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Samsung Galaxy S4 Review - Awesome phone, incremental upgrade from SIII

Article Category: Computers and Technology

Author Name: Arun Kumar

Samsung Galaxy S4 Review - Awesome phone, incremental upgrade from SIII

Galaxy S4 is an incredible phone. I have been using this unlocked S4 for past 2 days helping a friend to migrate from iPhone 4S. My friend has been on iPhone and it also gave me a unique perspective. I used iPhone for couple of years and been using Android for past 3+ years.

I have used Galaxy S3, Note II and for me S4 is more like a S3s:) If you have a Galaxy S3, it is perfect and there is no need to move to S4. The new features are more like minor upgrades for me. Just like Detroit rolls out new cars every year, phone manufacturers have found excellent way to make yearly upgrades.

Battery came for almost a day. The video playback was crisp and my friend was amazed at the customization options. It is heaven for a iphone user to come out of shackles and explores the wonderful world of Android. It sure sounds like it is for geeks, but Samsung has created lot of ways to simplify and make it less intimidating. The EASY mode is for one such reason. Samsung's addition of all those apps (commonly referred as crapware) is not as bad as HTC or LG. Android experience is classified as pure vanilla in phones like Nexus. Vendors like Samsung have added a whole lot of extra programs.

5" HD Super AMOLED 1920 x 1080 display (441 ppi) is just plain gorgeous. I put a 64 GB microSDXC card SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Class 6 Memory Card with SD Adapter - Retail Packaging as my friend wants to take lot of movies (built-in 2 GB RAM, 16 GB ROM). Audio/Video is one section where S4 has nudged S3.

S4's infrared sensor is the same technology as TV remote control, so with WatchON you can change the TV channel from your phone. My friend was shocked to see this feature. Having used Android for a long time, I explored all new features one by one. My friend is still getting used to and feels this is too complicated. I broke down into lot of sub features and told my friend he may not use 50 % of features, but told him to explore one feature at a time and focus on that.

Games were very buttery, this phones runs -based octa-core mobile CPU. This is apparently world's first! Inside this chip is Imagination Technologies' PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU. I tried several car racing games and performance was phenomenal. People on the XDA-Developers forum report seeing smearing and ghosting when scrolling on the phone. This especially occurs to people when scrolling among darker colors, which begin showing up as purple. I tried hard to see if I could on the S4 I was testing with my friend and I could not see it. I am sure these can be upgraded with software over due course.

This works with many of Samsung's built-in apps, including the photo gallery, the dialer, Samsung's browser and email client. This uses the IR sensor on the top of the phone to detect movement by your palm or finger. One can flip between open tabs in Samsung's browser app, skip to a new song in the music player and do many other things.

In the end, my friend was impressed with what all Android and in particular S4 had to offer. I suppose that is natural, given that the iPhone and this phone are at the top of the smartphone pile, but I think comparing two phones based solely on a feature spec sheet is silly. There are going to be iPhone fans who are blinded by their loyalty that nothing Samsung does will ever be good enough, and there will be Samsung fans who will thumb their nose at anything Apple does.

I'll start with first impressions. The packaging is extremely neat. Easy to open, everything was logical. I didn't need a manual to tell me where or how to insert the SIM card or the battery. After inserting both and clipping on the back plate, I powered the phone on for the first time (hold the button on the right edge of the screen for a few seconds). The \* immediate \* impression is along the lines of "holy crap, look at that screen!". When the animated Samsung logo fires up it is immediately obvious, before even the home screen kicks in, that the screen is bright and so sharp you could shave an egg with it.

Once the OS is loaded and the screen has more pixels, it is even more obvious, if that is possible, just what an amazing screen this thing has. The text is as crisp as a winter morning, and the screen responds to the lightest of touches. Flipping through the default screens there are a lot of apps that I suspect many people will remove and trim down the widgets and apps. They're cool (I wont review the apps, that would take too much space) but I use my phone mostly for making and receiving calls, taking notes, and a few photos and videos when the occasion demands it and I don't have my DSLR with me.

Samsung made those fears baseless with their "Smart-Switch" application. I had backed up my iPhone prior to removing the SIM to put in the S4, and Smart-Switch found the backup and seemlessly imported all of my contacts, old SMS conversations, notes and calendar entries.

Samsung provides a truly awful notes application called "S-Note". It's for children. While it does allow you to create text-only notes it also allows you to scribble notes. I am guessing some sort of pen device would make this more attractive. It stores the notes very differently. The import took the first few words of each name and manufactured some sort of file name. Yes, on S-Note, each note is its own "file". The upshot is, that although the notes imported perfectly using SmartSwitch, they do not get synced with Outlook when using Samsung's "Kies" sync program. It is a terrible oversight on Samsung's behalf that notes are not stored in a way that can be synced with Outlook, when all other data can be.

The next day I was at a Metallica concert and got to use the camera and video for the first time. As if the flash on a phone could light up a stadium enough to make any difference to the image! You have to hold the phone steady with one hand and then pinch this small rectangle to zoom.

I have spent a week with the phone now. I find that my fingers, which have been used to an iPhone since the day it was launched, now quickly find their way around. I love that you can drag phone contacts, or WhatsApp contacts right onto the home page, so the people you call or message the most often are just a single tap away. The voice recognition is extremely good, Skype, WhatsApp and Facebook all work flawlessly, and Chrome is as zippy as can be.

Overall, I am extremely impressed with this phone and do not regret buying it. I love Apple phones, I think they are marvelous devices, but I personally wanted to try something new for a change.

It would be nice if I could specify that only phone contacts show up when the phone syncs with Bluetooth to my car. At the Metallica concert I couldn't upload to Facebook because the phone detected and used HSPA, whereas my friend next to me with an old Blackberry was connected via 3G just fine. I think I disabled them somehow, because when my friend upgraded from his Blackberry to an S4 (where toe Smart-Switch was not quite as smart as it was for me - he lost about 22 of his 500 contacts), they work just fine on his phone.

In summary, this is a fantastic phone, whether you are switching from a Blackberry or iPhone or getting your first real smartphone. It has some warts, of that there is no doubt, but all phones do (admittedly the iPhone has fewer, though). If you use your phone for photos and videos a lot, this phone can't be beat.

Before reviewing the phone, I want to say to all the people who just reviewed this 1 star because the price is too much and AT&T an T-Mobile has it, please quite wasting everyone's time. WHY? Without buying it how do you know it's fake or not ????
And for the record if you want to pay $630 to get the phone from T-Mobile go ahead. When you end up paying Tax and shipping you end up paying $700 anyways. There you go, digest that. That being said, the T-Mobile S4 that I got comes with crap that is running in the background using and draining the battery up space. This has only the Samsung software that aren't completely useless.
That being said, on to the phone review. I've had Samsung TV's, Tablets, and the Galaxy S, SII and now the S4. You're not locked in with some stupid cell phone provider and their bloatware isn't crapping the phone's style.
The display gorgeous, really vibrant, and I love the features so far! Beat that apple !!!
With the Galaxy S4 having more computing power than the Apollo 13, it's a solid, good buy.
All in all, it's a fantastic, wonderful phone and I recommend it to anyone.

I suppose that is natural, given that the iPhone and this phone are at the top of the smartphone pile, but I think comparing two phones based solely on a feature spec sheet is silly. It would be nice if I could specify that only phone contacts show up when the phone syncs with Bluetooth to my car. I think I disabled them somehow, because when my friend upgraded from his Blackberry to an S4 (where toe Smart-Switch was not quite as smart as it was for me - he lost about 22 of his 500 contacts), they work just fine on his phone. If you use your phone for photos and videos a lot, this phone can't be beat. You're not locked in with some stupid cell phone provider and their bloatware isn't crapping the phone's style.

Keywords: Samsung Galaxy 4, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy, Samsung Galaxy s

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