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

Richdog said:
There will undoubtedly be plenty of awesome ROMs for the S4, including Omega I imagine. I have never bothered with Cyanogen mod and don't intend to either. they are not the ebe-all and end-all of phone ROM development.

Lets look at this realistically: the S IV will be so wildly popular that development is guaranteed; anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves imo.
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Exactly. I haven't use CM in ages and I've used the stock Samsung firmware as a based and tweaked it to my liking. As long as the device can be rooted & CWM recovery installed then development will be done.

One suspects this is a ploy from the CM team to get at the required Exynos documentation & module sources they have been after for a while. I wish them luck & hope that Samsung does end up granting them their wish.
 
Intratech said:
Exactly. I haven't use CM in ages and I've used the stock Samsung firmware as a based and tweaked it to my liking. As long as the device can be rooted & CWM recovery installed then development will be done.

One suspects this is a ploy from the CM team to get at the required Exynos documentation & module sources they have been after for a while. I wish them luck & hope that Samsung does end up granting them their wish.
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Yup... I imagine it's a case of the CM team thinking they have more political and industrial clout than is strictly realistic when facing off against a giant like Samsung. In relative terms, it's Amoeba & Goliath. :D
 
anticonscience said:
What is all this about different processors?
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Some markets (US, Canada and Sweden) will get the Snapdragon 600 Quadcore Krait that will include LTE/4G. Other markets - probably us - will get the Exonys Octa (utilising big.LITTLE, basically four high powered cores and four low powered cores) which apparently won't have LTE/4G.

The 600 uses a souped up Adreno 320 & the Octa uses a PowerVR 544MP3 for their graphic solutions.
 
The Exonys Octa DOES support LTE, only on the 800/1800 and maybe 2600 bands, which is good for most of Europe (including the UK) but bad for the US and other places, hence the different chipsets.
 
I still want one, just a little less than before of course^

Wanamlite will no doubt feature I guess.
 
Snapdragon 600 excels in benchmarks (not that they mean much TBH)

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Samsung Galaxy S4 preview: Take two
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GSM Arena

They use the Krait 600 version - comes on top in most benchmarks.

Do they ever test for phone to PC USB transfers and vice versa? My Sony XS, as do many phones, feels painfully slow at times when copy lots of files or large files.
 
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It better do.... 2013 is the year of 4G in the UK with 3 making massive strides at offering it at no extra cost and they already cover 80% of the UK with DC-HSPA so the transition for supported phones will be seamless.
 
xibinim said:
Do they ever test for phone to PC USB transfers and vice versa? My Sony XS, as do many phones, feels painfully slow at times when copy lots of files or large files.
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Found my S2 painfully slow but my Nexus 4 is quiet fast, 6-8gb is done in 5mins most of the time.

gsmarena said:
What you should take away from all this is that the final weak point of the Super AMOLED screens has been taken care of and the Galaxy S4 offers image quality like no other smartphone on the market. Its impressive contrast and almost perfect viewing angles make everything on the screen pop-up regardless of your view point.
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The screen is very promising, really can't wait to see this thing.
 
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I just want to be able to pre-order from 3 now with a delivery date, so I can give 30 days notice on my Voda contract! Really can't wait to get this phone!
 
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