The mania of Galaxy S4 is cooling
down after this blockbuster was released on March 14th. There are no
major changes in style except for being thinner and slighter than Samsung
Galaxy S III; however, the latest innovations in Galaxy S4 is its internal
software features. Here are some interesting features that Samsung has equipped
with Galaxy S4.
Samsung
Galaxy S4
Dual camera
Samsung’s Camera app has more features than
Android’s original camera app and with this Galaxy S4, which is probably what
attracts Korean brand.
On specifications, Galaxy S4 has a camera
sensor with a resolution of 13MP, promises to produce high quality photos. However,
making the smartphone become special is its accompanied software’s features. Among
these features, the most useful and pragmatic one is Dual Camera which allows
photo shooting/video recording, two in one. For example, a small corner frame
will use images recorded from the front camera while the bigger frame outside use
images from the main camera, and vice versa.
Dual
Camera on Galaxy S4 with main photo and sub photo on the corner
Moreover, users can also select from
different frames for sub photos on the corner. You’ll find this useful when
taking photos with friends or family that you don’t want to miss your face.
Smart Scroll/ Smart Pause
Smart Scroll will move paragraphs
automatically depending where your eyes are looking at on the screen. Android’s
default options, Chrome, Gmail app, Email,.. will support the feature. Users
can also customize the scrolling speed.
Samsung
Galaxy S4 Smart Scroll
In addition, Galaxy S4 also uses a new
feature called Smart Pause. This allows the device to pause the video if the
user is not looking at the screen. Smart Pause will help you not to miss any
compelling scenes by using eye contact sensor, but sometimes this is annoying
because of wrong recognition.
Floating touch
One of Galaxy S4’s interesting features is its
touch capabilities without ever touching the display, just like S Pen of Galaxy
Note II. Users can hover hands over the screen a few cm to preview content. For
example, you can put a finger on the title of an email or SMS message to. This
feature is called Air View.
Another feature uses floating touch
technology is Air Gesture, which allows Galaxy S4’s users to answer the call by
waving hand via the screen. With the same movement can also help you to switch
tab options or tracks. This interesting technology will limit effect on the
screen and dust effectively.
Floating
Touch on Samsung Galaxy S4
S Translator
S Translator deserves to be a “translator”
for Samsung’s followers. This software can understand 9 different spoken
languages, helps to translate speech into text and vice versa. Moreover, if
users face an intelligible sentence, we can capture it and then S Translator
will translate it smoothly.
S Health
Samsung Galaxy S4 is not only a smartphone
for communication and entertainment but also a talent electronic doctor who
always by your side. This blockbuster is integrated with Pedometer to estimate
distance by counting user’s steps. Users can also capture their menu to
calculate calories consumed each day and evaluate their eating habits.
With a wide range of environmental sensor
systems, smart health calculations and accessories, Samsung’s followers can
track their health frequently by S Health feature on this blockbuster.
S
Health on Galaxy S4
WatchOn video
WathOn video is a feature that is integrated
with infrared sensor, allows users to control TV by their own smartphone. Based
on that, a built-in IR infrared sensor on Galaxy S4 will allows users to
control their TV easily. This feature accompanied by a standard remote and a
program guide depending on your supplier. It can control some certain cable
services and DVD players.
Cinema Photo
Cinema Photo is probably the most unique
feature of Galaxy S4 which allows users capture series of photos, moving a
component on the photo while the others remain in active mode. Basically,
Cinema Photo will let you produce Cinemagram animations, which is very popular
nowadays.
Group Play
Group Play is a feature that lets Galaxy
S4’s users, in a certain range, to participate in a personal network to share
information, implements common tasks or playing game together.
Group
Play interface
Eraser Shot
Another interesting feature on Galaxy S4 is
Eraser Shot, which allows users to capture photos quickly, defect motions
automatically and then remove them in order to produce perfect photos. In
addition, with this technology, users can take pictures while there are many
people around without worrying about their appearance in your pictures.
Have you ever fallen into a situation that
you’re meeting an important business partner? You ask for their business card
and then lose it without saving them on your mobile phone? Now, with Photo
Reader on Galaxy S4, this is no longer a concern for Samsung’s followers.
Users simply need to start the application,
capture it and then wait for seconds while Galaxy S4 uses optical character
recognition to read information on the card and translate it into text format.
Besides that, Photo Reader is integrated with S Translator so that you won’t
have to worry about language on a card or any other text.
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Camera
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Front camera: 210 megapixel
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Rear camera: 1,300 megapixel
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LED flash
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Video Specification: 1080p
Memory
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Memory: 2GB
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Memory capacity: 16GB/32GB
Transmission
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WIFI: WIFI supported
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Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.0 supported
Network
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CPU: Exynos 5410 1.8GHz
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CPU cores: 4+4
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GPU Manufacturer: ARM
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GPU Model: PowerVR SGX 544MP
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System: Android OS 4.2
Display
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Full screen: 4.99 inches
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Resolution: 1,920x1,080
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Screen Description: Capacitive touch screen,
Multi-Touch
Dimensions (H x W x D)
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136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9mm
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