SAMSUNG GALAXY S4: "Second look. Camera Main (rear) for Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-i9500 (Original) Frontal Samsung S4

What do not make smartphone manufacturers to hit users with the quality of photographs. If Nokia adds a supercame to a smartphone, then Samsung decided to do on the contrary - add an Android smartphone in the camera. It turned out Galaxy Zoom - not very convenient for calls or Internet surfing, but very interesting for those who constantly take pictures. Are the abilities of his cameras of compromises in part of the convenience, versed Vote. Haytek.

Recall, almost a year ago, Samsung has already experimented with Android on the camera - they took a compact ultrahud WB850F and crossed it with the flagship Galaxy S III. It turned out very powerful device With a record 21-fold optical zoom with stabilization. Called it honestly - Galaxy Camera and deprived the ability to make calls. To be exactly understandable - this is not a smartphone, it is a camera. In our review, we, that the idea is wonderful, but the implementation has pumped up. Did Samsung lessons learned this time? Can it be Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom The only device in your pocket for the amateur photographer, combining the function of the phone, Internet communicator, cameras and image processing devices?

SPECIFICATIONS SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 ZOOM

• Operating system: Android 4.2.2, TouchWiz interface
• Processor: Samsung Exynos 4210, two Arm Cortex-A9 cores with a frequency of 1.5 GHz
• Display: 4.3 ", 960x540, AMOLED
• Camera: Main - 16 megapixels, Optical zoom 10x, Flash, 1080p video; Frontal 1.9 megapixels
• Memory: 8 GB drive, 1.5 GB of RAM, slot for microSD (up to 64 GB)
• Communication: Cellular 2G, 3G; Wi-Fi 802.11 A / B / G / N, Bluetooth 4.0, IR Port, MicroUSB 2.0, NFC
• Battery: removable for 2330 ma * h
• Dimensions, weight: 125.5 x 63.5 x 15.4 mm (thickness is indicated in the thinner), 208 g

Appearance, ergonomics
With Galaxy S4 Zoom, everything is different than with the Galaxy Camera - with the "face" part it is clearly a smartphone, and immediately it is clear which - Galaxy S 4 mini. Appearance Typical for all the last "Samsung", "family" features, found the perfect embodiment in Galaxy S 4, the company tries to transfer to all devices of the Galaxy line, not excluding even full-sized tablets:

The device is concluded in a fairly compact, at least width and length (125.5 x 63.5 x 15.4 mm, and in the thick place - almost 3 cm) the body is large for a smartphone, but allowed for the "photomylovele" weight - 208 grams. A plastic of two species is used in the housing - white glossy and "under silver metal". No special enthusiasm nor its appearance, nor tactile sensations cause - everything is exactly the same as in the overwhelming majority of the remaining Galaxy devices of 2013.

The Galaxy S4 Zoom screen is a typical smartphone, with approximation / illumination sensors above the display, microphone, conversational speaker, and even the frontal chamber. With all other parties, this is clearly the camera. The lens with a 10-fold zoom and ring for approximation / distance the picture develops into a small "pancake", there is an extension to the right for the convenience of holding, flash and backlight, everything is as required by inexpensive photo bomb. Unlike the smartphone, the device is not very convenient to wear in the jeans pocket - the pocket is very delayed, but in the pocket of the jacket or jacket - another thing.

If you turn the Galaxy S4 Zoom horizontally, like the camera - and this is first of all the camera, no matter how you say Samsung marketers - then on the upper rib, we will have a big and convenient shutter button, and the bottom of the smartphone is a narrow inclusion button. / lock and "swing" volume adjustment.

The bottom-protected "plug" thread for a tripod, an eyelet for a strap and a microSD card slot, on the right - the microUSB port and the cover under which the battery and the SIM card is hidden. Finally, on the left - the headphone jack and infrared port.

Screen, stuff
If Galaxy Camera had a large 4.7-inch HD display, then in Galaxy S4 Zoom everything is more modest - Samsung decided to limit the 4.3-inch amoled matrix with a small resolution of 960 to 540 points. In the year, when FullHD screens in smartphones became ordinary, it is not only not impressive, but also upsets. Is that a high contrast and brightness of the amoled matrix or the fact that it is protected by the most advanced on today's shockproof glass from Cornig - Gorilla Glass 3.

Galaxy S4 Zoom resembles Galaxy S4 Mini not only externally, but also internally. As a processor, a system-on-chip EXYNOS 4212 with two ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores is selected. Nuclear frequency - 1.5 GHz, and 1.5 gigabyte RAM. Integrated memory - 8 gigabytes (about 5 available), which is quite a bit, given the large amount of SAMSUNG system. It is good that the MicroSD card support is provided for up to 64 GB. The capacity of the battery compared to the Galaxy Camera has grown significantly - up to 2,330 mA * h from 1,650, if desired, you can buy a replaceable battery and do not worry about the autonomy of the device.

"Iron" device is enough for a comfortable android works 4.2. Perhaps in some advanced Galaxy S4 ZOOM games and will not demonstrate outstanding results, but this is not his "profile" - to keep it in the "game" position due to the specific shape of the body uncomfortable. The interface works without "brakes", despite the very "heavy" superstructure from Samsung - Touchwiz. But the camera starts slowly, and it is hardly to "blame" the processor, rather is not optimized enough. The size of the sensor is 1/2, ", the same as the Galaxy Camera and most of the most advanced" photometrics ".

Photo and video shooting
The main thing in a similar device, of course, is the shooting of photos. You can shoot as using the on-screen buttons in the standard application "Camera" and, it is much more convenient, with the help of a large two-position shutter button. The zoom is adjusted again from the screen, or with the help of a ringing rings.

Software for photography used in Galaxy S4 Zoom is largely constricated with Galaxy S4. By default, the camera removes in automatic mode, you can choose the size and aspect ratio of the frame. The maximum possible resolution is 16 megapixels at a ratio of the parties 4: 3 and 14 megapixels with a 16: 9 frame proportions. Video can be removed in FullHD to 30 frames, in 720p to 60 or 30 or if you want to make it as easy as possible in VGA mode.

In the "smart" plot mode, many shooting scenarios are available - "Macro", "Food", "Night", "Landscape", etc. - There are only more than two dozen, including "smart" modes with a choice of one frame from several shot in a row and the ability to remove foreign objects or random passers-by from the frame. Finally, Galaxy Zoom like the flagship of the Samsung smartphone line can simultaneously remove the main and rear chamber.

Now about the main thing about the quality of photos. By maximum resolution - 16 megapixels, if you remove the frame 4: 3 - Galaxy Zoom record holder among smartphones. A tenfold zoom, of course, is not so impressive as 21 times in Galaxy Camera, but in fact he is the only thing for which it is worth buying a device. The zoom lens significantly expands the photovotics of the device, no longer any smartphone is capable of this.

But in itself the quality of the pictures - in terms of color reproduction, dynamics, clarity - it is not fundamentally different from what the flagships of the Samsung smartphones are capable of the flagships - Galaxy S4 or Galaxy Note. 3. Let me remind you, there are 13 megapixel cameras, so there is no special win in the resolution. At high high-sensitivity (ISO 800 and higher), the zoom is noise, which indicates the use of a sufficiently budgetary matrix. But in the "Photosmartphone", a flash is very well implemented, highlighted photos of the photos do not have an unnatural shade.

Another important minus Zoom as cameras - because of non-ideal, to put it mildly, ergonomics and slow launch of the application "Camera" (about three seconds before you can make the first shot) with the help of Galaxy S4 zoom good moments - for example, photographing children or animals are hard. Use manual settings (Exposure, aperture, white balance, exposer and ISO method) or switch plot modes in the application is inconvenient, SAMSUNG software is also non-ergonomic.

Use a zoom lens ring is also much more convenient than to bring or delete a picture in the application. Turn the ring can also call the camera application, but fast Fashion Start a photo shooting directly from the standby mode, with a locked machine - no. This is despite the fact that in different forms it is available on almost all modern phones equipped with a selected button for photography.

Zoom, of course, knows how to shoot and video, but its quality is not impressive - anyone standing with the same money smartphone is capable of about the same. Yes, the smartphone will not be able to implement a 10-fold approximation of the picture right during shooting, but also the hero of this review with such a task is coping with imperfect. When you turn the lens ring while shooting a video, the picture begins to approach the jerks, the device often loses the focus and starts to search for it, if necessary, including a light bulb. Finally, the sound noise of the lens motor is perfectly audible on the video, even if you activate the function of its reduction in the settings. In short, before the ideal is distant.

Gallery of shots with Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom you can see under this reference.

Another option is to use "for business." For example, an insurance company employee can make enough high-quality damage snapshots and immediately send them to the office. Or, for example, Galaxy Zoom can use the director's assistant, selecting places for filming.

In any case, once again remind you: the main difference between the samsung photo-dickey from other smartphones is a 10-fold zoom. If he is not needed, there will be any more reasonable purchase on the smartphone perfectly with photographing -, iPhone 5C /, or. I recently appeared one, completely new opportunity raise mobile photo on new level - "Smartographers" from Sony, representing with them, in fact, a whole camera, which mounted in a high-quality lens, with a high-quality matrix and capable of working in a ligament with a smartphone in real time. We will soon be told about this novelty. Haytek will soon be told in the review, we already test the device.

Purchase, conclusions
At the start of sales in the summer of Samsung installed the price on the Galaxy S4 Zoom at the same level as the Galaxy S4 Mini - 19,990 rubles. It was no longer too ambitious, but now the device (with the official guarantee) fell in price in Moscow about 17,000 rubles. There are no direct competitors from ZOOM, but at the same time, it is quite difficult to recommend it as a photomartphone - as a smartphone he is quite uncomfortable, while on the quality of photos, if you look at them even on the TV's FullHD display, does not exceed GQalaxy S4 or the last models iPhone.. The only (and unique) advantage is the presence of an optical zoom. It is for sure, and will become a decisive factor when making a decision to purchase. Those who are important to be able to have a strong optical zoom in the smartphone will certainly appreciate the apparatus. The rest should be looking at other options for solutions for the proximated mobile photography - good, there are more and more.

Samsung clearly did a great job on Zoom - in the end, no one ever thought of Android as an operating system for the camera, so Korean engineers had to make a lot of things "from scratch". However, that the device becomes really attractive to consumers, the company needs to make at least two things. The first is to improve the quality of the pictures to the level of advanced compact cameras (read: put a large sensor in the photosmartphone, like Sony Rx 100). The second is to radically reduce the time between the moment when the user reached for the camera to take a picture, and when this picture was made. To do this, it is necessary not only to optimize the software, providing a faster camera readiness, but also to provide a method for more or less instant launch of shooting from a locked device. Yes, and the interface itself of the main photographing on Samsung devices while hopelessly loses to competitors and design and, most importantly, by ease of use.

So, summarize.

Pros:

• The only device on the market with an optical zoom by which you can make calls
• It is convenient to take pictures and immediately handle them in any applications.
• "Living" Battery

Minuses:

• Unimportant ergonomics
• Slow start camera
• The quality of shots and video is usually no better than modern flagship smartphones

Well, we already know the exact date of the start of sales and the price of Samsung Galaxy S4. As they say, the countdown has already begun. Today we offer to see a more detailed report comparing the quality of the camera, of course, with the participation of Samsung Galaxy S4. We can compare today today S4 Camera with HTC One, as well as with other flagships - Sony Xperia. Z, iPhone 5, Nokia Lumia 920 and Galaxy S3.

The Phonearena portal tested at the same time all 6 models of smartphones and showed how different the results of the pictures could seem to be sufficiently similar to the characteristics of devices. Let us estimate the overall quality of the pictures, as well as the quality of photos with an increase.

"Typical user photos"

Yes, as we called this review item, so it will be. The pictures did it as if the simple user decided to make a regular photo. For this, just created powerful smartphones With a good camera - for simple snapshots without much attention to detail. To download all the photos, we decided to squeeze them a bit, because the site starts swearing on a very large size of the picture, but the compression was made without harm for quality. However, the following numbers you can already say something:

Below are photos in the setting not with the most ideal lighting conditions, but some pictures even have come to us. According to the general quality, photographs made on sAMSUNG chambers Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5. With the color transfer and sharpness of the camera, the camera coped very well, but the Galaxy S4 has a strong advantage, since the parts in the photos are distinguishable better than in images from the iPhone.

Samsung Galaxy S3, of course, is not conquered by his successor and did not hide in his shadows, because now it is a sample for manufacturers - such a camera should be on smartphones. Yes, we must admit that this is not a 13-megapixel camera Galaxy S4, but many can envy her. Only brightness on the pictures taken are not enough, which is very compensated by the Galaxy S4 chamber. Also good in this Xperia Z test, more precisely, its camera (despite blurred parts and purple scum on the sides of the picture), as it is not strongly highlighted at a lower resolution.

HTC One deserves praise for a very natural color transfer, but the details of objects are brought sacrificed, which seems to disappear entire objects. In addition, there is not enough contrast in the photos taken during the day. Finally, represented photos Nokia. Lumia 920, which fell into the transfer of real colors, is too oversaturated. In some scenes, it can help, but more often it seems unnecessary and spoils pictures.

"Details"

In the first part of the review, we reviewed the photos that were made by chance, without attention to the details. To see a clearer and detailed image, you need to use zoom. It would seem that the more pixels, the better there should be a situation with the transmission of parts. So, so it happened and not in vain, Samsung Galaxy S4 has a good stock in megapixels. Well, surprise did not come out as such. With an increase in 100% of the photos, the details of the objects are superbly presented mainly.

The second place captured its predecessor Galaxy S3, but together with the direct competitor iPhone (both of 8 points). In this excellent transmission of parts, they can present pictures with minimal digital noise. Nokia Lumia 920, which faced difficulties with the capture of darkened areas lined up.

The disappointment of Sony Xperia Z, which, like Galaxy S4, has a 13 megapixel chamber. As you can see, photos are very weak and compared to competitors, they very badly convey the details of objects, besides, it also appears in the pictures a weak purple glow at the edges. The same story with HTC One and its ultrapixel camera, which is trying to hide his "disability" when trying to remove the details.

In order for you to see a better quality in comparison, we added pictures taken on the Panasonic Lumix GH2 chamber.

In the distant 2000, Samsung introduced the world's first mobile phone with the possibility of photographing the Samsung V200. He worked only in CDMA networks, so the Russian consumer learned about this model only three years later, with the appearance of the GSM version of this device in our market. In 2003, even in Russia it was no longer a serious innovation, we have already been photographed at Nokia 7650, so the feat of the South Korean giant remained unnoticed.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 ZOOM review: camera, smartphone, removed!

Until 2009, namely before the first Samsung smartphones under the management of the Android operating system, the company did not have the current status of the innovator and one of the leaders in the development and production of mobile electronics. The company firmly occupied a niche of budget telephones and so favorite ladies of "folding" average price category. No one assumed that the samsung victorious procession began in the world to end in Finland. Last year's leadership at the Nokia home market has become a truly iconic event in the industry.

A year after the first smartphone in the Galaxy line, a funny commercial of the German communicator x phone appeared on the Internet. The device was so functional, which collected hundreds of thousands of views. Everyone watched and laughed, it seems only in South Korea made screenshots and outlined. This year, we did not see the toaster in the smartphone, but the telephoto lens is present and successfully works on the joy of photoelers with small pockets. For the sake of justice, it should be noted that the phones with the optical zoom were before, Sharp for example, almost ten years ago, made a model with a 2 optical zoom, in 2006, Nokia presented N93 with the possibility of 3 o optical increase. But all this was somehow unpervently, real, honest, telescopic zoom, as the Germans on the video first made Samsung.

Of course, the main task in developing such devices is to preserve the "face", to maintain the balance between a convenient constructive and tidy design, devoid of monstrous imposition of the form of a combine. As in advance we are primarily a communicator, which we will be actively used every day.

First acquaintance samsung galaxy s4 zoom: characteristics and design

Just the face of the novelty nothing displays the owner of long-focus optics. Quite typical rounded outlines for the Galaxy line. From Galaxy S4 Mini so not to distinguish. We turn over the other party and we have already galaxy Camera. Not even including, the feeling that you keep something innovative is present in your hands. Is it possible to create this in another format? The unsuccessful experience of other manufacturers says no. We came to the conclusion that everyone in their places, not to subscribe not to add. There are things that and do not find in every soap. Here's a ledge for a comfortable grip and an active ring on the lens, an unconditional element of a fetish for any photographer with experience, large button Descent and built-in protective filter on the lens. Nothing is not peeled, does not creak, all compartments for installing a memory card, batteries and SIM cards open easily, the presence of a long manicure and special skills do not need, everything is simple and understandable.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom easy to master

White gloss from which the case was made very practically, it looks expensive, racks to scratches, and the main thing in the hand does not slide that it is very important for the shooting process. Unfortunately, many manufacturers are increasingly betting on monolithic hulls and uncoupled memory, stimulating the development of cloud services. The fact that for many has become a movietone, Samsung, happily, still has a removable battery and a slot to a memory card, if necessary, in just 2000 rubles, we will increase the amount of memory of our device for as many as 64 GB. With the battery, the same thing, no one bothers, take a spare on the trip. All these little things are coupled with the presence sensor, indispensable things with long reading from the screen forcing the sympathy to the model.

SPECIFICATIONS SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 ZOOM

For design and ergonomics, we would put the highest score, if it were not for one thing. Despite the fact that we have a device capable of performing a huge number of tasks, one way or another we will first talk. So, when you bring Galaxy S4 Zoom to your ear, everyone thinks that you are talking about the camera. Who knows, maybe we will soon talk on a device that resembles a pack of cigarettes, but now it looks strange. Even despite the fact that when the call is received, the trunk of the lens is automatically. The author, for example, is still looking at people who are talking to the Asus FonePad applied to the ear. In general, be morally ready for the abundance of jokes on this topic from friends and colleagues.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 ZOOM

Now let's talk about how this magnificence works. Naturally the first to come across and what you want is a screen. According to these standards, especially for the Samsung brand, a small screen is a small 4.3 inches. With the screen more is not a fact that it would be as comfortable to use the camera. In addition, at the Galaxy S4 Zoom screen, though not much, but more than the iPhone 5, which enjoys a considerable success, whoever spoke. The resolution is certainly not outstanding - 540x960, however, we failed to see any pixels on such a diagonal, it is quite comfortable as small text in the browser and small icons.

The matrix is \u200b\u200bmanufactured using Super AMOLED technology. The pros traditionally include excellent contrast, saturated colors, in the subjective minuses - greenish tint. Impressed the stock of brightness, even on a sunny day, everything is perfectly distinguishable, especially considering that in our case the screen is a camera viewfinder. The need for a matte film on the screen, in our opinion there is no. Watch movies, photos, play colorful games on this screen is a pleasure. Photographs of the ordinary river, come to the photo of the jungle Amazon, the wildflowers flourish with unprecedented paints, but as soon as we load photos on a computer All this riot of paints disappears and unfortunately sometimes beyond recognition. For more expected results, we would recommend abandoning the use of a standard color profile and choose either "Professional Photography" mode, or a movie. The color rendition will become more realistic, white balance closer to the usual 6500K, respectively, closer to the result that we get when printing.

During shooting, it can easily distract the call

And enjoy the screen, the hosts are starting to climb the menu, settings and all sorts of pre-installed widgets and applications. Everything is familiar with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean in the branded Touchwiz Nature UX. The processor is weaker than that of S4 mini, but we do not want our cameraphone to cost as a "mirror"? Moreover, the dual-core exynos with a frequency of 1.5 GHz from Samsung never gave to doubt the relevance of his presence.

The interface works smoothly, "heavy" photos and videos in the gallery are loaded quickly. RAM 1.5 GB, it is enough in order not to think about the number of running applications. The device, of course, is deprived of such "frills", as the management of gestures, multi-plate mode and scrolling with a look, for this it is worth contacting the model without the prefix zoom. But there is a Watchon application, thanks to the infrared module built into the upper part, we have a universal console for home appliances. Now even in hypermarkets of electronics, while the wife is looking for bags for a vacuum cleaner, we can switch all the TVs to the match of your favorite team.

The pre-installed PAPER ARTIST photo editor in the possibilities turned out to be very dubious. Of the interesting applications, it is worth noting the "Photo Recommendations", based on the basis of Panoramio-tied to Google maps, it shows photos of different kinds of attractions close to your location. The app is quite popular, in the base there are a lot of photos, even in Coptevo and Levoberezhny Khimki, we found a huge number of monuments, squares and wine stores about which the editors did not guess over the years, it is necessary to talk to how in demand somewhere in Rome.

In terms of communication capabilities Galaxy S4 Zoom has all the necessary and even NFC on board. The operation of the GSM module was on a consistently high for communicators. Samsung level, GPS with GLONASS support is positioned quickly, even in cloud weather.

Let's summarize the results. We have a high-quality, modern communicator, with good hardware and software stuffing. It is time to launch the camera application.

Photographing with Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom

One of the main complaints on Galaxy Camera was caused long time Launch: Children flee all, the fight ended, - in general, users often missed good frames due to the thought of the camera.

Galaxy S4 Zoom has better with this, everything happens quite quickly, but in one clicking in the camera mode will not work. A separate button on the housing to start the camera is not provided, so we press the power button, the finger movement is unlocking the screen and only then press the icon with the image of the camera. There are other options, after unlocking the screen, you can turn the lens ring, but again the smartphone does not switch to shooting mode: Select the shooting mode and only then we click on the descent button.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 ZOOM is easier than on "soap"

But in the end, for a reportage photo there is much more expensive photographic equipment. By the way, if you turned off the device in the camera mode, then after unlocking the smartphone is already ready for shooting.

By the way about autonomy. The battery, though not such a warrior as Galaxy Note 2, but at the same time significantly more than the Galaxy Camera. The battery capacity of 2330 ma * h was enough for us for a day, such energy-intensive things like 3G Internet, video shooting in HD and the constant viewing was present.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 Zoom Category Identiforms Identifones Galaxy S

More about the shooting process. By default, photographing occurs in automatic mode. It works quite correctly, ISO does not break, white balance is mistaken relatively rare, however, there are comments to the exposure meter. In sunny weather there are reversals. This is partially guilty and not a very large dynamic range. However, when moving to manual mode, this problem is solved by setting the matrix measurement instead of the center-based.

Going into manual mode, we get a wide access to a variety of settings. It is possible to independently change the exposure and aperture, manually set ISO, focus manually using the ring on the lens, adjust the exploration of I.T.D. In a word, a wide field for an advanced amateur. From the submitted Smart modes, such as the landscape, the Fairverk, the "animated picture" appeared most interesting to us, analogous to the fact that HTC is called zoe, and essentially creating so popular on the Internet GIF animation. Macro mode has always been one of the "chips" of compact cameras. To take a picture of an ant on the water-made, the owner of the mirror chamber will have to get out at least 400 dollars to buy a special lens. In our case, Galaxy S4 ZOOM copes with this task perfectly on its own, sorry manual focus is not available in this mode.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 ZOOM is enclosed in plastic case

Let us turn to the main distinguishing feature of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom - a tenfold optical zoom. Among the advantages can be noted that it really exists than other "camera phones" can boast. However, if you compare it with a similar optical part of the digital componence for 10-15 thousand rubles, then the smartphone is clearly among the losers. The main reason in the small CMOS BSI CMOS symptom with a 1 / 2.3 inches size.

In addition to photographing all sorts of harguli in Catholic cathedrals, telephoto lens is a great tool for portrait photography. On a long focus, geometric distortion is minimal, and most importantly, the shooting object is separated from the background, which in turn turns into a beautiful word "boke". In the case of Samsung Galaxy S4 ZOOM, as we did not try, nothing like beautiful blur did, the reasons are the same small matrix with a minimum diaphragm value on a long focus of 6.3. To achieve a shallow depth of sharpness turned out only in the macrorem. In turn, to get a sharp snapshot on a long focus, in a good way, the diaphragm must be covered with a step, but the step is too large: after the value of 6.3, we are offered to "hit" until 17.8. With such parameters, even on a sunny day, you are not insured from a fuzzy picture. The optical stabilizer is certainly present, it is even actively active, but in this case it does not help much.

Examples macro shooting

Video shooting

Supports video in 1080p mode with a frequency of 30 frames per second and 720p 60 to / c. Video of good quality, ring on the lens allows you to smoothly zoom, removed conveniently, feeling comparable to the domestic camcorder. The record is carried out with a good bit rate of 17 MB / s. Autofocus, though leisure, but knows his business. The quality of the sound recording is mediocre, but we will not forget that we have a smartphone.

For greater clarity, we decided to compare pictures with Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom with other smartphones. Comparative analysis Snapshots we spent on the basis of what was at hand: these were the HTC, Apple brand devices, Apple and "Soapse" Fujifilm 2007 release. All these devices had 8 MP matrix, which means that Galaxy S4 Zoom has a two-time advantage (16 MP). In detail, he predictably wonted from everyone, panoramas are obtained at a great level. For noise with insufficient lighting, Galaxy also won with brethren, noise reduction works aggressively, but with this resolution, the picture loses little in clarity relative to other smartphones. But in sunny weather, from such a childhood sickness of soaps, like noise in the sky with a minimum meaning of ISO100 Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom, they are not even noticeable. In the default color reproduction, the device also has its own characteristics, but this is certainly a solid question, because in manual mode We are available to settings for color profiles, however, it is worth noting that the iPhone 4S the colors turned out to be nicer and more realistic.

Photo made camera iPhone. 4S (left), photo by samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom (Right)

Let's sum up

Perhaps we want too much, but the feeling was that we were slightly uninstalled. Samsung Galaxy S Zoom is positioned as an uncompromising hybrid of camera and smartphone (paraphrasing the home page of the device). Indeed, there is not the slightest claim to the smartphone of the device: good autonomy (several pictures, work in 3G networks, Internet surfing, Wi-Fi) at 7 o'clock, a rather productive processor with a frequency of 1.5 GHz, an excellent software part and Decent display. But to name the photographic part of a decent replacement of the camera of the same price level cannot be called. If you have aimed at the purchase of Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom, - Yes, you will receive one of the best camera numbers today (especially if you use it in manual mode), but it will still have to make a compromise. At the same time, a certain category of people we will definitely recommend this unit to purchase. This category includes those who, for example, traveling a lot, loves to shoot architecture, take photos of various kinds of appeals with a flash, immediately upload it all in social networksBut not ready to carry one more device with you.

the iPhone 4 was equipped with a 5 megapixel camera, which at the time of the announcement was served as superior other highlights: thanks to a larger photosensitive sensor, a larger number of photons passes through lenses, identifying the increased quality of the pictures. True: there is no special issues to the iPhone camera - but in comparison with that in the iPhone 4S the picture is drawn different.

The iPhone 4S camera would not hurt to move closer to the phone to avoid accidental capture of the lens.

And although Apple has never been shared by the details on the optical design of the chambers of his smartphones, it can be safely argued that an Omnivision Technologies or Sony on the form of CMOS sensors, which were then integrated with the camera's optical module, were taken to armared iPhone 4S.

The characteristics of the iPhone 4S camera satisfy CMOS sensors such as Omnivision OV8830 and SONY IMX105. Based on this, the new apple smartphone sensor, remaining in the former, as in iPhone 4, optical sizes - 1 / 3.2 inches (4.54 × 3.42 mm), increased pixel matrix - from 2592 × 1936 to 3264 × 2448 points (from 5 to 8 megapixels), respectively, the size of the photosensitive elements themselves decreased - from 1.75 to 1.4 μm. Thanks to the updated rear lighting technology, quantum efficiency (the ability to convert photons into electrons) is enhanced sensitivity under low light conditions, the potential well capacity is increased (determines the extension of the dynamic range).

The iPhone 4S camera would seem so small, but in fact so powerful.

Improvements received and directly optics, defining a further growth in the quality of photographs: Added a fifth element to a lenses set, an aperture with F / 2.8 to F / 2.4 is expanded, a hybrid infrared filter is inserted. For many, there is no saying about anything, but it is worth a pair of a couple of pictures - the eye does not tear off.

In iPhone 4S, a CMOS sensor with rear lighting is installed: such a strange name speaks only that all electronics and connections are behind the sensor, without interfering with the latter's matrix to capture the light. Stated about 73 percent growth of photosensitivity.

The technology of rear lighting increases sensitivity in low light conditions and reduces overall noise. We are talking about constructing when the position of the layers of the photosensitive matrix changes in such a way as not to block the light falling onto its elements, the need to further enhance the signal tools by means of electronics, due to which noises usually appear.

With regard to pixels, the quality is important, and not the amount. Yes, the more pixels, the larger the picture can be brought to print, and simultaneously meaning the growth of file sizes and increased the root of the images, because the electrons go beyond the edges of the tiny, already tightly packed photosensitive elements. Here, Apple mentions an increase in the capacity of the potential well: each pixel before it turns out to be filled, is able to catch a certain amount of light, and in excess of light charge flows from the cross-plated regions of the matrix to adjacent cells - the born effect of "Bloigning" is eliminated by the use of special chains that have redundant excessive electrons.

The lenses in the optical set of iPhone 4S cameras are made of plastic. Despite a number of flaws and restrictions of plastic (high thermal expansion coefficient, a high indicator of changes depending on temperature, worst heat resistance and durability), almost all the vendors of smartphones use it in the chambers. The reason is simple - the plastic cheap and, more importantly, allows the formation of complex optical surfaces. The latter have to do aspheric, which would be difficult when applying glass. Aspherics provides more thorough control over the aberration, and at the same time it takes a smaller number of elements of the optical system, as if it were completely spherical, which is extremely necessary due to physical restrictions on the depth of the chamber module.

The fifth element in the plastic set of lenses, it seems "weighting" the passage of light on its path, however, as a rule, additional optical surfaces lead to increasing sharpness and reduce the number of distortion. Aperture, the expansion of aperture requires a strengthened anti-aberration. Apple declares a 30 percent gain.

The quality of the pictures is usually proportional to the complexity of the optics: the fifth lenza is added to the iPhone 4S (bottom).

The maximum aperture F / 2.4 not only passes more light, but also responsible for the in-depth separation between the objects and the background. However, the depth of the field of focus in this case is incurred with mirror cameras, as it also depends on the physical dimensions of the photosensitive sensor, which is relatively small in the iPhone 4S. In any case, moving on the aperture is a big step forward among mobile cameras.

The difference between the color ranges of photographs, filmed iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, is responsible installed directly before the CMOS sensor the last hybrid infrared filter: it reduces chromatic aberration and adjusts colors to more realistic. Under hybridity here is a combination of ultraviolet and infrared radiation filter with a smoothing filter.

LED flash also changed. In the previous generation of Apple-phone, the flash was characterized by a distinct yellow-green tint, whereas in the iPhone 4S it seems to be added in brightness and its temperature approached the daylight.

In addition to the sensor and the optical system, there is another factor, according to which is determined equally as the final quality of the obtained images and the convenience of the practical operation of the iPhone 4S camera. We are talking about a chain of image signals.

"Apple A5 Crystal System, which includes a central computing crystal, a video processor and RAM, contains the image signals processing module. This module is improved in comparison with the one that is installed in A4. Changes brought acceleration of processing, coping with 8 megapixel images, improving the white balance installation, finally, algorithms for recognition of persons who work in a bundle with autofocus and auto exposure.

Upgraded image processing module in the Apple A5 single-gryl system, under which the iPhone 4S works, provided a higher frame rate in the video stream, captured by the camera phone camera. Autofocus and auto exposure are also accelerated.

iPhone 4S makes one of the most kind and clear photos that have ever been filmed by a mobile phone, and it does it very quickly, including the readiness of the very first photo. If you have thought about using the phone as a full-fledged replacement to the camera, it's time to start. True, it is clear, we are talking about getting rid of the "digitizer", but not from the professional chamber.

Made of iPhone 4S photos that Apple laid out on their website are made, it seems to be a tripod.

Clear, balanced, colorful photos, and with amazingly low noise and without color oversaturation - here are the results of the shooting of the iPhone 4S. The previous apple-smartphone model sometimes seems to compensate for the restrictions on its camera by exaggerating colors, but the iPhone 4S camera seems to behave like a real camera, exciting true images.

No more than two seconds will be held from the moment of the camera application icon on the iPhone 4S screen and the first photo readiness, and less after a second you already make a second shot. Of course, the performance of the smartphone camera is not at all comparable to good digital cameras that are capable of shooting several frames per second and offer an optical zoom. IPhone 4S lenses are equivalent to lens with focus distance 32 mm when photographing and 50 mm during video shooting; There is no optical zoom, there is only digital.

Comparison of the performance of the iPhone 3GS cameras, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S: the speed of the camera application, the shooting speed of HDR-photos, the minimum work distance.

In general, the photos made by iPhone 4S are better than the iPhone 4, however, not without specific features. So, on the open space, both phones are removed in comparable quality, because their lenses and sensors can collect a lot of light: and only if you consider photos with an increase in the increase, you can notice a large grain of the pictures of the authorship of the iPhone 4.

The smaller number of the iPhone 4 camera pixels is noticeable only with the increase in the pictures.

Photographs from the pen of the iPhone 4S look like they have a shift to a yellow shade, and this is true for pictures and in the open space, and indoors. As a result, the images are obtained a bit unnecessary warm - pictures made by iPhone 4, still more bluish. On the other hand, the iPhone 4S camera shows improvements in terms of contrast so that additional parts are visible on the outer scenes in bright and dark areas.

The difference in the color spectrum: photos iPhone 4S Towards a yellowish shade.

There are no questions to the fact that the iPhone 4S is achieved more success in photographing indoors, especially in conditions from moderate to weak lighting: people spend a lot of time at meetings, parties, gatherings, in nightclubs and on discos, concerts and birthdays. Without using a flash, similar pictures on the iPhone 4 come out markedly grainy, so the yellowish shade of the iPhone 4S photographs can be ignored. Shaded and darker items on images are becoming pretty awesome on the iPhone 4 - the iPhone 4S has been expanded a dynamic range. Interesting, snapshots with a flash made by iPhone 4s in a dark room, look better than balanced in terms of color, and the slope in a yellowish tint is almost lost. And although Apple has installed a CMOS sensor with the technology of rebar lighting, which is significantly better than pocket cameras of four- and five-year-old age, catches light in conditions of low light, nor iPhone 4 nor iPhone 4S can make acceptable pictures in dark rooms without an outbreak .

The cameras of two generations iPhone: who like it.

iPhone 4s learned to recognize persons - up to ten persons at the same time: snapshots are more expressive due to the corresponding automatic selection of focus and exposure. As soon as the image processing module finds a man's face, a green rectangle is drawn around it on the phone screen and the routine of automatic focus and exposure and exposure is launched - as if you manually indicate the camera to focus on this face. However, as all recognizing the individuals of the algorithm, it is not deprived of the shortcomings: sometimes the guidance is carried out incorrectly or is not captured by the face.

Macro shot - it is amazing: you can always take a picture of some insect at close range - somewhere up to 6.5 cm. However, there are sometimes problems with the focus installation, but it is rather due to the focal limitations of the little lenses.

As part of the video capture Apple similarly conducted excellent work. iPhone 4S removes Full HD video in 1080p-format at 30 frames / s, while maintaining clarity, smoothness and video detection. For comparison: iPhone 4S leads a video in a resolution of 1920 to 1080 pixels against 1280 to 720 points in the iPhone 4 - 2.25-fold increase in the number of visible elements. The video footage in high resolution is good, because with each editing of its quality a little bit, but falls.

Meanwhile, there are some shortcomings. 1080p30 video capture is performed with one reference frame with a bitrate of 24 Mbps. Yes, it's about the highest bitrate among smartphones (Samsung Galaxy S II, it is 17 Mbps, Motorola Droid 3 is 15 Mbps,), but the video used codec has remained the same as in Apple A4, - It relies on the basic profile (Baseline Profile). Competitors seek the same quality on low bitrates, applying codecs with better profiles, for example, with a high profile (High Profile). Apple had to go to the low-efficiency of the codec by encoding 1080p video with a high bit rate. As a result, the size of the video files is obtained somewhere 40% more than the opponents: iPhone 4S will destroy 180 MB for one minute of the video, whereas Galaxy S II - 128 MB, and Droid 3 - 113 MB / s. And also: no settings are proposed that allow you to change the shooting video format, let's say, lowering the maximum 1080p resolution up to 720p, 480p or 360p - however, there is no particular need for this.

In addition, the sound in the video is preserved as a single-channel from 64-kbps with a bit rate in AAC-format, and after all, two-channelness in smartphones gradually becomes the norm.

Special techniques that make the procedure of video shooting the phone much more organic. Thus, the stabilization of the image allows you to forget about trembling hands, and autofocusing that is triggered even with the rapid movement of the camera, eliminates the problem of personnel vagueness. True, it still has to pay: any stabilization slightly worsens the sharpness of the picture.

And if the iPhone 4S camera review field remains unchanged, then the photographic latitude (determines the ability to properly transmit the brightness of the objects being removed) significantly improved, and the image stabilization will serve as a decent substitute for a tripod.

Video filming iPhone 4S from a moving car demonstrates image stabilization capabilities.

Night video filming iPhone 4S proves that the camera's camera sensor catches more light.

An interesting highlight is "Temporary noise reduction": the fixed areas of the video order as it were "frozen", then filtered and cleaned from digital noise.

Digital noise is the worst enemy of the video operator.

In short, the iPhone 4S is quite capable of replacing a pocket video camera. True, the nuance remained, which Apple did not remove, - the location of the camera itself: her hole is localized too close to the edge of the phone, and the fingers often accidentally captured the lens. I want the camera to move closer to the center of the apparatus.

Comparison of the iPhone 4S video filming with that aid iPhone 4, Nokia N8, SAMSUNG GALAXY S II and HTC Amaze 4G.

Video configure between iPhone 4S (1080p-video at 30 frames / s), iPhone 4 (720p30), Samsung Galaxy S II (1080p30) and a "real" video camera CANON VIXIA HF11 (1080p60).

If you think that by putting the iPhone 4S in your pocket, you can refuse the old photo or camcorder, you should remember some nuances. Apple Communicator still does not offer a real optical zoom (digital approximation only worsens the final quality), the overall quality of color reproduction remains at the level of the telephone cameras, in the video recording process can still be adjusted zoom. On the other hand, the smartphone is always with us, and have a convenient, fast and fairly good built-in camera at hand - what is not a reason for shooting everything and all? After all, it is not even in optics, but the composition of the frame and understanding of the principles of lighting.

Front-camera iPhone 4S is inherited from iPhone 4: Images of 640 per 480 pixels characterized by a reddish tint - instead of the former yellowish. And if the front camera is quite enough for the Facetime video message at a speed of 30 frames / s, for other tasks it is understandable, not enough.

Thanks to an improved image processing module in the Apple A5 single-gryl system, which is responsible including the exposure of the automatic white balance, images of the iPhone 4S front camera (left) are slightly better than the iPhone 4 made.

Illustrative material Flickr, Ilounge, Anandtech, ChipWorks

The following flagship phone of the South Korean company - Galaxy S4 appeared. He gives a chance even more fixed in the smartphone market, confirming its domination among Android devices.

The new Samsung improves almost every aspect of the previous model, connecting more powerful hardware with a set of new software functions. The gadget received a bunch of new sensors, seeking to get the "all in one" tool.

Immediately note the main disadvantages that the device has in our opinion:

• the design began to gradually obstruct;
• externally, the smartphone looks worse than aluminum one or glass xperia z;
• no FM radio;
• video recording is a little worse than in Galaxy S3;
• the general camera interface makes cropping quite complicated.

Now let's turn to a more detailed review of the basic characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of the new smartphone.

Samsung Galaxy S4 comes with a standard set of accessories that can be expected in the box. This is a / c Adapter to be used using the supplied microUSB cable, headphones that are incomparably better supplied with Galaxy S3. This time, all accessories are painted white.

New HS330 headphones are equipped with double speakers that allow you to better reproduce high and low frequencies Sound.

The headphones also changed the form, material and size of the nozzle, which makes them more comfortable. Also improved compared to Galaxy S3 control buttons on the headset.

Now let's move directly to appearance. The size of Galaxy S4 is likely to become one of the achievements, as the smartphone has the same height as the predecessor, but it became 0.8 mm narrower, 0.7 mm thinner and 3 grams easier. And this is all despite an increased 0.2 inches screen, a more capacious battery that remains still removable. So, the dimensions of the phone are 136.6x69.8x7.9 mm, and the weight is 130 gr.

The gadget screen is covered with a new Gorilla Glass 3. This glass has a new composition and provides increased scratch resistance. And in fact, early tests have shown that Samsung Galaxy S4 scratch is more difficult than Galaxy S3.

The design has changed little, if you compare a novelty with your predecessor. The phone uses the same finish of Hyperglazed, which, in our opinion, is a minus for the gadget, since, holding a smartphone in his hands, you feel not a flagship device, but a plastic toy. In this he loses HTC One and Sony Xperia Z.

This, however, does not mean that Galaxy S4 looks worse than its predecessor. The new texture gives it a more serious and stylish appearance, and the rear panel now looks differently depending on the viewing angle.

Thin rims left more space for a shiny screen, but about it later. Thin housing It has a higher level of vibration. We also note that now the black color will become available from the very beginning of sales.

Note that the novelty in circulation is simpler than the Samsung Galaxy S3. Also, it is also more comfortable to hold in hand than HTC One.

The Samsung smartphone has many sensors that are scattered throughout the body, but the main elements of control and their location remained largely unchanged.

Under the display, you will find the same three buttons, as in Galaxy S3, - the touch "Menu" and "Back", as well as a mechanical "home".

There are additional functionality: With a long press, the "Menu" button processes Google Now, while the "home" calls the task switch, there are other features that are described in more detail in the instructions.

Over the display is a speaker, a bunch of sensors and a 2.1-megapixel front camera. There is a LED indicator, a traditional surround sensor, an IR gesture sensor that allows you to manage some applications, such as a web browser and music player.

On the left side of the Samsung Galaxy S4 there is a paired audio volume key, and the power / lock button is on the right. Unfortunately, although the camera has received a significant update, but the control button is still missing. You can use the volume key for shooting a photo, but it will not be able to completely replace the two-step (guidance and descent) button.

On the upper end you can see a 3.5 mm headphone connector and an IR sensor that allows you to use a smartphone as a remote remote control for household appliances. There is a pre-installed application that will allow you to manage some devices.

The MicroUSB port on the lower end is used to transfer data and charging. It not only supports USB-Host, but also MHL 2.0, which provides the ability to output 3D Full HD video on TV without an external power source. Previously, it was necessary to connect, but here it got rid of it.

Also below is the main microphone.

On the back of the Samsung Galaxy S4 there is a 13 megapixel Full HD camera. As in the Galaxy S3, the LED flash is located next to, but the loudspeaker grille was moved to the left lower edge of the device.

Performance and software

Samsung Galaxy S4, which turned out to be in our hands, is equipped with the Snapdragon 600 chipset. We, of course, know that there will be a modification with an 8-nuclear exynos 5 Octa, but while testing the available version of the smartphone.

Gadget with 4 Krait cores with a clock frequency of 1.9 GHz, with 2 GB of RAM and Adreno 320 should show excellent performance, in our opinion. Integrated memory - from 16 to 64 GB, depending on the version, there is a card slot. Operating system - Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean.

The apparatus of the South Korean company bypassed HTC One and Optimus G Pro in one-threaded (Benchmark PI) and multithreaded (LINPACK) performance tests. Both of these phones use the same chipset, but only with a frequency of 1.7 GHz.

GEEKBENCH 2 is a cross-platform, which allows you to compare Galaxy S4 with 5, which showed the result twice worse. HTC One and LG Optimus G Pro are also behind the tested device, although we should notice that they use more old version Android OS 4.1.2. Recall that in the new flagship samsung operating system - Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean.

Now let's turn to the component tests. In ANTUTU, our gadget was again on top, and in Quadrant the difference between him and Optimus G Pro is very small. Although HTC ONE lagged there significantly.

Now let's test the graphics. In Glbenchmark 2.5 in 1080p Off-Screen mode, our smartphone has confidently won. Also Galaxy S4 headed the Epic Citadel test, although a certain role was played by 60 frames per second. Without this, it is possible from HTC One there was a big difference. However, this benchmark uses Unreal Engine, which is sometimes present in High-End 3D games for mobile phones and shows real performance.

Finally, testing JavaScript and HTML 5 performance. In these benchmarks, the smartphone showed himself well, but lagging behind Galaxy Note II. We used Android Browser for the test, not Google Chrome, which is also pre-installed in advance.

Samsung Galaxy S4 with Snapdragon 600 chipset showed excellent performance even in places such as heavy animated galleries and video players.

There is support for Wi-Fi, GPS / A-GPS / GLONASS, 3G and LTE (optional), Bluetooth 4.0.

Screen

One of the most important updates that Samsung Galaxy S4 has become a new 5-inch Super screen with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels. The gadget has a pentile matrix with pixel density 441 PPI.

The Pentile design was also changed, so now green subpixels are twice as bigger than blue and red, their location has also changed. However, this is naturally not noticeable without a microscope.

The image quality is at the height. The smartphone has an impressive contrast and almost ideal viewing angles. Saturated colors turn any, even the most boring, in a surprisingly bright image and are out of reach of any LCD display. If you are not a fan of oversaturated amoled displays, Samsung makes it possible to change saturation to a more natural level.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 brightness levels are approximately one level with the rest of amoled matrices of the company, that is, it is not very high. However, due to low reflective ability, it does not affect the image with sunlight. Keep in mind that the inclusion of auto settings on the screen limits the maximum brightness value to 300 yarns, the one that is important for you, it is better to save it.

Of course, it turned out to be brighter AMOLED-display in Galaxy S4, but the difference is not so dramatic. South Korean smartphone showed a good quality image on the sunlight, although it's surprising that I did not overtake in this indicator Galaxy S3, despite the higher brightness. Perhaps the new Gorilla glass brought additional reflections and, thus, compensated for the advantages.

Camera

Samsung Galaxy S4 has a 13-megapixel camera that can take pictures of 4128x3096 pixels. There is also a 2 megapixel front camera, which is capable of photographing and recorded video simultaneously with the main one.

It is possible to include various effects. They can be viewed before, so you can see how a specific scene will look when the effect is applied.

Let's look at different modes. There are standard, such as Rich Tone (), Panorama, Night and Sports. Panoramic pictures are quite impressive, they can be 360 \u200b\u200bdegrees or more, and can be more than 60 MP (Note that if you hold the phone vertically, the panoramic image will have almost two times more permission). Here is an example of panorama.

The gadget has many shooting modes that are described in the instructions. All of them are good and useful, but we need to answer the question, is it good for the Galaxy S4 camera? The answer is yes, yes, very good. The South Korean company has done a great job to maintain good image quality with increasing permission.

In the photo you can distinguish a lot of small parts, and there are few noise. Colors are transmitted accurate, maybe slightly oversaturated and white balance is somewhere between neutral and cold (typical for chambers of Samsung phones). The smartphone retains the details of the image in the darkened zone, however, sometimes due to the detail in the light. To correct this, you can use the HDR mode.

Samsung Galaxy S4 writes video in format MP4 with bitrate 17 Mbps on average. Stereo sound persists with bitrate 128 Kbps and sampling frequency of 48 kHz.

It does not provide users with such a number of shooting modes, but here there are some effects. For example, you can make slow movements, double shooting. The slow video can reach the 8-fold deceleration, but the resolution drops to 800x450 pixels, and the frame rate is up to 15 per second. Conventional parameters for video - resolution 1920x1080 pixels and frequency of 30 frames per second.

Sensory focus is available before and during video recording, you can return to the continuous autofocus mode if you want. You can make 9.6 MP (16: 9) photos during recording.

On the video shot by the phone, you can see a lot of small details and little noise. The colors and the white balance are similar to those obtained in the photos, generally accurate, but slightly oversaturated and with a cold shift of white balance. One thing that can be attributed to minuses is a narrowed field. It is less than the Galaxy S III and HTC One. The difference is quite noticeable, Galaxy S4 captures a lot less in the frame than competitors.

The video quality itself is not much better than the Galaxy S III. This can be checked by comparing the record. The example filmed on Galaxy S4 is shown below.

When we included digital video stabilization, it became more detailed, contrast improved. Below an example in which stabilization is included.

Battery

If you remove the cover that closes the battery compartment, you can see a microSIM slot, an updated removable battery with a capacity of 2600 mAh and a microSD card slot. Slot for supports hot replacement.

As it turned out during our battery testing, additional 500 mAh are easily eaten by high screen resolution and more energy-intensive chipsets. As a result, there is no significant superiority over the predecessor. Endurance during video playback and web browser has been improved only a bit, but in standby mode, a huge step is made forward. This, of course, is explained: because the chipset does not handle any applications, and the screen is turned off.

The gadget can autonomously worked for 13 hours of 53 minutes when talking using 3G networks, 8 hours 42 minutes when surfing on the Internet and 10 hours 16 minutes when playing high resolution video.

Testing has shown that a smartphone can work on an average of 63 hours if used to use it per day to view web pages, video and telephony.

Cost

The cost of Samsung Galaxy S4 on the Russian market will depend on the modification:

- 16 GB / 3G - 29990 rubles;

- 64 GB / 3G - 36990 rubles;

- 16 GB / LTE - 29990 rubles;

- 64 GB / LTE - 36990 rubles.