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hey what is up guys I'm KB HD here and every few months we get another awesome new flagship phone with you know high-end specs great hardware baller set of features and we love it we love it when these new high-end phones come out that's always great but then sometimes a couple of weeks later we'll see this prime version of the phone sometimes it's a rumor sometimes it actually comes out with a slightly improved feature set slightly better specs and you got to wonder what is that what does that mean is that should we pay attention to these are we getting screwed over this is those prime phones explained alright so check this out this is the Samsung Galaxy s5 great specs high-end Android phone from Samsung that we all know basically all their best parts and this is the Samsung Galaxy s5 prime or the LTE a version of the galaxy s5 so from the outside you can barely really tell any difference they're the same dimensions same materials and awful all the same parts so no metal build or anything like that but the prime has an LTE a logo on the back and it also has a gold trim everywhere where the regular galaxy s5 had a silver trim again not a different material or anything just a different colored trim so the real difference really between these two phones is all with the specs instead of a regular galaxy s5s 5.1 inch 1080p display this version has a 5.1 inch 2560 by 1440 display a big bright beautiful 2.5 k OLED display even sharper than the LG g3 so in a really impressive panel and inside it goes from a Snapdragon 801 to a Snapdragon 805 and goes from 2 gigs of ram to 3 gigs of ram it also contains a new LTE modem that supports LTE advanced or what we call category 6 LTE and this is actually the main purpose of the existence of this device at all it's on the back it's on the box in the US and most LTE markets we have category for LTE most carriers max out with this add about 75 megabits per second tops but the limit of the technology is 150 megabits per second that's pretty fast but this LTE a galaxy s5 moves up to the category 6 LTE or cat6 and it's made specifically for one market in South Korea where SK Telecom is rolling out their advanced LTE network their speeds are now 225 megabits per second and a technology maxes out at 300 megabits per second so it's a new phone specifically for this South Korea market with this South Korean carrier in an area where LTE a is just now rolling out hardly a new phone at all but yes still different now could Samsung have released this galaxy s5 everywhere with LTE a and a 2.5 k display and Snapdragon 805 yes but that would have pissed off a lot of current galaxy s5 owners and LTE a really isn't available much of anywhere yet but really Samsung always releases multiple versions of their galaxy phone with certain variances over the course of the year they do this every time so think of this as another one of them you know we have a Galaxy s5 active the galaxy s5 zoom the galaxy s5 mini and now the galaxy s5 of LTE a it's a sidestep variant for a specific market here's another example this is the LG g3 that we all know it already has a 2.5 k display it already has a baller display pretty much everywhere and high-end specs here in gold is the LG g3 prime of course not the official name it's really the LG g3 cat6 version sound familiar so now the only difference here is again just on the inside so it's same screen same build basically same phone in every other way but with a Snapdragon 805 and 3 gigs of ram and category 6 LTE support oh and for some reason a lot of bloatware koreans I guess don't mind bloatware but so you can think of these phones as side steps to their flagship brothers you know they're not sold in the United States you won't find them in a carrier store or anything but they're actually pretty hard to get you actually have to go to a specialty site that carries stuff like this these prime phones came from 28 mobile.com in fact I'll leave a link for each of them below the like button if you want to check them out but really if you're going to import these you're not going to be able to take advantage of LTE a so I guess if you're desperate for a 2.5 k display on your galaxy s5 or you absolutely must have the beefier Snapdragon 805 chip or an extra gig of ram and sure I guess these prime phones are for you also fun fact there were some rumors of an HTC One m8 Prime and the plans were actually leaked not with only new specs but with a new design and a new camera but then those plans quickly died that would have been the first prime phone actually changed almost everything and basically make it a new phone altogether but since that never happened there you have it the prime phones are sidesteps so that's been it thank you guys for watching if you enjoyed it feel free to hit that thumbs up button below or share it with other people who you think might be curious about these prime phones thank you for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next video peace