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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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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: 2013-07-12, Author: Beth , review by: examiner.com

  • Abstract:  The S4, which runs Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean), measures 5.5" by 2.81" and is about .36" thick. It weighs 5.29 ounces, and its 5" HD display makes for some impressive video watching and comfortable reading, with crisp and clear text. The phone's 16 GB of mem...

 
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  Published: 2013-07-11, review by: phonearena.com

  • Abstract:  Is it a smartphone? Is it a camera? Actually, it is an amalgamation of both, and it is known as the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom. This peculiar device has the guts of a modern-day smartphone, and as a matter of fact, it packs enough punch to be anyone's dai...

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  Published: 2013-07-10, Author: Avram , review by: Laptopmag.com

  • Superior camera with innovative features, Powerful software, Useful gestures, Vibrant 5-inch full HD display, Removable battery, microSD card
  • Average battery life, Screen difficult to read in direct sunlight, Plasticky design
  • The Samsung Galaxy S4 takes Android phones to the next level with an awesome camera, innovative gesture controls and best-in-class multitasking....

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  Published: 2013-07-08, Author: Tim , review by: neowin.net

  • Abstract:  There's a fierce battle currently between two massive Android flagships - the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the HTC One - and we've already reviewed both of them. Samsung is pushing their device like never before with a huge marketing budget, while HTC's future h...

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  Published: 2013-07-08, Author: Joe , review by: Pocketnow.com

  • Beautiful display, Large removable battery, Expandable storage, Solid camera with excellent feature set
  • 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'
  • As with the other versions of this phone, the Galaxy S 4 for Verizon is an amazing piece of hardware. It's a solid performer that does what one would expect it to, and does so with style. It did, however, lose a couple points for the additional bloatwar...

 
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  Published: 2013-07-06, review by: the-gadgeteer.com

  • Large display, Can interact with display while wearing gloves, Great performance, Good battery life
  • Lots of extra software that you may or may not use, Very expensive without a contract

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  Published: 2013-07-05, Author: Joshua , review by: androidauthority.com

  • The Samsung Galaxy S4 has only been available for three months now, and as expected, it's been met with critical acclaim. And now, we have another device joining the Galaxy S4 family — Samsung's Galaxy S4 Active, a rugged, and better handling version of t...

 
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  Published: 2013-07-05, Author: Lisa , review by: Laptopmag.com

  • Feature-rich camera, Useful preloaded apps, Gesture support, Fast quad-core performance, Removable battery and microSD Card
  • Plastic design, Small LTE network
  • Samsung's Galaxy S4 comes with some of the most robust and innovative features of any Android phone, plus the ability to use T-Mobile's new LTE network....

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  Published: 2013-07-04, Author: Erez , review by: makeuseof.com

  • Abstract:  The Samsung Galaxy S4 . Few Android devices generate as much buzz as the Galaxy series, which has been riding atop an increasingly aggressive marketing push from Samsung. Many casual users aren't even sure what Android is, but they definitely know what a ...

 
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  Published: 2013-07-03, Author: Avram , review by: Laptopmag.com

  • Most innovative features on any Android phone, Fantastic camera, Colorful full HD display, Removable battery and microSD Card
  • Below-average battery life, Screen hard to view in direct sunlight
  • The Samsung Galaxy S4 for Verizon combines a big and colorful display, a great camera and an array of innovative features with a broad 4G LTE network....

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