The Samsung Galaxy S8 was just recently introduced last week, and it brought the house down. The headline change in Samsung's new flagship phone, which was just introduced last week in New York, is the massive display screen that the company was able to incorporate into the device, which is thanks in part to the removal of the traditional home button and much of the bezels around the screen.

However, hidden inside the Galaxy S8 is another feature, something that won't get to fully showcase itself for another few months. The Galaxy S8 is the first smartphone to use the latest and fastest Qualcomm Snapdragon 835. According to CNET, the Snapdragon 835 includes the ability to connect to the so-called Gigabit LTE-class speeds, which is a benchmark that every U.S. carrier company is moving toward this year.

For most who hasn't heard about it, Gigabit LTE is simply your average 4G LTE connection, with full afterburners on. This incorporation would then make the Samsung Galaxy S8 the first ever phone to tap into the said network speed, which is as high as 300 megabits per second, nearly 18 times better compared to average speeds posted by T-Mobile and Verizon's recent performance in an OpenSignal test.

To put that in perspective, having the Gigabit LTE it would take a user only 15 seconds to download a two-hour-long movie. Keep in mind that Gigabit LTE won't just mean faster browsing on the Samsung Galaxy S8, it will also enable some new services like the 360-degree live video streaming for VR, and help power Google's goal of "instant apps," which are programs that would load immediately upon opening.

According to Tech Investor News, Gigabit LTE would also mean users will now be able to pull videos and photos from the cloud, where they will open instantly as if they were already on your Galaxy S8. This makes the connection speed actually faster than a typical smartphone reading a flash memory card.

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