Samsung Galaxy S4 Review, Successor of The Galaxy S

Review: Samsung Galaxy S4, Successor of The Galaxy S - After waiting for a long time, finally Samsung Galaxy S4 is present to us. Comes with a variety of interesting features, how about the performance?

Design

Dimension: 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9 mm, 130 grams; full touchscreen; polycarbonate plastic material; 3.5mm audio port, an infrared transmitter; the power/lock; mic hole, microUSB port; volume control. Physical Galaxy S4 does look very similar to its predecessor. However, it is more slender body dimensions, thinner and lighter.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Review, Successor of The Galaxy S

At the front there is a physical home button and two capacitive buttons (menu and back) below the screen. Samsung put a 3.5 mm audio port and an infrared sensor at the top, on the right side of the power button, while below there is a microUSB port and a mic hole, last on the left are volume buttons.

Display

Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen, 16 million colors, 1080 x 1920 pixels, 5.0 inches (~ 441 ppi pixel density), multi-touch, Corning Gorilla Glass 3. Comes with a wide screen, the Samsung Galaxy S4 also has a high pixel density so that the screen is sharper and brighter. Thanks to the AMOLED technology, Galaxy S4 has the characteristics of an impressive contrast, and better color saturation than LCD panels.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Review, Successor of The Galaxy S

Galaxy S4 also use the latest operating system from Android, v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). Comes with TouchWiz UI, S4 also includes many new features. New features of Android 4.2 that is lockscreen widget which can also be enjoyed on the S4. In fact, not only that, the lockscreen can also present some panels like homescreen.

Processor and Memory

Octa Core processor (Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 + Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7), 5 Octa Exynos 5410 chipset, PowerVR SGX GPU 544MP3, RAM: 2GB, Internal Storage: 16/32/64GB, external: up to 64GB, Li-Ion 2600 mAh.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Review, Successor of The Galaxy S

In a simple, this architecture juxtaposing 2 pieces quadcore processor differ, one processor-performing more powerful who called "big" (in this case Cortex A15) and a an processor which is more slower however consume power more frugal (Cortex A7) which called "LITTLE". It such allows S4 to work according the needs, whether with performance or else efficiency of power who maximal.

Camera

Main Camera: 13 MP, 4128 x 3096 pixels, autofocus, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization, LED flash, Dual Shot, Simultaneous HD video and image recording, the HDR; 1080p@30fps video recording, dual rec-video; secondary Camera: 2MP, 1080p@30fps, dual video call.

You no longer need to switch between camera mode and video recorder on S4 because the camera interface already contains both. As already exists on S3, you can also record video and take pictures at the same time.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Review, Successor of The Galaxy S

On the camera, the Samsung Galaxy S4 also has a new feature, namely Dual shot allows the user to enable the main camera and front camera simultaneously. Best face that functions much like the time shift at the BlackBerry Z10, Sound and shot which adds voice about the photo immortalized.

Connectivity

Network: Quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900), HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100; GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, 42.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps; Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, EDR, LE, NFC, Infrared, v2.0 microUSB (MHL 2), USB On-the-go, USB Host .

Samsung Galaxy S4 has a very complete connectivity. You can connect to the internet easily and quickly. Not only supports USB OTG technology, the USB port also supports MHL that is a new version 2.0, which means you can connect the S4 to a 3D TV with 1080p output without the help of external resources.

Conclusion

Samsung Galaxy S4 has a very interesting design because it is thinner and lighter. Comes with using the latest operating system from Android, Galaxy S4 also have hardware with superior performance. S4 also has a great camera with a resolution of the 13MP and full HD video recording. Unfortunately, this smartphone still uses plastic materials.


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