Samsung Galaxy S4

After my old White Galaxy S4 was stolen recently, and before that I managed to break it clumsily twice, I decided to pay my debt and give this upgraded version a deserved review. After enjoying the S2 immensely, the S4 took over starting from the middle of last year.

The S4 improves on all fronts inluding interface, storage, features, quality, connection and more. It's funny that mobile phones were growing smaller and smaller a few years ago, but now it seems that they are reversing this trend because smartphones with their larger screens are getting bigger and bigger.

The camera has been updated with more megapixels and convenient new functions such as contineous shooting something, or erasing random moving people from pictures using Gum Mode. Zooming in is limited, but the flash unit is exceptional.

Applications or apps are more abundant than ever because of the huge market that keeps growing with independent developers creating all kinds of programs. The ones I like to use are news sites such as Al Jazeera, but also IMDb, Facebook and occassional phrasebooks such as Russsian or Chinese.

There are also a bunch of new gimmicks that usually involve hovering around the air in front of the S4 so that it can reply to you in various ways. These include previewing information, but also when you look away from a video, it will pause instantaneous and continue if you look back.

Some of them die a slow death, others can or could be practical in the long term. Other negative aspects from me personally are how fragile the front glass screen is with the touch functionality, it seems the more expensive this is, the easier it is to break it.

To counteract this somewhat, I purchased a cover case. Another dissapointment is that the battery goes down quite fast in a day even though not much is really happening with it other than looking at emails, Whatsapps and other personal messages.

This is of course a bit hypocritical considering that it's contineously on at all times, but seeing that everyone is doing the same thing, I would figure that developers such as Samsung would had made better batteries after seeing this phenomenon happening all the time.

In a nutshell, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is leaps and bounds ahead when speaking of smartphones in regards to popularity, reputation, available features and other amazing assets. It's not perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than many others out there.

And I am happy to have received a Black Galaxy S4 from my provider now!