SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 MINI

The Excess and Weaknesses of Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini

Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini

Samsung continues to use their flagship products such as the Samsung Galaxy S4 to raise the target market. After launching the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom feature that relies on the camera, and Samsung unveiled the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini is offered at a price that is cheaper than the Samsung Galaxy S4. Additionally, S4 Mini has less features than the S4.

Sales Package & Common Features

In the sales package Mini Samsung Galaxy S4, you can get a Handset, Charger, Data Cable, Headset, User Manual and Warranty Card. As for the features brought by S4 Mini are HSDPA, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Infrared, Browser, Java MIDP, Internal GPS, Application Navigator, Camera, Video Call, External Memory, Email, Music Player, Video Player, Video Recorder , Open OS and FM Radio.

Design

Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini is a condensed version of the flagship product of Samsung for now, the Samsung Galaxy S4. Composition ports and buttons scattered around the body on both smartphones is also in the same position.

With a wider screen, dimensions of Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini is not much different from the Galaxy S3 Mini, this smartphone even lighter and thinner. The material used by Samsung is still the same as the original S4 version.

Even so, Glossy Hyperglazed used since the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S3 feels slippery, but body S4 Mini is not too large to make this smartphone still comfortable to gripped. But many consumers also do not like the body made ​​of plastic because it was considered less elegant and luxurious for Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini.

Display

Samsung chose to use a Super AMOLED panel the same layer as the Galaxy S4 with size and resolution has been reduced. If the previous S4 using layer 5 inches with a resolution of Full HD, the Galaxy S4 Mini cut to 0.7 inches so it a 4.3 with qHD resolution.

Both level of pixel density is also different. But for the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini, 256 ppi is not a bad thing. This smartphone can still display a screen that looks sharp and clear.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini is not the best on the market in the Display sector when compared to the Sony Xperia SP which has a higher screen resolution and is offered at a price cheaper than the S4 Mini.

OS & UI

Samsung offers the same combination as in the Galaxy S4 as using the latest Android Jelly Bean with TouchWiz Nature UX user interface from Samsung.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini also relies on the 3 buttons below the screen as the Menu, Home, Back to do most of the control. In addition to having standard functions, 3 buttons also have a dual function. The menu button will take the user to the Google Now feature by holding the button. Home button will display a Task Switcher and Back buttons to bring up the Side Bar for Multi-window feature. Users can also take advantage of other functions such as accessing voice-recognition virtual assistant, S Voice by pressing the Home button twice.

New Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 features such as Lock Screen widget, can also be found in the S4 Mini. In addition, the Lock Screen can present some panels as well as on the Home Screen. But, not all the extra features become special points on the Samsung Galaxy S4 also appears on the Mini version.

Features

The presence of several smart features to be one of important and interesting points of Samsung's flagship product. But not all the advanced features of the S4 you can enjoy form the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini.

Like Water View and Water Gesture. Feature that allows the user to control smartphone even without touching the phone can not be enjoyed on S4 Mini because it does not have a sensor that is one of the features that are removed by Samsung to reduce the price of S4 Mini.

Users can simply enjoy the features Motion and Palm Motion. It becomes less attractive because the feature has been used since the Galaxy S3. Motion is a feature that runs just by moving the phone.

Users can make a ringtone stop ringing when incoming call or SMS to a mobile phone by flipping it upside down or "turn over", direct call and many other options.

Smart Screen feature on the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini only has one option feature, Smart Stay. This feature will prevent the screen to dim or lock automatically as long as the user is still staring at the screen, though the screen is not touched in a time that exceeds the Screen Timeout setting. While 3 other options such as Smart Pause, Smart Rotation, Smart Scroll is not available on the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini.

Hardware

Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini uses a Qualcomm MSM8930 Snapdragon chipset 400. This chipset is equipped with a Dual Core processor 1.7 GHz Krait which has good performance and can compensate for processor-based NVIDIA Tegra 3 which basically have the number of doubled processor cores.

As for the GPU, S4 Mini uses Adreno 305 which are included in the class of Low-End from the latest generation of graphics chips are integrated in the System On Chip or SOC Snapdragon.

Connectivity

Galaxy S4 does not have all the upscale smartphone connectivity options as found on the Samsung Galaxy S4. Users can simply enjoy the standard connectivity options of midrange smartphone like HSDPA and Wi-Fi. While the USB On-The-Go, MHL and NFC are not owned by the Mini S4. Infrared only feature that make a quite interesting because it allows the smartphone is used as a replacement remote control for a Home Device.

Camera

Downgrade also occurs in the camera sector. Nonetheless, 8 MP maximum resolution of the resulting images can be enjoyed enough.

Several shooting modes to be one interesting point on the Samsung Galaxy S4 is also eliminated as Dual Shot, Animated Photo, Eraser and Drama.

As for the features that are maintained at S4 Galaxy Mini looks not so special because it is nothing new and is found in many other Middle-Class products such as Continuous Shot mode, HDR and Panorama. And this smartphone can also record video in Full HD 1080p resolution.

The Excess and Weaknesses

• Excess: Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini has the same design with the S4 but more compact, including superior performance on Dual Core classes.

• Weaknesses: the price offered is still relatively high, less complete connectivity, many interesting features of the S4 are eliminated.

Conclusion

Because it uses the name of the MINI, is normal that many features reducing on the Samsung Galaxy Mini S4 so that reducing the Galaxy S4 user experience. Moreover, the difference in price between S4 and Galaxy Mini is not too much so as to make the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini became one of most expensive Dual Core Android smartphones on the market and make consumers less interested because they prefer the original S4 version.