Samsung Galaxy S4 mini Review

Samsung Galaxy S4 mini is a fascinating device released in 2013, coming with an extremely powerful 1700 megahertz Dual-Core processor, a 4.3-inches multi-touch capacitive display, an 8 mega-pixels back facing camera and a 1.9 megapixels front camera. We will get a better understanding of this device's specifications when we get into deeper details.

Samsung equipped the S4 mini with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8930 system chip, which holds an extremely fast Dual-Core processor ticking at 1.7 gigahertz and a big 1,5 GB of RAM. Graphic rendering usually consume lots of processing time, so this device also counts with a 450 megahertz Adreno 305 graphic processing unit to improve overall performance. An interesting aspect of this phone is its quite big 8 GB internal storage memory and a slot for an external memory card, which allows you to store hundreds of applications and games without any problem.

This cellphone is for sale in 2 colors, black and white. This phone is much lighter than what one would expect from a cellphone like this. The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini is quite a compact device, considering it packs a 4.3" screen and it is only 4.91 inches long. This phone is just 0.35 inches thick, taking it to the thinnest phone's category.

Samsung designed this phone with a interesting 4.3-inches screen, and a resolution of 960 x 540 , which makes it hard to distinguish the pixels composing the screen. This screen uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and has multi-touch detection.

This phone has two cameras, an 8 megapixels back camera and a 1.9 MP front camera. It is capable of shooting videos up to 1920x1080 (Full HD) at 30 frames per second. The camera also has a few interesting characteristics like flash, face detection shooting, auto-focus, geo tagging and HDR mode.

This phone uses a medium sized 1900 mAh Li-Ion battery, which is not really enough for a phone like this. Samsung informs a stand by time of 250 hs and a talk time of 12 hs for this phone.

This phone has Wi-Fi connection (but it can't be shared with other devices as a mobile mobile hotspot), 4G (LTE) high performance connectivity and also HSPA+ connection type, that is a slower 4G technology and the fastest 3G internet connection, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone uses a Micro SIM card for GSM carriers and it can use both CDMA and GSM carriers.

This cellphone also features a wide variety of interesting characteristics such as NFC (to trigger actions, transfer data or make payments by holding your device close to another NFC device or tag), Infrared Port, Bluetooth (allows communication with other cellphones, computers and accessories) and GPS, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This device costs 335 dollars, not cheap for a phone this level. This device is probably a good choice for you no matter if you will use it as a work cellphone, are looking for a device to play games, will use it majorly for social networks or want this cellphone to take tons of photos.