Posts tagged galaxy-siv

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Android 5.0 is on the way, and according to a Samsung insider, the company is currently making plans to upgrade a number of existing devices to the new operating system. The Galaxy S III, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note II, Galaxy Tab 10.1, and Galaxy Note 8.0 will all be receiving Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, according to the source.

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If you’re planning to pick up a Samsung Galaxy S4, but are the clumsy kind of person that’s always dropping your phone, Otterbox has your back. Otterbox has produce some of the most rugged and durable cases on the market and they recently announced that 3 new cases will be coming to the Galaxy S4: the Defender, the Commuter, and the Reflex.

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At one point during Samsung’s tacky Galaxy SIV launch event at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, the emcee — upon asking what the point of a screen that could react to gestures in mid-air without actually touching it, and being treated to a Greek chorus of answers from a constabulary of shrill, histrionic shrews — said of Samsungs new Air Gestures: “Okay, I see how that might be useful.”

Those words really sum up everything Samsung put up on stage tonight. I see how that might be useful.

The Galaxy SIV is a phone largely unchanged from the SIII. It’s a little thinner, a little lighter, a little more powerful. It has a bunch of new features. And all of them require a small one-act play on one of the most important stages in Manhattan to explain why, in a certain circumstance, they might be useful.

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The Galaxy SIV is official, and it is a beautiful powerhouse of a phone with features unseen in any other device, but how does Samsung’s latest flagship phone stack up against the competition, spec-by-spec? Check out the chart below to find out.