At the end of June, Samsung Electronics announced the launch of the new GALAXY S4 LTE-A smartphone, whose appearance is intended to change the generally accepted standards for the speed of information exchange, playing streaming multimedia content, downloading apps and working in a web browser of a mobile device.

Samsung GALAXY S4 LTE-A (model number SHV-E330S) became the first commercially available smartphone with support for the advanced mobile standard LTE-Advanced. Samsung was originally one of the most proactive players in the global deployment of fourth-generation networks. The first milestone was the launch of a mobile phone slider with a QWERTY keyboard called Samsung Craft back in 2010. A year later, the first LTE-smartphone in the world appeared, and last year Samsung became a pioneer in the implementation of voice calls in the networks of the 4th generation VoLTE, which could be tested on the GALAXY S III LTE smartphone.

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The advanced LTE-A communication standard allows mobile devices to operate at a higher data transfer rate (up to 150 Mbps) - in fact, it is equivalent to twice the limits of LTE networks, and the capacity of 3G networks exceeds tenfold. Today, such a network is deployed only in the capital of South Korea - Seoul, and connection to it is carried out exclusively by the operator SK Telecom. As part of a subscription to LTE service, SK Telecom offers its customers IPTV with streaming video in Full HD resolution, a music service with online streaming of FLAC songs, a number of sports programs and free video services.
Samsung GALAXY S4 LTE-A was the first sign of a new generation of mobile networks, but by the end of this year, the Korean operator promises to offer users six more smartphones with support for LTE-Advanced. In addition to Korea, 84 megacities around the world are already in line for the deployment of a new network standard.

The smartphone itself is practically no different from the flagship prototype of the Samsung GALAXY S4: the main difference lies in the processor that the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 is equipped with (quad-core Krait 400 CPU with 2.3 GHz frequency + GPU Adreno 330). The weight of the device has increased by as much as a gram. All other specifications remain intact.
Samsung GALAXY S4 LTE-A will appear in the Korean market in the second half of summer in two colors - blue (Blue Arctic) and red (Red Aurora). For the rest of the world and Russia, official sources are still silent.