Samsung Galaxy S4 Active Review

Samsung Galaxy S4 Active is an impressive Android cellphone launched in 2013, equipped with a quite big 5 inches multi-touch screen, an extremely fast Quad-Core processor running at 1900 megahertz, and two cameras, an 8 megapixels back side camera and a 2 MP front-facing camera.

Samsung decided to equip this cellphone with a high speed Quad-Core processing unit running at 1.9 GHz, included in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 APQ8064T chip and a huge 2 GB of RAM memory. Collaborating with graphic rendering, this phone also uses an Adreno 320 graphic processing unit clocking at 400 megahertz. This cellphone counts with an interesting 16 GB internal memory and a slot for an external memory card, which allows you to install a couple hundred apps without worrying about space.

The S4 Active is much lighter than what one would expect from a device like this. The S4 Active is slim and stilized, with a thickness of just 0.36 inches. Although this phone is just 5.5" long, it's able to fit a a 5" display. This phone is offerred in three different colors, gray, orange and blue.

The S4 Active has a high-tech 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) 5" display, which makes everything look absolutely great. Its display uses TFT capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

This cellphone features Wi-Fi capability (and it can share it with other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE 4G fast internet connection and also HSPA+ connection type, a lower speed 4G network and the fastest 3G connectivity, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The S4 Active works with a Micro SIM card for GSM networks.

The S4 Active is equipped with two cameras, an 8 megapixels back side camera and a 2 MP front camera. It is capable of shooting videos up to 1920x1080 (Full HD). Additionally, the camera has lots of useful features like auto-focus, flash, face detection shooting, fast burst mode, smile detection shooting, HDR mode and geo tagging.

This cellphone also comes with lots of useful features such as Near Field Communication (NFC), Infrared Blaster, Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass.

The S4 Active counts with a large 2600 mAh Li-Ion replaceable battery providing the S4 Active a marvelous battery life.

This phone is being sold for around $ 595, which is very expensive for a cellphone this level. The S4 Active is a good choice for you it doesn't matter whether you will use this phone for playing games, you love taking pictures, will use it as a social phone or need this phone for work.