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hey guys this is bryan bennett for cnet.com and we are actually at an event in New York checking out the new Samsung Galaxy s4 active now what separates this phone apart from its cousin which is the galaxy s4 is that basically this spoon is ruggedized in a way that it is splash proof you can put it in water submerge it up to 30 feet I believe and you can also expose it to dust and other like particles and dirt things like that so it makes a very good product take to the beach I don't worry about it being underwater or getting stuffed up in that way it also has a very cool feature called the aqua mode which is a camera setting which allows you to take photos underwater basically what you do is you set up aqua mode and you can press the volume button or the camera button to basically record a snapshot or a video which is pretty cool and the reason they do that is because the capacitive buttons that you usually use to operate the phone will not operate under water due to the pressure and also the effect that uses static electricity to begin and register a command so so there you have it we've got a look at the buttons here on the bottom of the galaxy s4 active you can tell these are physical peas not capacitive which is pretty cool it's actually not too much thicker than the actual galaxy s4 that isn't splash proof or waterproof so you can see it's it's actually pretty thin that's the same kind of polycarbonate plastic back and the one difference that you can tell here is that this is a 8 megapixel camera as opposed to the 13 megapixel camera which is on the galaxy s4 right now this is a global device but it actually will be coming to AT&T at some point so we're not sure exactly when or where the price will be but hopefully will be soon and hopefully we'll be in time for the summer and that way you can tick to the beach takes the pool or anything like that there you have it folks this has been a first look at the samsung galaxy s4 active