Samsung Introduces the GALAXY S 4 - A Life Companion for a richer, simpler and fuller life
GALAXY S 4 gets you closer to what matters in life, bringing your world together
New York, USA, March 14, 2013 - Samsung Electronics announced today
the fourth generation GALAXY S, the GALAXY S 4, designed to get you
closer to what matters in life and bring your world together.
Understanding what matters most to us in our lives, the Samsung
GALAXY S 4 was developed to redefine the way we live and to maximize our
fulfillment of life. This sleek and innovative smartphone makes every
moment of life very meaningful; it understands the value of
relationships, enabling true connections with friends and family. It
believes in the importance of an effortless user experience, making your
life easy and hassle-free; and, it empowers your life, helping take
care of your well-being.
The beauty of the phone is the highly crafted design encompassing a
larger screen size and battery, minimized bezel; all housed in a light
(130g) and slim (7.9mm) shape. The Samsung GALAXY S 4 is slimmer yet
stronger, with less to hold yet more to see. It has come up with simply
unreal beauty. At launch, two color options will be available - Black
Mist and White Frost; with a variety of additional color options to
follow later this year.
“With the GALAXY S 4, Samsung is again going to enhance the way we
live,” said JK Shin, President and Head of IT & Mobile
Communications Division at Samsung. “All the innovative features of
GALAXY S 4 were developed based on the insights and needs we found from
our consumers all around the world. Following the successful GALAXY S
series, this phone is yet another great proof point of people-inspired
innovation. At Samsung we’ll never stop pursuing innovation conceived by
people, so we can inspire them in return.”
Meaningful Moments - Gives Greater Enjoyment
A rich life is one that’s filled with meaningful moments and the
GALAXY S 4 captures and shares those special moments. The GALAXY S 4 has
the world’s first Full HD Super AMOLED display to showcase images at
their very best. Its 5-inch large screen has 441ppi for stunning viewing
quality. The Samsung GALAXY S 4 also utilizes Corning’s new Gorilla®
Glass 3*, making it a durable travel companion for all of life’s
adventures.
Equipped with a 13 megapixel rear camera, the GALAXY S 4 also boasts a
‘Dual Camera’ function that allows simultaneous use of both front and
rear cameras. When capturing moments, users can choose from a variety of
frame effects which blend the two pictures naturally and also adjust
the size of the small picture inside the big one. Users can select 8
different ways to combine the two photos taken by the front camera and
the rear camera. At the same time, the ‘Dual Video Call’ function
enables you to make and receive a video call with friends and family
while showing what you are looking at during the call.
The camera functionality extends beyond Dual Camera, as the device is
also equipped with 12 outstanding shooting modes including ‘Drama
Shot’, which allows you to see all the action in one continuous
time-lapse, and ‘Sound & Shot’, which uniquely stores sound and
voice together as the picture is taken so those special moments are
captured in the truest form imaginable, exactly as they happened.
These meaningful moments can also now automatically be stored in a
photo album, with the new ‘Story Album’ function. Photos taken by the
GALAXY S 4 are automatically gathered and sorted out according to your
timeline, geo-tagging information, or a specific event to create a photo
album. These unique story albums can be ordered and delivered as an
offline photo album through a new partnership with Blurb*, so you can
keep those precious moments safe to look at and share time and time
again.
True Connections – Brings People Together
Samsung GALAXY S 4 enables true connections with the people in our
lives. It is more than a personal device that can be enjoyed by one user
- it makes the most of our relationships allowing us to easily share
and experience many of life’s pleasures together with family and
friends, wherever you are.
With its ‘Group Play’ function, users can enjoy music, photos,
documents and games with those around them without even requiring a
Wi-Fi AP or cellular signal. This innovative feature enables users to
connect directly with others to share, play and co-create content and
entertainment instantly. Its ‘Share Music’ option allows users to have
the same song playing on multiple phones in sync to create the best
party atmosphere.
The GALAXY S 4 brings all people closer together by breaking down
language barriers. It makes international travel a joy, with ‘S
Translator’ which provides instant translation, using text or voice
translation on applications including email, text message and ChatON.
This instant translation is possible both from speech to text and text
to speech and ensures that you can rely on the correct information
whilst abroad.
The GALAXY S 4 supports HSPA+42 Mbps and 4G LTE which means wherever
you are in the world, you can rely on perfect connectivity. Especially,
the LTE version supports up to 6 different band sets which allows it to
function in most LTE coverage areas as well as enabling global LTE
roaming. Furthermore, TDD/FDD LTE Dual Mode version will be introduced
later this year.
Effortless Experience - Makes Things More Convenient
In today’s world, we are all looking for smart ways to make life
easier and less stressful. The GALAXY S 4 ensures that tasks are
effortless with innovative features that detect your face, voice and
motions to enable screen control with no need for finger touch
activation.
‘Samsung Smart Pause’ enables you to control the screen by where you
look. When you are watching a video, the video pauses when you look away
then it starts right up again when you are back. ‘Samsung Smart Scroll’
allows you to scroll the browser or emails up and down without touching
the screen. It recognizes your face looking at the screen and movement
of your wrist and then scroll the pages up or down accordingly.
‘Air View’ allows users to hover with their fingers to preview the
content of an email, S Planner, image gallery or video without having to
open it. You can even see a magnified view on the internet browser, or a
phone number saved in the speed dial on the keypad. With ‘Air Gesture’,
you can change the music track, scroll up and down a web page, or
accept a call with a wave of your hand.
With ‘S Voice Drive’ you can activate commands via voice control for
optimization when driving. Once connected with a car Bluetooth, the
phone automatically turns into driving mode converting text to speech so
you can easily and safely check messages with no need to look at the
screen.
‘Samsung Optical Reader’ makes life yet more effortless, by
automatically recognizing text, a business card or QR code information,
and providing useful functions such as translation, call, text message
and search.
At home, using ‘Samsung WatchON’, the GALAXY S 4 will transform into
an IR remote to control your home entertainment system including TV,
set-top box, DVD player and even air conditioner. In addition, you can
enjoy various content including live TV, cable TV and VOD based on the
rich information provided by EPG (Electronic Program Guide).
Empowered Living - Takes Care Of Your Health and Quality of Life
The GALAXY S 4 empowers your life by keeping you up-to-date with
health and wellbeing information using the new ‘S Health’ software. The
combination of sensors built within the device systematically and
automatically monitors your health, surroundings and so much more to
help improve your quality of life. Also, users can easily check their
health conditions using food diary, exercise diary and sleep monitor to
stay fit and healthy. (Certain functions are enabled by specific
accessories.)
To further protect your wellbeing, ‘Samsung Adapt Display’ provides
an optimal viewing experience, customized for each type of application,
and ‘Samsung Adapt Sound’ offers an optimal level and type of sound,
personalized for each user, to make the most out of life.
