The Note 2, Galaxy SIII and Galaxy S4 have excellent incoming and outgoing voice quality with good volume. The first thing I said after using the Samsung Galaxy S4 is that it sounded just like my Galaxy Note 2, and that's a good thing. Since the phone has a full suite of buttons, you'll never lose screen real estate to on-screen buttons as you do on the Nexus 4 or HTC One when a menu button is required. As ever, these are very sensitive to touch and they're close to the edge, so I find them easy to accidently press. The front has a physical Home button (the kind that moves) and it's flanked by capacitive, backlit Menu and back buttons. In comparison, the Galaxy S III was akin to a slippery bar of soap that drove me mad. That's a small but significant design improvement because it's much easier to grip and pull out of a pocket or purse. Samsung went with straight sides rather than the very curved sides on the Galaxy S III and fairly curved sides on the Galaxy Note II. We tested it with our USB OTG cable and flash drives and it worked perfectly. The phone syncs and charges via the micro USB port and it supports USB host OTG. The 3.5mm headset jack is up top, the micro USB port is at the bottom and the SDXC microSD card slot is under the back cover. Typical of Samsung, the power button is on the upper right side and the volume rocker is on the upper left (perfect for right handed folks).

The Galaxy S4 is available in white and black. The good news is that the finish and materials are very durable and the back is removable so you have access to the battery and a microSD card slot. The bad news is that it's still incredibly slippery and the rear camera lens protrudes a little bit, so it's the first thing that hits the table. That trim breaks up the plastic monotony and makes the phone look appealing. It's still a very nice looking phone, and the faux metal side trim is convincing. Yes, it's shiny plastic and doesn't exude the sense of quality that the aluminum body HTC One and iPhone 5 do, and it's not machined and finished in an interesting fashion like the also polycarbonate Nokia Lumia 920 or HTC One X+. At 0.31', it's extremely thin, and that makes it easier to hold than you might expect for a large smartphone. Though it looks like a near clone, the GS4 is significantly smaller than the 5.5' Samsung Galaxy Note 2. It's a hair smaller than the 4.7' HTC One, smaller than the 5' Sony Xperia Z and just a hair taller than the 5' Sony Xperia ZL that's currently the smallest 5' phone on the market. The phone is available now on AT&T in the US and Sprint, T-Mobile will follow soon after and the Verizon Wireless version will be available by the end of May.įor a 5' smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is remarkably compact and light at just 4.6 ounces. It will be available on all major US carriers, several smaller US carriers and on many carriers overseas. It's the follow up to the very popular Samsung Galaxy S III, and though the display is a bit larger, the S4 itself isn't larger and it's a tad lighter. For those who aren't up to speed on this lovely smartphone's specs, the Samsung Galaxy S4 has a 1920 x 1080 Super AMOLED display, a very good 13 megapixel rear camera with HDR, LTE 4G, NFC, GPS with GLONASS, an IR AV Remote, a removable 2600 mAh battery and a microSD card slot. In this review we look at the AT&T version, and that means we get to test this flagship Android smartphone on a robust LTE network. What has an excellent 5' full HD display, TouchWiz and is clad in shiny, slippery plastic? You got it: the Samsung Galaxy S4. In Chief (twitter: note, April 2014: Check out our review of the Samsung Galaxy S5 that replaces this model. What's Not: Feature overload, only 9 gigs of internal storage on 16 gig model, still slippery. What's Hot: Huge display in a not so huge phone, excellent camera, removable battery, entertaining new features.

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