Samsung Galaxy S IV: Superfunction without superfunctions

The new flagship Samsung smartphone is presented in New York-the Galaxy S IV model. Not a single Android Smartphone has yet been awarded such a large-scale announcement: a huge Radio Music Hall concert hall near Times Square, an impressive presentation with the participation of an orchestra, hundreds of journalists from around the world. The company's plans for the simultaneous start of sales of the device in most key markets are also impressive: the new Galaxy can be found in stores at the end of April. Will the smartphone be able to repeat the success of his predecessor? Most likely, yes. But did he live up to the expectations of the public? Complex question.
One of the main controversial moments is design. The original Galaxy S III has already got a lot from journalists. And in this regard, nothing, unfortunately, has not changed: the body of the new flagship is made of the same glossy polycarbonate. In addition, with its size, the smartphone approached the giant Galaxy Note even more: the diagonal of the screen is now 5 inches. Resolution, however, FullHD - 1920 at 1080 points. The fourth Galaxy can be controlled in gloves - the company's engineers clearly spied this chip from last year’s Lumia 920 from Nokia.

Otherwise, there were also no special surprises. The resolution of the camera’s camera is 13 megapixels, and, according to the rumors, exactly the same module - Sony Exmor R - we will see in the next iPhone. The volume of built -in memory is 16/32/64 GB. Universal LTE module, which also works in Russia. A huge number of software functions of varying degrees of use: here is the ability to take pictures at the same time front and main cameras (for what?), And slow shooting, and the voice translator S Translator. Plus, the branded development of Samsung called Smart Scroll: the phone automatically flogs the pages when the user's view reaches the end of the screen. Is it convenient - a question; It’s funny different: this possibility was loudly announced a year ago, at the presentation of the Galaxy S III ... But the day before the launch from Smart Scroll, they decided to refuse.
However, the presence in the new Galaxy S is truly amazed at the eight-core (!) Exynos Octa-Core processor. The American operators, by the way, will receive the version of the wealthy - with a quad -core processor of Qualcomm. One way or another: why can a smartphone need as many as eight cores? More recently, it was impossible to imagine that people in their pockets will be lying, comparable to the supercomputer in power. And even more so it was impossible to assume that all this power would be used only to maintain the performance of the operating system.

Progress suddenly ceased to surprise us. The most compact devices today have the most fantastic performance - but what is the point? Instead of, say, look for a cure for cancer, diagnose the condition of your car or analyze the daily movements of the owner of the smartphone, offering him the methods of pastime, all these nuclei and gigaigers lie down dead cargo and are activated only when playing Real Racing.

Imagine that ten years ago you would meet an alien from the future who would confidentially say: “In the future, millions of people in your pocket will lie many times more manufacturing than the SPAIS SCATLLA on -board computer, but they will use it only for entertainment and watching a video in HD format.” I don’t know how you, but I would be disappointed.