Samsung Galaxy S4 User Reviews

Samsung's Galaxy S4 is the flagship phone is pretty good, might be on the bulky side for most hands and has a bit too much bloatware, but it's the perfect sized model with an easy UI for Android neophytes.

Its really a superbone....and much handy with one hand use. Its durable, Reception is superbone, Multitasking on Samsung galaxy S4 is superb. Airview, Air gestures, are one of my fav features.
Its the phone that cover around 80% of laging that i found in s3. Its very resposive fast. OInly one 1st time use of few app you found few mili sec lag but after that if u open the same application several times theirs no lags. In my opinion its superb superb phone with ideal size also. The display colors, outdoor visibility all excellent. Actually its a excellent phone.

This phone is something that you would not except from flagship model which costs you a fortune. Overall build is terrible! Phone is full of bloatware and all those S-features seemed nice features at start but they became quite annoying to use and ended being disabled. There is somekind lag everywhere :(. There is bug in google locations services which sucks your battery dry in no time. Phone seems to be good in gaming and benchmarking if you are after them, otherwise there are much better options available in market which gives better bang for your buck.

So after a month with it I'm ready to write about it. The basic functions work great and the extras are nice and even useful. The screen is amazing, the camera is great and the sound adapts to your ear. The battery and my 64GB SD card are swapable. On the downside, the camera sticks out, no stereo speakers, and some lag. Which is solved by removing Samsung's weather widget. Shouldn't happen on a flagship. White I9500 Exynos Octa 16GB, Android 4.2.2.

Perfect Smartphone for me :) . Im a big fan of Samsung from Galaxy nexus. I love touchwiz interface. It is fast, stable, & quick notification settings. I have no complaint about plastic build quality.

Its a very good phone ... good but not the best!!! Samsung Galaxy S IV, it conveys an extraordinary features(Air gesture, Air view, Smart screen), which are currently unavailable for other phones such as: HTC ONE, Experia Z, etc. With S4, you can probably experience yourself something unique, something that you probably have never done before like swapping pictures by simply waving your hand without touching the screen's phone, let the page scroll by itself with the eye sensor and lots more!

One the most powerful Android phone packed with great screen, 13MP camera and completely new features. I got this beast from Optus, Australia and it has been with me for more than 5 months. It rocks as I can do many stuffs with it. Android 4.2 is great and the phone has great camera with great features, good battery life and no reception weakness. The display is big enough to produce quality images and very crispy and normal to human eyes. Touch screen is ultra-sensitive as it even response to the fingers with gloves. Very wide acceptance of audio and video files. Swift task performance and multitasking. Removable battery and expandable micro SD card. New features. Though it is my first Sammy phone it never fails me. Well done!

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is one of the best smartphones of 2013. It has great hardware and software features. It is somewhat vulnerable because the screen broke already from a fall from a couch. Nontheless it is very fast thanks to the 1.9 GHz quad-core processor and 2 GB of RAM. A 13 MP camera that has lots of features such as eraser. Some features are useless such as smart pause and smart stay which i don't use. Sadly you only get about 9 GB of storage because of all the features but the micro SD card slot makes up for it. So I would recommend the phone because of its overall usability.

It's OK at best... I thought it would be a phone I would hold onto for at least 2 years, but I was mistaken. I broke the first screen when it fell out of my pocket. Replaced for $250. The second time the LCD broke (not the glass) and it was another $250 on top of the $250 I paid for it. The second time, I never dropped it. It worked before I put it in my pocket then was broken when I took it out with nothing else in there. It also loses GPS signal easily and I've had to call people back because of bad quality on my end with 4 bars... Selling for an HTC One

Good overall impression.
Installed dedicated anti-root Samsung Knoxx from version 4.2.2 (JDQ39.I9505XXUDMH8).
Nice to see so many sensors built-in, but FM radio is missing, unfortunately.
Lot of well-weighed solutions. For example diode shines during whole power-off process.
Very annoing producer approach to rooting - blocks over the air updates. Looks like they are getting closer to Sony.
Messed up division into internal and external memory (physical sd card). Applications think that internal memory is actually sd card.
No UMS (USB Mass Storage) access.
GPS is extremely fast (using two sets of satellites and Internet), but altitude value is far from real and varies a lot. Comparing to SGS2 it gets signal much faster and in more places.
Very irritating technical specification. Says 2GB RAM and 16GB of user memory, but lots of them is assigned to system/hardware.
Doesn't support 1kB NFC tags.

I've never owned a faster phone. Features of this phone are pretty unique. polycabonate body is mor resitant than glass body It doesn't interfere with signals, absorbs shock better. Amazing display,fantastic camera,innovative features makes s4...the best samrtphone uptill date...I own it and wont upgrade to any untill its galaxy note III or Galaxy s5. There has been alot of critism about the design of the Galaxy S4, I don't know why people think this is an ugly looking phone, It's looks better than an iPhone and the HTC One !! The design is just laudable, it doesn't feel big for a 5-incher phone. It is light and thin. The Air gestures and Air view work pretty well and are useful for me. Its screen is one of the best displays out there with very good color rendering, deep blacks and with wide contrast ratio. The 13MP camera is awesome

Best smartphone I´ve ever used!!! Almost everything is perfect. The design is beautiful and looks really high-end thanks to the thin bezels. It has everything what you will need in your everydays, and much more!

I've had the phone for two weeks. I've tried to wait before submitting a review, but I can't. the S4 is totally awesome. i'm coming from an HTC Rezound/Tbolt, and this is WORLDS above those. if you have an S3, stick with it, but if you're coming from another brand, jump right in, the water's fine! lag? what lag??? overheating??? what overheating??? bad battery life? really, I don't see it....

Well the phone itself does not have that premium feel but packs a killer processor and stunning features that would sure be useful for everyday usage. I think that the battery is good enough to last for the whole day but with that powerful processor and screen it would be best if they fit in a bigger battery, but still a great phone!
If your looking for a long term phone consider buying one. :D

I was torn between the S4 and a iphone 5. I have always went with apple because i pretty much have all there products. I picked up the S4 and i just felt like i needed to finally switch over. THE BEST DECISION I MADE SO FAR THIS YEAR LOL. I love this phone from the specs to it just eating the Comp. Never will i ever switch back to APPLE..The only issue i have with this phone is the Battery life..You deff have to stay on top with charging it. Besides that GREAT DEVICE!!!

Good performance. this phone destroys the competition and the phone is just plain perfect. i love this device and if i were you i would seriously consider buying this amazing piece of technology. You must have.

A few years back no one knew Samsung as a first grade company, if you wanted to buy electronics this brand was the last one you thought about, I really admire and salute the people running this company, it is at the moment one of the top 3 big consumer electronics companies in the world.
Enough of that, lets concentrate on the magic, this phone is so fully loaded that I doubt, NO, I dare other phone companies to be able to prop all those goodies and all that technology in a phone as big as S4. And this is great news for us Tech enthusiasts because we can play all day long with this phone and not get board.
This is the end of technology at a very reasonable price, I mean look at the competition, htc One or Sony Experia Z and I'm reluctant to mention the joke of the century iPhone 5, they all cost between $150 to $350 more than S4 and what do you get for the extra amount that you paid? nothing! you're actually paying a lot more of your hard earned cash to buy a lot less than S4 is offering you.
So this last sentence said it all, if your Smart you'll buy S4, and if your Smarter you'll wait till Samsung introduces the Galaxy Note III, because that thing promises to be a giant of a phone too.

Samsung Galaxy S IV, it conveys an extraordinary features(Air gesture, Air view, Smart screen), which are currently unavailable for other phones such as: HTC ONE, Experia Z, etc. With S4, you can probably experience yourself something unique, something that you probably have never done before like swapping pictures by simply waving your hand without touching the screen's phone, let the page scroll by itself with the eye sensor and lots more!
The S4 does not only depict picturesque feature, a beautiful display, a slim body, a great camera quality, a smooth screen transition, it even serves several new application that might appalling you up, such as: WATCHON, enables you to activate some of your electronic devices(TV, Set-top Box, DVD Player, Blu-ray Player, AV receiver, Streaming Media Player), group play, enables easy share with your friends especially S4 users, Story album, create memories through photos that have been captured, S health and lots more.
Furthermore, the S4 octa-core carries several disadvantages as well, as far as i have been observed, there were three problems, it can probably regarded as a specific one. Firstly, there is lag occurrence when you are in the middle of texting, when the Samsung keyboard popped out, as you try to scroll down the notification bar, it lags terribly, Thankfully, this issue can be rectified through the latest software update. Moreover, you can not screenshot your screen easily by hand swipe through palm motion from Motion and Gesture setting, factor that causes such issue remain unknown, unlike either NOTE 2 or S3, they screenshots easily by just a gentle hand swiping. Nevertheless, you can still screenshot in an ease way by pressing the home and power button simultaneously. Lastly, you might probably experience a dilatory scroll movement on several installed apps, such as: "Airdroid", "wikihow"(as far as i know). ways to rectify such issue remain unknown as well.
Concludingly, it is still a nice phone to own yet probably not a best of best phone for me, does not really fulfill my satisfaction. I am looking forward for NOTE 3, it is my belief that it will be even more enhanced and well developed handset to be created soon.

After debating it for a month or so, I finally bought the bullet and upgraded from my old Droid Bionic to the new Galaxy S4. I must say it's an impressive phone. It really flies and the display is beautiful. Rather than rehash all the great things about it that others have said, I would highlight the few downsides I have found to the phone. First, while I wanted a bigger display on my phone, in practicality, this phone is too big to use one handed. I awkwardly have to shift the phone in my hand to try to get to the top or bottom corners. I have relatively large hands, so I didn't even think of this when I bought the phone. Also, the bezel at the bottom is too small, so instead of hitting the menu or home button, my finger also presses the screen making it do two actions at once. And I hate the physical home button, why didn't they just make it capacitive like the others or onscreen buttons? Overall, great phone thought, and if I had to do it again, it probably it the best choice to buy at Verizon at the moment. I might have waited a few months thought to see what comes out in fall.

i have been searchn for a phone for the past one year.... i knw this souds stupid but i found the phone i really lyk... and i can proudly say its samsung galaxy s4.(Dnt worry this review is from my heart, which u can trust every word).... this is because it has a superb display , has lots of external memory( u can save most of ur applications on it), really thin, never been this easy to use a 5" display and much more.... but people who read the review lyk i did lots of time wanna knw the bad aspects more ( well thats what i looked for alwayz) and so here's the probs i face:
-The battery life sucks.... well i thnk there might be a problem for my batter but i get just 10 hrs of medium usage.... i thought i would get lyk 24 hrs or 1.5 days because where ever i read reviews they say it has a gud battery life.
- wifi connectivity.... u cant really move far away from ur modem i thnk because the signal strength decreases rapidly....even my mums lumia 620 has much more better wifi connectivity, so its not the modems problem.
-I am using the octa core version and so the phone does get a lil hot at times, not unbearable but has a higher temp than others... normally when chargin usin the charger given by samsung and gamn or net browsing.
-it gets stuck here and there, not too much though lyk 4 time a week... u dnt have to reset the phone but u knw ull have to either lock it and open it again or just wait....2 or 3 seconds, what my point is... is it has a slight problem which no one would lyk after payn a high sum of money. Well i wont say its a bad buy because i bought it and feel happy, so this review just says for u to go for it if u feel a lil bit concerned abt spendn a lot on a phone.

Amal chummar - amalchummar@gmail.com (if u have any doubts)

Thankyou for readn this much and have a splendid day!

Although this phone has some few imperfections I think this is still the best phone at the moment. It is common for people to keep an eye and notice imperfections on phones made by a top brand.
Battery life bested other top models like xperia z and htc one. Camera takes sharp photos outdoor. I notice no lag at any game I played. Overall a really a must have phone.

Its a very good phone, I dont even read those posts saying oh its overheating or somethin, ppl stop playing games on it and it wont overheat. Obviously everything overheats if it is being used. haha. No problems with it what so ever

definitely the top phone in the world today. way better than HTC, Nokia, iPhone, ETC. the s3 is twice as good as any phone, and this is twice as good as the s3! i dont know why everybody buys iphones when this is top class.

thats my opinion about the phone to be honest the phone is just great i cant say anything about it i understands what the user want and it dose it perfect i really like it battery life is really good 9.8 out of 10display is perfect 10 out of 10

Very good phone. Wifi range is excellent, recption is excellent and photos are excellent. The only thing I don't like is the keyboard does NOT have auto correct. I had to buy a 3rd party app. Their keyboard is layed out really good though. And the camera shutter cannot be muted unless you mute the phone. I have had this for two weeks.