Samsung Galaxy S4 mini Review

Samsung Galaxy S4 mini is a fascinating Android cellphone released some years ago, in 2013, coming with a high performance Dual-Core CPU running at 1700 megahertz, a 4.3-inches capacitive touch-screen, an 8 MP back-facing camera and a 1.9 mega-pixels front camera. Great! That's it? Not at all, it's just the shortest summary on earth.

Samsung decided to design this phone using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8930 chip, which holds an exceptional 1700 MHz Dual-Core processor and a huge 1,5 GB of RAM memory. To collaborate with graphic intensive applications, it also uses a 450 megahertz Adreno 305 graphic processing unit. A good advantage of this cellphone is its quite large 16 GB internal storage and an SD card slot, enough to store a couple hundred apps and games without running out of space.

Samsung offers the S4 mini in 2 colors, black and white. This phone is much lighter than what one would think about a device this size. Though the S4 mini just has 4.91 inches long, it still manages to pack a 4.3" screen. This cellphone is thin and practical, with a thickness of just 0.35 inches.

Samsung equipped the S4 mini with a interesting 4.3-inches display, and a 960 x 540 resolution, providing this cellphone with a detailed graphic quality. This display uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

This cellphone has wifi capability (but it can't be shared with other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), 4G (LTE) high speed connection and also HSPA+ data connection, that is a bit slower 4G type and 3G fast connection type, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini works with a Micro SIM card to connect to GSM networks and it can use both CDMA and GSM networks.

This phone is equipped with two cameras, an 8 mega-pixels back facing camera and a 1.9 MP front camera. It can also capture 1920x1080 Full HD videos at 30 fps. In addition, this device's camera also features a few interesting features: auto-focus, flash, HDR mode, face detection shooting and geo tagging.

This phone comes with a medium 1900 mAh Li-Ion replaceable battery that can keep it running for many hours, although you will probably need to charge it if you use it heavily. This phone has an aproximate 10.5 hours talk time and a 250 hs stand by time.

The S4 mini also includes a handful of nice characteristics like Infrared Transmitter, Bluetooth and GPS Navigation, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This phone is being sold for 425 dollars, which is not a really offer for comparing with similar phones. If you are looking for a gamer device, want a cellphone for work, are an amateur photographer or will use this phone mainly for internet broswing and social networks, you will definitely love this cellphone.