Ladies and Gentlemen, your expecting S4 was announced a few hours ago at Time square, New York. But it quite disappointed us – the design,specs.
It weighs 130g and the dimensions are 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9mm.
Here are the specifications and features.
- Exynos 5 Octa(8-cores)
- four Cortex A15 clocked at 1.6 GHz
- four Cortex A7 clocked at 1.2 GHz
- 4.99″ Full HD Pen-tile display at 441 ppi
- PowerVR SGX 544MP3 GPU 3-core, 533Mhz
- 2GB RAM
- a 13 MP rear camera(full HD recording)
- 2.1MP front camera(full HD recording)
- 2600mAh battery
- (16GB, 32GB and 64GB) built-in
- microSD slot
- Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean TouchWiz Nature UI
S4 is getting old features from its older brothers together with new goodies below.
FEATURES
- Air View – hover your hand over the display with your finger to view informations
- Air Gesture (or) Floating Touch lets you interact with the touch screen by hovering your fingers just a few centimeters above it just like S-Pen. Only works with certain Samsung apps.
- Smart Pause allows the handset’s front facing camera to track your eye movements to determine when to dim the screen or pause videos when you’re not looking.
- Smart Scroll – when you are reading something you can scroll up and down by tilting the device up and down.
- Samsung Optical Reader – can snap a photo of business card and import information from photo into a new contact in phone book.
- Samsung Adapt Display – the S4 learns what you are viewing and adjusts the screen brightness accordingly. e.g Brigther for reading an article automatically.
- Samsung Adapt Sound – similar to the Adapt Display, the device optimize the audio to adapt to content you are playing such as music or video.
- Dual recording feature – record with two cameras at once just like LG’s Optimus G Pro.
- Dual Video Call- you can video chat with your friend using front camera while also showing him the image from the rear camera
- Drama Shot feature which can take 100 shots in just four seconds from the front and rear cameras simultaneously.
- Sound and Shot feature which allows you to record a short audio clip before or after you press the shutter
- S Translator, which understands nice different languages, will speaks translations for you, and types out translated audio recordings. Also works in messaging and certain Samsung apps.
- S Health – app that acts as fitness tracker and food diary. Bu lit-in pedometer counts your steps and can take photos of your meals to keep track what you eat. A fitness bracelet, digital scale, fitness belt are going to be on sale to measure blood pressure, pulse, glucose levels and weight.
- S Voice Drive – hands-free function for drivers e.g when a text comes in it reads out aloud the text
- Samsung WatchOn – Infrared LED, so that you can use the Galaxy S4 as a remote control for your TV and other gadgets.
- Group Play – Allows multiple S4 owners to join a private network in close proximity to share content, play games together.
- Share Music – When linked with group play, multiple S4 s can work as surround speakers, all playing the same song at the same time.
- Story Album– templates that allow you to create a digital photo journal or scrapbook from a certain event.
There is also a rumor that the US version is going to have a Snapdragon 600 chipset with Adreno 320 GPU.
Colors coming black and white. But we are expecting new colors in a few days.