Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

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

andross77 said:
PS - the above rant comes after watching Engadget's hands on review, then reading it, then reading the comments then reading the comments on other S4 articles and finally this post at Macrumors. If the S4 didn't upgrade every single component of the S3 and manage to put it in a smaller form factor AND have industry leading specs in many areas (highest res screen, most storage available, highest ram, etc) then I would start believing all the trashing of it. But since it does, it makes me think we are dealing with rabid fanboyism and extreme hyperbole.
Click to expand...

Engadget and The Verge are pretty terrible in fanboy wars and they sure do love to instigate them

click$$$
 
lilo777 said:
And where exactly would Apple get them? Are you implying that OLED screens last less than two years? That's a revelation to me. I've had Galaxy S phones starting from S1 and not a single one of them had any issues. From Wikipedia: "Lifespan
The biggest technical problem for OLEDs was the limited lifetime of the organic materials.[54] In particular, blue OLEDs historically have had a lifetime of around 14,000 hours to half original brightness (five years at 8 hours a day) when used for flat-panel displays. This is lower than the typical lifetime of LCD, LED or PDP technology—each currently rated for about 25,000–40,000 hours to half brightness, depending on manufacturer and model.[55][56] However, some manufacturers' displays aim to increase the lifespan of OLED displays, pushing their expected life past that of LCD displays by improving light outcoupling, thus achieving the same brightness at a lower drive current.[57][58] In 2007, experimental OLEDs were created which can sustain 400 cd/m2 of luminance for over 198,000 hours for green OLEDs and 62,000 hours for blue OLEDs.[59]"


And SGS4 uses new type of OLED technology called PHOLED which is much more efficient.
Click to expand...

Unless you use your device more than that. I tend to use mine often during my waking hours so if you change that number to 14 hours its 2.7 years before you start to loose the blues. Remember that Apple has been Samsung's largest customer for some time. If this was the best technology overall Apple would have used it. Samsung has of course pushed this to them because it would be to their advantage to lower their productions costs since Apple has consistently sold more iPhones than the Galaxy line. Remember they only actually sold 21 million phones total in the US between Jan 2010 and June of 2011 according to real sales numbers provided to the judge during trial. Analyst claimed they were shipping this many every quarter.
 
AP_piano295 said:
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.
Click to expand...

I think in this case Samsung just went to 1080p so they can show 1080p video without scaling. Years ago, Samsung marketing used to tell us we did not need 1080p on a screen smaller the 42" and that is why all their "smaller" TVs were 720p.

I don't see why they would push beyond 1080p in the near term. There is nothing left to claim besides higher DPI and the number of pixels that have to be rendered for the icons and other resources must be getting ridiculous.
 
wovel said:
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?
Click to expand...

Sorry but it doesn't take a genius to realize that :

Screen - 441 ppi is better than 326 ppi
Battery - 2600 mAh is better than 1440 mAh
Camera - 13MP rear, 2MP front is better than 8MP rear, 1.2MP front
Processor - 1.9 GHz Quad core is better than 1.3 GHz Dual core
 
Fafafoooey said:
Typical Android. iPhone updates go to all iPhones models that are supported, not just a certain group of them.
Click to expand...

Fafafoooey said:
Samsung features are gimmicky.
Click to expand...

I can use one word to counter both your claims:

Siri.

It was part o iOS 5. The iPhone 4 supported iOS 5. Did it get Siri? No. Could it handle Siri? As jailbreak has proved, yes. In other words, this is a great example of an iPhone update not going to all iPhone models that are supported, just to a certain group of them.

And as gimmick as everything in the Galaxy 4 is... Siri is, too, extremely gimmick.

Both iPhones and Android phones are not revolutionary. Maybe because there is nothing left to revolutionize with a phone. Or maybe because there is no one willing to go the extra mile instead of playing it safe. But it's hard to criticize Android without throwing a very similar complaint against Apple...
 
Reason077 said:
- 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
Click to expand...

Ah, you were joking, because you're joking, don't you?
 
I don't think Apple is going to take this curled up on the floor....


... or at least I don't expect them too.


In Ive iTrust.
 
I give Samsung credit. I guess it depends on what you feel is a feature and what is a gimmick. Some of the..well features I think are pretty cool. Are they needed? Probably not but will be cool and fun to play around with. I think the eye tracking is very nice.
 
rdnrvn said:
Sorry but it doesn't take a genius to realize that :

Screen - 441 ppi is better than 326 ppi
Battery - 2600 mAh is better than 1440 mAh
Camera - 13MP rear, 2MP front is better than 8MP rear, 1.2MP front
Processor - 1.9 GHz Quad core is better than 1.3 GHz Dual core
Click to expand...

Don't know about the rest of the specs, but just saw another article where they compare the S4's camera with the iPhones 5's and the iPhone was clearly a better picture. I'll see if I can find the link....

But... higher specs does not mean faster or better overall quality.
 
Reason077 said:
- 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
Click to expand...

And they both have a power button! :eek: How dare they
 
wovel said:
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.
Click to expand...

There are still 8 cores. Whether or not they run at the same time is semantics. The CPU still has 8 cores in it.
 
TMay said:
Apple hasn't yet decided to compete in the larger format smartphone battle, and the S III sales are a fraction of iPhone 5 sales.
Click to expand...

The S III is a fraction of iPhone 5 sales? How do you know? (Well, it's clear to anyone that it's not a fraction...)

Please, can anyone tell me how many of the iPhone 5 model that Apple has sold? Apple hasn't released any actual sales numbers since we were told that 5 million was sold in the first three days.

Remember all those reports about Apple cutting orders for iPhone 5 screens a while ago? You know what Apple didn't release to refute those reports? Sales numbers.
 
jasvncnt said:
LOL Im sure im probably the only one but I didnt mind the debut. I do find it rather silly and funny. I think thats why. I prefer it over Apples. Apples jsut seem a bit dry to me.
Click to expand...

I was embarrassing to watch. Like a bad middle school play.
 
AaronEdwards said:
The S III is a fraction of iPhone 5 sales? How do you know? (Well, it's clear to anyone that it's not a fraction...)

Please, can anyone tell me how many of the iPhone 5 model that Apple has sold? Apple hasn't released any actual sales numbers since we were told that 5 million was sold in the first three days.

Remember all those reports about Apple cutting orders for iPhone 5 screens a while ago? You know what Apple didn't release to refute those reports? Sales numbers.
Click to expand...

http://bgr.com/2013/02/20/iphone-5-sales-q4-2012-332052/

27.4 million during Q4 2012.

First result on Google. First. Please don't embarrass yourself.
 
haruhiko said:
When Apple releases a phone that looks mostly the same (iPhone 4S): Meh! Apple is doomed!

When Samsung releases a phone that looks mostly the same (Galaxy S4): Wow! THAT'S innovation! Apple seriously needs to innovate!
Click to expand...

Apple is held to a higher standard :cool:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back