Samsung Galaxy S4 mini Review

Samsung Galaxy S4 mini is a complete Android cellphone released back in the year 2013, equipped with a medium sized 4.3-inches screen, an extremely powerful 1700 megahertz Dual-Core CPU, an 8 megapixels back side camera and a 1.9 MP front camera. But it's time to get into more details.

The S4 mini is thin and stilized, with a thickness of just 0.35". The S4 mini is a very compact cellphone, taking into account that it packs a 4.3 inches display and it has just 4.91" long and 2.41" wide. This cellphone feels much lighter than what you expect from a device of this size. Samsung is offering this cellphone in 2 different colors: black and white.

The S4 mini has a interesting 960 x 540 4.3 inches screen, making everything look very good. Its screen uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and has multi-touch detection.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8930 system chip, holding a very powerful Dual-Core processing unit speeding at 1.7 GHz and a great 1,5 GB RAM memory. Graphic calculations generally uses a lot of processor time, so this cellphone also has an Adreno 305 GPU ticking at 450 MHz to improve overall performance. A good point of this device is its quite large 16 GB internal storage memory and an SD memory card expansion slot, enough to store a couple hundred applications without running out of space.

This cellphone counts with wi-fi connectivity (but it can't share it with other devices as a mobile mobile hotspot), LTE 4G high performance data connection and also HSPA+ data connection, that is a slower 4G variation and fast 3G connection type, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone works with a Micro SIM card for GSM networks and it can use both CDMA and GSM networks.

This cellphone has two cameras, an 8 mega-pixels back facing camera and a 1.9 mega-pixels front-facing camera. This cellphone also shoots videos up to 1920x1080 (Full HD) at 30 frames per second. In addition, the camera counts with some nice characteristics like auto-focus, flash, HDR mode, face detection shooting and geo tagging.

This cellphone comes with a mid sized 1900 mAh Li-Ion removable battery that provides this phone a below average battery life comparing with other similar cellphones. According to Samsung, the S4 mini has an aproximate 420 hs stand by time and a 14 hs talk time.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini also comes with a couple nice features such as Infrared Transmitter, Bluetooth (4.0, EDR) and GPS Navigation, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

Samsung is offering the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini for $ 155, which is rather expensive for a cellphone this level. This phone is probably very appropiate for you no matter if you need a work cellphone, you love taking photographs, will use it as a gaming cellphone or are looking for a social cellphone.