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Samsung Galaxy S4 becomes official!

In a global launch event here in Radio Music Hall, New York City, Samsung finally revealed their latest Galaxy smartphone – the Samsung Galaxy S4.

Samsung polished the design of the S3 and bumped up the hardware configuration to come up with the Galaxy S4. The body is still made of polycarbonate material but gives you an impression that it looks and feels a bit metallic.

The handset manufacturer also put a lot of focus on the OS layer by adding a huge set of customizations from entertainment, education, health and media fronts (will discuss more about that in a separate article).

The Galaxy S4 will basically have two major configurations –- one running an Exynos 5 Octa processor and another with a Snapdragon 600 quad-core. This chip (and LTE) will depend per region but it’s more likely the Philippines will get the Exynos 5 model.

Samsung Galaxy S4 i9500 specs:
4.99-inch display full HD Super AMOLED @ 1920x1080p, 441ppi
Samsung Exynos 5 Octa 1.6GHz 4+4 core
Quad-core 1.6GHz Cortex-A15, quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A7
PowerVR SGX544MP3 tri-core GPU
2GB RAM
16, 32GB, 64GB
Up to 64GB microSD
HSPA+
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, dual-band WiFi Direct
Bluetooth 4.0
GPS w/ aGPS support
NFC
IR Blaster
13MP autofocus, rear camera with LED flash
1080p video recording @ 30fps
2MP front-facing camera
1080p video recording @ 30fps
7.9mm
Li-Ion Battery 2600mAh
Android 4.2.2 Jellybean

The other model is has an SKU number of GT-i9505 and runs on Quacomm Snapdragon 600.

Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 specs:
4.99-inch display full HD Super AMOLED @ 1920x1080p, 441ppi
Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 1.9GHz quad-core
Adreno 320 Graphics
2GB LP-DDR3 RAM
16, 32GB, 64GB
Up to 64GB microSD
HSPA+, LTE 100Mbps (6 bands)
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, dual-band WiFi Direct
Bluetooth 4.0
GPS w/ aGPS support
NFC
IR Blaster
13MP autofocus, rear camera with LED flash
1080p video recording @ 30fps
2MP front-facing camera
1080p video recording @ 30fps
7.9mm
Li-Ion Battery 2600mAh
Android 4.2.2 Jellybean

The 4G LTE frequencies supported are 700MHz, 800MHz, 1700MHz, 1800MHz, 1900MHz, 2600MHz.

Samsung put a lot of effort with the 13MP camera by including a number of fancy effects and post-shot compositions. Technically, it’s just a super-charged native camera app but it does a lot pretty neat tricks that will look impressive to a regular consumer.

The handset will be available in White Frost and Black Mist colors. Samsung is set to have a worldwide release of the Galaxy S4 some time in May 2013.

You can read more about our hands-on first impressions here. You can also see the Quadrant Benchmarks here.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

85 Responses

  1. Avatar for At blog At blog says:

    Samsung galaxy s4 a phone that has all features that make it the best Android phone ever !! I owned it and was smooth to use !! pros: 1-) The 13mpegapixel camera works awesome . 2-) A superb screen with a brilliant size. 3-) The speaker are audible and does not produce loudness and the expendable memory is a good option. 4-) The octa core processor is the biggest pros. 5-) The 2600mAh battery provides a good backup of 7 to 8 hours on heavy use like games ,video streaming and net surfing on a continuous use cons: 1-) The eye gesture feature does not work properly 2-) A little bit high price (if u can afford its best to buy)

  2. Avatar for Bitgram Social Bitgram Social says:

    Samsung is the best mobile phone in the world.

  3. Avatar for mi young mi young says:

    people with most harsh comments are usually the one with most criticism but less percentage to buy the product if you really want to know how good this S4 is why dont you try to buy one and see it for yourself im a samsung user so i could say that it fits my daily living and it is worth the bucks i paid. whatever it is still the verdict of this S4 lies upon the masses who will use and patronize once it is officially launch in most samsung stores here in the country :) ciao!

  4. Avatar for blabla blabla says:

    wow ha!! tindi ng mga comments…puro negative…just because of the design ng s4..grabe!!! how ridiculous….

    ..well, comment ko lang naman, para matawag mong maganda ang isang phone, dapat ang tignan mo yong specs hindi yong design….likewise sa tao..”don’t judge the book by its cover”.

    tignan nyo naman specs ng s4… ang layong maganda sa specs ng pinagmamalaki nyong htc one at xperia z…

    • Avatar for zarne zarne says:

      @blabla.. I disagree about your analogy about the the phone and the person ”don’t judge the book by its cover”. The subject is a phone, and if I am buying one, I would certainly look at the design PLUS the Specs. As for me, I put more weights on the design than on the Specs. Why do you think Apple is still selling so many phones? Iphone Specs are old but the Iphone has great design.

  5. Avatar for Samsung officials Samsung officials says:

    Hey you fuckyou nokia ,apple,blackberry,nexus,htc and ilove you samsung and you are the best fuck you alllllll im -vice president of samsung

    • Avatar for zarne zarne says:

      @ Obed…. I see what you mean about certain “commentors”. Hey Samsung Officials (if this is true) You are being a dumb ass with your stupid comments. Please respect the other people in this forum.

  6. Avatar for stillwalking stillwalking says:

    Opinyon ko lng s mga nabasa ko d2 tungkol s bago at lumang modelo ng samsung. Wala nmn cgurong smartphone company na maglalabas ng total package ng kanilang produkto. Pag ginawa nila yun d n sila kikita kya pa unti-unti lng ang nilalabas nila. Yun lang po!

  7. Avatar for fat internet guy fat internet guy says:

    shet..parang talo iphone 5 a..:(

    • Avatar for blabla blabla says:

      …hahaha…matagal nang talo ang iphone 5….. asa ka pang magkaroon ng chance yan…. apple sucks!!

  8. Avatar for jeff jeff says:

    mas ok naman siya kumpara sa S3 pero di ganun ka laki yung upgrade kaysa s2-s3.Maganda din cam nito. Same with other flagships this year, lahat EXMOR RS same with Xperia Z.

  9. Avatar for Rob Rob says:

    Nice, 8 core! Antayin ko ang release ng Note 3. So far, I love my Note 2 pa din. :)

  10. Avatar for LEE LEE says:

    I’m an apple user for years now and I want to try android devices for a change I’m torn between samsung galaxy s4 and HTC one.

    In terms of software, I think Samsung galaxy s4 outshines the HTC one. But in terms of hadware, my vote is for the HTC One.

    It’s too early to conclude which one is superior, since both fones are not yet availabale here in the Philippines.

    Android geeks, which one is better?

    I hope you can help me. Thanks! And god bless :)

    • Avatar for Welsh Welsh says:

      One of the qualities that people like about Apple iphone products are Apple’s Customer Support quality, and Software Support (OS updated and so on)

      As such, I just you go for Samsung S4 as Samsung has a good Customer Support here in PH, and has a good software support (as long as the specs of your samsung Phone can take it, samsung will cater the Android update).

      Hope this help you decide.

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