The Samsung Galaxy S 4G LTE also known as the Droid Charge (Verizon), Galaxy S Aviator (U.S. Cellular) and Galaxy S Lightray 4G (MetroPCS, includes DyleTV), was an Android smartphone manufactured by

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. It has a 1 GHz "Hummingbird" processor, front and rear cameras, and

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and 4G LTE radios. It was announced at CES 2011 under the name Samsung Galaxy S 4G LTE device.

Specifications

Hardware

The Samsung Galaxy S 4G LTE has the Samsung S5PC110

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that is manufactured on a 45 nm process and combines 1 GHz

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based CPU core with a

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SGX540 GPU made by

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; the GPU supports

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1.1/2.0 and is capable of up to 90 million triangles per second. The CPU core, code-named "

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", was co-developed by

and

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. The Samsung Galaxy S 4G LTE uses Swype technology as well as the standard QWERTY input methods. The Samsung Galaxy S 4G LTE incorporates a rear-facing 8-megapixel camera as well as a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera. The Samsung Galaxy S 4G LTE uses a Super AMOLED Plus touch screen covered by Gorilla Glass, a special crack and scratch resistant material. The screen is a standard RGB stripe display manufactured by Samsung. It has

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resolution (480x800 pixels resolution).

Software

The Samsung Galaxy S 4G LTE runs on Android 2.2.1 Froyo with Samsung's user interface

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out of the box. In early June 2011, the EE4 update was released to fix some minor bugs within the device. In early December 2011, Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread is started to be pushed out to devices with the "EP4" update. Subsequent updates were codenamed "FP5" and "FP8". Gingerbread was the last Android version to appear on the Galaxy S 4G LTE; Samsung never released never versions of Android stating that an update (with

) would not fit on the Galaxy S 4G LTE 's ROM.

References

External links

Samsung Galaxy S 4G LTE official website

Samsung Droid Charge website (Verizon Wireless)
{{Samsung smartphones Android (operating system) devices Mobile phones introduced in 2011 S 4G LTE Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery

Specifications

Hardware

Software

See also

References

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