Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom Review

Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is a high-level device launched in 2013, featuring a 4.3" screen, a very fast 1500 megahertz Dual-Core CPU, and 2 cameras, a 16 megapixels back side camera and a 1.9 mega-pixels front facing camera. We will get a better understanding of this device's characteristics when we get into deeper details.

This cellphone only has 4.94 inches long and 2.5" wide, but it's still able to fit a a 4.3" screen. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is quite thick compared to today's phones, with its 0.61" thickness. This phone is available in two different colors, black and white. This device feels a bit heavy for a phone of this size, weighting 7.34 ounces.

Samsung decided to design this phone using a Samsung Exynos 4212 system chip, which holds an extremely powerful 1500 MHz Dual-Core processor with a great 1,5 GB of RAM memory. To handle graphic intensive games and apps, it also uses an ARM Mali-400 MP4 GPU running at 266 MHz. This cellphone counts with an interesting 8 GB internal storage memory and an external SD slot, which allows you to store hundreds of applications without worrying about space.

The S4 Zoom features two cameras, a 16 mega-pixels back-facing camera and a 1.9 mega-pixels front side camera. This cellphone also films videos in Full HD 1920x1080 at 30 frames per second, and HD 1280x720 slow motion videos up to 60 fps (2 times slower than regular videos). In addition, the camera features a lot of amazing characteristics like flash, auto-focus, optical image stabilization, fast burst mode, HDR mode, face detection shooting and geo tagging.

Samsung equipped this phone with a interesting 4.3 inches display, and a resolution of 960 x 540 , which makes it hard to see the pixels that compose the display. Its display uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

This cellphone features Wi-Fi connectivity (although it can't be shared with other devices acting as a hotspot), LTE 4G high performance connectivity and also HSPA+ internet connection, that is a slower 4G type and the fastest 3G internet connection, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone uses a Micro SIM card to use GSM services.

This phone also includes a handful of interesting characteristics as Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Navigation, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This cellphone has an awesome 2330 mAh Li-Ion removable battery providing the S4 Zoom a good battery duration. Samsung reports a talk time of 13 hs and a stand by time of 18 hours for this cellphone.

The S4 Zoom is being sold for about 249 dollars, which is quite expensive for a phone this level. If you will use this device mainly for social networks, need a cellphone for work, want this device for gaming or you love taking photos, this device is the correct choice .