Friday, March 15, 2013

In about an hour, Samsung is going to announce its next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4. The Galaxy S3 released a little under one year ago, so hopefully you’ve spent enough time with the little guy to be excited for his new, younger brother.

Because the Galaxy S4 is a piece of technology, and there is an official event to announce it with a livestream, some significant specs leaked beforehand, because that’s how that works. A shot of the phone was leaked (seen below), and it looks extremely similar to the S3. The screen grew slightly in size, to 4.99 inches, from the S3′s 4.8 inches. Along with the slightly larger screen, the S4 will upgrade from 720p to 1080p.

The leak also claimed the Galaxy S4 would be just 5 grams heavier than the S3, but will be a millimeter thinner. Samsung’s new phone will also have SmartPause, a feature that pauses whatever video is playing on the phone whenever you look away from the screen. The phone will also support floating touch, a technology invented by Sony that debuted in the 2012 Xperia Sola. As the name suggests, floating touch allows you to interact with the screen while not actually touching the screen. In the Sola, though, the recognized distance is a small 20mm, so you can’t, for example, have your phone on the other side of your night table and float-touch through your playlist from your bed.

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