Samsung launched its flagship android smartphone namely Galaxy S4 which is priced @ 41990/-. It is available in Black Mist and White Frost shades.
DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design is good which slightly better then previous Samsung devices. It uses corning gorilla glass 3 front and a plastic hyper glaze finish body on the back making it durable enough. It is slim at 7.9mm and weighs 130gms. It has a 5 inch 16M FULL HD Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 441ppi. The viewing angles and the sunlight legibility of this display is very good. It uses Samsung's Touch Wiz 5.0 User Interface.
The design is good which slightly better then previous Samsung devices. It uses corning gorilla glass 3 front and a plastic hyper glaze finish body on the back making it durable enough. It is slim at 7.9mm and weighs 130gms. It has a 5 inch 16M FULL HD Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 441ppi. The viewing angles and the sunlight legibility of this display is very good. It uses Samsung's Touch Wiz 5.0 User Interface.
STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has a 16GB/32GB/64GB internal storage options and is expandable upto 64 GB. The device features its on dedicated multimedia apps which are very good. On-board connectivity's such as 2G, 3G, 4G(LTE), WIFI, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS & GLONASS, NFC and USB are standard. It also has IR (Infrared) Port.
CAMERA AND VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has an 13 MP Rear camera with autofocus & LED flash which features Simultaneous HD video and image recording, Dual shot, Drama shot, Sound & shot, Touch focus, Face detection, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is very good. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization & stereo sound having bit-rate 16-17 Mbps in MP4 files. The video recording clarity is very good. It has a 2 MP Front camera which does FULL HD 1080p@30fps video recording. It also has a dual video recording and a dual video calling feature.
SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.2.2 jelly bean out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 (APQ8064T) processor running a quad core at 1.9 GHZ with 2 GB RAM and an Adreno 320 GPU. The performance is very good which provides high graphic intensive games and multitasking run smoothly and there is no lag in at all.
QUADRANT : 12376.
ANTUTU : 24716.
NENAMARK 2 : 60 fps.
ANTUTU : 24716.
NENAMARK 2 : 60 fps.
BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a removable Li-Ion 2600 MAH Battery with wireless charging facility. The battery life is very good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 7:35H.
VIDEO PLAYBACK: upto 12:40H.
TALK TIME : upto 14:30H(2G) / upto 18:15H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 440H(2G) / upto 390H(3G).
PROS
*Great Display and viewing angles.
*Very good camera & video recording clarity.
*Loudspeaker is good.
*IR blaster.
*Removable battery.
*IR blaster.
*Removable battery.
CONS
*Hyper glaze finish does not feel as premium as Xperia Z or HTC one.
*No FM radio.
*Not available in India.
*No dedicated camera key.
*Hyper glaze finish does not feel as premium as Xperia Z or HTC one.
*No FM radio.
*Not available in India.
*No dedicated camera key.
OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.8/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.
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