Galaxy S4 LTE-Advanced is the fastest smartphone.

With the launching of the newest Galaxy S4 LTE-Advanced version, Samsung has once again proven its ability to provide consumers the best of the latest in technological innovations. Whilst the U.S. carriers are currently still rolling out their 4G LTE networks, South Korea’s SK Telecom has switched to the new LTE-Advanced network.  And Samsung’s Galaxy S4 will be the first smartphone to take advantage of the increased speeds, which is twice the speed of the current 4G LTE. Theoretically this translates to attainable download speeds of 3Gbps and upload speed of 1.5 Gbps. 

The Galaxy S4 LTE-A looks like the original S4, but this new smartphone sports a 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor. The CPU is paired with the Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM. The rest of the specs are pretty much the same as on the international versions of the Galaxy S4, including a 5 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display, 2GB of RAM, and a 13MP camera.

A released bench mark score for the S4 LTE-A show it is better than the S4 with Snapdragon 600 and the S4 Exynos Octa. 

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 processor is the fastest ARM-based chips to date, and recent benchmarks show it kind of blows away the competition in terms of graphics performance.

While LTE Advanced networks can handle download speeds as high as 300 Mbps,  real-world performance will probably be somewhat slower most of the time.

It’s unlikely we’ll see this phone in the US anytime soon, as there aren’t any wireless carriers that offer LTE-A service yet. Perhaps AT&T might fast track upgrading its facilities to use this technology.