Samsung Galaxy S IV

Samsung Galaxy S IV - The Life Companion 

The successor of the phone of the year, Samsung Galaxy S III, is here the all new, much hyped the Samsung Galxy S IV. Although we expected the Korean Maker to reveal this giant in the MWC '13, but unfortunately Samsung couldn't make it. Dubbed as the "Life Companion", this seems much better than the phone "Designed For Humans".
Anyways, today we at UltraLap will review the phone to see whether it is perfectly delivering as we expected or not, and to check whether it is really the world's best phone ever made till date or not.
Here it all goes...

Design
Device Type - Smart Phone
Operation System -  Android v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)

Display
Physical Size - 5 inches
Resolution - 1080 X 1920 pixels
Pixel Density - 441 ppi pixel density
Technology - Super AMOLED Touchscreen
Colors - 16 Million colors

Galaxy S IV  view from different angles

Touch Screen - Capacitive, Multi-Touch
Sensors - Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, temperature, humidity, gesture
Dimensions - 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9 mm
Others - TouchWiz User Interface, Corning Gorilla Glass 3

Battery 
Capacity - Li-Ion 2600 mAh battery

Hardware

Processor - 1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 Exynos 5 Octa eight-core processor
Graphics - PowerVR SGX 544MP3
System Memory - 2 GB RAM
Built-In Storage - 16/32/64 GB storage
Storage Expansion - microSD, up to 64 GB

Camera
Camera - 13 MP (4128 X 3096 pixels)
Flash - LED
Features - Dual Shot, Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization, HDR
Camcorder - Yes, 1080p@30fps, dual-video recording
Front-Facing Camera - Yes, 2 MP,1080p@30fps, dual video call

Samsung Galaxy S IV  and S III

Multimedia
Speakers - Loudspeaker, earpiece
3.5mm jack - Yes
Radio - No ( Through third party apps )
Infrared port - Yes

Internet Browsing 
Browser - HTML5, Adobe Flash

Technology
SIM - Micro-SIM
Positioning - A-GPS support and GLONASS

Phone Features 

• Messaging - SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
• Other Features - Wireless charging (market dependent)
• S-Voice natural language commands and dictation
• Smart stay, Smart pause, Smart scroll
• Air gestures
• Dropbox (50 GB storage)
• Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
• TV-out (via MHL 2 A/V link)
• SNS integration
• MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
• MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
• Image/video editor
• Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
• YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa
• Voice memo/dial/commands
• Predictive text input (Swype)

Connectivity
Bluetooth - Yes, v4.0 with A2DP, EDR, LE
Wi-Fi - Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct
Wi-Fi- Hotspot - Yes
USB - microUSB v2.0 (MHL 2), USB On-the-go, USB Host
Others - NFC, Infrared port, GPRS, EDGE

Availability 
Announced - March, 2013
Release - Expected 26th April, 2013

Benchmarks for Galaxy S IV 

Now a look at the Highs and Lows...

Highs :

• Brilliant processor 
• Brilliant display
• Realistic colors
• Lightweight
• Durable 
• Excellent camera with great performance 

Lows :

• Plasticky material design
• Size (5'') is too large 
• Battery is only 2600 mAh

Conclusion :

Galaxy S IV and Iphone 5

Samsung has definitely done a lot to make this one as better and brilliant as it could. But on the same time it posses a problem for the price. It is expected that this giant will come with a price tag of anywhere between Rs.45,000 to Rs.50,000, here, in India. Although it is having one of the best and the fastest processors till date and one of the best displays and camera, at the same time it's large screen is possessing a problem to many, especially those with small hands. Also the battery is not enough to run the whooping 8-core Exynos processor, and to deliver fully to run this 5 inch device.
But every thing in this world has some cons and some pros, the same goes for the Galaxy S IV. We would be eagerly waiting for other companies like HTC to launch One as a review will we waiting for you guys. Also we will soon be posting a comparison between iphone 5, Xperia Z and the Galaxy S IV. Stay Tuned till then!