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Samsung's new smartphone contains multitudes.
The Galaxy S 4's touchscreen doesn't need to be touched to respond to your actions. Its software looks less like Android than almost any other phone running Google's operating system, but the thing ships with a newer version of it, 4.2, than almost all others. And its 5-inch screen outsizes the 4.8-in. display of the earlier Galaxy S III, but it's smaller and lighter than Samsung's flagship phone of last year.
And like its best-selling predecessor, the S 4 invites an assessment from multiple perspectives.
Samsung's hardware may be the best end of the deal. Not only did the company cram a 5-in. screen into a device just small enough to allow one-handed operation, it also squashed the phone down to 7.9 mm thick, barely more than an iPhone 5, while keeping a user-accessible battery and microSD Card slot.
The S 4's 2,650 milliamp-hour battery beats the capacity of anything close to its size, but the performance I saw didn't match that spec. After 24 hours sitting idle on a desk, a loaned Sprint model on 3G service (the carrier has yet to activate LTE near me) showed 78 percent of a charge left--worse than the S III, much less the iPhone 5.
Read more here.
The Galaxy S 4's touchscreen doesn't need to be touched to respond to your actions. Its software looks less like Android than almost any other phone running Google's operating system, but the thing ships with a newer version of it, 4.2, than almost all others. And its 5-inch screen outsizes the 4.8-in. display of the earlier Galaxy S III, but it's smaller and lighter than Samsung's flagship phone of last year.
And like its best-selling predecessor, the S 4 invites an assessment from multiple perspectives.
Samsung's hardware may be the best end of the deal. Not only did the company cram a 5-in. screen into a device just small enough to allow one-handed operation, it also squashed the phone down to 7.9 mm thick, barely more than an iPhone 5, while keeping a user-accessible battery and microSD Card slot.
The S 4's 2,650 milliamp-hour battery beats the capacity of anything close to its size, but the performance I saw didn't match that spec. After 24 hours sitting idle on a desk, a loaned Sprint model on 3G service (the carrier has yet to activate LTE near me) showed 78 percent of a charge left--worse than the S III, much less the iPhone 5.
Read more here.
