Samsung Galaxy S4 review: Supernova

28 March 2013
As the Galaxy S series counter flips another digit, Samsung has hopes of getting an even tighter grip on the smartphone market, and reasserting its Android dominance. With two of the main rivals enjoying a head-start to the market, the Galaxy S4...

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  • AnonD-136050
  • SXb
  • 15 Apr 2013

I dont get it why people are bashing the "plastic" backside of the samsung devices.

Its very simple: if you want to offer replacable battery, external sd card and the thin flipcovers you just cannot create non-removable backsides ore aluminum unicasings. Polycarbonate is the best way.

That way samsung offers extremely versatile phones. Period.

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    • CerealKiller
    • uNV
    • 14 Apr 2013

    Kinda Find it weird that people go on bashing this phone for not having FM radio although NO ONE has ever thought that this review unit was running on pre realese software.Even gsm arena forgot to mention this -_-...

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      • ked
      • 14 Apr 2013

      I have an iPhone 4s and I would like to know if the field of view for the camera and video is better on the S4. Thank you.

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        • kvin7780
        • JDs
        • 12 Apr 2013

        Hi gsmarena,

        You got your hands on a retail unit, can you please tell me what's the firmware version? Wich build? And so on... Do you also think it will leak online soon? Thanks

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          • Anonymous
          • 4QS
          • 12 Apr 2013

          Anonymous, 10 Apr 2013The 19500 has not been available to benchmark yet but it is... moreIt has been benchmarked and is faster. It has not had battery endurance test yet

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            • gamer
            • t1$
            • 12 Apr 2013

            manoje, 07 Apr 2013Same design,same thing earlier only copy paste,i think wind... moreWindows 8 is good for waste box .

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              • mr perfect
              • KIJ
              • 11 Apr 2013

              I love this phone.come on pakistannn..

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                • AnonD-134506
                • vGE
                • 10 Apr 2013

                I'm awaiting this monster. With an Octa processor its going initiate a revolution in the mobile phone category. Cant wait to download One Browser to it and download HD videos and high quality music on it. It misses the water proof feature which could have made it the best phone ever made. Still a lot of opportunity in the market. Wish to buy it soon. ;)

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                  • Anonymous
                  • nIr
                  • 10 Apr 2013

                  RaJ, 05 Apr 2013Samsung I9500 Or Samsung I9505 which is better as per Synt... moreThe 19500 has not been available to benchmark yet but it is rumored to be faster

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                    • Anonymous
                    • jA4
                    • 10 Apr 2013

                    AnonD-120062, 31 Mar 2013HTC ONE a way better device at all! Samsung it's only crap ... moreyeah,good luck going with a company that keeps digging their own grave financially.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • jA4
                      • 10 Apr 2013

                      Hmmm, 04 Apr 2013Greate phone, I'll go get HTC One.yeah see you around troll!

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 3dr
                        • 09 Apr 2013

                        WOOOT??? 739 EUROS for this phone??? with ONLY 16GB??? NO WAY!!! Unless the price is cut by HALF this phone is a rip off!!!!

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                          • AnonD-133486
                          • tuf
                          • 08 Apr 2013

                          Hats off to Samsung once again. They definitely have another winner here and the other flagships of other brands will be eclipsed by the superlative S4.

                          I don't really mind the plastic looks of it cos more often than not, I'd use some casing with it. After all, its what in the phone that really counts and amoled screens are just unbeatable.

                          Can't wait for it to come out so that I can ditch my Xperia ZL for this monster of a phone !

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                            • AnonD-133275
                            • 39x
                            • 08 Apr 2013

                            Wow

                            gsmarena really can't handle criticsm they remove your comment

                            me stating this wasn't one of their better reviews due to lack of feature reviews like Knox and glove test etc they remove comment

                            Nobodies perfect gsmarena and you made glaring mistakes in not giving us a full proper review ...I didn't bad mouth your site

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                              • Anonymous
                              • rJc
                              • 08 Apr 2013

                              Waiting for tegra4 powered smartphone.

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                                • Maniche
                                • 3aP
                                • 07 Apr 2013

                                still looks like a plastic fisher price toy to me.

                                powerful though...but still cheap...and ugly..plus what really kills it for me is that shinny plastic...why samsung why ???? Oh well..I'll get the One then..

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                                  • AnonD-48321
                                  • iA0
                                  • 07 Apr 2013

                                  Can someone Explain what the numbers in the Sunlight legibility test means , is it based on the higher the better or what ? and if so why the LG Optimus 4X which has a score of 1.691:1 in sunlight can be more visable in sunlight than the Galaxy S3 which have much higher score which is 3.419:1

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                                    • manoje
                                    • vG@
                                    • 07 Apr 2013

                                    AnonD-78985, 02 Apr 2013The return of the king. Good job Samsung. Same design,same thing earlier only copy paste,i think windows 8 is good for all use

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                                      • RaJ
                                      • Mfx
                                      • 05 Apr 2013

                                      Samsung I9500 Or Samsung I9505
                                      which is better as per Synthetic benchmarks?

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • 4QS
                                        • 04 Apr 2013

                                        Anonymous, 02 Apr 2013Troll or not, I say the truth, android has icon tap tap lik... moreYeah no its not