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it's time to count the many launch dates of the s4 I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update we have more details on when the samsung galaxy s4 smartphone is hitting stores right after ATT began taking pre-orders for an April thirtieth delivery date t-mobile announced it's going to be first selling it on april twenty fourth and Sprint is following three days later we still have yet to hear from verizon but apparently it'll be on sale sometime this month Sprint is doing something pretty odd though it's charging more for the s4 than other carriers two hundred and fifty dollars with a two-year contract but if you're new to sprint and you switch over it charges only one hundred fifty dollars for it I'm sure that feels unfair if you're a loyal sprint customer ATT and US cellular are selling it for the typical starting price of two hundred dollars with the usual two-year contract and US cellular is even throwing in a free s view flip cover with advanced orders but it won't even say when customers are going to get their hands on the s4 this is expected to be a very popular phone and the biggest challenger to the iPhone the iPhone puts on this global launch where every carrier sells it the same day but carriers just don't do that with other big phones they put it on sale whenever they feel ready the other big phone of the year is the HTC One and that's who has a scattered launch team of was selling the HTC One on the same day it's selling the galaxy s4 but AT&T will sell it friday but when it comes to the next big phones don't expect Microsoft to build its own phone anytime soon Apple does it with the iphone google does it with the nexus phone but a Microsoft executive has said there's no need for Microsoft to build its own smartphone like it has with the surface tablet since the teaser website went live last week we still haven't heard when this Twitter music service is going to launch all that we know is that Twitter gave early access to some well-known artists like Jason Derulo Moby neyo and Blake Shelton and they've been tweeting good things about it we'll keep you posted leap motion has made a deal with hewlett-packard to bundle its motion control sensors in some future HP computers leap measures hand and thing your movements to let users control a computer with hand gestures similar to how the Xbox Kinect works but it's way more exact with measuring movements the leap will also be hitting stores next month for eighty dollars an upcoming version of Photoshop may be able to take the blur out of your photos Adobe posted a video that demonstrates a nudey blurring filter we're just supposed to help fix those wobbly hand camera moments but we'll have to wait and see how well it works Adobe will likely give more details when this will be available during its conference in may that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey