Galaxy S4: Samsung prepares to unveil its latest flagship smartphone
It's no surprise that Samsung is planning a follow-up to the Galaxy S III for the spring, and until recently the company managed to keep from spilling too many details on its next flagship phone. As its launch event draws closer, however, more and more details are leaking out. If the leaks are accurate, the Galaxy S4 will have a 1080p 5-inch screen, 2GB of RAM, and an overclocked version of the PowerVR GPU found in the iPhone 5. It'll also have a host of new software features, as detailed by a series of videos. We'll find out if the leaks are true, or part of a stupendous campaign of misinformation, at Samsung's Unpacked event on March 14th at 7PM ET.
Samsung Galaxy S4 official: 5-inch 1080p screen, cutting-edge specs, coming in April
Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy S4 at its Radio City Music Hall event in New York City. JK Shin, Samsung's head of mobile communications, teased a number of the leaked features that we expected to hear and then finally introduced the new handset, which looks just like what we saw in earlier leaks. The phone will launch on 327 mobile operators in 55 countries starting at the end of April, with 3G and 4G / LTE versions available, and its polycarbonate case will initially be...
Samsung Galaxy S4 fully revealed in teardown minutes before announcement
The Galaxy S4 appears to be making a run for the title of most-leaked device (other than the iPhone 5) in recent memory. Following multiple rumors and photos, a user has posed an entire teardown of what looks like a Chinese variant of Samsung's next Galaxy phone. The pictures appear to confirm a number of rumors — most notably, a picture of the processor shows the device is indeed powered by the company's new 8-core Exynos 5 Octa processor (model number 5410). There looks to be a...
As Galaxy S4 launch draws near, Apple plays a very different game
It's a game all too familiar to technology journalists and anyone following the industry closely: Company X teases, announces, or releases a flagship product. Apple — purely by "coincidence" — makes big news within days or even hours of the event. That news can be in the form of an invitation to an event of Apple's own or, just as common, a rumor posted to a primary news source like The Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg.
Of course, it's not actually a coincidence at all. Apple is...
Phil Schiller knocks Galaxy S 4 for 'year-old software,' claims Apple does things better
On the eve of Samsung's highly anticipated S 4 launch, Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller has been on the attack. After calling Android "a free replacement for a feature phone," in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Schiller has shifted his attention to Samsung directly. Speaking to Reuters, Schiller criticizes Samsung for rumors it plans to introduce its S 4 with an older version of Android.
"We are hearing this week that the Samsung Galaxy S4 is being rumored to ship with an OS...
Leaked videos show Galaxy S 4 SmartPause, eye tracking, and new lock screen
By the time Samsung's Unpacked event rolls around tonight, we might already know everything about the new device. The latest round of leaks, now helpfully arriving in video form, details two highlight features: SmartPause eye tracking and floating touch control. SmartPause does exactly the same thing LG announced yesterday — pausing and resuming video on the handset in accordance with whether you're looking at it or not. The floating touch appears to be an implementation of Samsung's Air...
Our Samsung Galaxy S 4 live blog starts today at 7PM ET
HTC has its One, Sony has its Xperia Z, and soon enough, Samsung will show us what its new flagship Android smartphone will look like. We've already got a fair idea: multiple leaked images and videos have shown that — unless Samsung has been on an unprecedented campaign of misinformation — the Galaxy S 4 will be visually similar to its predecessor, the best-selling Galaxy S III.
What about internals? Based on the leaks, we're expecting a 5-inch 1080p display, 2GB of RAM, and a...
LG tries to upstage Samsung ahead of Galaxy S 4 announcement
Samsung has been using the "4" numeral a lot in its hype campaign for the next Galaxy smartphone, which makes sense when you consider the Galaxy S III's popularity. The only trouble, though, is that it's pretty easy to imitate, and LG has done exactly that — right above its competitor's Times Square billboards, in fact. Just hours before Samsung makes its most important product announcement of the year, LG has aped the teaser posters' style to promote its own Optimus G phone.
LG's own...
Samsung Galaxy S 4 revealed in leaked images
Less than 24 hours away from Samsung’s next Galaxy S unveiling, detailed images have leaked on Chinese site IT168 that look exactly like yesterday’s purported video of the device. The pictures show that the eight-core phone will measure 7.7 millimeters thick and weigh in at 138g, with a 4.99-inch 1080p display.
Samsung Galaxy S 4 will come with 5-inch screen and some eye-tracking tech, says Bloomberg
With the Samsung Galaxy S 4 launch only one day away, Bloomberg has confirmed some of the details we've heard elsewhere — and refuted others. According to sources, the Galaxy S 4 will come with a 5-inch screen and a quad-core Qualcomm processor in the US; elsewhere, it will use Samsung's own 8-core Octa chip. It's also rumored to use a 13-megapixel rear camera, compared to the 8-megapixel Galaxy S III. Previous leaks have pointed to a 1080p screen, and a UK carrier has confirmed it will...
Samsung's Galaxy S 4 will have LTE, UK carrier confirms
It may be one of the more predictable aspects of Samsung's upcoming flagship Galaxy phone, but it's good to have it confirmed, anyhow: the Galaxy S 4 will have LTE support. Specifically, it'll be able to access 4G speeds on the 1800MHz spectrum that EE's network is running on in the UK, though other bands will surely be supported for other markets. Samsung has mostly been able to keep details of the S 4 under wraps until now, but multiple teasers and a leaked video have started to provide a...
Alleged Galaxy S 4 video shows a lot more than Samsung's teasers
Samsung's rapidly approaching fourth-generation Galaxy S handset may have just made its video debut, courtesy of a hands-on overview from the same source as yesterday's purported leaked pictures. While it remains impossible to be sure that this is the Galaxy S 4, we are indeed looking at a real, functional device, bearing all the usual hallmarks of Samsung design. It appears to have a 5-inch display, with a thinner bezel than the Galaxy S III (conflicting with Samsung's own teaser image from...
Samsung shows Galaxy S 4 teaser image ahead of official announcement
With just three days to go until Samsung's Unpacked event, the company has posted a teaser of what is presumably the Galaxy S 4. There's little to be gleaned from the image in question; while it shows off the phone's front panel, there's no visible earpiece or front-facing camera, for example. It does, however, look somewhat similar to the alleged images that leaked yesterday, which themselves weren't too far removed from the Galaxy S III. Of course, this could all be part of a misinformation...
Samsung's Galaxy S 4 may have leaked on Chinese forum
Some fairly convincing images of a previously-unseen Samsung smartphone have surfaced, possibly revealing a Chinese variant of the yet-to-be-announced Galaxy S 4. The images show a 5-inch smartphone with similar styling to the Galaxy S III, complete with a physical oblong home button and glossy back. They were uploaded to Chinese forum 52 Samsung a few hours ago, and if legitimate confirm a number of the heavily-rumored specifications.
Samsung Galaxy S 4 to include eye-tracking capabilities, reports NYT
Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S 4 will utilize eye-tracking technology that enables users to scroll through webpages without touching the screen, The New York Times is reporting today. New paragraphs will automatically come into view when your eyes hit the end of a paragraph. A Samsung employee reportedly provided the Times with this information, though the source didn't disclose the technology being used to power the functionality. Unfortunately it's also not yet known whether Samsung plans to...
Samsung posts first teaser video for Galaxy S 4
Samsung has just posted a teaser video for the upcoming launch of its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S 4. The clip shows a young boy, apparently "the secret messenger" of Samsung Unpacked 2013, taking delivery of an even-more-secret package. The box presumably contains Samsung's latest phone, but upon opening it the boy's amazed face is lit up, Pulp Fiction-style, while the chintzy background music does its best to ruin any sort of suspense.
As teasers go, this is frustratingly bad — ...
Samsung confirms Galaxy S 4 for March 14th unveiling (update)
We'd already heard from our sources that Samsung would reveal the Galaxy S III's successor at an event on March 14th, and now it's official. In comments made at Mobile World Congress 2013 and reported by Edaily, mobile chief JK Shin has said that the Galaxy S 4 will indeed be shown off for the first time at a Samsung Unpacked event in New York City. It'll be the first time a flagship Samsung smartphone has been unveiled in the US since the original Galaxy S back in 2010. While we don't know...
Sources: Galaxy S IV will 'definitely' be announced on March 14th
Earlier today, mobile-review's Eldar Murtazin suggested on Twitter that March 14th would see a "big announcement," implying that it would cause HTC to miss sales estimates on the One that is widely expected to be announced tomorrow. Murtazin made no mention of Samsung or the next-gen Galaxy S, but SamMobile — a site well-known for its Samsung leaks — followed shortly thereafter claiming that the tweet was indeed a veiled reference to the Galaxy S IV, allegedly tied to an event in New York...
Samsung roadmap could confirm Galaxy S IV with 5-inch 1080p display
During their visit to Samsung's demo room at CES, AnandTech spotted a roadmap that could help confirm details about the expected Galaxy S IV. According to AnandTech, the poster seen above shows a series of current and projected AMOLED screens, with those under the "HD" heading matching the Galaxy S III and Note II in size. If the roadmap is correct, that means we'll be looking at a 4.99-inch full HD (1080p) screen with 440ppi in the first quarter of this year, in line with when we'd expect a...
