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Samsung Announces New Flagship Galaxy S 4 Competitor to Apple's iPhone
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I agree. Apple cannot continue to rehash the same old phone - in a slightly new design. There needs to be innovation.
I think the air gestures is pretty awesome. The fact that the display can tell when you are looking away, where you eye placement is on the web page....it's pretty incredible. Apple should have done this first. It would have truly been a "magical device."
Holy smokes, a few of you posted like 30+ times last night and are already up this morning since 7am-ish posting another several times?
Wow. Some folks are _really_ wound up over this
It looks fine, I'm sure it will be a decent smartphone, but I hope yet another phone isn't a major life changing event for some contributors in this thread ... hahaha, someone actually said something about there being "fear" in some of these posts ... over a silly piece of consumer electronics? Hahaha, outstanding.
Wow. Some folks are _really_ wound up over this
It looks fine, I'm sure it will be a decent smartphone, but I hope yet another phone isn't a major life changing event for some contributors in this thread ... hahaha, someone actually said something about there being "fear" in some of these posts ... over a silly piece of consumer electronics? Hahaha, outstanding.
The note saying that some to the software will sit unused is bang on... with my previous Galaxy class phone i rarely if ever used most of the native software. Initially I found it to be buggy and slow.
Very similar to my iPhone and a few of the native apps (Newsstand, Stock, Compass... just to name a few).
Very similar to my iPhone and a few of the native apps (Newsstand, Stock, Compass... just to name a few).
And tbh I'd still prefer the iPhone 5 design with the size of the 4/4S. Maybe that's just me though.
There have been a few before the Samsung GS4...
Please don't imply that something of personal preference is a lie. You only speak for yourself. I want a smaller phone, plenty of other people do too. The vast majority of people buying larger ones are being talked into it by marketing, sales people and a desire to have the next best thing. The Galaxy S3 still hasn't surpassed the sales of the smaller iPhone 4S, let alone the 5.
It isn't an S progression, since only Apple does that. It is however, nothing really new. 5" with 1080p has been done by Sony, Huawei, ZTE and HTC already. Octa-core in a phone isn't really Samsungs doing, ARM came up with the big.LITTLE design and the advantage over the quad-core and dual-core in Android remains to be seen. Until a camera comparison is done, more megapixels doesn't equal better. Meh at the features. Your last point just isn't true I'm afraid. The SGS4 will come in two varieties to support all LTE bands, so therefore won't be a true international phone.
The fact you've walked into an Apple store many-a-time to replace a broken iPhone is surely an attestation to the iPhone's poor build quality - otherwise you wouldn't have to replace them so often!
"They're so easy to replace when they break, and boy do they break!"
For me, I have had four Android phones and have not yet had to replace one, despite numerous drops and moments of clumsiness on my part.
You'll never find build quality better than Apple. I've had one iPhone (3GS) and no one is more fumble-fingered than me. I sleep with (and I'm 300+ lbs.) as a music player. The phone is still pristine. People who are always complaining about broken phones (iPhones or other manuf. are just careless (except for Blackberrys - they break just looking at them.)
If you ask them why they are here or call them phandroids you can expect a PM for personal attacks with a possible suspension. They are able to call the rest of the forum iSheep and whatever with impunity. For whatever reason (maybe wider audience, more clicks), this site has been encouraging these trolls and it is only getting worse. I doubt this post will be around long, but maybe someone will read it
Actually, in Japan many people use "feature" cellphones that have built-in NFC payment systems--it's only now that the migration of people to "smartphones" has begun in that country. The Galaxy S III is fairly popular in Japan, since the built-in NFC system allows the use of the Nanaco and Suica mobile payment systems on the Galaxy S III. This is going to become even more important because of the linking of IC Card NFC payment systems across Japan starting March 23, 2013.
It's not an octa-core CPU, it is a CPU with two sets of 4 cores. All 8 cores do not run at the same time.
You can argue and deny the awesomeness of the S4 any way you want it, but it won't change the fact that there is not a single aspect of this phone that the iPhone 5 can beat. Screen, speed, memory, cameras, battery. It was a huge upgrade from the S3, yet they kept the look-and-feel of the phone that was so well received in the S3, and it is in line with the rest of the device design lineup. The software updates are awesome too, just imagine if Apple had introduced them, how exited this board would have been.
The S4 looks like another winner for Samsung and it will give Apple even more headache.
The S4 looks like another winner for Samsung and it will give Apple even more headache.
I would guess this was a last minute change in their announcement. I would wait to see what it actually ships with and how well it works...
It's so bad that it's almost funny. It's the same phone again and they managed to copy something whilst they were at it. I'm convinced Samsung are incapable of original thought.
iPhone is still better, no matter now much Samsung wish they were Apple.
How many do you think Samsung will sell? 20 million or so?
- Nearly Edge-to-edge display, across the width, with black (or white) "chin" above and below the screen.
- Flat front face with rounded corners and a single button below the screen
- Metal wrap-around edge band
Yes, because they make a big deal about how 'different and innovative' their ideas are, and then you have an spec bump product wrapped in a nightmare of a broadway show style announcement.
That's how tech works, not everything is a light-year leap in tech or concepts, but when Samsung went that route in marketing, they opened the door.
i call it hate reading - like when you hate watch a tv show you know is bad but you still watch it and complainBest post in this thread!!
I second that...Nexus 4 is awesome, Nexus 5 should be awesome'rrrr. Same goes for the stock OS.
I'm also waiting on the IOS7 & iPhone 6 (not thrilled for the S series)
As for the s4, pretty much an s3. Worst thing about all these android phones are the OS updates. They SUCK! Hated my s2 just because of the updates. Gingerbread was forever!
Nexus 4 now, unless apple surprises me with an innovation, I'm onto the next one.
How do you know that? What is the battery life? How do those CPUs benchmark? Does the software support seamlessly switching between low/high power cores?
How can you claim a phone that exists and has been on the market for more than 6 months can't beat a phone that doesn't exist yet? Your only basis is from a marketing presentation...
What if you live in the US and don't even get the cool 4x4 CPU? What will your performance and battery life be like then?
As long as they sell enough of them to meet their goals, it doesn't really matter does it? Evidently millions of people like a larger screen than the iPhone offers. The Galaxy Note sells well and it has an even bigger screen.
I'm not an apple fan-boy (I use an HTC One X atm) but I've gotta say that the constantly increasing resolution isn't really worth it on phones anymore.
They're called retina displays for a reason, further boosting the resolution really just hurts performance without giving the user any noticeable returns. Same with boosting the megapixels, bigger numbers but in a phone it makes no difference.