Samsung Galaxy S4 Announced, Shipping in April
But perhaps the most exciting new features, however, are Samsung's suite of user-tracking functions, including its new Smart Pause, Air View, and floating touch controls. The Galaxy S4 uses its front-facing camera to detect when a user looks away from the video they're watching and automatically pauses playback. Air View, on the other hand, allows users to scroll through pages with a wave of their hand. Floating touch takes Samsung's S Pen concept and applies it to your fingers, allowing you to point and hover over an item to view it.
Samsung has also made vast improvements to its camera technology. The Galaxy S4 has a built-in 13-megapixel camera, up from the Galaxy S III's 8-megapixel sensor, which uses new camera functions Dual Shot, Eraser, Drama Shot, and Sound & Shot. Dual Shot allows you to capture images from both the front and rear cameras simultaneously, while Eraser captures multiple frames so that you can remove unwanted subjects, Drama Shot composites moving objects for action shots, and Sound & Shot captures five seconds of images and audio before the capture button is pressed, not unlike HTC's Zoe technology.
The phone runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, but Samsung has developed a suite of its own new software as well. For one, the GS4 will ship with a photo album publishing service, like Apple's greeting card service, which allows you to design a custom photo album directly from your phone that will be shipped to your home. What's more, the Galaxy S4 ships with S Translate, a baked-in realtime translator that supports 9 different languages, while S Voice Drive improves GPS driving capabilities. It also sports a built-in IR transmitter for controlling your TV and other devices in your entertainment center.
The Galaxy S4 is powered by Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa processor, which was introduced at CES in January as the 'world's first' 8-core mobile processor. Models in certain regions, however, will ship with only a quad-core processor. It comes with 2GB of RAM — double that of the iPhone 5 —and 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB of on-board storage. The Galaxy S4 comes with a large, 2,600mAh battery, roughly 23-percent larger than the Galaxy S III. It's also three grams lighter and a millimeter thinner.
The Galaxy S4 will ship in April on 327 carriers in 155 countries in both 4G LTE and 3G versions. In the U.S. it will be offered on Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and others.
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SOGPosted:
SkorpionEVOIII It seems like they just came out with the S3. Time goes by fast lol
Eh, it's been out for a while tbh.
MocroPosted:
EvenEMTMazurME0W Sounds like a good phone.
I think it could top the iPhone 5S unless the 5S gets that fingerprint scanning capability.
Yeah maybe. Looks like a really cool phone though
The hardware in the Samsung Galaxy s2 has almost equivalent specs as the iPhone 5. The GS3 has much better graphics and cpu performance. Now with the 8-core it will be far superior to even the 4th generation iPad. And the fingerprint scanning capability will turn out to be a huge mistake for Apple.
What youre really getting is a quad-core phone with two clusters of four chips that it switches between, depending on how taxing whatever youre asking it to do is.
SOGPosted:
ViceAmendmentNaughtyNuts I couldn't find the price of this, anybody know?
I would guess to be around 500
I believe someone already said this. But thanks anyway.
I would think it's more than $500, how much is the S3 currently?
JakesLobbies-Posted:
ViceAmendmentNaughtyNuts I couldn't find the price of this, anybody know?
I would guess to be around 500
I believe someone already said this. But thanks anyway.
Well its not like i read to find if someone already posted it. I did anyways.
ToesPosted:
AmendmentNaughtyNuts I couldn't find the price of this, anybody know?
I would guess to be around 500
I believe someone already said this. But thanks anyway.
JakesLobbies-Posted:
NaughtyNuts I couldn't find the price of this, anybody know?
I would guess to be around 500
ToesPosted:
EMTTubaNaughtyNuts I couldn't find the price of this, anybody know?
it is tbd. (to be determined)
It's prob around 500
Probably, the s3 is 99 with a contract now.
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