transcript: It's probably one of the biggest smart phone
releases of the year and it's certainly one of the most anticipated. Samsung is throwing
everything it has got into its newest flagship release. So does it live up to all of the
hype? Hey, Joshua Vergara from Android Authority.
What's going on everybody? And yes, this is the Samsung Galaxy S4. The Samsung Galaxy S4 follows up the tremendously
popular Galaxy S3 and helps to not only please those loyal to the line but also to entice
anyone who has held out until now. The design of the S4 is largely derivative
of its older counterpart especially in the white model. You have the white bezel shrunken
down to accommodate the five-inch screen, flatter sides and a different layout for the
rear camera and speaker. Otherwise the button layout is just about the same as it was on
the S3. The back cover is still removable. You not
only get access to the SD card slot and battery but you can even buy accessory covers like
the Smart Cover or the Wireless Charging Cover for added functionality. But the phone continues Samsung's trend of
plastic bodies and covers. It may be a material choice that is starting to get old but nonetheless,
anyone who has used an S3 in the past will feel right at home here. Let me reiterate that. The Samsung Galaxy
S4 feels pretty much like its predecessor. While the general aesthetic might be getting
a little played out, remember that there is so much improvement everywhere else and yet
it is actually smaller than the S3. With the same height, the S4 shreds a fraction of the
S3's thickness and is even a little bit narrower. Most important here however is that the S4
is even lighter. Though it might only be three grams lighter, there is a balancing to the
Galaxy S4 that makes it feel like a feather. You can definitely call that a victory in
the design department as this is the best handling five-inch screen device out there. Shortly after receiving this unit, I was able
to text, chat, browse and play with one hand comfortably. The flat sides make the phone
easy to grip with your fingers and palm. Any hand gymnastics typically needed for a five-inch
screen are at their least required when using this phone. Only rarely did I need to use
my other hand to reach the very top left corner of the screen. Perhaps the most obvious improvement at first
glance is the display. Samsung brought their super amulet tech up to a five-inch screen
capable of 1080p resolution and 441 ppi. The result is one of the best displays on
the smart phone, period. Not only is it easily viewable in almost any condition. It is also
capable of some very steep viewing angles. The uber colorful touch res UI benefits from
the screen's high saturation, making colors pop out and basically punch you in the face.
Reading anything on the screen is easy too as text is incredibly sharp. Move under that screen and you will find that
the Samsung Galaxy S4 is among the fastest phones around. It has the quad core, Snapdragon
600 processor that is only currently found on about a few other devices and is a big
leap from the S4 pro. It is not the Exynos Octa core that we may
have heard about but this process or package definitely included in North American models
is still an incredible performer. I was zipping through all elements of the UI and multitasking
with no problems. A few tests and two-two benchmark put the
Samsung Galaxy S4 right around the very impressive 25,000 mark. [0:03:09] [Indiscernible] puts
the tried and true Adreno 320 performance at very high ratings and the two gigabytes
are available for all of their multitasking pleasure. Hardware is what the Samsung Galaxy S4 has
in spades. The speaker is no front facing boom sound but it is quite loud and is far
from [Indiscernible]. The S4 is then not only sporting expandable memory and a replaceable
battery but a host of new sensors and utilities for a bunch of uses. First one we will list is an IR blaster capable
of controlling a host of TVs, Set Top Boxes and players. GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are
your standards while NFC with SV makes it return. But there are many sensors add in
that complement the typical accelerometer and proximity sensor. You now have a barometer and a temperature
gauge to check the general conditions around you, an RGB light sensor that helps adjust
the color and white balance of the screen based on its detection of light, an infrared
sensor for all hand and air gestures and a whole sensor for detecting closed Smart Converse
[0:04:15] [Phonetic] and finally a compass. What is perhaps best about these additions
is that software inclusions make them all useful in one way or another but we will get
to that soon. The battery unit included with the S4 is of
a higher capacity than most five-inch screen device offerings. 2600 milliamp hours are
able to power this one for quite a while, making the end of the day a little less precarious
for the common user. With a bit of a robust test using Wi-Fi and
Netflix movies, the phone finally knocked out at right under the four-hour mark. Otherwise,
straight browsing time and playing videos from memory certainly came in at impressive
long times, usually around eight or so hours on Wi-Fi without disabling sync. It is definitely among the longest-lasting
five-inch screen devices available and with the ability to replace the battery when it
finally runs out of juice, you really shouldn't have any power issues on the Galaxy S4. Improvements on the camera start off pretty
standard. Thirteen megapixels are what you get this time around while the front facing
camera gets two. Additions are all in the application itself
in which there are now a bunch of new ways to use those optics. Ones you may expect include
Best Face which takes a burst shot and allows you to replace detected faces to find the
right one you need for the shot. Animated Photo which just basically takes that burst
shot and creates animated gifts from them, HDR and Panorama. You are also able to use both the front and
rear facing cameras in order to create a dual shot picture or video. Now the big editions
take further advantage of those burst shots via eraser mode and drama shot. Eraser detects the objects that move aside
from your subject and background and erases anything not meant to be in the picture. Drama
shot instead adds the moving subject on top of the stable background, creating a nice-looking,
one picture burst subject. Both are nice to use as long as your device and the general
background are stable. Picture quality in the S4 is really quite
good. Just as the S3 was considered a great performer in the eight-megapixel space, the
S4 is among the best in the 13-megapixel space. You get a great deal of detail and the color
shot saturation is high enough to make any picture nice and vibrant. With great quality
and a host of ways to take a picture, the Galaxy S4 is definitely at the top of the
list of smart phone cameras. Finally we get to the software. TouchWiz is
an Android UI that you either love or hate. Personally I've never been a big fan of its
more bloated and yet uber colorful look though the great quality of the screen certainly
helps make those colors really go nuts. But this time around with the Jelly Bean 4.2.2
powered version of Samsung's UI, I actually didn't immediately replace it with a different
launcher. Well, that might happen eventually. I have
found why it is more tolerable this time around. It's the size of the screen. High resolution
displays often run the risk of making things uncomfortably small or weirdly spaced out.
But the already enlarged and bloated TouchWiz elements translate perfectly to the 1080p
display. What you will get is an easily accessible
interface that even with the smallest font size, it's simple to navigate without having
to squint or pinpoint. There are a number of new ways to get around in built-in applications. It might be a little daunting to look through
all of these but a large power widget in the notification dropdown gives you a quick glimpse.
There are motion features that return like direct calling which cause the contact currently
displayed automatically when the phone is brought to your face or muting when turning
your phone over on to its face. A sensitive screen allows you to get around
even when wearing gloves as well as use your finger like an S Pen to get quick previews
of gallery albums. I think the most practical application of
this air view is previewing your last received text. Then there are all of the different
air gestures that take advantage of the motion sensor. You can jump through a webpage, go
to the next picture, change the music track. My favorite one is a quick info screen that
pops up after you wave your hand. It's a brilliant way to quickly get the time, date and notifications
of missed calls and text. Quick tip though, use some finesse. The sensor has to pick up
the movement for the gesture to register so you don't have to do it so fast. Smart screen capability has utilized the front
facing camera to detect if you're still looking. The screen will stay on as long as the phone
is at an angle and eyes are still on the screen. Smart Pause will pause a video playing when
you look away. I personally like the Smart Scroll. Let the
phone detect your eyes after which you can slightly tilt your head to look at the bottom
or top of the screen which will scroll a webpage accordingly. You just have to take that extra
second or two to allow the phone to detect your eyes. New apps included are the S Translator which
allows for voice and text translations among about a dozen different languages, Story Album
which puts your pictures together in a nice flip book format and Group Play which allows
you to connect to a bunch of other S4 devices to share pictures, documents, presentations
and music. While I don't have other units to demonstrate
this right now, I can say it is a really cool feature especially when you have five total
devices put together and make every single one play one of the five channels of music. Finally there's S Health, perhaps the biggest
endeavor. If you have ever used multiple diet or exercise tracking applications, Samsung
has tried to consolidate them all into S Health. You can track food from a database or from
information you add in yourself, track physical activity, log weight and even use the thermometer
and barometer to check humidity and temperature of your surroundings. The driver scope in the S4 can also be set
on for tracking your steps. If your phone is in your pocket, why not put it to some
work still? All of these features will be further augmented with a number of accessories
you can buy like a heart rate monitor, a wrist pedometer and a weight scale. It's actually
a nice suite of diet applications that can help anyone who gets into the habit of tracking
to get into shape. To end, we have the price. The Samsung Galaxy
S4 should be coming out on pretty much all major carriers, most of whom have already
posted pre-orders. In America, it will be around 200 with a two-year contract while
the un-carrier T-Mobile plan will ask for 150 upfront with $20 device payments each
month for two years. With the Galaxy S4 later to come out on just
about any carrier, you will be able to get your hands on one, no problem. Unlocked prices
will likely get around the $700 US mark. So there you have it. I will say this. Samsung
put a lot of work into making sure their S4 offers the most to its users. All of the sensors give many ways of performing
tasks we've gotten used to doing with just our fingertips. Other features like Group
Play and the camera additions are neat tricks that are fun to use once you find the time
to use them. S Health will help anyone proactive enough to use it. That's about the gist of the life companion
Samsung Galaxy S4. It may not be particularly revolutionary but it does get close to perfecting
what is already in place while giving new alternative ways of how to do them. You're given choices on how to tackle pretty
much any typical task and if you don't want to use those particular features, well, you
really don't have to. But just like Samsung, the company itself,
it's all there for you. One day you just might end up trying it out serendipitously or even
out of sheer boredom and then before you know it, you've fallen in love. For all the Samsung Galaxy S4 coverage, stay
tuned to Android Authority YouTube channel and keep up with AndroidAuthority.com because
we're your source for all things Android.
auto_transcript: is probably one of the biggest
smartphone releases up the year and it's certainly one of the most
anticipated Samsung restoring everything is going to its newest flagship release so does it live up to all the hype a
judgment of a mentor thought it was going on everybody and yes this is the Samsung Galaxy as for the Samsung Galaxy s4 follows up
the tremendously popular galaxy s3 and hopes to now only please
those loyal to the line but also to entice anyone who was held up until now the
design of the s4 is largely derivative of its older counterparts especially in the white model you have
the white bezel shrunken down to accommodate the 5-inch screen flatter sides and a different layout for
the rear camera and speaker otherwise the button layout is just
about the same as it was on the s3 the back cover is still removable you
not only get access to the SD card slot and battery but you can even buy excess recovers
like the smart cover or the wireless charging cover for added functionality but the phone continues Samsung strand
of plastic bodies and covers it may be a material choice that is
starting to get old but nonetheless anyone who has used as3 in the past will
feel right at home here let me reiterate that the Samsung Galaxy
s4 feels pretty much like its predecessor while the generous that it might be
getting a little played out remember that there is so much improvement
everywhere else and yet it is actually smaller than the
s3 with the same height that as for sheds a fraction of the s3's
thickness and is even a little bit narrower most
important here however is that the s4 is even lighter though it might only be three grams
lighter there is a balancing to the galaxy s4 that makes it feel like a
feather you can definitely call that a victory
in the design department as this is the best handling five-inch screen device out there shortly after receiving this
unit I was able to text chat browse and play with one hand
comfortably the flat side to make the phone easy to grip with two fingers and
palm annie hamp gymnastics typically needed
for a 5-inch screen or at the least required when using this phone only rarely did I need to use my other
hand to reach the very top left corner of the screen perhaps the most obvious improvement at
first glance is the display Samsung brought their
super amela take up to a 5-inch screen capable of 1080 P resolution and 441 PPI the result is one of the best displays
on a smartphone period now only is it easily view will in
almost any condition it is also capable of some very steep viewing angles the over colorful TouchWiz UI benefits
from the screens high saturation making colors pop out and basically
punch you in the face reading anything on the screen is easy
to as text is incredibly sharp move under that screen and you'll find
that the Galaxy s4 is among the fastest phones around it has the quad core Snapdragon 600
processor that is on the currently found on about a few other devices and as a big leap from the s4 pro it is
not the Exynos Oct a core that we may have heard about
but this processor package definitely included in North American models is still an incredible performer I was
have been through all elements of the UI and multitasking with no problems a few tests in antutu benchmark put the
galaxy s4 right around the very impressive 25,000 mark Epic Citadel puts the tried-and-true
Adreno 320 performance at very high ratings and the two gigabytes are available for
oliver multitasking pleasure hardware is what the Samsung Galaxy s4
has in spades the speakers no fun facing boom sound
byte it is quite loud and as far from 10 E I the s4 is there now only sporting
expandable memory and a replaceable battery but a host of new sensors and
utilities for a bunch abuses first one listed as a IR
blaster capable of controlling a host of TV's septa boxes and players GPS WiFi and
Bluetooth or your standards while NFC with SB makes its return but there
are many sensors at in that complement the typical accelerometer and proximity
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temperature gauge to check on the general conditions around you an RGB light sensor that helps adjust
the collar and white balance on the screen based on his detection of light an infrared sensor for all hands in air
gestures and all sensor for detecting closed smart converse and finally a compass what is perhaps
best about these additions is that software inclusions make them all useful
in one way or another but we'll get to that soon the battery
unit included with the s4 is a far higher capacity than most five-inch
screen device offerings 2600 Milan towers are able to power this
on for quite a while making the end of the day a little less
precarious for the common user with a bit of a robust test using wifi
and Netflix movies the phone finally knocked out at right
under the four hour mark otherwise straight browsing time in
playing videos from memory certainly came in at impressively long times usually around eight or so hours on wifi
without disabling sink it is definitely among the longest
lasting five-inch screen devices available and with the ability to replace the
battery wanna finally runs out of juice you really shouldn't have any power
issues on the Galaxy s4 improvements on the camera start of
pretty standard 13 megapixels are what you get this time around while the front
facing camera gets to additions are all in the application
itself in which there are now a bunch of new ways to use those optics ones you may expect include best face
which text Bershad and allows you to replace
detected faces to find the right one you need for the shot animated photo which just basically take
Sabir Shah and creates animated gifts from them squeak picture 6 shocks HDR and Panorama you are also able to use both the front
and rear facing cameras in order to create a doll shot picture or video now the big additions take further
advantage for those buchholz be a racer mode and drama shot research detects the
object to move aside from your subject and background and erases anything not meant to be in
the picture drama shot instead abs the moving
subject on top of the stable background creating a nice looking one picture
burst subject both are nice to use as long as your
device and the general background are stable picture called in the s4 is really quite
good just as the s3 was considered a great performer in the 8 megapixel space
ps4 is among the best in the 13 megapixel
space you get a great deal of detail and the collar shut saturation is high enough to make any
picture nice and vibrant with great quality in a host a voice to
take a picture the galaxy s4 is definitely at the top of the list love smartphone cameras and finally we
get to the software TouchWiz is an Android UI that you
either love or hate personally I've never been a big fan of its more bloated and yet Cooper colorful look though the
great quality of the screen certainly helps make those colors really go nuts but this time around with the jelly bean
4.2 point to power version of Samsung's UI I actually didn't immediately replace it
with a different launcher while that might happen eventually I
have found why it is more tolerable this time around it's the size of the screen high
resolution displays often run the risk of making things uncomfortably small or weirdly spaced
out but the already in large and bloated touch with them elements
translate perfectly to the 1080 P display what you get isn't easily accessible
interface that even with the smallest font size is simple to navigate without having to
squint to pinpoint there are a number of new ways to get
around in built-in applications it might be a little daunting to look
through all of these but a large power widget in the notification dropdown
gives you a quick glimpse there are motion
features that return like to read calling which caused a contact currently
displayed automatically when the phone is brought to your face or muting when turning your phone over
onto its face a sensitive screen allows you to get around even when wearing gloves as well as
usual finger like an S Pen to get quick previews gallery albums
adding the most practical application of this interview is previewing your last
received a text and then they're all love the different
pair gestures that take advantage of the motion sensor you can jump through a web page go to
the next picture change the music track my favorite one is a quick info screen
that pops up after you wave your hands it's a brilliant way to quickly get the
time date and notifications of miss calls and texts quick tip toe you something s the sensor
has to pick up the movement for the gesture to register so you don't have to do so fast smart
screen capability is utilized a front facing camera to detect if you're still
looking the screen will stay on as long as the
phone is at an angle and eyes are still on the screen and smart pause while POS a video
playing when you look away I personally like the smart school let
the phone detector eyes after which you can slightly tilt your
head to look at the bottom or top of the screen which will scroll a webpage accordingly
you just have to take that extra second or two to allow the phone to detector
ice new app sync looted or the as translator
which allows for voice and text translations among about a dozen
different languages story album which put your pictures
together in an ice floe book format in group play which allows you to
connect to a bunch of other as for devices to share pictures
documents presentations and music well I don't have other units to
demonstrate this right now i can say it is a really cool feature especially when you have 520 devices put
together and make every single one play one of the five channels at music and finally there's s health perhaps the
biggest and ever if you've ever used multiple diet or exercise tracking
applications Samsung has tried to consolidate them
all into as health you can track food from a database or
from information you add in yourself track physical activity log wat and even
use the thermometer and barometer to check humidity and temperature of your
surroundings the dress code in the as for can also be
set on for tracking your steps if one is in your pocket wanna put it to
some work still all these features will be further
augmented with the number of accessories you can buy like a heart rate monitor arrest
predominant and a weight scale it's actually a nice we have died
applications that can help anyone who gets into the habit have tracking to get into shape to end
we have the price the Samsung Galaxy s4 should be coming
on pretty much all major carriers most of whom have already posted
pre-orders in america it will be around $200 with a two-year contract while the
un carrier T Mobile plan will ask for 150 upfront with twenty dollar device
payments each month for two years with the galaxy s4 slated to come out on
just about any carrier you'll be able to get your hands on one no problem unlike prices will likely get around the
seven hundred dollar US mark and so there you have it I will say
this: Samsung put a lot of work into making
sure their s4 offers the most to its users all the sensors get many ways of
performing tasks we can use to doing well just our fingertips other features like group play in the
camera additions are neat tricks that are fun to use once you find the time to
use them and as health will help anyone for
active enough to use it and that's about the gist love the life
companion Samsung Galaxy s4 it may not be particularly revolutionary
but it does get close to perfecting what is already in place while giving a new alternative ways how
to do that given choices on how to tackle pretty
much any typical task and if you don't want to use this
particular features well you really don't have to but just like Samsung the company itself
it's all there for you and one day you just might end up trying
it out serendipitously or even out of sheer boredom and then
before you know it you fall in love for all the Samsung
Galaxy S for coverage due to into and read it already YouTube channel and
keep up with and retorted a calm because we are your source for all things Android
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