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.
May 2013
(85%)
1196 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
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(89%)
515 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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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.
Abstract: 삼성전자가 정말이지 갤럭시S4에 다양한 사용자 인터페이스(UI)를 집어 넣었다. 삼성전자가 갤럭시S3부터 꾸준하게 밀고 있는 네이처(Nature) UX도 이 정도면 좋기도 하고 안타깝기도 하다. 한 마디로 정의하자면 참 이기적이다. 갤럭시S4 끼리만 구동되는 알짜 기능이 너무 많기 때문에 나만 보고 말 일처럼 되버리는 게 가장 안타깝다.앞서 살펴본 카메라 기능도 마찬가지다. 사운드앤샷과 애니메이션 포토는 갤럭시S4 이외에 다른 스마트폰이나 PC에서는...
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Abstract: 야구팬이라면 필수 아이템. ‘갤럭시S4 LTE-A'로 즐기는 SKT ‘T베이스볼 멀티뷰'야구팬이세요? 전 롯데팬이기는 하지만 요즘 LG가 멋진 모습을 보여주면서 국내 프로야구 분위기는 최고조를 향해 달려가고 있는 느낌입니다.특히 이 글을 쓰고 있는 7월6일인 전날 LG와 넥센의 경기는 거의 플레이오프 급의 멋진 경기를 보여줬습니다. 류현진 선수와 추신수 선수의 경기까지 야구팬분들이라면 요즘 무척 즐거우실 듯 합니다.그런데 야구팬 분들 요즘 야구는 어떻게...
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Abstract: 갤럭시S4 LTE-A로 얻은 혜택은 뭐가 있을까? T프리미엄과 LTE-A의 조합!혹시 출퇴근 시간이 오래 걸리나요? 전 출퇴근 시간이 무척 깁니다. 약 1시간 4~50분 정도의 긴 시간을 필요로 하고 있습니다. 그러다 보니 스마트폰에 볼만한 콘텐츠가 없다면, 이어폰이 없다면 아주 멘붕이 옵니다. 그 긴긴 시간을 뭘 해야 하나 하고 말이죠.그래서 미리미리 준비를 합니다. 사무실 WiFi로 T프리미엄에 접속해서 무료로 제공되는 포인트를 통해 다양한 콘텐츠를...
Abstract: 갤럭시S4 LTE-A 그리고 갤럭시S4 비교 후기, 갤럭시S4 LTE-A의 장점은 뭘까?갤럭시S4와 갤럭시S4 LTE-A의 가격적 차이는 55,000원 입니다. 갤럭시S4 LTE-A 가격이 딱 55,000원 비쌉니다. 뜬금없이 갤럭시S4 LTE-A 가격부터 이야기 한 이유는 일반적으로 소비자들은 구입할 때 가격을 비교하게 됩니다. 과연 더 주고 살 가치가 있을까 하고 말이죠.과연 갤럭시S4 LTE-A는 55,000원 이상의 가치를 더 보여줄까요?<현재 ...
Abstract: LTE보다 빠른 LTE, LTE-A 2011년 7월1일 3G망 보다 최대 5배 빠른 서비스인 LTE가 상용화 됐다. 2년 후인 2013년 현재, 국내 LTE 가입자는 1,500만 명을 육박하고 있으며, LTE주파수를 MC(Multi Carrier) , CA(Carrier Aggregation) 등의 기술을 통해 증폭시켜 LTE대비 최대 2~3배 빠른 통신이 가능한 서비스인 LTE-A가 SKT를 통해 세계 최초로 상용화 됐다. 현재 LTE-A를 지원하는...
