If you had been waiting for the Google Edition smartphones to come available — today is your day. The stock Android running Samsung GALAXY S 4 and HTC One have recently landed in the Play Store and according to the details included in the listings they are both are set to ship soon. Or more
It’s probably not a huge stretch to say that Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 running stock Android was the biggest surprise to come out of Google I/O last month. The handset — officially called Samsung Galaxy S 4 Google Play edition — is now on sale in the Play store for $649 alongside a special version of the HTC One. Spec-wise, the phone is identical to AT&T’s 16GB model and supports the same bands (including LTE). It’s powered by Qualcomm’s 1.9GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor with 2GB or RAM and features a 5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display, 13-megapixel camera with flash, removable 2600mAh Li-ion battery and microSD expansion. While we briefly handled the phone at I/O, it wasn’t until yesterday that we got to spend some quality time with it. Hit the break for our first impressions and hands-on video.
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Source: Play store
It seems Samsung will be slowing down its production line for its flagship Galaxy S 4, as it’s said that the Korean company is planning to cut monthly production of Galaxy S 4 by up to 15%. Samsung’s July order for Galaxy S 4 components equaled around 6.5 million smartphones, which is only around half
Samsung unveiled its new waterproof and dustproof Galaxy S 4 a few days ago, called the Galaxy S4 Active, and now AT&T is the first out of the gate to announce availability of the new device. AT&T will begin taking pre-orders for the phone starting on June 14, with an official launch date of June
Smartphones are, to some degree at least, delicate electronic creatures that happen to be stuffed in pockets, bags, placed on counters, taken to precarious places, and dropped on a near-daily basis. Anyone who has owned a phone for a significant amount of time has cracked a screen or crimped a corner at some point, which
Samsung just held a small preview event in Helsinki, Finland, where we briefly had the chance to play with some of its latest devices. The Intel-powered Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 was there, along with the smaller Galaxy Tab 3 8.0. We also grabbed a few moments with the Galaxy S 4 mini as well as the Galaxy S 4 Active, both of which seemed kinda predictable but nevertheless managed to leave a good impression. There was no sign of the new Galaxy Ace 3 or the heavily rumored Galaxy S 4 Zoom, and we weren’t able to grab video of any of the products, but we do have a gallery for you below and some very early impressions if you read on.
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Rumor of a Galaxy Camera reboot called the GALAXY S 4 Zoom have been around for weeks now, with the device seemingly appearing in subtle ways both in May and this month. Now an image said to be of the handset has appeared over at SamMobile, showing a somewhat bulky Galaxy smartphone face with a
Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages.
The launch of the Xbox One may be behind us, but we still have plenty of numbers to crunch. Speaking of ones, this week we saw a record-setting auction for an old Apple 1, a multi-tabbed refresh of our inbox and the release of Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends Report. Add to that some big names taking the stage at D11, an anti-graffiti drone and a rather bizarre-looking harp, and you have this week’s After Math. Join us after the break for the digits.
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The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is a neat device and all, but like a lot of flagship devices, the off-contract price can be a little off-putting to those not willing to shell out the cash for it, which is why subsidized pricing is a lot more attractive to consumers. However, that isn’t stopping Microsoft from taking a whack at the Galaxy S 4, saying that its off-contract price is just way too expensive.
Microsoft pits the Samsung Galaxy S 4 up against the Windows Phone 8-based Nokia Lumia 521. Right off the bat it’s kind of an unfair fight performance- and feature-wise, but the Lumia 521 only costs $150 off-contract, compared to the $750 off-contract price of the Galaxy S 4 at Best Buy (although you can get it for $650 at Verizon and other carrier stores).
Microsoft says that both phones offer “a good camera, a good display, thousands of apps, and the ability to keep you connected to the weather, sports, news, and all of the people you care about,” but they ultimately tout the low $150 price tag of the Lumia 521, and they show us what else customers could buy with the $600 dollars that they’d save if they went with the Lumia 521.
For instance, with the money you save from buying the Lumia 521 instead of the Galaxy S 4, Microsoft says you could buy a 3-month Xbox Music pass for $30, a 16GB microSD card for $20, a pair of Monster Purity earbuds for $100, and to top it all off: an ASUS VivoBook X202E laptop for $450. Seems like a pretty sweet deal.
Obviously, the Lumia 521 isn’t one of Nokia’s flagship devices, nor is it even one of their more decent high-end handsets. We reviewed the Lumia 520, which is just a slightly different variant. It’s merely a budget device from Nokia that really doesn’t stand a chance against the Galaxy S 4. Pitting the Lumia 920 up against the S 4 would be a fairer fight, but we know Microsoft wouldn’t want to do that.
Samsung Galaxy S 4 dissed by Microsoft over high price is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The more we know about the 4.3-inch Galaxy S 4 mini, the more we’re convinced that it’s coming in the near future. German website All About Samsung claims to have obtained AnTuTu benchmark results from the baby Galaxy S 4, courtesy of an unnamed source. According to the screenshots above, the phone will feature 1.5GB of RAM, an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 2.1-megapixel front shooter capable of 1080p video. The original screenshots confirm the GS4 mini’s rumored qHD display resolution (960 x 540 pixels), while also indicating that the phone will likely be powered by Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon 400 (like the HTC First), running Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). If these specs pique your interest, ensure you haven’t missed some recently leaked shots of the phone itself.
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Via: Android Beat
Source: All About Samsung
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