Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is a mixture of Galaxy S4 Mini and Galaxy Camera. The Phone has a big Zoom Lens behind, making it look like a Camera from behind and a phone from front. The galaxy S4 Zoom has nothing to much in common in with the flagship Galaxy S4. Lets find out what this Camera phone has to offer in our review.
Hardware and Design:
The phone is made out the same material as other samsung phones are usually made out of i.e. plastic. It has the same hyper glace finish which makes the phone glossy.On the right side there is the power button, volume rocker and the camera button, on the left side there is a tripod port, on the bottom there is a microUSB port and on the top there is a 3.5mm headphone jack. The phone has a big Zoom lens which sometimes might cause problem while handling the phone.
The phone is made out the same material as other samsung phones are usually made out of i.e. plastic. It has the same hyper glace finish which makes the phone glossy.On the right side there is the power button, volume rocker and the camera button, on the left side there is a tripod port, on the bottom there is a microUSB port and on the top there is a 3.5mm headphone jack. The phone has a big Zoom lens which sometimes might cause problem while handling the phone.
It has an internal storage of 8GB(5GB available) with 1.5 GB of Ram and a microSD card slot, which can take upto 64GB cards. The phone has a 233 mAh removable battery.
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| Galaxy S4 Zoom |
Display:
The S4 Zoom has a 4.3" 540x960 Super Amoled display which gives it a pixel density of 256ppi. The Display is protected by Corning Gorilla glass 3. This display is not groundbreaking but still a decent to use as daily driver. The screen produces some rich colors and have good saturation and decent viewing angles. Being an Amoled display the problem arrives in direct sunlight, the display is not bright enough to be seen clearly under direct sunlight. Besides that it is a good display but Samsung would have made it better.
Camera:
The S4 Zoom is all about camera. It has a 16 MP auto-focus camera with 10x optical zoom. It also has some features like image stabilization, HDR and panorama. The Camera can record 1080p video 230 fps. The shots taken in proper lightning and outdoors were very good, the camera performs well when there is proper lightning but when it comes to low light photography then don't expect much from this camera.
The Camera interface is the same as that found on other new Samsung There is also a 1.9 MP front facing camera for video calling.
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| Galaxy S4 Zoom |
Software and Interface:
The S4 Zoom runs Android 4.2.2 with Samsung's own TouchWiz UI. As expected from the TouchWiz UI there are a lot of Samsung features present on this Camera phone. This phone has all the features except the air gesture features which are present on the flagship. Some of the useful features include smart stay, expanded notifications with quick toggles etc. Another added feature is that the Zoom ring can be used for quick shortcuts.
Performance:
The phone has a 1.5 Ghz Dual-Core processor with 1.5 GB of Ram. The phone performs very well on day to day usage and can performs most task easily. Multi-tasking is smooth and fast thanks to 1.5 GB Ram. Sometimes though we experience some lag while moving to home screen and switching between apps. The phone performs well throughout the day.
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| Galaxy S4 Zoom |
Pros:
- Good Camera
- Good overall performance
- 10x optical zoom
- Zoom ring can be used for quick shortcuts and for zooming while in camera
- No significant feature that could stand on the flagship name of 'S4'
- Poor low light camera performance
- Display could have been at least 720p
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