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everyone I'm tossing a doll court for CNET with your first look at the samsung galaxy s4 mini name aside the mini is actually not that small is about the same dimensions as an iPhone the screen is also pretty large at 4.3 inches so it is a lot smaller by comparison to 5 inch screens and above but you're gonna get some pretty good screen real estate on this one a benefit is that the phone is very slim and it's very light so comparatively to other phones it's very easy to stick in a pocket or a person to carry around and you can hold it for a long time without your hands getting tired as you may have noticed the design is very similar to the galaxy s4 down to these steep shiny sides and the sort of shiny stylized backing the phone is very reflective on the front in the back which can throw a lot of light back in your eyes that's one little downside to this line screen resolution is a little bit lower here but colors are still bright and saturated and text still renders crisply what is many about this phone are the features they're definitely more mid-range compared to the larger more premium samsung galaxy s4 flagship for instance there's Android 4.2.2 on here you've got a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 1.7 gigahertz clock speed processor was a little bit slower I played a game Riptide gp2 on here and it just seemed a lot choppier than it does on much faster phones Temple Run 2 however was very beautiful and immersive on this phone as for camera you've got an 8 megapixel shooter on here just like you did for the Samsung Galaxy s3 with 1080p HD video recording photos were pretty good with this camera I have to say I was very satisfied with a lot of the shots knife shots aren't quite so good but there is a night mode you're gonna get a lot of the modes that you see on the galaxy s4 but not all of them you will however get plenty of filters front-facing camera is 2 megapixels but I found that images much grainy and much less pleasing there are only 8 gigabytes of on-board storage but there is a micro SD card slot that can take up to 64 gigabytes so you're good there there's 1.5 gigabytes of RAM on here as well you'll be able to pick up the samsung galaxy s4 mini AT&T Sprint Verizon and US Cellular right now we only have Sprint's pricing that's going to be $0 with the new two-year service agreement phone is really great value at least at that pricing so we're just gonna have to wait and see what the other carriers are gonna offer I'm Jessica's all court for C net you can check out my full review of the s4 mini Etsy Netcom