Thursday, June 20, 2013

The Samsung Galaxy S4 doesn't live up to the hype??


The not-so-high sales of the new S4 have caused Samsung to cut down on its component orders between 10% and 15%, according to ETNews. This is the first time this has happened since the company began rolling out android smartphones. It is also said that Samsung plans on stopping the production of the Galaxy S3, probably so that the S4 sales can match up with shipments.
I'm not really surprised. I didn't even keep up with the S4 excitement, but I knew I didn't want one because I figured it wouldn't be much different from the S3. They both have the same size and the same look. The only real difference are a few new features:
Smart Scroll - When you look at the bottom of a screen, the page will automatically scroll down for you so you can naturally keep reading or viewing content
Smart Stay - Videos pause when you look away from the screen
Air Gesture - Just like the Galaxy Note had a stylus that let you manipulate apps and icons on your screen, this feature allows users to move their fingers above the screen without touching it to control things on their phone
S-Translator - Cool for people who travel to other countries or just want to learn conversational forms of other languages. Choose a language and speak a word, sentence, or phrase. The translator will repeat it back to you in the language that you chose, in a female voice. You can also use this to translate text in a photo. For example, if you were at a REAL french restaurant and couldn't read the menu, just snap a photo and the translator will show you what everything means
Group Play - Sharing screens and media with another person. You can watch or listen to the same content with a friend. Both of you will see and hear the same thing on your phones. Of course both users have to have a samsung smartphone with the s-Beam feature.
S-Voice Drive - hands free GPS system. Just talk to it.
And a couple more that people probably won't use unless they have a certain lifestyle.

Those are actually some badass features though... But I guess, not enough for S3 users to switch over. Like I said, besides those features, both phones are pretty much the same. The Note is still pretty cool by itself too. We'll always have iPhone competition running in the background too, but if it were me who had a change to upgrade, I'll always choose the newest android.

Maybe the S4 sales will go up after the price goes down, but imo you can't go wrong with any of the newest Samsungs.
Once Android comes up with their own version of Siri, you won't be able to tell us NOTHIN.

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