*** The Official Samsung Galaxy S4 Thread ***

Of course I can only really comment for myself but I still find it a stretch that these are especially useful features for anything more than a very small number of people. Regardless my point was simply that they add nothing for me but I am unfamiliar with Samsung's past offerings, first hand anyway.
 
I paid £550 for my S3, so if its a similar price then I'm fine with it.

Before you ask why it was so expensive, Mobile Fun managed to get a few early after they were recalled and some of the other guys on here and I nabbed them even though they were £50 more than elsewhere :)
 
I watched the unveiling of the Galaxy S4 the other night and was very impressed. However, I am still in a dilema with whether to go for it over the HTC One hhmmmm.

Liam
 
I'm thinking this might be a decent upgrade to an iPhone 5. I fancy a change and I've only got 2gb storage left on the iPhone. This seems to be an improvement on the storage, the screen and add some interesting functions. I'm not happy with how easily my iphone has become damaged so the plastic finish would hopefully be a bit more durable.
 
Danger Phoenix said:
I think they are both pretty close, so just go with the one you like the look of better :)
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This is exactly where the dilemma sets in lol, my first and last HTC I owned was the Desire HD and I was absolutely blown away by the aesthetics & build quality of the phone, as well as the cutting edge hardware it had at the time. I then moved to the S2 when it came out and instantly was impressed with the faster hardware & how much quicker Android ran (where as on the Desire HD, Android started to run slow towards the end with newer Android releases). Though with the S2, I felt deep down that the build quality was not the best.

I then got the S3 last September, while again I was very impressed with how fast Android ran with the quad core CPU & how amazing the bigger screen was, as other people have echoed - the build quality after all for me still isn't mind blowing, but it is an improvement over the S2.

And it's just that with things like this, I am half tempted to move back to HTC as my next phone but I just need that little more convincing that it's hardware can still match up to the S4. I'm not fussed about extra storage as in reality I only use around 8GB anyway and non-removable battery's don't bother me either.

Liam
 
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Wait for the 'real' comparisons to emerge between the S4 and HTC One.

If the HTC One camera ends up delivering and the battery life is good, it will certainly sway the odds in favour of the HTC in many respects I feel.
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Oh man, half a grand. Might just have to stump up the cash seeing as my S3 needs restarting every few minutes. :rolleyes:
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Unless this is some sort of sarcastic comment are you suggesting that because your current high end Samsung product appears to be inherently faulty you will reward Samsung by... purchasing a £500 replacement from them?
 
[TW]Fox;23957790 said:
Unless this is some sort of sarcastic comment are you suggesting that because your current high end Samsung product appears to be inherently faulty you will reward Samsung by... purchasing a £500 replacement from them?
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Who said it was Samsung's fault that my phone is broken?
 
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LEK-89 said:
I just need that little more convincing that it's hardware can still match up to the S4
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The reason that your GS 2 ran much quicker/smoother than the desire HD was partly due to hardware but most importantly software, GS 2 was the first android phone to have hardware/GPU acceleration and really blew every android phone away at the time.

All android phones improved with ICS (as long as the hardware was good)and every phone has benefited from JB (GN is really smooth and fast, same league as the top end phones).

The GS 3, one X, S, XL, nexus 4 etc. are all in the same league for performance (minor differences that aren't worth worrying about imo) and I doubt that performance will be "much" different with the one and Gs 4. The manufacturers are just bumping the specs up for the sake of it now really, 2GB RAM and quad/octa are not "required" for a fast/smooth phone, the software is what they need to concentrate on (although its not like they can improve the performance much more as it is already plenty fast! :D :p)




As for which phone to get between the one and GS 4, I feel it will come down to preference once again

one:

- audio overall
- build/perceived quality

GS 4:

- battery life (octa version, if the big little thing works as described)
- SD slot/removable battery
- better NLED

Software, design and screen are personal preference.

Battery life on the one should be better than the droid DNA, certainly shouldn't be any worse.

Camera is too hard to judge really since there isn't much on the GS 4 and the one seems to have either a hardware or/and software fault which is producing very variable results, however, I think once it is fixed/improved we will see better results "overall" as the hardware in the one (regarding the camera) in theory is better than the gS 4 (gs4 is using the same sensor as the xperia Z), certainly won't beat it in low light/dark conditions anyway.
 
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[TW]Fox;23957790 said:
Unless this is some sort of sarcastic comment are you suggesting that because your current high end Samsung product appears to be inherently faulty you will reward Samsung by... purchasing a £500 replacement from them?
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He broke the glass on his S3, replaced the glass instead of replacing the screen+digitiser+glass, now his phone crashes all the time.

It wasn't Samsung's fault it's broke :p (unless it coincidentally started dying from SDS, but that's a pretty big coincidence, and something Samsung would have fixed for him if he'd not tried fixing the glass himself :o).
 
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