No Rockettes this time, but Samsung uses Radio City Music Hall To Launch the Galaxy IV
March 15, 2013
I was at the introduction of the much anticipated Samsung Galaxy IV at Music City Music Hall, along with some 6500 other folks. Fortunately I got play with the new Galaxy IV for a couple of minutes, and I was very impressed. It has a crystal-clear 5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display with 441 pixels per inch. The reporter next to me was watching basketball on his demo phone and the fast action was blur-free and brought lots of "wows!" from everyone looking over his shoulder. The US version of the Galaxy IV uses a 1.9 GHz quad-core
Snapdragon processor. Overseas they'll be getting the Exynos 5 Octa eight-core processor! The S IV ships with 2 GB of RAM and they'll be a choice of 16, 32 or 64 GB of memory. If that's not enough, you can add in to 64 GB via a microSD card. As a very nice gesture, our party gift was the Samsung Press Kit on a 64GB microSD card. (No, no new phones left the building that I know of.) Photos was also amazing. There's a 13 megapixel camera that shoots 1080p on the back, with a 2 megapixel front-facing camera. That's even a feature that lets you shoot using both cameras at once so even the photographer can be in the picture. The S IV’s battery is higher capacity at 2600 mAh and yes, it's replaceable! Whew! I feel better - I LOVE having a phone with a replaceable battery. Since I use the Galaxy 3, I got to compare them side by side. The IV does have a bigger screen, but the case isn't that much bigger. The bezel on the IV is narrower. The IV is also thinner, but not by much. There'll be a black or white polycarbonite case choice. Price was not announced. It be available in later in April, but no specific date was given. And yes, it will be available via all the major cell phone carriers.
ABC News checks out the Galaxy IV:
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