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NEW DELHI: Samsung on
Thursday unveiled Galaxy S IV, its
flagship Android smartphone, at
an event in New York. The new
phone, which is powered by the
latest version of Android called Jelly Bean and next-generation hardware, will
compete against Apple iPhone, HTC One, Nokia
Lumia 920, Sony Xperia Z and other high-end
smartphones that will be launched later in the
year. Currently, Samsung has not announced any
price. "We've taken technology and innovation to help
us get closer to what matters in life. We will
imagine the possibilities, explore a new direction,
and listen to you, to help us understand what a
smartphone should provide in our lives," said J K
Shin, who heads Samsung Electronics. The phone, which has been launched with
tagline 'Life Companion', will be available in
several markets across the world by the end of
April. While so far there is no official word from
Samsung about the launch in India, it is expected
that India will be among the first batch of countries to get the device. Samsung usually
launches Galaxy S devices in India within weeks
of the global launch and according to sources this
time too the plan is same. The price of the device is likely to differ from
country to country. In India it may cost around
Rs 40,000 in the market considering Galaxy S III
sells for around Rs 28,000 and Galaxy Note II has
a market price of around Rs 34,000. While hardware has always been a focus of
Samsung, on this occasion the company has
extensively focused on the software. Galaxy S IV
is powered by Android 4.2, the latest version of
the mobile operating system but uses Samsung's
proprietary TouchWiz user interface. In terms of look, TouchWiz doesn't compare very well to the
stock user interface in Android. But it has some
unique features that Samsung hopes will woo
customers. The most important of these features is gesture-
based control, which allows a user to perform
several tasks on the phone without touching the
screen. With the help of the front camera,
Samsung allows users to perform many 'smart'
functions even if they don't touch the device. A prime example of smart gesture is 'smart pause'
which pauses videos automatically if a user looks
away from the screen. It resumes the video once
the users again looks at the phone. Similarly,
users can scroll down on to a web page while
reading an article by simply swiping their hand from up to down in air. They don't need to touch
the screen. Among other important software features are
Dual Mode, which allows simultaneous use of
rear and front camera for video capture, and an
inbuilt translator. Galaxy S IV is a flagship phone that is going be in
the market for at least one year. To make sure
that it doesn't get obsolete soon, Samsung has
packed it with the top-of-the-line hardware. On
paper, it is the world's fastest smartphone
currently and is expected to retain this crown, at least until phones powered by Nvidia's Tegra 4
hit the market later this year. Galaxy S IV is powered by Exynos 5410
processor. It has eight cores with four of them
being the high-performance cores based on A15
architecture from ARM, a British company. These
cores run at 1.8GHz. The other four cores, which
are slower - 1.2GHz - but more power efficient, are based on A7 architecture. The graphics part
of the processing chip uses three cores of
PowerVR 544. The phone has 2GB DDR3 RAM. It
sports a 4.99-inch SuperAMOLED screen with
FullHD (1920x1080 pixels) resolution. Its primary
camera can shoot images in 13 mega pixels while the front camera has a maximum resolution of
two mega pixels. Two cameras are capable of
recording FullHD videos. As far as internal storage is concerned, the phone
will come in three variants: 16GB, 32GB and
64GB. The phone also supports a microSD card of
up to 64GB. Battery capacity of the device has
been rated at 2600 mAh. It weighs 130 grams. For Samsung, the Galaxy S IV is a crucial launch in
its battle against Apple. For years, Apple has
managed to keep iPhone ahead of the pack but
Galaxy S series phones are slowly catching up.
The last phone in this series Galaxy S III, though
failing to beat iPhone 5 in overall sales, almost matched the Apple offering in terms of features
and performance. According to data revealed by Samsung in
January, Galaxy S III sold over 40 million units in
six months. Collectively, over 100 million Galaxy S
series phones have been sold so far. Samsung
hopes that Galaxy S IV will do better than its
predecessor. Apple is expected to launch the new iPhone around September. According to IDC, Samsung led the list of top
smartphone makers in 2012 with a market share
of around 30%. Apple was second with the
market share of around 19%. However, in terms
of revenue and profit from smartphones, Apple
was ahead of Samsung.
Thursday unveiled Galaxy S IV, its
flagship Android smartphone, at
an event in New York. The new
phone, which is powered by the
latest version of Android called Jelly Bean and next-generation hardware, will
compete against Apple iPhone, HTC One, Nokia
Lumia 920, Sony Xperia Z and other high-end
smartphones that will be launched later in the
year. Currently, Samsung has not announced any
price. "We've taken technology and innovation to help
us get closer to what matters in life. We will
imagine the possibilities, explore a new direction,
and listen to you, to help us understand what a
smartphone should provide in our lives," said J K
Shin, who heads Samsung Electronics. The phone, which has been launched with
tagline 'Life Companion', will be available in
several markets across the world by the end of
April. While so far there is no official word from
Samsung about the launch in India, it is expected
that India will be among the first batch of countries to get the device. Samsung usually
launches Galaxy S devices in India within weeks
of the global launch and according to sources this
time too the plan is same. The price of the device is likely to differ from
country to country. In India it may cost around
Rs 40,000 in the market considering Galaxy S III
sells for around Rs 28,000 and Galaxy Note II has
a market price of around Rs 34,000. While hardware has always been a focus of
Samsung, on this occasion the company has
extensively focused on the software. Galaxy S IV
is powered by Android 4.2, the latest version of
the mobile operating system but uses Samsung's
proprietary TouchWiz user interface. In terms of look, TouchWiz doesn't compare very well to the
stock user interface in Android. But it has some
unique features that Samsung hopes will woo
customers. The most important of these features is gesture-
based control, which allows a user to perform
several tasks on the phone without touching the
screen. With the help of the front camera,
Samsung allows users to perform many 'smart'
functions even if they don't touch the device. A prime example of smart gesture is 'smart pause'
which pauses videos automatically if a user looks
away from the screen. It resumes the video once
the users again looks at the phone. Similarly,
users can scroll down on to a web page while
reading an article by simply swiping their hand from up to down in air. They don't need to touch
the screen. Among other important software features are
Dual Mode, which allows simultaneous use of
rear and front camera for video capture, and an
inbuilt translator. Galaxy S IV is a flagship phone that is going be in
the market for at least one year. To make sure
that it doesn't get obsolete soon, Samsung has
packed it with the top-of-the-line hardware. On
paper, it is the world's fastest smartphone
currently and is expected to retain this crown, at least until phones powered by Nvidia's Tegra 4
hit the market later this year. Galaxy S IV is powered by Exynos 5410
processor. It has eight cores with four of them
being the high-performance cores based on A15
architecture from ARM, a British company. These
cores run at 1.8GHz. The other four cores, which
are slower - 1.2GHz - but more power efficient, are based on A7 architecture. The graphics part
of the processing chip uses three cores of
PowerVR 544. The phone has 2GB DDR3 RAM. It
sports a 4.99-inch SuperAMOLED screen with
FullHD (1920x1080 pixels) resolution. Its primary
camera can shoot images in 13 mega pixels while the front camera has a maximum resolution of
two mega pixels. Two cameras are capable of
recording FullHD videos. As far as internal storage is concerned, the phone
will come in three variants: 16GB, 32GB and
64GB. The phone also supports a microSD card of
up to 64GB. Battery capacity of the device has
been rated at 2600 mAh. It weighs 130 grams. For Samsung, the Galaxy S IV is a crucial launch in
its battle against Apple. For years, Apple has
managed to keep iPhone ahead of the pack but
Galaxy S series phones are slowly catching up.
The last phone in this series Galaxy S III, though
failing to beat iPhone 5 in overall sales, almost matched the Apple offering in terms of features
and performance. According to data revealed by Samsung in
January, Galaxy S III sold over 40 million units in
six months. Collectively, over 100 million Galaxy S
series phones have been sold so far. Samsung
hopes that Galaxy S IV will do better than its
predecessor. Apple is expected to launch the new iPhone around September. According to IDC, Samsung led the list of top
smartphone makers in 2012 with a market share
of around 30%. Apple was second with the
market share of around 19%. However, in terms
of revenue and profit from smartphones, Apple
was ahead of Samsung.
