![]() For instance, if you capture a group shot of all your friends and someone walks by in the background, you are able to remove them from the scene pretty easily. These features return, but with the S4 Samsung stepped up its snapper game, debuting more additional snapper functionality including Eraser, Dual shot, and Animated photo.Įraser enables the S4 to capture multiple shots (5) and then allows you to erase moving objects from the background of a photo. ![]() Last year, the Korean firm introduced camera features such as Best shot on the S3, which allowed users to take a series of shots and select the best picture. This main snapper is backed up by a 2 MP front-facing camera that is useful for taking self-portrait shots and making video calls. Image quality with the autofocus camera with LED flash and BSI (backside illumination) was great, while there was also no noticeable shutter lag when capturing photos. Samsung upgraded the rear-facing camera from 8 MP to 13 megapixels, matching the MP tally available on the rear-shooter of the Xperia Z. The sleek S4 sports some powerful CPU horsepower and still manages pretty impressive battery life. If this frustrates you, a move to the S4 will provide a sigh of relief. ![]() The S3's that we used in the office became slower as time progressed (for example, the amount of time it took to open the phone or one's contacts). Where you will see a vast difference, is in the speed of the old S3 and the new S4. In general use there will be little to differentiate the One and the Galaxy S4 - both will perform exceedingly well. The One also seemed to fare a bit better during intensive graphical bench tests such as Futuremark's 3DMark for Android as it delivered a score of 11 350 within the Ice Storm segment of the test and 6725 tally during Ice Storm Extreme, compared to the S4's respective totals of 92.īenchmarking results though are definitely not the be all and end all of smartphones, being more something for geeks, like us, to get excited about. The S4 did however produce the best Metal tally (1060) of the trio. Interestingly, when it came to the Vellamo benchmark, the HTC One delivered the best HTML5 score of 2381, followed by the S4 (2041) and Z (1983). In AnTuTu v2.3, the S4 notched up a total score of 28 158, with the One churning out a respectable 24 100 and Sony Z also breaking through 20 000 with its tally (20 067). The S4 managed a combined (Games and Productivity Indexes) tally of 10 686 within Smartbench 2012, with the One only managing 9783, and Xperia Z faring the worst out of this trio by delivering a combined score of 7379. The big news is that Samsung’s S4 managed to humble all other mobile CPUs used in rival devices during benchmarking, including the HTC One’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core chipset (1.7 GHz) and the Sony Z’s Qualcomm quad-core MDM9215M (1.5 GHz). Although it sports eight cores, the Exynos 5 Octa never operates above a quad-core level, since it calls upon four Cortex-A15 cores (1.6 GHz each) for processing-intensive tasks, and four Cortex-A7 cores (1.2 GHz each) during lighter workloads. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and boasts the best colour saturation levels in the mobile business, as well as great viewing angles.Įnsuring that the software runs fluidly and quickly is Samsung’s much talked about Exynos 5 Octa 5410 chipset. If you do want the White Frost version of this phone, just be aware that the capacitive buttons (menu and back), located beneath the screen, are virtually invisible in direct sunlight (as on the S3). Using this display outdoors is not a problem since glare is kept at bay for the most part. Time to play spot the difference: The Galaxy S4 (left) and Galaxy S3 (right).Īs on the Sony Xperia Z (review), picture quality, videos and web pages all look amazing, thanks to the S4’s 5" Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen packing a full HD (1080 x 1920 441 ppi) resolution. The S3’s body did not age very well, so hopefully Samsung will opt for a splash of metal come next year’s Galaxy S5. Unfortunately, the princely S4 once again sports a pauper plastic outfit, and although build quality is good, the S4 does not look nor feel as premium as either the HTC One (review) or the iPhone 5 (review), both which feature generous helpings of aluminium. Its corners are also slightly more squared, with the display taking up extra real estate. ![]() ![]() There is truly not a lot of difference between the old and the new, with the S4 actually being 3 g lighter and 0.7 mm thinner. ![]()
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