This phone is better than other rival phones at same price level. I've been using samsung s4 for last 1 year. I would like to tell you the accidents it suffers. I am a hard core gamer. I installed all the high graphics games like aspahlt,modern combat,fifa14 etc. I also connected Zenga controller with my phone and games are running smooth. Camera quality is just awesome. You are gonna love the clearity and the sharpness of the quality. It's simply amazing.
I had seen every phone in the market lagging but this phone never lags. Despite of heavy use it never turns you down. If you want to put your money on some big budget flagship i advice you to go for S Awesome phone. Your information is wrong. Even if the S4 is made of plastic, it feels premium in hand. Since its a premium device no one is going to throw it on the ground. So far as the accidental drops are concerned, the phone can easily sustain those drops.
So why to worry about plastic body? The stock video player is simple but it supports all free formats including the Matroska i. MKV format. Therefore the battery life is also conserved. Fantastic Camera. Outstanding bench mark scores: Better than any other smartphone in the world. Battery mAH : Even 3 cell battery of No FM Radio. No Wireless Charging as of now. Too Many features will confuse few users.
Only 8. Group Play: You can play multi-player games with other S4 users. Turn Over To Mute: If someone is calling you and you don? Buy your phone carefully because it's a device you'll keep 24X7 with you. Cons: 1. Loud speaker: Better than S3 but I expected more. To be honest this is an expectation which is upgraded with every iteration, but its decent and not bad. Software gimmicks: To be honest only a hand few are useful and make sense and the rest are worthless.
The people who buy these phones are neither kids nor clowns entertaining people at a circus. So most of the add-ons are not even worth a mention cuz they don't justify their presence or their performance.
But its retailing at a competitive price which should drop once the HTC one launches. But it? The lone speaker on the Galaxy S4 resides on its backside, in that wonderfully unconsidered spot where audio is both muffled by your hand and blasting directly away from your ears.
Once again, HTC broke the curve by offering two big, powerful speakers pointed straight at your face — but the One aside, the GS4 offers surprisingly loud sound from rear-facing grille. It's not very rich and is very compressed, but it's loud. Loud is good. While HTC is trying to convince buyers that megapixels don't matter, and that its so-called Ultrapixels are better anyway, Samsung went the opposite direction. I don't know if all the pixels in the Galaxy S4's megapixel sensor are the reason, or if I should credit Samsung's fast processor or the clear attention paid to its software, but the upshot is that the GS4's camera is the best Android camera I've ever used by a considerable margin, and in most cases it's every bit as good as the iPhone 5's camera.
The GS4's autofocus stumbles in low light, too; I learned quickly to take three shots at night, in order to get one that was properly focused. It's actually Samsung's experience with dedicated cameras that make shooting photos with the GS4 so nice. The company borrowed a lot of the GS4's camera software from the Galaxy Camera , a concept car of sorts that clearly informed its ability to build a great cameraphone. The interface is much improved over the S III, from the scrolling Mode dial to the one-press capture of either stills or video.
It's also simple and fast, two things many cellphone cameras are not. The GS4's greatest photographic achievement, though, is that it manages to be simple and fast while simultaneously offering the largest, most impressive feature set of any smartphone camera I've ever used.
If you're just turning the phone to Auto and firing pictures, you're missing out. Instead, you should try turning it to Eraser Mode, which detects moving objects in your photo — like the stranger that always walks by right as you take the shot — and automatically removes them. Or scroll up to Drama Shot, which takes a series of pictures as a subject moves and then shows a whole leap, or the soccer ball's whole flight path, in one automatically-overlaid photo.
Animated Photo lets you take a few seconds of video, then choose with your finger whether a part of the frame is still or in motion — you can actually create and share animated GIFs without ever leaving the camera app.
Some of the more advanced features require some staging — and Drama Shot sometimes takes a couple of tries — but they're all pretty cool.
All except for Dual Camera, which despite Samsung's heavy promotion remains a mystery to me. The pitch is simple enough: you take a picture with both front and rear cameras simultaneously and overlay one on the other, so the person taking the picture appears in the picture as well.
It's a neat idea in theory, but in practice left me just superimposing giant versions of my head onto random buildings, inside weird postage-stamp borders or within a heart. It's a fun, silly way to take an "I'm in New York!
There are a lot of trees in this forest, some of them less than perfect, but taken as a whole the Galaxy S4's camera is a triumph.
If it supplants the many terrible Android cameras posting to my Instagram feed, we'll all be better off. Speaking of forests with lots of trees: the GS4 may run Android 4. Normally I'm conditioned to believe stock Android is better than any manufacturer skin, but Samsung overhauls the software so completely that I'm less annoyed than I would be with a company like Motorola or LG, where the changes are typically a combination of aesthetic, problematic, and pointless.
Some of Samsung's added features are all three, but many are downright useful. Samsung pioneered the radio and connectivity toggles in the notification windowshade, and the GS4 offers access to more and more settings there, including a brightness slider. Samsung's big clock-and-weather widget comes on the home screen by default, and the general Touchwiz look and feel remains intact.
The green-on-blue-on-gray scheme is growing on me, but Samsung's hideous Calendar app never will; likewise many of the Phone menus and screens look cartoonishly terrible, with huge icons and ugly images. What Touchwiz mostly offers is options: with a bit of effort, the GS4 can look and feel almost any way you choose. You can hide or rearrange apps in the app drawer, pick and choose quick-launch apps for the lock screen, change the order of settings and toggles, and much, much more.
There's even an Easy Mode on the GS4, which turns your phone into something like John's Phone : it presents a simple dialer, shortcuts to a few common apps, huge icons for everything, and hides almost everything else. And boy, is there a lot going on. There are now 18 yes, 18 toggles in the notification pulldown, which you can see by pressing a new button at the top right — it opens up a command center of sorts, which lets you turn off everything from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to some of the wilder eye-tracking features.
I kind of wish there were a Medium mode that would take away all the Minority Report stuff, and just leave a more normal Android phone. I'll never forget Samsung's launch event for the GS4 , a bizarre spectacle at Radio City Music Hall where actors went through feature after feature, explaining how they work together to make the GS4 your "Life Companion.
S Health is the best example of an actual Life Companion — it's a Fitbit- or FuelBand-style app that tracks your steps, calories, sleep, and diet, offering you a way to get fit or in my case just provide more data about my pathetically sedentary lifestyle.
It's handy to have built right into your phone, and the app's pretty powerful thanks to the S4's temperature and humidity sensors — you can actually tell it how you feel, and it'll figure out how you should adjust your surroundings to feel better.
S Health is a great tool, though it won't be as good as it could be until its companion accessories come out in a few months' time. My aforementioned sedentary lifestyle is also probably to blame for why I used WatchOn, Samsung's handy universal remote and search-based TV guide app, far more than S Health.
More than anything, it's just convenient — I tend to have my phone in my hands while I watch TV anyway, so switching to WatchOn to change the channel is light work. There's a full-fledged suite of Office products via the Polaris suite, though I can't say there's any way to make editing a PowerPoint on your phone a pleasant experience. It just takes some work to get it the way you want.
You can even run two apps at once, side-by-side with a system just like the Note 8. I like the apps and services Samsung adds to the Android experience here, but I'm less enamored with all the ways Samsung has reimagined how you'll want to actually interact with your cellphone. It's since been mimicked once more by the LG G2 , which was a real competitor to this handset when it first launched - it's got the same ugly plastic case, but much improved innards at the same price.
That's no criticism, as the device is well built, but it has a similar rounded feel. This is intriguing given the history of the two companies, and shows more of a leaning towards the plastic shell from the Asian brands in general.
The buttons have barely changed from before - the power button has been shifted slightly on the right-hand side, and is now much easier to hit than it was on the S3. The volume key is less easy to hit, and could be lower down in, but the travel on both of these buttons is satisfying, and you'll always know when you've hit them. The plastic used on the home key has been upgraded too, with a more solid feel under the thumb when you press down to get back to the main home screen.
The two buttons flanking it give you access to menus or take you back from whence you came, and while both are easily hidden, they light up nicely with an even glow when called into action. There are loads of sensors on the front of the phone above the screen, including cameras to track your eyes, a 2MP camera for HD video calling and a proximity sensor for knowing where the phone is in relation to your ear.
On the white review unit I had their presence looks rather ugly either side of the generous earpiece, but on the darker models this is less of an issue. The other notable addition to the design of the Galaxy S4 is the infrared blaster on the top of the phone. Again, this isn't a new feature, but it works well in practice, and despite being small is powerful enough indeed. Other than that, there's not a lot more to say about the design of the phone, as it's just a little underwhelming.
I know it's unfair to lambast a brand for not overhauling the design every year, but in the One X and the One , HTC proved that it is possible to offer up a new design over successive generations and still keep things attractive.
Looking so similar to the Galaxy S3, you can't help but feel Samsung has gone a little too Apple and created something more in keeping with the Samsung Galaxy S3S - a minor update to a great phone to keep those coming out of contract happy that they have a premium phone to upgrade to.
I do implore you to get the phone in your hand before making your judgement though. While it's not got the best design on the market when it comes to materials, it was a big step forward for its time and allows for a grippy and easy-to-hold phone with a whopping screen inside.
It still feels cheap as chips compared to the iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 though. To just dismiss it for being plastic would be doing the Galaxy S4 a disservice as it has so much more going for it than that. But it's worth remembering that to a lot of people, the way a phone looks is as important as how much RAM it's got on board and how fast the CPU is - if not more so.
Current page: Introduction. Gareth has been part of the consumer technology world in a career spanning three decades. He started life as a staff writer on the fledgling TechRadar, and has grown with the site primarily as phones, tablets and wearables editor until becoming Global Editor in Chief in Gareth has written over 4, articles for TechRadar, has contributed expert insight to a number of other publications, chaired panels on zeitgeist technologies, presented at the Gadget Show Live as well as representing the brand on TV and radio for multiple channels including Sky, BBC, ITV and Al-Jazeera.
Passionate about fitness, he can bore anyone rigid about stress management, sleep tracking, heart rate variance as well as bemoaning something about the latest iPhone, Galaxy or OLED TV. North America.
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