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hey guys is Austin I've done a lot of videos on budget smartphones however this doesn't something a little bit different meet the galaxy s4 the hottest flagship of 2013 that now cost about $100 this might sound like a weird idea to do a video on but it's something that's really interesting to me so one hand you have a new smartphone that's meant to hit a budget price but on the other get something like this it is dramatically cheaper that was when it first came out you're still getting all the advantages of a proper flagship so I was able to find dis galaxy s4 brand-new in-the-box however there are still tons and tons and tons of these phones that are available on the use market from anywhere between 70 to 100 dollars so this brings me back I actually was at the launch event for the galaxy s4 it's hard to believe that that was a full four years ago but what I'm really curious to see is how old this phone actually holds up today wow this is so much smaller than I remember it being you get that hyper glazed finish on the back man I remember how much of a fingerprint magnet this was but I remember right there's actually a lot of interesting stuff in the box so not only do we have the micro USB cable we have a wall adapter as well it looks like some fairly generic looking headphones but because this is an old-school symptom phone we also have a removable battery when it comes to the hottest phone of 2013 the galaxy s4 actually doesn't look too bad today so yes it is definitely all plastic with a sort of hyper glazed finish it does look a little bit cheap so over this go is actually rocking pretty decent specs for back in the day oh it's those the charge was it with me and pulling super old smartphones out of the boxes actually can turn on that's crazy and that's Android 4.2 life this thing is interesting this was definitely like sort of peak TouchWiz when they would throw every possible feature at it and almost none of them more useful of course taking a look at a galaxy s4 and a vacuum is no good so to compare we have the blue life max now for $100 there's actually a lot to like with this phone there are a ton of accessories here and also it's like we have a case and the screen protectors for $100 that's actually a lot but look at this phone is very interesting for a budget device so it has a soft touch rubber which is meant to look like a leather and even has sort of fake stitching on the side actually reminds me of some older sense phones I don't hate it though especially compared to the super generic black plastic not that bad one thing this does up going forward is a pretty giant 3,700 million power battery which would definitely give it tons of longevity especially considering the specs on top of that we do have dual SIM cards as well as a micro SD card slot and if I pop the back on they'll also be able to see that in addition to the camera there is a fingerprint reader on the back that is really cool for $100 Android phone so to try the fingerprint reader huh that's not she pretty quick maybe a little bit slower than newer flagships but that's actually not that at all I mean pretty much leaving your finger on it and almost immediately unlocks side by side with the galaxy s4 one of the first things that you'll notice is just how much bigger this is and this is fairly standard for a lot of phones these days the galaxy s4 just looks tiny in comparison and what's interesting about this is that while it does have the bigger screen at 5.5 inches it's only 720p whereas the galaxy s4 was one of the very first phones that moved up to 1080 it's an AMOLED display and it does look a lot nicer it is super interesting that both of these phones now cost about $100 especially considering that while this bone was kind of made to kind of hit that price point this one has come so far and yet there's a lot of areas where they're actually very similar nobody did both phones have LTE but I also have quad-core processors with 2 gigabytes of RAM however the biggest difference here is going to be in software where's the light Mac ships with Android 6.0 the Garcias tour actually has Android 4.2 jelly bean now that we care you can't upgrade this to Android 5 which should make a fairly big difference but a lot of apps out of the box are just not going to work on this guy where the galaxy s4 has touch with pretty much everywhere you look and most of its not really going to be all that useful luckily the light max actually is going to be a fairly stock build of Android now to be fair there are a lot of pre-installed apps which definitely kind of help to keep the price low but the good thing is nothing's all that crazy and of course all of it can be disabled one of the interesting comparisons between these two phones are the cameras so the galaxy s4 is rocking a 13 megapixel camera whereas the blue has a maple but of course it has four years of advancement so see how they actually compare there's a lot of contrast here but there's a really difficult shot it's not bad but the background is blown out and can it for dirt now I'll take a shot with the blue oh wow that is a lot more in it to be fear it's a little bit of an older school style of doing HDR so you can actually see it taking multiple exposures but this is a much more usable image get a little bit of a more normal shot though and the gallery has four it looks a lot better colors a lot more vibrant you can see it's a bigger sense there's a little bit of depth of field in the background whereas with the blue it's very washed out and yeah that is not sharp at all I'm actually really impressed with how good this galaxy has for camera is now yeah if you push it really hard with a very contrast the image it's not quite so great looking but you get a decent looking shot and it is really clean one area where things definitely have improved over the last few years is in selfie technology so that's actually pretty close I think I might have to give a slight edge to the galaxy s4 based on sharpness the blue just looks a little soft the more you use these phones more realize that they are very very similar in most ways but the biggest difference the software but simply Android 6 is totally modern vintage all apps will run on it well yes this is nothing most colorful in the world for $100 it will be basically everything you needed to you can go to options here a safe one and a risky one so with blue not only you're getting a brand new phone that's running that newer version of Android which just simply means it's going to last longer on the other hand I like the Galaxy s4 as a phone more but at some point in the not-too-distant future app support really just isn't going to be a thing here so $400 which of these phones would you guys go for let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one