After the official release of the Samsung S4, foreign media got hold of the phone at the New York press conference. The summary of the experience is that "the Galaxy S4 has become better than S3". Although the overall feeling is still a plastic body, some new design elements have been added to make the phone look better. Let's take a look at S4.

Galaxy S4 overall design

▼ The back is still plastic, and the polishing effect is good

▼ Close up of the back

Yes, perhaps before the press conference, we all expected Samsung to abandon the "10000 year" inconvenient plastic and be more radical in design. But this will let you down. The overall feeling of GS4 is very similar to that of GS3. It can even be said that both have almost the same design language. However, it is surprising that the width of the GS4 fuselage is smaller than that of the GS3. The width of the GS4 is 69.8mm, and the width of the longest part of the GS3 is 70.6mm. The thickness is thinner, only 7.8mm, while the thickness of GS3 reaches 8.6mm. Overall, GS4 is more square.

▼ Left volume key

The volume key and the switch/lock screen key are placed on different sides of the fuselage. At the bottom of the fuselage, you can see the improved design of the home button - larger than the GS3, with the set button and the return button (capacitive virtual button) on both sides, which is unchanged from the previous design. The function of the home button has not changed either. Press and hold to call out multitasking and Google Now, and double-click to call out S Voice

▼ From the front body, you can see that the virtual keys still keep the original design

The screen is very gorgeous (the foreign media used "gorgeous" to describe it), and the front is Corning's third-generation gorilla protection glass. The whole machine uses a narrow frame design, which is suitable for hand feel. (The editor also likes the Super AMOLED screen, and the editor of The Verge praised AMOLED much better than LCD during the live broadcast.)

▼ Super AMOLED screen

▼ Screen

▼ Screen display

The back of the fuselage has been redesigned. The back speaker has been moved to the bottom, and the previous S3 speaker has been placed on the top. The flashing light is located below the camera, not to the left of the previous S3. The back of the fuselage is similar to the design of the Neuux 4, giving a modern feeling. S4 has a removable rear housing.

▼ Removable back cover, replaceable battery, supporting micro SD card

▼ The back flash position has changed

In addition, there is a major difference in hardware configuration. S4 uses an infrared transmitter, which is used to control TV and other related equipment.

Software system

This part can be said to be the focus of Samsung's attention. It has run Android 4.2.2, the latest Android operating system (in addition, I found that the smoothness of the whole machine is not good when I started, but considering this is an early engineering product, we look forward to Samsung's later optimization). The TouchWiz interface has been updated a lot, with more new interface animation effects. We still believe that TouchWiz is the best optimized customized system at present.

Galaxy S4 lens

I have to say that Samsung has excellent camera shooting software (not to mention excellent picture quality), and has achieved better results on the Galaxy S4. The first is the improved camera interface, which uses some Samsung Galaxy Galaxy designs, which is really very convenient and useful. Changing settings is easier. The new interface design also makes adding filters faster.

▼ The camera UI has been improved, and the effect of all filters can be previewed at the same time

Dual cameras shooting at the same time is our favorite feature. The images taken before and after will be displayed on the screen at the same time, that is, the picture in picture effect will appear. As for the border effect of the secondary image content, you can select stamp border and other effects, which can be selected by the user. Of course, it can also switch between front and rear cameras.

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