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Testseek.com have collected 1196 expert reviews of the Samsung GT-I9500 Galaxy S4 and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung GT-I9500 Galaxy S4.
Award: Editor’s Choice May 2013
May 2013
 
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1196 Reviews
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The editors liked

  • Hand gesture and eyetracking control
  • Large
  • Sharp display
  • Lightweight
  • Sleek body
  • Battery performance on the S4 is among the best we've seen from smartphones this year
  • Though it's still not anywhere near as everlasting as the RAZR MAXX HD. It's important to note
  • Though
  • That our testing took place on T-Mobile's HSPA+ network
  • And not
  • Thin and light
  • Sharplooking 1080p display
  • Solid battery life
  • Removable battery
  • SD card support
  • Good camera
  • Interesting software features
  • Support for glovecovered touchscreen use
  • Brilliant display – which is a massive improvement over the display on the S III
  • Slim and lightweight formfactor
  • Expandable memory and removable battery
  • Builtin IR blaster for using the phone as a TV remote
  • Easy Mode is welcome addition
  • Tons of multi
  • Fast and powerful performance
  • Excellent camera
  • Gorgeous display
  • Lots of useful extra software
  • Excellent display
  • Battery life
  • Air View
  • Multi-window
  • Stylish chassis with same button placement makes it easy for veteran Galaxy users to upgrade
  • Bright
  • Vivid 1080p screen
  • 13MP takes great shots
  • Stellar performance
  • Expansion slot can afford you a lot of room if you buy the 64GB version and get the 64GB
  • Large display
  • Can interact with display while wearing gloves
  • Great performance
  • Good battery life
  • Powerful hardware
  • Quality screen
  • Great camera
  • Great Performance
  • Improved Build Quality
  • Excellent Screen
  • Good Camera
  • Handy Gesture Controls
  • IR Blaster
  • Good Battery Life
  • Multitude of Accessories
  • The Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition offers users the most powerful hardware specs of any Android phone without any carrier bloatware
  • And with an elegantly simple Jelly Bean UI
  • Vibrant display
  • S Health is neat
  • Fantastic camera with numerous features
  • Gesture recognition
  • Vibrant 5-inch display
  • Most innovative features on any Android phone
  • Fantastic camera
  • Colorful full HD display
  • Removable battery and microSD Card
  • Feature-rich camera
  • Useful preloaded apps
  • Gesture support
  • Fast quad-core performance
  • Superior camera with innovative features
  • Powerful software
  • Useful gestures
  • Vibrant 5-inch full HD display
  • MicroSD card
  • Highres display
  • Great camera features
  • Compact for its size
  • Decent battery life
  • Stunning screen
  • Powerful and innovative
  • Fantastic battery life
  • Strong camera in good light
  • Incredible display
  • Great battery life
  • Outstanding sharpness and display contrast
  • Fantastic fluidity offered by the powerful chipset
  • User interface with plentiful additional options
  • Mass and dimensions
  • Excellent display quality
  • Good speaker quality
  • Easy to type on
  • Portable
  • Easy to read on
  • Easy to navigate
  • The Samsung Galaxy S4 has Android 4.2.2
  • A fantastic camera
  • A powerful quad-core processor
  • And software solutions for just about every scenario -- including working as a TV/DVR remote. It's also comfortable in hand and has NFC
  • A user-replaceable batter
  • Huge display in a not so huge phone
  • Entertaining new features
  • A blinding number of features. Incredibly fast. Ships with Android 4.2.2. Relatively small for its display size. Spectacular call quality.
  • Great screen
  • Fast processor
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  • Android phones
  • Galaxy S4
  • Jelly Bean
  • Samsung
  • Comfortable
  • Attractive design
  • Access to battery
  • Beautiful full HD display
  • Tons of features
  • Many very useful
  • Fast
  • Smooth performance
  • Gorgeous 5-inch display
  • Slim
  • Small chassis
  • Great camera performance in well-lit scenes
  • The rear speaker is sufficiently loud
  • A bevy of software features for the taking
  • Battery life that usually lasts most the day
  • Beautiful display
  • Large removable battery
  • Expandable storage
  • Solid camera with excellent feature set
  • Elaborate sensor and radio package
  • Some software features show potential
  • Fabulous 5inch screen
  • Packed with highend features
  • LTE and 802.11ac WiFi support
  • HDMIout via MicroUSB with MHL support
  • Surprisingly good battery life
  • Large screen
  • Compact phone
  • Supercustomizable
  • Polished user interface
  • Impressive Screen
  • Excellent Camera
  • Better Design than its predecessor
  • Almost lag-free
  • Extremely high system and 3D performance
  • Includes basically all existing communication technologies
  • Excellent Full HD display
  • Comprehensive set of accessories
  • Numerous ways to control the phone
  • Surprisingly compact and light
  • Ships with some useful p
  • Superb 1080p Super AMOLED display
  • Camera takes impressive daylight shots
  • Snapdragon 600 delivers solid performance
  • Battery life better than most flagships
  • Polished hardware and software. Improves upon winning formula. Powerful quadcore processor. Userreplaceable battery. Great camera. Expandable storage.
  • Snapdragon 600 quadcore CPU is the fastest in class
  • Massive UI customization
  • Some neat new features
  • Air Gesture is fun
  • Amazing camera
  • UI and static images pop
  • Qi wireless charging
  • NFC support
  • Love the multiwindow app tray
  • Flipboard integration.

The editors didn't like

  • Plastic backing may feel cheap to some
  • Not a huge upgrade from the GS3
  • Big surprise to nobody
  • The software is not up to snuff. Let's ignore for a moment that all of the "innovative" banner "features" mentioned above are at best useless and at worst annoying. The rest of the UI ain't much better. For example
  • There's a "feat
  • Whew! Like I said lots going on with this phone's software. A few final odds and ends to close things out
  • Polycarbonate body creates a slippery grip
  • Hardware design and materials aren't the nicest out there
  • Some new features like Smart Pause / Smart Scroll and Air Gesture / Air View can be frustrating to use
  • The touchscreen wasn't responsive to gloves for
  • Unpleasant
  • Cheap design
  • Sheer number of features can be overwhelming
  • Performance can suffer in odd places
  • Rubberised sides would improve feel and grip
  • Some of the extra camera settings are too novel
  • Battery could have been bigger for the 1080p screen (but to be fair
  • Samsung's software seems to be more energy efficient)
  • Performance comes in second place
  • Extra app store and S Voice feel like an attemp
  • Lots of extra software that you may or may not use
  • Very expensive without a contract
  • Plastic cover
  • Confusing features
  • Lack of standout features that are truly practical
  • Looks Nearly Identical To The S III
  • Relatively Pricey
  • Google's Galaxy S4 variant strips away a lot of Samsung's neat software and photo features
  • And it comes with a steep price tag
  • TouchWiz feels dated
  • Plastic aesthetics
  • Certain features just don't work
  • Mediocre battery life
  • Screen hard to read in direct sunlight
  • Plastic design
  • Below-average battery life
  • Screen hard to view in direct sunlight
  • Small LTE network
  • Average battery life
  • Screen difficult to read in direct sunlight
  • Plasticky design
  • Plastic construction
  • Generic design
  • Cluttered interface
  • Dysfunctional features
  • Glossy plastic construction
  • Heavy interface
  • Occasional UI stutter
  • Mediocre low-light camera
  • Too big
  • Difficult to use with one hand
  • Much of the proprietary software is forgettable
  • Noninnovative design and familiar performance
  • Poor battery life while numerous sensors are activated
  • Poorly realized Air Gestures function
  • Does not offer a different feeling than Galaxy S III when being used
  • Subpar camera quality – did not perform well in low lighting
  • Its screen is dimmer than competitors'
  • Its plastic design gives it a cheaper look than its rivals
  • And we found the Galaxy S4's power button turned on at undesirable times. Not all camera modes work as promised
  • And a long list of software features can q
  • Feature overload
  • Only 9 gigs of internal storage on 16 gig model
  • Still slippery
  • Limited storage on 16GB model. Low-light camera performance could be better
  • Poor battery life
  • Touchwiz is full of bloatware
  • Samsung's software is big bag of “why?” Construction is cheap
  • And there's nothing exotic or inspiring about the hardware design. Camera software is kludgy
  • And lowlight shots get noisy quickly. Pricing varies widely (see above) but leans toward expensive
  • TouchWiz has cartoony design
  • Some features only work with proprietary apps
  • The build and materials feel cheap
  • Low-light camera performance is poor
  • Call quality could be better
  • Intermittent lag and hesitation
  • Lots of Samsung and AT&T bloatware
  • Uninspiring aesthetics
  • Dated UI which stutters and hesitates occasionally
  • Many Samsung features are more gimmick than useful addition
  • Conclusion
  • As with the other versions of this phone
  • The Galaxy S 4 for Verizon is an amazing piece of hardware. It'
  • Dated UI with only average responsiveness
  • Samsung features are more gimmick than useful addition
  • Mediocre call quality
  • Expensive
  • Many of the proximityand gesturebased features feel gimmicky
  • Limited internal storage (16GB) on review unit
  • Thin
  • Plastic casing
  • No innovative features
  • A lot of bloatwares
  • Expensive (was $700 on Amazon
  • Now around $400)
  • In the last few years
  • The Samsung Galaxy series smartphones have become the king of all Android phones and they are always the first thing to co
  • Plastic case
  • Multitude of ways to control the phone can be overwhelming
  • Many features only work in specific apps
  • Pre-installed bloatware
  • Speakers could sound better
  • Several new features are impractical and half-baked
  • Boring overall design without premium look or feel
  • Plastic design is not for everyone
  • Particularly on a flagship phone. HTC One delivers tough competition.
  • Plastic feels flimsy
  • Slipper and subpar
  • Lacks heft
  • Clutterpotential with overlapping interfaces
  • To familiar in the face of changing competition

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  Published: 2017-03-05, Author: Russell , review by: lifewire.com

  • Yet again, Samsung have produced a market leading smartphone. It may seem to some to be more like the Galaxy S3.1 than a full update, but for those who give it the time, learn what it can do and take advantage of the advanced features, it really is hard t...

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  Published: 2017-02-03, Author: Sabeeh , review by: wccftech.com

  • Having read my in depth review on the latest monstrosity by Samsung, you should now know the Galaxy S4 in the end is basically a revision of the S3 with more refined looks, build, and 3 grams heavier. However, it's plastic build might be a cause for conce...

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  Published: 2015-12-17, review by: beststuff.com

  • Abstract:  Here's the big news. Samsung has just outted the new Galaxy S4, which is due to hit store shelves this month.The Samsung S3 included a 4.8-inch screen, but the 4 has increased that to a stunning 5-inches. And that's not all. The screen is of the AMOLED ty...

 
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  Published: 2015-03-31, Author: The , review by: goodhousekeeping.com

  • Great battery life, Excellent display quality, Good speaker quality, Easy to type on, Portable, Easy to read on, Easy to navigate
  • Subpar camera quality – did not perform well in low lighting

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  Published: 2014-09-10, Author: Randy , review by: examiner.com

  • Abstract:  Previously exclusive to the iPhone and iPad, the olloclip 4-IN-1 for the Samsung Galaxy looks much different than its Apple predecessors. However, this latest product from Southern California-based olloclip retains all the expert craftsmanship and cutting...

 
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  Published: 2014-07-17, Author: Russell , review by: about.com

  • Abstract:  I can remember a time, and not all that many years ago, when it was deemed cool to have as small a mobile phone as possible. Tiny little flip phones, barely as tall and wide as a credit card, were all the rage as manufacturers competed to see who could ma...

 
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  Published: 2014-05-23, Author: Brett , review by: examiner.com

  • Abstract:  The designThe Samsung Galaxy S4 is a nice phone to look at, but the design overall is quite boring, especially when compared to its main Android rival, the HTC One. The One has beautiful straight edges and sleek lines, and it is made from beautiful brushe...

 
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  Published: 2014-04-23, review by: steves-digicams.com

  • By Eric Butterfield The Samsung Galaxy S4 is a sophisticated smartphone with an onboard 13-megapixel camera. The thin chassis makes it easy to carry around in a pocket, without feeling weighed down by a bulky device. And, 13 megapixels make it sound li...

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  Published: 2014-04-18, Author: Tuan , review by: techwalls.com

  • Impressive Screen, Excellent Camera, Good battery life, Better Design than its predecessor, Almost lag-free,
  • No innovative features, Plastic design, A lot of bloatwares, Expensive (was $700 on Amazon, now around $400), In the last few years, the Samsung Galaxy series smartphones have become the king of all Android phones and they are always the first thing to co

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  Published: 2014-04-14, review by: phonearena.com

  • So, we wanted to know how the 16MP camera on the Samsung Galaxy S5 performs, and the results from our comparison are now in. The answer is not going to surprise anyone – the phone is ideal for taking photos and videos under a broad range of circumstanc...

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