New Features on Samsung Galaxy S4 Compared to Galaxy S3

Samsung Galaxy S4 will be available with 16/32/64GB memory options and there's an SDcard input to for adding up to 64GB more storage space. Slightly confusing there are two Galaxy S4 models, with different processors, 1.9GHz and 1.6GHz. The UK model will be the 1.6GHz model with an Octo core processor.

Samsung grouped a lot of the most exciting new features of the Galaxy S4 under the 'Convenience' header, bringing Air View and Air Gesture hands-free control, and eye-tracking technology in the form of Smart Pause and a tilt control feature called Smart Scroll. Its many new features on Samsung Galaxy S4 Compared to previous version of Samsung Galaxy S3. Here is some New Features on Samsung Galaxy S4:

Samsung Galaxy S4 Air View allows you to hover your finger over certain content to get a pop-up preview. This works on videos, allowing you to scroll ahead to different parts of the video and see a preview, view email contents without opening the email or preview calendar appointments without having to click through or even touch your phone.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Air Gesture meanwhile, also building on a feature on the Galaxy Note 2.0, allows you to skip tracks, accept phone calls and other tasks by swiping your hand over the screen, Jedi-style.

Both proved pretty reliable in our quick hands-on review of the Galaxy S4, though you couldn't move your hand too fast on Air Gesture while AirView sometimes took a few attempts. It wasn't clear whether the software we had on our handsets was finished, however.

The new features of Samsung Galaxy S4 could prove very handy if your hands are dirty and you want to skip a track or answer a call.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Smart Pause is the much leaked idea that when you look away from watching a video the video pauses. It then restarts when you look back. Again, our quick review of this feature worked well.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Smart Scroll doesn't track your eyes but instead allows you to simply tilt the screen up or down to scroll up and down a web page. This seemed to work fine but also seemed prone to scrolling when we didn't necessarily want it to do so. A much longer review will be needed but it will be interesting to see how this feature works out.

Check out Samsung Galaxy S4 availabilty at Amazon here: Samsung Galaxy S4

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