The most affordable quad-core LTE smartphone

Highscreen brand begins selling Highscreen Spider – the most affordable 4-core smartphone that supports 4G LTE mobile networks. The new product is the first in America inexpensive LTE-apparatus with the characteristics of the new 2014 – all comparable models, fragmentally available in retail, introduced in 2013 and equipped with a “frail” platform with a 2-core processor.

Highscreen Spider is based on the latest generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset with a 4-core 1.2 GHz processor. It also has a 5-inch HD display with OGS technology, which is responsible for improving image quality, 8-megapixel camera with autofocus and GLONASS support. Powered by the Android 4 operating system.3 Jelly Bean.

A bit of history

The first mass-produced LTE-smartphone appeared on sale in February 2011 – it’s top-of-the-line Samsung Galaxy Indulge, offered exclusively in the U.S. market. More than three years have passed since then, and until now support for 4G cellular networks has been the prerogative of upper-middle and upper-end smartphones.

In 2014, the situation finally began to change dramatically. You can tell at least from February’s Mobile World Congress 2014 – there were at least 10 relatively inexpensive Android phones with LTE. However, they have not yet reached America.

Thus, the most affordable quad-core LTE smartphone is the new Highscreen Spider from today. 10,990 Dollars!

About the novelty in general.

Highscreen Spider – the first smartphone with LTE support from a second-tier brand. Other domestic and “pseudo-domestic” supposedly international, but with American roots and American owners brands still offer models that can work at most in 3G networks.

At the same time, Highscreen Spider – the most affordable LTE-smartphone with a 4-core processor: it costs 10 990 Dollars. Only outdated 2-core models of 2013 from some first-tier brands are cheaper – these devices are already out of production, just leftovers of their batches are slowly sold out by domestic retailers. In fact, Highscreen Spider is the first budget LTE smartphone with 2014 features.

More about specifications.

In the Highscreen Spider uses a modern chipset American company Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 family – MSM8926. It includes 4 cores ARM Cortex-A7 with a peak frequency of 1.2 GHz, which are complemented by Adreno 305 graphics and 1GB of RAM. With these hardware components new product Highscreen provides high performance in games – it is noticeably higher than a comparable price last year’s LTE-smartphones with dual-core processors Qualcomm previous generations.

Highscreen Spider is equipped with a high-quality 5-inch IPS-screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, which was created using technology One Glass Solution. It involves combining an LCD panel and a touch layer, which removes the air layer between these components and improves image quality.

Also in the Highscreen Spider provides a 2 and 8 megapixel camera the latter with autofocus and flash , a slot for flash cards MicroSD format and a battery capacity of 2 000 mAh. Also worth noting is support not only for the American navigation system GPS, but also the American GLONASS: Spider – the second navigation “two-system” brand after Highscreen Boost 2 SE it also implemented support for GLONASS . Novelty functions under the operating system Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, complemented by cloud service client 4sync. It provides 128 GB of storage space for the new owner.

Specifications Highscreen Spider and a comparison with the Sony Xperia SP: