Sunday, June 23, 2013

Samsung Galaxy S4 mini: the younger brother of the flagship - Proceedings

Samsung Galaxy S4 mini: the younger brother of the flagship

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For Koreans become a good tradition – after the start of sales of the next flagship Galaxy S release its mini version, which differs relatively modest size (compared to the older model), and a less powerful stuffing. Not yet had time to gather Galaxy S4 enthusiastic fans of all of the new, as the Koreans prepared and published a model Galaxy S4 mini.

Externally, the model with the prefix “mini” copies the entire image of his older brother, and along with most of the latest models of the company (the crisis of design?). The younger brother of Galaxy S4 packed into the familiar on the older model body with rounded corners, which is made of glossy plastic (flexible and durable polycarbonate), which creates a sense of fiscal crafts – just like his older brother. But it is worth to mention that collected S4 mini pretty high quality and does not cause feelings of rejection.

Model Galaxy S4 mini not only shrank in size and lost weight – 107 grams vs 130 grams in S4, but also lost a powerful hardware platform and a large display. Downsizing has gone smartphone benefit – as opposed to the 5-inch Galaxy S4 its mini version will not be called “shovel” and S4 mini is much easier to use.

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smartphone is equipped with a dual-core 1.7 GHz, 1.5 GB of RAM and an 8-gigabyte storage for user data (the amount of memory can be extended by microSD-cards). Cmartfon equipped with a 4.3-inch display Super AMOLED (960h540). Screen resolution mini-version is not only significantly lower than that of the display older brother (256 vs 440 ppi), but also plays on this parameter in many modern smartphones. But while the picture quality is very high and virtually identical to the Retina-display iPhone 4/4S.

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also touched a set of wireless interfaces: Unlike his older brother S4 mini model does not allow “introduce” one-touch device – it does not have the module NFC. But all the other advanced wireless interfaces available – Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS.

changed and the basic parameters of the camera: she lost 5 megapixels and has remained “only” 8 megapixels. Sensor front of the matrix – the same 2 megapixel. Despite the reduction in the resolution of the main camera, the picture quality Galaxy S4 mini is not much worse than his older brother, photos are a bit lost in the detail, but retained the natural colors, minimal noise and correct the white balance.

Replacement eight-processor dual-core rather significantly affected the performance of the smartphone. In specific benchmarks model S4 mini significantly inferior to his older brother, but in the process of exploitation is not so much evident – the smartphone has no trouble with any problems from Internet surfing to games.

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gadget works under the operating system Android 4.2.2, and the shell TouchWiz is familiar to all fans of smart phones Samsung. The interface is simple and intuitive, which helps the Korean smart phone does not lose the old and gain new fans.

device is powered by the battery capacity of 1900 mAh, a charge which is enough for one and a half to two days of battery life – depending on how you use – for example, in video playback with the included wireless modules S4 mini lasted more than 10 hours. The indicator is very, very good – at least in some ways ahead of younger brother older.

dvuhsimochny Galaxy S4 mini should be on the market by the end of June, and its price is 20 thousand rubles. Official data on models with a single SIM have not been disclosed.

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