arena.
It’s also worth noting that we didn’t even get the 32GB version of the Galaxy S4 here in the UK. Instead, we got the 16GB version (of which just 9GB was available to the user) priced at almost £600 SIM-free.
Source: knowyourmobile
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