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May 2013
(85%)
1196 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
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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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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: 지난주 목요일의 미디어데이를 통해 대한민국에 첫 선을 보인 갤럭시 S4, 오늘은 그 디스플레이를 만나 본 이야기를 풀어볼까 합니다. 전통적으로 AMOLED를 내세웠던 삼성전자의 갤럭시S는 이후 나오는 매 시리즈 별로 가장 최신의 AMOLED 스크린을 탑재하고 나왔죠. 이는 갤럭시 S4에서도 예외는 아닙니다. HD SUPER AMOLED를 내세웠던 갤럭시 노트2에 이어 이번 갤럭시 S4는 풀HD SUPER AMOLED라는 타이틀을 달고 나왔습니다. 드디어...
Abstract: 안녕하세요. 플레이웨어즈 박성진입니다. 2013-04-28 갤럭시 S4 플레이웨어즈 리뷰 - 링크 이후 발열 테스트에 대한 자세한 리뷰를 원하시는 분들이 많아 이렇게 추가적인 테스트를 진행하게 되었습니다. 이번 테스트에서 확인해야 할 부분은 크게 3가지 입니다. 1. 과연 기존 갤럭시 S4가 단순 불량이었나?? -그래서 SKT, KT 두 개의 다른 통신사 제품 2가지를 동시에 진행하였습니다. 2. S4만 불리한 조건에서 테스트한 것이 아닌가? 실상은 다...
Abstract: 지난 26일 금요일, 삼성 갤럭시 S4가 국내에 출시되었습니다. 저 역시 출시 첫날 번호이동을 통해(SKT->LGU ) 갤럭시 S4를 손에 넣을 수 있었습니다. 이 포스팅에서는 갤럭시 S4에게 받은 첫인상에 대해 간단하게 말해보고자 합니다.박스 및 구성품이미 알려져있다시피, 갤럭시 S4는 재생종이와 콩 잉크를 사용하여 포장을 했습니다. 그래서 친환경 상도 받았다고 하는군요.별로입니다.환경을 생각한다는 컨셉 자체는 좋으나... 기존 갤럭시 S 씨리즈들 박...
Abstract: 삼성의 갤럭시 S4가 국내에 출시됐습니다. 미국 매체 테크하이브가 전하는 1분 퀵 리뷰를 만나봅니다. 마이크로소프트의 샌프란시스코 오프라인 매장 오프닝 행사가 열렸습니다. 마이크로소프트 제품 사용자보다는 음악 팬들이 많았다던데, 어떤 사연일까요? 이번 주 주요 IT 소식을 만나봅니다. <스크립트> 지나 : 안녕하세요. 착한 IT 지나입니다. 2주만에 인사 드리게 됐습니다. 잘 지내셨나요? 많은 관심을 받고 있는 삼성의 갤럭시 S4가 출시됐습니다. 테크하...
Abstract: 2013년 4월 25일, 삼성전자는 갤럭시S4 월드투어 - 서울 행사를 진행하며 갤럭시S4를 국내에 공개하고 다음날인 4월 26일 (오늘) 갤럭시S4를 한국에 출시했습니다. 전세계 어느 국가보다 먼저 국내에 출시해준 덕분에 국내 소비자들은 누구보다 먼저 삼성의 최신 플래그쉽 스마트폰인 갤럭시S4를 만져볼수 있게 되었습니다. "마스터피스"라는 호칭이 아깝지 않은 작품인 갤럭시S4에 대한 리뷰 / 사용기 중 첫번째 글인 이번 글에서는 갤럭시S4의 디자인을 ...
Abstract: 갤럭시S4에 탑재된 터치위즈UX는 단순히 삼성전자의 최신 플래그쉽 기종의 UX를 보여줄뿐만 아니라 삼성이 제시하고 있는 UX의 로드맵과 다른 기기들에도 소프트웨어 업데이트를 통해 어느정도 이루어질 변경점들을 나타내기 때문에 큰 의미가 있습니다. 갤럭시S4 리뷰 / 사용기 두번째 글인 이번 글에서는 갤럭시S4의 UX를 살펴보겠습니다.갤럭시S4의 잠금화면은 기본 설정으로 "조명 효과"를 사용합니다. 갤럭시S3 때부터 삼성이 적용해온 물결 효과 또한 옵션으로...
Abstract: 삼성은 똑같이 안드로이드OS를 탑재한 스마트폰이더라도 자사 스마트폰에만 탁월한 소프트웨어 장점을 부여하기 위해 갤럭시S2 때부터 다양한 하드웨어 센서를 사용하는 소프트웨어 기술을 통해 다양한 방식으로 입력할수 있는 기능들을 제공해왔습니다. 갤럭시S2 때에는 모션을, 갤럭시S3 때에는 스마트 스크린을, 그리고 지금 갤럭시S4에 와서는 제스쳐를 가장 메인으로 밀고 있다고 봐도 과언이 아니겠죠. 에어 제스쳐 기능은 스마트폰을 만지지 않고도 스마트폰 화면 위에...
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Published: 2013-04-25, Author: Walt , review by: kr.wsj.com
아무 생각 없이 바로 삼성 최신폰을 선택하기보다는 더 세련된 디자인에 성능도 상당히 좋은 신형 안드로이드폰 HTC ‘원'을 고려해보라고 독자들에게 당부하고 싶다.WSJ 삼성 갤럭시 S 4: 슬라이드쇼 보기갤럭시 S4는 이전 모델(4.8인치 스크린)에 비해서 약간 커진 5인치 스크린을 자랑한다. 대부분 플라스틱 재질로 이뤄진 바디는 더 얇고 가벼워졌다. 작은 주머니나 핸드백에 넣으면 주머니나 핸드백이 늘어질 수도 있고' 귀에 대면 튀어 보일 수도 있지만 ...
Abstract: 아이티투데이 김문기 기자] 삼성전자 전략 스마트폰 ‘갤럭시S4'가 국내 공개됐다. 26일부터 이통3사를 통해 출시될 예정이다. 삼성전자 서울 서초사옥 다목적홀에서 열린 '갤럭시S4' 미디어데이 현장에서 직접 제품을 사용해봤다. 삼성전자 '갤럭시S4' ‘갤럭시S3'에서 ‘갤럭시 그랜드'로, 다시 ‘갤럭시S4'로 디자인 계승 전체적인 디자인은 전작인 ‘갤럭시S3'와 올해 초 출시된 '갤럭시 그랜드‘를 결합시켜 놓은 듯한 인상이다. 굳이 따지자면 '갤럭시 ...
