Samsung Galaxy S4 mini Review

Samsung Galaxy S4 mini is an impressive Android phone released back in 2013, coming with an exceptional Dual-Core processor clocking at 1.7 gigahertz, a 4.3 inches multi touch capacitive screen, an 8 mega-pixels back facing camera and a 1.9 mega-pixels front-facing camera. That's all? Not at all, it's only the tip of the iceberg.

Samsung equipped this device with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8230 system chip, backed up by a very powerful 1.7 gigahertz Dual-Core processing unit and a great 1,5 GB RAM memory. Graphic intensive apps and games often consume a lot of CPU time, so it has an extra 450 MHz Adreno 305 graphic processing unit to improve overall performance. The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini has an 8 GB interesting internal storage and a slot for an SD memory card, allowing you to store hundreds of apps without running out of space.

Being just 0.35 inches thick,this cellphone is slim and comfortable. While this phone just has 4.91 inches long, it's able to fit a a 4.3 inches screen. This phone feels much lighter than what one would expect from a cellphone like this. This phone is sold in two color options, black and white.

The S4 mini has a good level 4.3" display with a 960 x 540 resolution, which makes all pictures and movies look very good. Its display uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch gestures.

The S4 mini has two cameras, an 8 MP back-facing camera and a 1.9 MP front camera. It is capable of shooting Full HD 1920x1080 videos at 30 frames per second. In addition, the camera has some interesting features: flash, face detection shooting, auto-focus, HDR mode and geo tagging.

The S4 mini provides wi-fi connectivity (but it can't be provided to other devices around, as a mobile hotspot), LTE 4G fast internet connection and also HSPA+ connection type, that is a lower speed 4G variation and the fastest 3G data connection, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone has dual sim so it can to work with two different phone lines and even different carriers in the same cellphone and it can connect using both GSM and CDMA networks.

The S4 mini also comes with a couple of useful features like Infrared Port, Bluetooth (for communication with other devices, computers, and accessories) and GPS Navigation, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This device packs a 1900 mAh medium capacity Li-Ion removable battery providing the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini with a below average battery duration. According to Samsung, this phone has an estimated 250 hs stand by time and a 12 hs talk time.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini costs $ 239, quite high for a device this level. This phone is definitely the right one for you no matter whether you will use it for work, are an amateur photographer, want it to play lots of games or want it majorly for internet broswing and social networks.