Samsung Galaxy S4 - Life Companion [OUT NOW]

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I kind of figured Samsung would pull some of their "housewife" feeling advertising after they got a lot of criticism during the S4's reveal last month. Showing a woman watching a kid while surfing TV around mid-day isn't helping.

As for the life companion bit, every one is rolling their eyes at it because, generally speaking, that term is reserved for significant others. Samsung calling their phone, which most people will have for 2 or 3 years tops, a life companion would be like me saying my favorite shoes are a life companion. It is a very over the top marketing maneuver that I think is already biting them in the ass.

Le Cirque du Samsung, if you will.

EDIT: I realized I never got around to addressing this either.
shmogt
I know what I looking at isn't techinally real since it's too saturated but what are you looking at that's so important it has to look real? Text stands out really well because of the high contrast, Facebook pics etc really pop, games come to life, most of the time you don't need 100% accurate color.
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What I'm showing people on my phone includes my portfolio at times, and having colors in photos like this look accurate to print rather is rather important. Why? Well, the joke saturation typical of Samsung displays just makes me look like a Photoshop punk that slide the vibrance and saturation sliders to max, along with contrast. My work looks cheap and shallow on the Samsung displays.

I kind of figured you, as a claimed graphics designer that argued color profiles for pages, would understand this. But you also didn't understand the color profiles bit in regard to OS X and Windows, so *shrug*
 
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Samsung Galaxy S4 - Group Play



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Galaxy S4 gets 100% Recyclable Retail Boxes

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Going Eco-friendly. :)
 
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gtone how much is Samsung paying you ? It's getting a bit annoying and your marketing is turning into negative marketing now.
 
They need to hurry up with the 64GB version... I knew it wouldn't be out at the same time as the 16 but there's still not any news, this is poor form.
 
How is the S4 treating you guys? I'm thinking about upgrading from my iPhone 4S to a Galaxy S4 in a few months when my contract is finished. Could anyone compare it to the iPhone 4/4S? Also, how is the battery life on it?
 
Enjoying the Galaxy S4 guys? ;)

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Comparison - Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Galaxy S3

 
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JasonGT
How is the S4 treating you guys? I'm thinking about upgrading from my iPhone 4S to a Galaxy S4 in a few months when my contract is finished. Could anyone compare it to the iPhone 4/4S? Also, how is the battery life on it?
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From what I hear the battery is the same as the s3 which has an awesome battery. I would assume if you turned off all the little samsung features and turn on power savings you could get even better. My s3 usually gets 18hr of hard use. If you play games or watch solid movies than less but trust me the battery will be best out there. S4 I would definitely recommend for a upgrade. Micro sd card so you can have more memory and removable battery so you can buy a larger one later when someone makes one. You can even control your tv with it. If you want something more iphone-esc the HTC one looks pretty cool. Doesn't do as much techinally but looks nicer being all aluminum.
 
shmogt
From what I hear the battery is the same as the s3 which has an awesome battery. I would assume if you turned off all the little samsung features and turn on power savings you could get even better. My s3 usually gets 18hr of hard use. If you play games or watch solid movies than less but trust me the battery will be best out there. S4 I would definitely recommend for a upgrade. Micro sd card so you can have more memory and removable battery so you can buy a larger one later when someone makes one. You can even control your tv with it. If you want something more iphone-esc the HTC one looks pretty cool. Doesn't do as much techinally but looks nicer being all aluminum.
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I'm not worried about the plastic material on the S4, so I think it's a better choice for me over the HTC One. Thanks for the advice! The S4 does seem like a very good phone. I'm really looking for a good battery life due to the fact that my iPhone 4s's battery life is garbage. One other thing that concerns me is my iTunes music. I have quite a decent sized library and I want to be able to store that music on my phone. Is there anyway I can place the songs from my iTunes library onto the S4?
 
JasonGT
Okay, I will look more into it. No need to explain it on the thread. I don't want to get yelled at for going too far off topic. :scared:
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It's a pretty simple process, it uses a similar interface and you can just plug in and sync to Android similar to iTunes syncing. It imports your iTunes library for you, it's about as simple as can be.
 
Noob616
It's a pretty simple process, it uses a similar interface and you can just plug in and sync to Android similar to iTunes syncing. It imports your iTunes library for you, it's about as simple as can be.
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That's awesome! I honesty don't see a reason to not get the S4. It's sounds so much better than the iPhone.
 
JasonGT
I'm not worried about the plastic material on the S4, so I think it's a better choice for me over the HTC One. Thanks for the advice! The S4 does seem like a very good phone. I'm really looking for a good battery life due to the fact that my iPhone 4s's battery life is garbage. One other thing that concerns me is my iTunes music. I have quite a decent sized library and I want to be able to store that music on my phone. Is there anyway I can place the songs from my iTunes library onto the S4?
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Noob616
Download doubletwist on your computer.
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No, don't do this.

Just plug your phone in and drag and drop your itunes library from Windows into the Music folder on the phone. Or put it on an SD card.

Better yet, upload everything to Google Music and get your entire library over the internet whenever you want without having to take up any storage space.
 
Omnis
No, don't do this.

Just plug your phone in and drag and drop your itunes library from Windows into the Music folder on the phone. Or put it on an SD card.

Better yet, upload everything to Google Music and get your entire library over the internet whenever you want without having to take up any storage space.
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That sounds like an even better idea! Thanks for the help! 👍
 
sparkozz
im keeping my s3 :|
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Same. I want to get the s4 mainly for the better screen but i have so many accessories for my s3 already. Literally got more stuff in the mail today so just a waste to get the s4 now. Still seems sick tho. I told my friends to get it for a new phone and they were all impressed by my s3 that they are gonna get the s4. I'll just test it out than.
 
Galaxy S4 'mini leaked!

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Rumoured specs:

- 4.3" inch SUPER AMOLED qHD Display, 256ppi
- 1.6GHz Dual-Core CPU
- 5 megapixel camera
- 4.2.2 Jelly Bean w/ Samsung's Nature UX 2.0
- comes with dual sim variants
- colours are black & white​
 
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Blue Galaxy S4 [Blue Artic], hands on:

 
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