Samsung S4 gets even faster with new LTE-A version
There's yet another version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 on the cards, and it's even faster.
There's yet another version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 on the cards, and it's even faster.
Leaked benchmarks from Antutu show off the performance of a new version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-Advanced, which adds even faster 4G to the S4.
The benchmarks register a Qualcomm quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.3 GHz. The model number is I9506.
The current version of the S4 boasts a 1.9GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 chip in the UK, US and much of the world, except where they're lucky enough to get the eight-core version. The eight-core model packs Samsung's own Exynos Octa-core processor, but it's hard to find.
There are more versions of the S4 than you can shake a stick at. There's the wallet-friendly S4 Mini, the waterproof S4 Active, and the the camera-tastic S4 Zoom. There's the regular S4 and the eight-core S4. And now there's not one but two LTE-A versions too. Hit play to find out which one is best for you:
LTE-Advanced connects to the Internet at nearly twice the rate of today's 4G LTE phones. Technically LTE-Advanced is in fact true 4G, whereas the networks currently marketed as 4G are more like 3.5G or thereabouts. The world's first LTE-Advanced network is in Korea, giving phone fans in Seoul test speeds of around 100Mbps.
That kind of dizzying speed is a way off for us, however. EE is the UK's first 4G network, with the other major networks including Vodafone and O2 planning to launch 4G some time this year.
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