Samsung Galaxy S4 Something Bigger, Better and Sleeker: The Complete Review

Samsung Smartphone devices are always criticized because of deign but on the other hand they are praised because of their latest and build quality and here we have best example Samsung Galaxy S4. Galaxy S series is luckiest for Samsung; it has brought Samsung as best leader in the era of smartphones. Galaxy S IV is ready to write a new history for Samsung in just couple of days it would reach to the market shelves. Today, we get the chance to publish the complete review of Galaxy S4 which you should read before buying it. Following all information will guide you through its best and worst things.

Galaxy S4 Design and ergonomics

The design of Samsung i9500 Galaxy S4 is closer to the Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos and Samsung Galaxy Premier, rather than to the Samsung i9300. It has a flat back and curves at the edges. In addition, the holding feel is more like LG Nexus 4 and LG Optimus G, with the only difference being that they use glass pattern, while the Galaxy S4 main body material is polycarbonate (plastic). However, this simple design gives the smartphone the same flavour.

Build quality of Galaxy S4 is excellent and everything inside the S IV is compactly packed, if you will take this smartphone in the hands, you can realize that you are holding an expensive device, even without a cooling of the metal arm or slippery glass. Taking into account the fact that the new Galaxy S4 product is equipped with a larger 0.2-inch (half a centimeter) screen, smaller than the width of Galaxy S3 smartphone, 6.98 cm vs. 7.06 cm, respectively. Even the thickness and weight ratio is better than S3 – 7.9 mm vs. 8.6 mm and 130 g versus 133 g and only the height remained the same – 136.6 mm, with all this, in addition to the long diagonal of the display, the smartphone is equipped with a more capacious battery. Now its capacity is 2600 mAh, whereas the Samsung Galaxy S3 was 2100 mAh. These all little things develop the overall favorable picture of the device. Note that the decrease in the thickness had no effect on the camera module; on the contrary, instead of 8 MP in the Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4 owners will have at their disposal 13 MP trend.

Those who are confused by the number of holes in the top of the front panel, can look towards the smartphone in the dark blue body color. We also note that the number of sensors actually rolls over, all nine of them, they are used to control the smart phone and get different data. In addition to the visible elements in the upper part of the body is the one that becomes visible only when certain events occurs, whether it’s a missed call, message, or email message from Facebook – LED, flashing in different colors.

The operating system and GIU shell of Galaxy S4

Samsung Galaxy S4 is the first device running under the Android operating system version 4.2.2 from the factory. It also uses the latest version of the shell TouchWiz, which is easy enough to find, despite the fact that it is completely different. In the future, the same interface will sport Galaxy S3, Note II and a number of other devices. The main difference between the shell is changed the lock screen, settings menu, the background substrate (in the first instance, it was white) and the notification bar.

Lock screen of Galaxy S4 allows you to add five additional main Windows, which can be positioned as shortcuts and widgets. Tracking the movements of the fingers looks little funny, it looks like the sunbeams on the wall, the closer you hold your finger to the screen – the brighter the light beam. Unlike in the first instance, this unlock the screen can be as such as well as familiar with earlier versions of TouchWiz, that is, with a ripple effect and associated audio. There is an automatic mode to unlock the screen, depending on your location.

Desk still may include from one to seven windows, panel labels and from one to five applications. The interface works very smoothly for Galaxy S4, it’s about as paging windows and move widgets and shortcuts. Reaction of touch instant is pretty good and responsive. Following the general trend, Samsung Galaxy S4 sensor capable of handling not only the touch of your fingers, but also other items, for example, you can type messages easily with gloves on.

Notifications panel of Galaxy S4 can display five to eight switches in portrait and landscape mode, or all twenty-clicking on the icon in the upper right-hand corner. If any of the labels are not visible on the screen, and have no desire to open all, you can browse to the left or right.

The smartphone Galaxy S4 has better control over voice and gestures, display hints when you hover on a particular area of the screen and track the movement of the user’s eyes. In emergency situations (set menu), the smartphone can take photos of the main and front cameras and send them together with data about your location to a specified number.

Galaxy S4 roaring Hardware Platform

Samsung Galaxy S4 – the first smartphone with a crystal with eight cores. System-on-a-chip Exynos 5410 is made on 28-nanometer process technology and includes four productive core Cortex-A15 processor with a clock speed of 1.6 GHz, and four budget-core Cortex-A7 processor with a clock speed of 1.2 GHz. Looking ahead, we note that the application Antutu Tester, which we use in testing of autonomy, uses the maximum load of the processor and the maximum brightness of the screen. Therefore the results of the benchmark are relatively modest when compared with other models. If you do not load the device at 100%, you can count on 88 hours of music playback, 12 hours and 40 minutes of reading at 0% brightness, 10 hours and 30 minutes of HD-video from Youtube at the same brightness and sound in the headphones for 12 of the 15 levels and 8 hours and 35 minutes at 50% brightness. Those who do not plan to actively load, so they will need to charge the device in every two and a half days. In this case, you do not have to turn off all the sensors, wireless modules, GPS, and switch to the operation mode in 2G-network, during which time you can listen to 2-3 hours of music, view about 30 minutes of video from Youtube, an hour of the other to communicate in social networks and, of course, make phone calls and send messages. The result is more than decent. There is hardly a device of this class that can beat Samsung Galaxy S4 on battery backup.

System-on-a-chip Exynos 5 Octa of Galaxy S4 shows the best results to date performance in all the benchmarks. Only one new benchmark 3DMark, Galaxy S4 scored 4 points less than the Sony Xperia ZL, but such a marginal difference can be attributed to measurement error. Games, Full HD-video, and everything starts working smoothly. It is difficult to imagine the ability of 2 GB of RAM and four 1.6 GHz processor cores and three cores GPU. Built-in memory, depending on the configuration can be 16, 32 or 64 GB. Moreover, we can add 64 GB by using memory cards and virtually unlimited when connecting USB-drives through the USB Host.

Galaxy S4 Display

In this device, Samsung has pioneered the use of Full HD-screen with a diagonal of 5 inches. For the first time in the display settings is possible to choose between “Professional Adobe RGB” and “optimized”. In addition there are two new “Dynamic”, “Standard” and “Invictus.” They significantly affect the outputted image. In addition to these modes, there is an automatic adjustment of brightness depending on the image on the screen.

Galaxy S4 screen brightness values are in the range of 7.23 cd / m ² (Auto-tuning of brightness) to 323 cd / m ² (self-tuning brightness disabled) in the “Dynamic”. In Adobe RGB mode and the “film” does not exceed the brightness of 315 cd / m ². Therefore, if you feel a lack of brightness then it is recommend to disable the automatic adjustment (not to be confused in the automatic brightness control), and select the dynamic behavior of the screen. But in cases where the minimum brightness is needed, it is better to include the feature of automatic.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Super AMOLED-pixel matrix circuit is formed by PenTile, i.e., RGBG. The infamous PenTile cannot be seen with the naked eye, but the fact that the white color gives the green can be seen only when compared head to head with IPS-matrix. To date, Galaxy S4 display is one of the most standard Full HD-quality color display, similar performance display is present in Huawei Ascend D2.

The behavior of the display of Samsung Galaxy S4 on a bright sunny day in no inferior to smartphone Sony Xperia ZL and Huawei Ascend D2, despite the fact that they are much brighter above. This helps in anti-glare substrate. In the test it has been observed, you will never have any desire to increase the brightness, whether on camera or just reading the mail when you are outside and it’s a sunny day.

Galaxy S4 Camera performance

The Samsung understands that consumers are susceptible to MP numbers, so they did not use ultra pixel unclear sensor as of HTC One smartphone and so they have established 13 MP matrix Sony Exmor RS.

You will observe in Galaxy S4 the camera interface has been completely redesigned. Now for the photography or video recording, you do not need to switch to the appropriate mode. In Galaxy S4 there are the keys to select the shooting mode, and above them – information on the current mode. In the lower left corner shows a thumbnail of the last photo or video. In the upper left corner there is the key to change the camera, running front-facing camera for simultaneous operation of two modules (photographs and videos recorded in this mode with the maximum resolution, unlike the LG Optimus G Pro, where the video is recorded with a resolution of 1280×720 pixels). And you can easily reach to the options of changing the shooting modes and other settings easily from the new interface. Moreover, the Camera speed is pretty good and the number of options is able to satisfy the most demanding users.

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The results for Galaxy S4

If we ignore the few specific features, the new flagship Galaxy S IV did not bring revolution or revelation, it is a logical development of the predecessor. Galaxy S4 just contains the new improved display, established 13-megapixel camera, advanced hardware platform, a larger battery, and the latest version of the operating system Android. All this suggests that this is a flagship without any discounts. It shows excellent battery backup time and ergonomics, ample opportunities for setting the display, high performance, seamless and user-friendly interface. The recommended price of Galaxy S4 smartphone is higher than that of HTC One, but lower than Sony Xperia Z and Sony Xperia ZL. Cost of Huawei Ascend D2 is open to question, the expected time of appearance is around the end of May. Well, according to the different tests, it has been observed none of the devices beat the Galaxy S4 for battery backup and performance, the version of the operating system and the smooth operation of the interface, but on the quality of the camera is not all that simple. However, Samsung Galaxy S4 – it’s the best device that will be available before the summer, and after it is unlikely there will soon be smartphones that can encroach on the superiority of the Samsung flagship.

Galaxy S4 Pros:

+ Dimensions and weight
+ Body material
+ Display
+ Camera
+ The latest version of OS
+Hardware platform
+ Battery Backup
+ TouchWiz Interface
+ Support USB Host
+ Versions available with 16, 32 or 64 GB of internal memory
+ MicroSD card support
+ Control home appliances using IR Transmitter
+ Multi-mode

Galaxy S4 Cons:

- No FM-tuner
- Doesn’t bring revolution as expected

This was all regarding the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone, now you know almost everything about the Galaxy S IV performance, stay tuned for more updates.