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Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom Review

AT&T (SM-C105A)     See other variants reviews Score: 68.2 / 100

Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is a great Android phone launched in 2013, coming with an extremely powerful Dual-Core CPU ticking at 1.5 gigahertz, a medium 4.3 inches multi touch screen, and 2 cameras, a 16 mega-pixels back facing camera and a 1.9 megapixels front facing camera.

Samsung equipped this cellphone with an extremely fast 1500 MHz Dual-Core processor, packed into a Samsung Exynos 4212 chip with a large 1,5 GB of RAM memory. Handling graphic rendering, it also uses a 266 megahertz ARM Mali-400 MP4 graphics processing unit. A nice advantage of this cellphone is its 8 GB quite big internal storage memory and a slot for an SD memory card, which allows you to install a couple hundred applications and games without any problem.

This cellphone is offerred in two color options, black and white. Samsung didn't put much effort to reduce weight in this 7.34 ounces cellphone, far heavier than other similar cellphones. This phone is a little bit thick for nowadays standards, being as thick as 0.61". This cellphone is only 4.94 inches long and 2.5" wide, but it still manages to hold a 4.3" display.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is equipped with a very good 960 x 540 4.3-inches screen, making everything look very good. This screen uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch gestures.

This phone features two cameras, a 16 mega-pixels back side camera and a 1.9 megapixels front side camera. It is capable of filming Full HD 1920x1080 videos at 30 fps, and slow motion videos in 1280x720 (HD) up to 60 frames per second. This camera also features lots of amazing characteristics: flash, fast burst mode, auto-focus, optical image stabilization, HDR mode, face detection shooting and geo tagging.

This phone features WiFi capability (but it can't be provided to other devices around, as a mobile mobile hotspot), 4G LTE fast connection type and also HSPA+ internet connection, that is a slower 4G network and fast 3G connectivity, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone uses a Micro SIM card for GSM connection.

This cellphone packs an amazing 2330 mAh Li-Ion replaceable battery that provides this cellphone a good battery life. This device has a reported stand by time of 18 hs and a talk time of 15 hs.

The S4 Zoom also features a few nice characteristics as Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Navigation, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

Samsung offers this cellphone for $ 249, which is a quite high price for this kind of phone. This phone is very appropiate for you no matter if you need this phone for work, want it to take tons of pictures, want a gamer phone or want a cellphone mostly for internet broswing and social networks.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Samsung
Operating System (OS):Android 4.4.2, 4.2
Variant:AT&T
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Product code:SM-C105A
Dimensions:4.94 x 2.50 x 0.61 inchesMetric12.55 x 6.35 x 1.55 cmImperial
Weight:7.34 ouncesMetric208.09 gImperial
Colors:Black and White
Release date:2013-06-12
Price:$ 249.00

Display

Screen Type:Super AMOLED (16M colors)
Size:4.3 inchesMetric10.9 cmImperial
Resolution:540 x 960 pixels
Pixel density:256 pixels per inchMetric100.79 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:Samsung Exynos 4212
Processor:ARM Cortex-A9 (Dual-Core 1500 MHz)
RAM Memory:1,5 GB
Graphics Processor:ARM Mali-400 MP4 (Quad-Core 266 MHz)
Internal Memory:8 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 64 GB)

Battery

Battery type:Li-Ion
Removable:Yes
Capacity:2330 mAh
Stand-by Time:18 hours
Talk Time:15 hours

Camera

Back camera:16 megapixels
    Sensor size:0.43 inches (1/2.3")
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:1.9 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD)
Max slow motion video:1280 x 720 (60 fps) (HD)
Camera features:Auto-Focus, Face Detection Shooting, Fast Burst Mode, Geo Tagging, HDR Mode and Optical Image Stabilization

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
SIM Card Type:Micro SIM
LTE (4G) Bands:700 (band 17), 850 (band 5), 1700/2100 (band 4), 1900 (band 2)
UMTS Bands:850, 1900, 2100
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
Technologies:LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS and GSM

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.0
GPS:Yes
Sensors:Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor