Samsung Galaxy S4 - First Impressions - PC World

Samsung Galaxy S4

class=”subtytul”> thinner body despite a bigger screen

During the opening Samsung Galaxy S4 said that heard the comments and objections of buyers of the previous model, taking into account their wishes in the new version smartphone . Perhaps it was such a battery, which in this model can be replaced, and its capacity is up to 2600 mAh. The manufacturer has not specified the estimated battery life.

Galaxy S4 is a little slimmer than its predecessor. While the thickness of the S3 reached 8.6 mm, the new smartphone is only 7.9 mm thick. Samsung has equipped its representative product in a screen size of 4.99 inches and a resolution of Full HD. Despite a slight increase relative to the screen Galaxy S3 (4.8 inch) practically did not change the length or width of the new model. This enabled the narrow border around the display matrix.

makes a good impression also very light weight device (130 g). This is all t he more remarkable that S4 lies inside a large computational power and much better equipment – when you compare it with its immediate predecessor. Yet Galaxy S4 is lighter all three grams of Galaxy S3 .

Two variants of the CPU

Galaxy S4 is available in two versions with different processor. The first was equipped with manufactured by Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core system 600 clocked at 1.9 GHz. The second has o?miordzeniowym processor Exynos 5 Octa clock frequency 1.6 GHz. The latter is a structure own Samsung , in which eight of these cores does not work at the same time, but in two blocks of four cores. When there is low demand for computing power, smartphone uses energy-efficient core quartet. However, at higher load into action more efficient set of four cores. Both processors have access to 2 GB of internal memory, but the total storage capacity is dependent on the model 16, 32 or 64 GB. The available from 27 April 2013 for the 2799 model S4 z? lies Snapdragon system and 16 GB of memory. Distribution S4 version i9500 Exynos processor is so far limited to the area of ??South Korea, and it is unknown whether it will go to the Polish market.

sensors and features of Samsung Galaxy S4.

new devices and optical sensors

In the housing are two cameras. Main, located on the rear panel has a resolution of 13 megapixels, an additional front above the screen captures at a resolution of 2 Megapixels. In Dual Camera can record video and take pictures with two cameras simultaneously. Obtained in this way the material can be combined as a picture-in-picture. So the film or photo you can see the person on the other side of the lens. In addition, you can choose the location, size and effects of the window with the image coming from the second camera. This allows you to include make attractive group shots. Photographs can be providing audio.

Also new is the mode in which smartphone makes the scene a few photos and then automatically removes unwanted items. This function turns out to be a practical example, when trying to shoot a group pic, but they still run through the center of the frame the person that you are not in the picture.

In addition, the case was placed in tw o innovative sensors, which measure ambient temperature and humidity. These sensors should be useful to most athletes and people spending a lot of time outside when their functionality can be applied to applications.

S Translator – Galaxy S4 in the role of interpreter

The translator is translating S the most impressive innovations in the Galaxy S4. When you begin speaking into the microphone device, his voice is first converted into written text, and then translated into the selected language. At the request translator uses a speech synthesizer Text To Speech to denounce translated words, phrases or sentences in the form of sound. So you can communicate with someone and they do not know the language. In our cursory tests detect both speech and translation was performed flawlessly.