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Here it is, the Samsung Unpacked event for the Galaxy S IV. A short year ago, one of the world’s most popular phones, the S III, was released to critical acclaim and sterling sales. Tomorrow it’s the S IV’s turn, a phone with a reported 4.99-inch Super AMOLED screen, a 13GB camera, 2GB RAM and Android 4.2.2 JellyBean. Bloomberg reports that it will be a true 5-inch display with new eye tracking technology.
The event happens in New York, and we’ll be writing about it in our live blog below from 19:00 EST / 23:00 GMT on March 14 / 01:00 CAT on March 15. Whatever happens, Samsung is practically guaranteed to have another smash on its hands.
Update: Here’s a (possible) leaked video of the S IV. Nothing is sacred these days.
And Ryan Biden bids us farewell with is suitcase of surprises.
S View Cover looks pretty good. See call details without having to remove it.
Alrighty. S Health! allows users to steps as a pedometer, and can gather info about sleep partners and movement thanks to the S-Band accessory.
ooh look at that. Air Call-Accept lets you answer a call with a gesture.
Hello ChatON, Samsung’s got a messenger app. Dual Camera works for video calls to bring multiple participants.
Group Play also supports multiplayer games and photos.
Group Play: Allows users play music on up to 8 GS4s even without an internet connection. Interesting.
Samsung Hub: It takes videos, books, games and it puts them in one place where you can search and purchase all the content you’re looking for.
S voice also allows you to respond to messages, it’s a personal assistant.
We are back on S Voice. Allows you can check your messages, reads them in a more humanish voice than Siri
Smart Switch from Samsung allows you to transfer all your data on your phone to other S4s easily.
Now we are in Paris. And we have Home Sync is a personal storage device that you keep at home. One TB of space with 8 users.
Users can send hard copy albums from within the app with Blurb and which will cost between $10 to $30. Cool.
Story Album, this new feature allows users to take photos from the same place and date and can put them in an album, easy to upload to Facebook.
S Translate “Understands 9 languages, and supports text to speech and speech to text.” French, German, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It also does text
Okay we are now in China. Tourist are using Now S Translate. This is quite the show Samsung is putting together.
Woah this is cool. The Eraser camera feature allows you to make a composite of multiple shots to remove errant photobombers.
Now showing off the camera, pretty impressive
erm Samsung has some sort of stage show going now. ballerinas and tap dancers?
13 megapixel rear camera and 2 megapixel front camera. 2GB of RAM, with 16/32/64GB options. There are also a bunch of sensors.. humidity and such
Epic… The gs4′s IR blaster allows users control TVs too.
gs4 will support downloads of 100Mbps and uploads of 50Mbps. That’s Category 3 LTE for you people. Don’t forget WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0.
The nitty gritty: gs4 is only 7.9mm thick, with a 5 inche screen — insanely sharp with pixel density of 441 ppi. Bigger is better.
Seriously? Misty black and frosty white? These are the colours of the gs4…
Check it out. Coming to 155 countries by the end of April, GS4 will have LTE support across all networks for global support.
Is it going to be a phablet, as in over 5-inches? Most likely not, as all rumours point to a 5-inch or smaller display.
Okay it’s real now, show is about to commence.
The show’s about to begin… welcome to the S4 launch everyone. I’ll be your host for this magical evening. Lets see what Samsung can pull out of its hat to surprise us.
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