Samsung Galaxy A3 Dual Sim 4g

T-Mobile'southward fastest phone to appointment—the Samsung Galaxy S– will go on sale one-time in February, the company said Wednesday. T-Mobile says the phone will be the beginning in its portfolio to handle (theoretical) download speeds of up to 21 megabits per second (mbps). T-Mobile's other marquee smartphones—the HTC myTouch 4G and the HTC G2—max out at xiv.4 mbps.

The Galaxy S comes at a fourth dimension when T-Mobile is working difficult to push button its wireless broadband network to deliver faster throughput speeds. The carrier spent much of terminal year souping up its network with new HSPA+ applied science, and installing fiber optic cables to speed the move of data through its network. T-Mobile says the network can at present deliver theoretical top speeds of 21 mbps over most of its coverage area, and plans to double those speeds to 42 mbps in 2011.

T-Mobile hopes to attract new subscribers (and hold onto existing ones) by tempting them with high-bandwidth mobile apps that run well on the Galaxy Southward 4G, such as HD video, mobile gaming and videoconferencing. The carrier points out that the Galaxy S 4G comes pre-loaded with T-Mobile Idiot box, which features free content from ABC News NOW, FOX Sports and PBS Kids. A pre-loaded app from Qik powers the phone's Videoconferencing function.

In Video: Hands On With the Samsung Galaxy S 4G

The Galaxy S 4G may have the highest (theoretical) elevation speed of smartphones in the marketplace today, merely, as we had suspected, some of its other specs are hardly haemorrhage border. The phone has a 4-inch display–not equally big as the displays of some other smartphones we saw announced at CES 2011. Also, the display is Super AMOLED, not the more vibrant Super AMOLED Plus nosotros had hoped for.

The processor is the Samsung 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird, not the dual-core processors powering some recently unveiled smartphones. The camera on the dorsum of the Galaxy S 4G is 5 megapixel, non the 8 megapixel photographic camera nosotros're beginning to see.

Other specs: The Galaxy Southward 4G is powered by Android 2.2 (Froyo). The HSPA+ 4G radio inside the telephone is made by ST-Ericsson. The phone also comes with a front facing camera (for videoconferencing), a preinstalled 16GB microSD memory carte du jour, and a 1650mAh lithium ion bombardment.

Before buying a Galaxy S 4G from T-Mobile, it's a skillful idea to know if the T-Mobile network tin can deliver "4G-like" speeds beyond the parts of town yous frequent. PCWorld's tests of T-Mobile's HTC G2 back in Oct evidence that the T-Mobile network in San Francisco could evangelize download speeds of 4 mbps to 6 mbps in but well-nigh half of our testing locations, and some very "3G-like" speeds in the rest.

I suspect that T-Mobile's network has improved somewhat since our October tests. We'll know for sure when the results of PCWorld'south 13-city wireless speed tests are released at the end of February.

Pricing information has not been appear for the Galaxy S 4G.