GALAXY S4 REVIEW

Mac071415

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How did it go from me having an app in the app store and a developer account to me being a developer. Anyone can make an app prick. i dont have to prove anything

Cause that's what you said dummy.
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All that shyt you talked and you can't even back it up. :yeshrug:
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Lol. Now go home and get ya fukking shine box!!! Bum. :umad:

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Steve 'Cyanogen' Kondik leaves Samsung

On the Galaxy S4

I got to spend some quality time with the S4 (final hardware) before I left Samsung. I'm a huge fan of the S3 and use one everyday, so I was quite pleased with the S4. Yeah, there is no refresh of the industrial design other than a few minor things such as the edging, but the device actually feels quite a bit more solid than the S3. Specwise, this device blows the competition out of the water. There are a number of unique features that have a lot of potential (assuming Samsung is opening up an API for them) such as the touchscreen which can register "hover" events, and an IR blaster. Benchmarks put this device FAR above the competition (40K on Quadrant CPU) and there should be no reason why it won't run your favorite apps flawlessly. GPS seems to work better than any other Samsung device, with a lock being acquired instantly in almost any condition. The camera is excellent as well, both front and back.

TouchWiz has become a bit more consistent with the latest upgrade. There are no more jarring mismatches in different parts of the OS, and it's been lightened up a bit and has a clean "flat" feel. Unfortunately, it feels like it has been sent a few years back in time to the Froyo days. Say goodbye to all of the nice touch-friendly ViewPagers and say hello again to a fully tabbed UI. You'll also enjoy the seemingly endless onslaught of popup windows and modal "Loading..." dialogs. UI performance is average. It's better and worse at the same time, depending on your viewpoint I suppose.

On the features side, it's absolutely loaded with stuff. Some of the new features are very useful like the "hover" preview where you can just point at an email message without touching the screen and it shows a preview of the message. The multi-window feature is present here, and is nice to have around when you need it. The camera app has seen some significant upgrades too, with live previews of the postprocessing effects and a new UI. My least favorite new feature is "Smart Scroll" which is supposed to scroll based on face detection + tilt, but it mostly serves to anger me into disabling it.

The Samsung Hubs are featured front-and-center, and seem to signify independence from the rest of the Android ecosystem. Play is still far more functional, but its a strong effort and I have no doubt that Samsung will keep improving here.

It's a solid device and a clear choice if you are upgrading from the GS2. You'll feel right at home if you have a GS3 currently, but upgrading is probably less urgent (especially if you're on contract).

I'll probably be picking up the T-Mobile variant when they hit the shelves, assuming they don't lock the bootloaders or something silly and self-defeating like that. Since it's powered by Snapdragon, CM should work wonderfully on it :smile:
 

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Can we revoke rbk's posting privilege in this thread,dude is way too bias & seems like he keeps sammies dack in his mouth
 

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hTc been trash for a while now. the last hTc phone i owned was just terrible. the screen was garbage, the phone itself wasnt even durable. and im here :deadrose: @ nikkas hating on removable batteries/sdcards. how can you hate microSDs for any reason other than they've been around for a long time???
 

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This fakkit rbk didn't have shyt to say after that screen shot ether :heh: just last month he was saying Samsung sucks and that stock 4.2.2 is better than a skinned version. Now its the opposite? Bu bu but sdcards are dead batteries too. Bu bu but this is about HTC vs Sammy that's why i'm riding with Samsung. Lol. Dumb fakkit.

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Someone needs tpoint rbk to that story on the deacon that Verizon turned in on cloud storage
 

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This fakkit rbk didn't have shyt to say after that screen shot ether :heh: just last month he was saying Samsung sucks and that stock 4.2.2 is better than a skinned version. Now its the opposite? Bu bu but sdcards are dead batteries too. Bu bu but this is about HTC vs Sammy that's why i'm riding with Samsung. Lol. Dumb fakkit.

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Let it go breh. You're coming off stalkerish with this nonsense. We all know rbk talks a lot of bullshiit.
 
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