Galaxy S4 Leather Pouch Case Crumena
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Samsung galaxy S IV battery life test
Samsung galaxy S IV come with a 2600 mAh battery,
Gsmarena got its hands on the device and was able to perform a few battery life tests on it:
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Galaxy S4 VS iPhone 5: 5 Reasons Why the S4 Is Better
Now, before I start this Galaxy S4 vs iPhone 5 battle I would like to but a little disclaimer. Namely, I am not a Samsung fanboy and I honestly am not a major fan of the new Galaxy S IV so far. However, my analysis has shown that it is a superior device when compared to Apple's current flagship. As you can also see the title of this blog is "Galaxy S4 News" and thus articles like this are to be expected. However, my honest answer on which one of these two phones I would buy would be "neither!" So, let us see why the S4 is better than the iPhone 5 shall we?
#1 The Galaxy S4 Is Faster and More Powerful
No, this isn't one of those articles where I will try to tell you that the Exynos 5 Octa is the best thing out there. It is far from it and more of a marketing trick. Also, many countries such as the USA, the UK, Denmark, Netherlands and so forth will get the Snapdragon quad-core processor instead.
The point is this - benchmarks! Even older benchmarks have shown that the Galaxy S3 is faster and more powerful than the iPhone 5, and the new Galaxy S4 which comes with updates hardware will perform even better. The S IV's quad-core processor beat the iPhone 5's dual core processor in a test performed by Primate Labs who put the Galaxy S 4 at the top of their charts. According to them the S IV is two times faster, but I honestly doubt the difference is so major!
#2 The Camera is Actually Good
Aside from the fact that the S4 has a 13 MP camera compared to the 8 MP iPhone 5 camera, the difference in software is also very important. Samsung's package includes a lot of very useful and powerful software such as photo blur which lets you "erase" people or objects from a shot and "Share Shot" which lets you sync with other Galaxy S phones that your friends or family have in order to share photos. There are a lot of other cool filters and effects that make photography on the S IV more fun.
However, the most important thing to me is that the camera actually works, unlike the iPhone 5 which had a lot of trouble with "purple flares". If you do not know what this is about then look at this article from CNET. This photo obviously demonstrates the lack of quality on the iPhone 5's camera which I am referring to:
#3 Display Quality
A lot of people say that the Galaxy S IV is better since it has a larger screen, but this is something totally irrelevant and subjective and I personally prefer the size of the iPhone 5. However, the Galaxy S4 has a much better display in terms of image quality. Now, the iPhone 5's Retina Display pushes out an astounding 1136x640-pixel resolution at 326 pixels per inch. Really good if you ask me...
However, Samsung used an HD Super AMOLED screen and beefed up the resolution on the Galaxy S4 to a impressive 1920x1080 at 441 pixels per inch.
#4 More Storage & More Speed
In terms of internal memory the two device are quite even. But when it comes to extra memory that you can get via an SD card the iPhone 5 users aren't going to be very happy since they don't have support for an SD Card on their phone. Galaxy S4 users on the other hand will get this awesome features as well as access to cloud storage such as Dropbox and Google Drive.
However, it is more important to note that the Galaxy S 4 is packed with 2 GB of RAM while the iPhone has 1 GB RAM. This is a major difference for a power-hungry user since more RAM will allow you to have a better experience while using multiple apps for example.
#5 Removable battery
This is a major issue in my opinion. and the Galaxy S4 comes out as the victor since it does feature a removable battery! A removable battery means that when your phone is running low you don't have to stay tethered to a plug. Samsung even sells an extra battery kit allowing you to get some extra juice in a hurry.
So, what do you think? Agree or disagree? What would you add on this list? Leave us a comment down bellow!
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
New app: Google Keep
Google Keep
Quickly capture what’s on your mind and recall it easily wherever you are. Create a checklist, enter a voice note or snap a photo and annotate it. Everything you add is instantly available on all your devices – desktop and mobile.
With Google Keep you can:
• Keep track of your thoughts via notes, lists and photos
• Have voice notes transcribed automatically
• Use homescreen widgets to capture thoughts quickly
• Color-code your notes to help find them later
• Swipe to archive things you no longer need
• Turn a note into a checklist by adding checkboxes
• Use your notes from anywhere - they are safely stored in the cloud and available on the web at http://drive.google.com/keep
• Keep track of your thoughts via notes, lists and photos
• Have voice notes transcribed automatically
• Use homescreen widgets to capture thoughts quickly
• Color-code your notes to help find them later
• Swipe to archive things you no longer need
• Turn a note into a checklist by adding checkboxes
• Use your notes from anywhere - they are safely stored in the cloud and available on the web at http://drive.google.com/keep
UK Galaxy S4 Will Not Have the Exynos 5 Octa!
After the glorious reveal of the Galaxy S4 in New York last week, we the world was left to wait and watch in awe as we expect the new Samsung Galaxy S4 to hit the stores. People were in particular interested in its great Exynos 5 Octa processor, but it seems that a lot of these people will be disappointed and might not even buy the phone at all!
Why the hell would they be upset? What has Samsung done? Well, it seems that the new flagship will not feature the Exynos 5 Octa in many area of the world. It all started with the USA, Denmark and Sweden, and now UK has joined this list. All of these countries will have the Galaxy S4 with the Snapdragon 600 chipset from Qualcomm.
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So, the USA, the UK and half of Europe will not be getting the Exynos 5 Octa which is being advertised as one of the amazing features. What gives? If you remember last year's incident, everyone got the Exynoss unit except for the USA which was stuck with Qualcomm's tech. However, this year things are even worse. Now, personally I stated that I care little for these two units as I find it that both of them are amazing and will get the job done for you very well. However, it seems to me that Samsung is being a bit irresponsible and getting a just a little bit too cocky!
Of course, there is also a valid explanation behind this as well. One idea is that the Exynos 5 Octa still isn't in high production, but this is more of an excuse than a valid reason. However, if this is true, then we just ought to wait a bit longer and the Exynos 5 Octa model will be available as well. I personally don't think that would happen, but hey, who am I to play the judge all mighty?
In some places the venders will try to ease your pain though, like the good folk in the Netherlands who are giving some extra gadgets such as 64 GB SD card to everyone who does by the Galaxy S IV in spite of the fact that it lacks the Exynos 5 Octa under the hood. Remember, no mater which processor it is carrying, this is still an amazing phone!
Register and Win a Galaxy S4
Register and Win a Galaxy S4:
You can now register with your email address to try to win the newly unveiled Galaxy S4.
Samsung register page
You can now register with your email address to try to win the newly unveiled Galaxy S4.
Samsung register page
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
New benchmark test: Samsung Galaxy S 4 beats all Android smartphones
Samsung galaxy S IV beats all the latest android phone in
new benchmark test:
The Galaxy S 4 scored
in this benchmark test 3163 points; Where the HTC One has scored 2687.
Monday, March 18, 2013
S-View Cover for Samsung S4
It is a protection which is similar to the Flip Cover for Note 2 .
Big feature of this S Cover View, it includes a system that allows you to turn the screen when you open it,clever window lets you peek at your screen without flipping the cover itself,displays some information (time , date, missed calls, SMS ...)
Sunday, March 17, 2013
What about the Samsung s4 price ??
Last Thursday, it has been announced that
the Samsung Galaxy S 4 will hit the stores on
the third or fourth week of April but officials
stayed mum about the pricing. However, at
present their website hints at an approximate
SRP of $579 for a 16 GB Galaxy S 4 but this
might not be the net value.
Considering sales taxes, the Galaxy S 4 is
still much cheaper than Apple's iPhone 5 and
is quite close to how much the Galaxy S III
was initially offered last year. We will surely
be hearing about it soon from different
carriers who would all want to be the first
ones to announce their plans and packages
for the Galaxy S 4.
Given a more affordable price than the
iPhone 5, the Galaxy S 4 will really provide a
tough competition to the iPhone 5 and even
the upcoming HTC One.
Source : youmobile.org
the Samsung Galaxy S 4 will hit the stores on
the third or fourth week of April but officials
stayed mum about the pricing. However, at
present their website hints at an approximate
SRP of $579 for a 16 GB Galaxy S 4 but this
might not be the net value.
Considering sales taxes, the Galaxy S 4 is
still much cheaper than Apple's iPhone 5 and
is quite close to how much the Galaxy S III
was initially offered last year. We will surely
be hearing about it soon from different
carriers who would all want to be the first
ones to announce their plans and packages
for the Galaxy S 4.
Given a more affordable price than the
iPhone 5, the Galaxy S 4 will really provide a
tough competition to the iPhone 5 and even
the upcoming HTC One.
Source : youmobile.org
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Chainfire working in Root For Galaxy S4
Chainfire work in Root For Galaxy S4
As some of you might have read on Twitter, I had the chance to remotely(!) play with a Qualcomm-based SGS4 yesterday, and attempted to root it.
So far, it doesn't work. Don't get me wrong, flashing the device and injecting the su binary and app was no problem, but as soon as you actually execute the su binary, the device reboots. Setting ro.secure to 0 and reflashing boot/recovery is also no problem, but there's some added protection that breaks adbd if boot/recovery is modified.
I've only had about an hour (and no time today) so I haven't done more then some really quick tests, but SELinux is certainly present. It appears to be in permissive mode though, so I'm not sure whether it is responsible for this behavior or if it's something else. The SELinux policies and such are inside the boot/recovery ramdisks, and trying to modify those partitions results in adbd not working.
It's probably going to be something simple to disable this behavior, but an hour of remote access is not enough (at least for me) to figure it out. Several ideas, just have to build/upload/flash/test/etc them. To me it did seem there was actually an explicit policy to allow /system/xbin/su, but I'm no SELinux guru, so I might have misinterpreted that.
To prevent any confusion: there does not seem to be any protection from flashing custom firmwares if you want to do so (on this test device at least). The stock firmware just doesn't like being rooted (so far). This is not Samsung locking down the hardware, as some will undoubtedly have assumed.
source : via google plus chainfire
Friday, March 15, 2013
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Galaxy S4 Presented in New York
As you have already heard dear readership from other news sources and blogs, the Samsung Galaxy S4 has been presented at the Samsung Unpacked in New York yesterday! Of course, the device is not yet ready to hit the stores and we can expect it to begin shipping by the end of April. It is very possible that retailers will begin accepting preorders soon and local carriers are already arranging everything. But what about the phone itself?
What are people who were at the event saying about Samsung's latest flagship? Well, it seems that opinions are split - some are loving the new phone, while others say that it wasn't such a huge step from the S3.
The official specs:
Design and Body:
- Dimensions: 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9 mm (5.38 x 2.75 x 0.31 in)
- Weight: 130 g (4.59 oz)
- Type: Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Size: 1080 x 1920 pixels, 5.0 inches (~441 ppi pixel density)
- Multitouch: Yes
- Protection: Corning Gorilla Glass
- User Interface: TouchWiz UI
- Chipset: Exynos 5 Octa 5410
- CPU: Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 & quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7
- GPU: PowerVR SGX 544MP3
- Sensors: Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, temperature, humidity, gesture
- Battery: Li-Ion 2600 mAh
- GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS
- Card slot: microSD, up to 64 GB
- Internal: 16/32/64 GB storage, 2 GB RAM
- Primary: 13 MP, 4128 x 3096 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
- Features: Dual Shot, Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization, HDR
- Video: Yes, 1080p@30fps, dual-video recording
- Secondary: Yes, 2 MP, 1080p@30fps, dual video call
- S-Voice natural language commands and dictation
- Smart stay, Smart pause, Smart scroll
- Air gestures
- Predictive text input (Swype)
- Messaging: SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
- Browser: HTML5, Adobe Flash
- Radio: TBD
- Java: Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
- Colors: White Frost & Black Mist
- Extra charging: Wireless charging (market dependent)
- Cloud Storage: Dropbox (50 GB storage)
- Alert types: Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
- Loudspeaker: Yes
- 3.5mm jack: Yes
Icons of galaxy S4
Icons of galaxy S4
The icons are almost same as S3 , except the following
1. The email icons gained a colourful border
2. The browser and camera icon gained some shadowing effect
1. The email icons gained a colourful border
2. The browser and camera icon gained some shadowing effect
via : xda forum
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