Samsung Galaxy S4 mini Review

Samsung Galaxy S4 mini is a high-level Android cellphone launched back in 2013, including a high-tech Dual-Core CPU running at 1.7 gigahertz, a medium 4.3-inches multi-touch display, and two cameras, an 8 MP back facing camera and a 1.9 MP front camera.

Samsung sells this phone with an exceptional 1700 MHz Dual-Core processing unit, bundled in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8930 chip with a great 1,5 GB RAM. To collaborate with graphic rendering, this phone also uses an Adreno 305 GPU ticking at 450 MHz. The S4 mini has a quite large 8 GB internal storage memory and an external memory card slot, which allows the user to store a couple hundred apps and games without worrying about space.

Being just 0.35" thick,the S4 mini is thin and stilized. The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini is only 4.91" long, but it manages to hold a 4.3" display. The S4 mini is offerred in two different colors, black and white. This phone feels much lighter than what one would expect from a cellphone of this size.

This cellphone has two cameras, an 8 megapixels back side camera and a 1.9 mega-pixels front facing camera. This phone also films 1920x1080 Full HD videos at 30 fps. In addition, this phone's camera also features a few good features: flash, face detection shooting, auto-focus, geo tagging and HDR mode.

This phone has a very good 960 x 540 4.3" display, which makes it hard to see the pixels that compose the display. Its display uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch gestures.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini comes with a 1900 mAh medium Li-Ion battery providing the S4 mini with a poor battery duration. Samsung reports a stand by time of 420 hs and a talk time of 14 hs for this cellphone.

This phone features WiFi capability (but it can't be provided to other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), 4G LTE fast connectivity and also HSPA+ data connection, which is a bit slower 4G network and 3G fast internet connection, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone comes with 2 Micro SIM cards so it can to use two different carriers or phone lines at the same time and it can use both CDMA and GSM.

This cellphone also features a few interesting features like Infrared Port, Bluetooth (4.0, EDR) and GPS Navigation, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

Samsung sells this cellphone for $ 415, which is a really high price for comparing with similar phones. No matter if you you love taking photos, want a social device, need a work cellphone or need a phone to play tons of games, you will probably love this cellphone.