Samsung Announces New Flagship Galaxy S 4 Competitor to Apple's iPhone

[macaddict06]

u mean to say that the same lame user experience on iOS since 2007 is great?
[screen] terrible resolution
the new earphone jack in the bottom is sad
.....the list is never ending.....
.....people laugh at you if u upgrade to an iPhone5 now
.....samsung galaxy series is the new "cool" kid on the block now....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

But points for trying, I suppose. Also, before you start yammering about how the 440ppi or whatever of the S4 is "better" than the 326 of the iPhone, read an article about angular resolution.

I can't believe I just wasted a response on how jejune arguments like "earphone jack on bottom is so sad guise" are.

 

[vsighi]

Apple, we all want the same: OLED - 4" screen size PLEASE !!

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iPhone 5S(5 inch Screen)

Man I will be happy with an 4" screen...but I don't think it will happend

 

[ghettochris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

But points for trying, I suppose. Also, before you start yammering about how the 440ppi or whatever of the S4 is "better" than the 326 of the iPhone, read an article about angular resolution.

I can't believe I just wasted a response on how jejune arguments like "earphone jack on bottom is so sad guise" are.

ha, I just was plugging my headphones into my 4s and was like "this sucks my headphone jack isn't on the bottom"

to be fair, angular resolution is the same since you're going to hold both phones at the same distance from your face, so 440 ppi is 35% better than 326 ppi.

 

[macaddict06]

when you have minimal features on a OS, it does get faster on a slower hardware...it's not rocket science....look at the amount of new software features s4 has....granted most of it are worthless just like siri, apple maps and those cr@ppy apple apps.....but at least they are new OS features instead of just another lame "app"

The stupid, it burns. I'm not even going to bother with how contradictory this sentence is. I will add, however, that endless ellipses are not an acceptable substitute for proper grammar.

 

[lildimsum7]

Sorry, didn't read the whole 21 pages in this thread but don't understand....

Why does anyone need full HD or 400+ dpi on a 5" phone?

Wow, stupid question. No one needs anything at all, no one needs a smartphone, no one needs internet. You should be asking yourself is:"why am I asking people stupid questions when they can't possibly cause me to change my opinion?"

Why not watch video on a 8.9-11" 1080p tablet?

Go ahead, no one's stopping you!

Do I need to waste bandwidth/data plan to watch 1080p video outside of my office or home? When I'm waiting in line at the DMV?

You don't need to watch a 1080p video if you don't want, it's your choice.

If I'm at the office or home, I have HDTVs, tablets, or computers that offer a much better viewing experience than 1080p on a 5" screen.

Good for you. Stick to that then.

 

[lolkthxbai]

I can't wait till "key lime pie" is released this year and everyone that bought an SG4 gets left behind until Samsung plays catchup.

Fragmentation. It's real.

 

[macaddict06]

ha, I just was plugging my headphones into my 4s and was like "this sucks my headphone jack isn't on the bottom"

to be fair, angular resolution is the same since you're going to hold both phones at the same distance from your face, so 440 ppi is 35% better than 326 ppi.

Haha, right now I'm picturing a 1960's-style commercial complete with narration where everyone has their noses literally BURIED in the phones. Little Jimmy is confused and the narrator chuffs and says, gee Jimmy, you must be wondering why everyone is 35% closer to their phones! They're doing it to get the most out of their new Samsung Galaxy 4! And you can too!

And yes, I realize that the trig doesn't work out for 35% but I'm being cheeky. The point is the only way the resolution is "better" is if you get the screen ungodly close to your face to accommodate for physical limitation of the resolving power of the eye. That is, until Apple releases the iEye which will usher in the era of 700+ppi displays (mostly fueled by Soylent Green).

 

[smallnshort247]

I hope the Galaxy S4 will push the iPhone to new levels. Competition is good.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

Text looks better at higher resolutions, and all phones these days cheat with anti-aliasing, or putting grey pixels at the curves so you don't notice they don't have enough resolution.

Look into laser printers, 1200 dpi is considered STANDARD. 4800 even 9600 dpi is available. phones should go by those same standards. You'd be laughed out of a job if you handed in your resume with the <500 dpi that today's phones are.

600dpi is the baseline standard without any software interpolation. 1200 dpi is high profile/res for standard Laser Printers of today in Monochrome and is software interpolated. Anything above that is specialty based and most definitely software interpolated.

 

[H2SO4]

i seriously have no clue why apple fans think android phones have crap battery life, look at the run time of my galaxy nexus, WAY more than 1 full day (24 full hours)

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Might be me but i don't get what that graphic is saying.
I see that it's been on for about 27 hours and has 43% left, but the phone idle 22% for example?
What? it's not saying that the phone was idle for 22% of that time surely? The percentages add up to 91?

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Of course am aware that finally iPhone has some these features. Finally. But don't you think it's odd that Apple "seem so obsessed" with that "user experience", yet they release a half-backed iphone with no copy/paste, no copy/paste, no multi-tasking, no folders, no basic voice control, no MMS? Android had all these basics since 1.0 even since Beta. The last thing Apple worries is "user experience". The first thing: low cost of manufacturing=high profit margins, shiny styling, marketing hype.

You're missing part of the point. Apple would suggest that what is there works well. Rather than lots of things that work badly. When I bought my first iPhone the things I gave up were less than the sum of the new things I received.

I can't remember it being with half a back.

 

[SactoGuy18]

I hope the Galaxy S4 will push the iPhone to new levels. Competition is good.

But the question is, will it? Apple is increasingly NOT willing to make a bold leap forward in technology on the iPhone, and few people know what what Apple will produce for their 2013 model iPhone model(s).

 

[H2SO4]

And? My Mac has a quad core i5 and I dont use all four cores unless I'm converting videos. It's a phone why on Earth would you go quad or 8 core? The iPhone5 does things the quadcore phones do just as fast. Opening apps is quick, games and overall control is smooth. Does the OS require quad or octo cores is the question you have to ask. All this Android hardware envy is ridiculous. Bells and whistles is all they are right now. I would like more RAM and a 4.x screen (.7, .8 either will do). Quad core is the max these phones should get.

I'm kind of in agreement. My G5 Mac had quad cores and 1.8PPC processor. 2GB of RAM too. Do you actually need all that, I wonder what the phone would actually do better than the computer......

 

[Larry-K]

I'm kind of in agreement. My G5 Mac had quad cores and 1.8PPC processor. 2GB of RAM too. Do you actually need all that, I wonder what the phone would actually do better than the computer......

What PPC was that? The only Quad I know about was 2.5 GHz.

 

[iPadPublisher]

First the Blackberry and Now This...

...looks just like an iPhone. Sure, physical dimensions are off a bit, but they're going to compete with the iPhone with an iPhone?

I'm not exaggerating (or "fanboying") when I say I'm just not impressed. If you're gonna buy an iPhone, then, you might as well buy it from Apple.

Only thing about this phone I find interesting is the larger size. I don't know if I'd like a larger iPhone or not, but I'd be curious to see how it feels in my hand. Might go play with an S4 when it comes out, just so I can know if I want to start beating the "make a larger iPhone" drum.

 

[H2SO4]

What PPC was that? The only Quad I know about was 2.5 GHz.

Oop, you're absolutely right. It ws a 1.8 dual. But I'd still be intrigued to know where the phone might better it.

 

[nick_elt]

This should have been called the Samsung Galaxy S3s

Being an avid Samsung fan, this certainly was less than what I expected. I was seriously put off by the complete absence of mentioning a processor, until I realized WHY; because this was an international audience watching. The international version appears to include an 8 core 1.6GHz processor, while here in the US we get a 1.9GHz quadcore. Seriously WTF!?

if its the s4 800 id rather that over some octa-core which apart from minimal battery gains wont make it at all faster.

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...looks just like an iPhone. Sure, physical dimensions are off a bit, but they're going to compete with the iPhone with an iPhone?

I'm not exaggerating (or "fanboying") when I say I'm just not impressed. If you're gonna buy an iPhone, then, you might as well buy it from Apple.

Only thing about this phone I find interesting is the larger size. I don't know if I'd like a larger iPhone or not, but I'd be curious to see how it feels in my hand. Might go play with an S4 when it comes out, just so I can know if I want to start beating the "make a larger iPhone" drum.

dude. just stop. and get your eyes tested.

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I can't wait till "key lime pie" is released this year and everyone that bought an SG4 gets left behind until Samsung plays catchup.

Fragmentation. It's real.

or you could just put a custom rom on yourself and not wait for Samsung.

 

[Nightarchaon]

So that would be the Samsung Galaxy 3S then

might still end up with one, just because its the best of the big screen phones,

 

[iPadPublisher]

This made me chuckle. Useless resolution? But when apple touts their resolution it is great right? But with Samsung it is useless?

Thanks for the laugh.

I don't want to stick up for the guy you're bashing... but I got a slightly different meaning out of his posting. At what point in PPI density does the human eye not know the difference? Even Apple has slid backwards on PPI since the big Retina rollout, and I don't hear anyone complaining. Still looks damn good. So all this extra density on the S4 may not even be perceivable. I think that's what he meant...

 

[bretm]

Wait, what genius did the math on that ppi? That's complete BS. PPI. Pixels per inch. If it's a 5" diagonal 1920x1080p screen, then that's outright impossible. Even if they measured it horizontally. Because horizontally that'd be 1920 / 5 = 384ppi. So, if the screen is 5" diagonally, that means it's much more than 5" horizontally. Let's say it's 6" horizontally. 1920/6=320ppi. Starting to sound more like the iPhone to me. The bigger a screen gets, the lower it's ppi. Unless you plan on actually giving more resolution than 1080p. Like the iPad.

 

[92jlee]

The market is finally understanding what we want.. Removable storage and better battery life. 2600Mah battery! Hopefully this will encourage the next nexus to have both as well as some HTC phones.

I'm still hoping for a good qwerty android phone. I loved my desire Z.

 

[macaddict06]

Oop, you're absolutely right. It ws a 1.8 dual. But I'd still be intrigued to know where the phone might better it.

Well, sorta, I mean the 1.8 quad was in the PowerBook G5, obvi.

 

[0092762]

I guess that depends on what types of apps you use. There are absolutely apps I use on my iPhone/iPad that I can't get for my Nexus 4/Nexus 7, but, in general, I'm really quite happy with the Google Play app selection, and Google Play is a much better iTunes Match than iTunes Match - up to 20K songs stored for free, sucked out of iTunes if you want, available on anything (including iDevices) with a network connection, and locally storable as well if you want.

Apple has the iMessage protocol, which is a great lock-in, and iTunes video, which is more easily viewed on a TV than Google Play video, but other than that, there's a lot of compelling stuff on Play.

That's not to knock the App Store - it's still better in terms of content. But Play is easier to use, and it's catching up in terms of content. The old "Android apps suck/Android has no tablet apps/etc." stuff is really just not true anymore. It is absolutely not "pure crap".

The iOS App Store is miles better than Play store because:
1. You know if your app is also going to be optimized for your iPad or not, so you can only buy it once.
2. The game selection of iOS is unparalleled in the mobile device space, not to mention all the games will run decently unlike in the Play store where half of them won't even work or fit on the screen.
3. Banking apps are still superior on iOS

So no, iOS app store is miles better than Play store and Apple has an advantage as long as it stays that way.

 

[Apfeldirektsaft]

Apple is going to have to really innovate with the next iPhone to compete with these impressive Android devices.

You must be joking, aren't you?

 

[marc11]

...looks just like an iPhone. Sure, physical dimensions are off a bit, but they're going to compete with the iPhone with an iPhone?

I'm not exaggerating (or "fanboying") when I say I'm just not impressed. If you're gonna buy an iPhone, then, you might as well buy it from Apple.

Only thing about this phone I find interesting is the larger size. I don't know if I'd like a larger iPhone or not, but I'd be curious to see how it feels in my hand. Might go play with an S4 when it comes out, just so I can know if I want to start beating the "make a larger iPhone" drum.

Huh? Other than the white and black color this phone looks nothing like an iPhone? Wow, really, talk about a stretch. I think you just insulted both Samsung fans and Apple fans at the same time, good job!

 

[Bantz]

OMG I WANT THAT SCREEN
GG apple