Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy S4 Review!”.
Hey, what is up guys, I’m Kay PhD here and the Samsung Galaxy s4 – will easily be one of the most popular phones of 2013, no doubt and when Samsung builds up that much hype for any phone like they do with the s4, especially when the predecessor, the S3 is so popular. We kind of expect the s4 to be a really good phone, and a lot of people see the Galaxy s4 as an evolutionary update to the galaxy s3, and understandably so, because of the naming. But after my time with it, I’m seeing it a bit differently, I’m seeing the galaxy s4 as more of a downsized reconstructed. Note to hear me out so the galaxy s4 is more square than the galaxy s3 first of all, and although it has very similar dimensions, Samsung will tell you that it’s slightly thinner and slightly lighter.
So that’s true, but you won’t really notice these differences if you’re familiar with the galaxy s3. You also feel right at home with the button layout and the port layout, because they’re the same on the galaxy s4 and they’re, also the same as they are on the galaxy note. 2. But overall, the phone just looks and feels just different different in the way. The Galaxy Note 2 feels different from the s3, mostly because this design again it’s more square and then you check out the insides.
You already know that you can take off the back: the thin, flexible plastic back of the galaxy s4 to reveal the internals, and that will reveal a removable, 2600 milliamp hour battery and a micro SD card slot and the speaker, micro, SIM card, etc. Now compare this to the galaxy s3 on the left and the galaxy note 2 on the right, and there is even more reason to consider the s4. A restructured note to the speaker is now down in the bottom. At the same place, the battery is also now lower in the chassis and the microSD card, and micro SIM card slots are now above the battery.
Instead of below all these, like the note 2, not the s3, also on the galaxy s3, the edges were so tapered that you had no real edge of the phone to grip, and that was a bit of a problem for me, but with the new s4 design, You actually have that metallic band around the phone that creates an edge to grip before the tapering starts. It’S a small touch and it’s something. A lot of reviewers look past as a cheap attempt to look more premium, but it actually really changes the feel of the galaxy s4 in the hand you hold it so, on the hardware side of things, consider this guy a compacted Galaxy.
Note! 2! That’S just the way it feels in the hand and the way it’s built on the software side of things, though this is familiar Samsung territory. So here on the galaxy s4, we have an updated TouchWiz on top of Android 4.2 jelly bean this time. So, first of all, since it’s Android 4.2, now you get a bunch of new google features like, for example, the quick settings in the notification bar that Samsung, so generously, colorized and added to they’re accessible with a two finger swipe down from the top of the notification Bar and you can basically customize them to let you one tap toggle any feature on the phone which is actually kind of nice.
It’S convenient and you also get Android 4.2 S lock, screen widgets and the first one. I install it as dashclock, of course, because it’s beautiful, but yeah plenty of apps are supported. You can swipe to the right to open the camera or swipe to add more lock screen widgets there. A welcome addition that the Galaxy s3 and note 2 don’t have yet and then there’s the rest of TouchWiz. So Samsung stuffed this phone to the gills with software features inside of TouchWiz. A lot of them will make for great commercials and gimmicky tricks and neat demos. So this one is very demo able, which is very good for Samsung, but in the end a lot of these features probably won’t be used by the average user. So, for example, air view is new.
It lets you hover your finger over an album in the gallery to get a preview of the photos inside it’s useful. It works, but it’s an extra gesture. You have to learn and people are used to just tapping in an opening gallery anyway. So I don’t know if people will use that there’s also things like smart scroll and smart stay and smart pause and all this smart stuff, that’s supposed to basically read your eyes using a front-facing camera and take action or adjust itself.
Accordingly, they all work most of the time, but if you have them on by accident – or you don’t want them to be on, you may find your phone scrolling up and down or pausing videos or changing orientation by itself when you didn’t want or need it to Do that so I ended up turning these features off after a while. They got annoying and I just didn’t need them, and I did an explanation. Video of all these things so I’ll leave a link right below the like button on this video. If you want an explanation of all the galaxy s4 software features, but basically overall TouchWiz has a lot of new added features that are like.
I said great for demos, it’s great for showing off to your friends or something like that, but eventually I turn them off because they just weren’t doing it. For me, I don’t really need them overall, though TouchWiz is still very colorful, as we’ve seen on other devices and very very contrast II, just like on the galaxy s3 and the note 2 and touch which is very contrasting because it’s also on that M OLED display And speaking of that display, this is no ordinary AMOLED display. The galaxy s4 is rocking a 1920 by 1080 Super AMOLED plus display, so that gives it a pixel density of 441 pixels per inch and it does have a pentile sub pixel matrix. But nobody can tell this display has far more pixels in that 5 inch space than any naked eye can decipher, and that means razor sharp text images, video everything I love it, it’s what we’ve been waiting for it, which what we knew was coming in the upgrade To the s4 – and it is the number one reason to upgrade to this phone from something like the galaxy s3 now, because it’s an AMOLED display. It also has a few advantages over other 1080p phones, for example, in deeper blacks, higher contrast and lower power consumption.
But all of that comes with the trade-off that this display is no brighter than the galaxy s3, so it kind of struggles in daylight when compared to something like the HTC One, but that’s of course another video. Now it’s pushing these pixels with the Snapdragon 600 processor. In the United States, which, if you don’t know, is an absolute tank of a processor, just a performance monster, benchmark killer and all-around great chip, so it’s going to score really high on pretty much any benchmark that you put it through, and it’s also going to get You great power consumption as well, so I was able to get all-day battery life again about the same battery life as the galaxy s3. With the stock battery, I was using the galaxy s3 on Verizon, which was an LTE network, and I was using the galaxy s4 on AT .