14 DAY TRIAL // Yesterday, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics officially announced an updated version of the Galaxy S5 flagship smartphone, one that will arrive on shelves with faster data transfer speeds, it seems.
Dubbed Galaxy S5 Broadband LTE-A and announced for the South Korean market for the time being, it appears that the device might remain an exclusive to this market.
In fact, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest that Samsung might have no plans on making the handset available for purchase in other countries out there as well.
“Samsung launches the Galaxy S5 Broadband LTE-A in Korea at the end of June 2014. At this moment, there is no specific plan to provide the product to the global market,” a Samsung spokesperson said, according to Android Central.
On the one hand, the info does not come too much as a surprise, considering the fact that the phone packs LTE-Advanced connectivity capabilities inside, with support for data speeds of up to 225 Mbps, and South Korea is one of the few markets that offer support for it.
Furthermore, we should note that Samsung made a similar move with the Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A last year, and that only users in its homeland market were able to enjoy its capabilities.
The new Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A will arrive on shelves with a nice range of hardware enhancements packed inside, which should provide users with an experience worthy of a premium handset (the phone was initially believed to arrive on the market as Galaxy S5 Prime).
The new device model was announced with a Quad HD touchscreen display, though it maintains the 5.1-inch size that the Galaxy S5 featured.
Moreover, the new smartphone arrives on the market with a Snapdragon 805 processor inside, which offers support for the aforementioned LTE-Advanced connectivity and which is accompanied by no less than 3GB of RAM.
Courtesy of these improvements, the new Galaxy S5 variant will be able to provide a much better experience when compared to what the original had to offer, that’s for sure.
The rest of the mobile phone’s hardware specs remain unchanged, starting with the 16-megapixel camera on the back, which boasts 4K video recording capabilities and which is paired with a 2MP front camera for making video calls.
Moreover, the handset comes with 16GB of internal memory, a microSD memory card slot for expansion purposes, the usual set of connectivity capabilities and sensors, and the latest flavor of the Android operating system loaded on top.