Showing posts with label s4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label s4. Show all posts
Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 Review Yugatech
Yugatech has published the long anticipated review of the Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505. You will recall that Abe Olandres was invited to the Galaxy S4 launch in New York. To get the scoop on the Galaxy S4 follow this link.
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The real story is not the new smartphone. In truth, there are plenty of Galaxy S4 reviews. More important is what the review represents. A local blog, was invited to, and was given pre-release units for review. The significance of the worlds largest smartphone manufacturer taking notice of a Philippine based publication is not lost on me. Philippine blogging just moved up a notch, a big one at that.
Well done Samsung. Well done Mr. Olandres.
Samsung Galaxy S4 gets the teardown treatment shows its neatly organized internals
The time has come for the Galaxy S4 to share the faith of many gadgets before it and have its internal exposed in a glorious teardown moment. This time around, Samsung’s flagship was taken apart byTechrepublic‘s Bill Detwiler.
Unsurprisingly, given to the new hardware found in it, the Galaxy S4 sports a redesigned interior, compared to the Galaxy S3. As it turns out though, thanks to the user-removable back cover, it’s quite easy to get to the main internal circuit board. The battery has been moved further down to make room for the main board.
The front panel of the Galaxy S4 is fused to the display (with a Synaptics S5000B touch controller). This means if something goes awry with the device and one of the two breaks, both will have to be replaced. This will require that you, or a technician, remove all of the internal components in the process.
Happily, that isn’t such an issue as Detwiler finds out. Overall, he’s impressed with the improvements and design refinements in the phone’s hardware department and praises Samsung for the good job they are doing with each new Galaxy flagship.
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CyanogenMod 10 1 Nightly available for Samsung Galaxy S4 for T Mobile
Lead CyanogenMod developer and creator Steve Kondik has made an important announcement that will make Galaxy S4 owners leap with joy. The custom ROM project is currently available in an experimental, nightly build for the T-Mobile version of the Samsung flagship smartphone.
Kondik also unveiled that CM10.1 is coming for the international GT-i9500 model in the near future. Its development has been postponed for a little while since the team doesn’t have an actual unit to fiddle with.
Moreover, the custom ROM is going to support Android’s hover events meaning that they’ll be open to developers to think of cool new software features in the line of Samsung’s Air View. Steve Kondik notes that there are “a few rough edges”, but as they get ironed out “in short order”, CyanogenMod 10.1 for the Galaxy S4 will be more than good enough for a daily driver.
If you’re eager to treat you Galaxy S4 with an experimental build of the CyanogenMod 10.1 ROM, follow the source links below (the first is for the T-Mobile variant; the second for Canadian versions). Others should follow in the next few days and weeks. Happy flashing!
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