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hey what's up guys I'm Kay Bhd here and I was actually out of town for spring break during the galaxy s4 announcement but I watched the whole thing so I've had many hours to ponder exactly what happened and why it happened so this is the galaxy s4 features explain so if you watch the unusually corny live reveal of the device at Radio City Music Hall then you saw what happen you saw it went down but if you didn't it'll be the first link below the like button on this video absolutely worth skipping through and checking out it's one of the corniest but also funniest presentations of any device I've ever seen usually they are pretty corny especially things like a soos and the companies just have a hard time presenting the new products well but this one is worth checking out so go ahead and watch it it's pretty hilarious now on paper the galaxy s4 is a small speck bump in terms of hardware from the galaxy s3 it has a slightly larger 5-inch display versus the 4.8 inch it has a 1080p resolution versus the 720p of the s3 it's also has a 2600 milliamp hour battery versus the 2100 previously it's also slightly lighter at 130 grams versus 133 and it's also slightly thinner at 7.9 millimeters thin and it also has a 13 megapixel camera versus the 8 so all these are numbers all these are things that are physical Hardware differences between the s4 and the s3 so you can see where people are saying oh it's just a minor upgrade a minor spec difference and that's completely true when you hold the s3 and the s4 next to each other you can see the footage from the hands-on at the event they look very very similar and you'll be able to tell that they are well basically parts of the same family now the galaxy s3 when it first came out was known to be a powerhouse pretty much the highest end smartphone you could get when it first came out and still pretty high-end the galaxy s4 being a speck bump from the s3 is also a very high-end phone the thing is normal customers and normal average people don't know that it's a high-end phone the average person watching that presentation doesn't know that it's an octa-core processor overseas an eight-core cpu the average person doesn't know it has 2 gigabytes of RAM and that's partially because Samsung never actually said that they never even said that it ran Android during the presentation they saved all that for the very end and a final slide after the final credits that give the full specs of the device so the fact that it's a high-end hardware device isn't really a big deal to Samsung why is that that's because they're not selling hardware anymore and it may sound weird to say that but Samsung is actually now selling or at least adding value to their devices via software not hardware they sold a lot of things based on software and features not really based on oh this has an 8 megapixel camera I want to buy that no one is buying the s3 for that reason people are buying the s3 because it has Samsung features and Samsung said well I think we can expand on that with the Galaxy s4 so basically Samsung has seen that adding value via software not hardware is doing really well at getting and attracting customers now the average person may actually look at the processor and say oh wow that's an 8 core processor that seems like it's a great idea but for the most part they don't flip out over those things they don't flip out over the fact that it has 2 gigabytes of RAM or the fact that it has Android 4.2 versus 4.1 they look at the fact that you can turn the page without touching the screen and they freak out over things like that software features that that you can look at other phones and say well that phone can't do that I want the one that you can do magic tricks with that seems like a really cool phone to buy unload a link in the description right below the like button that has basically Samsung's wrap-up or overview of all the new features that they've added now you might have already seen the galaxy s3 was very popular for things like you know HDR mode in the camera and group share and certain things that are just named the way they should because that soy some decided to call them it also has a couple of things in the s3 like s voice which we didn't really like that much but it was a unique Samsung feature the galaxy s4 and as you'll see by the video in the description goes way further and the presentation that revealed the galaxy s4 spent way more time demoing these features in a corny way but they demoed the features for hours rather than going over the specs because that is what they're selling so I'll just go over a few of these with you there if you think that Samsung is trying to sell us in that are just software based nothing hardware based only things Samsung is building into the software first of which is called smart pause we'll pause the video when you look away from the display and resume playing it when you look back the next one's called air view which will actually let you control the device without actually touching it which is supposed to be good for people who are you know doing your nails or eating or something you also have Samsung's watch on which uses the IR blaster and the Galaxy s4 to control a TV there's an optical reader for scanning and business card info there's group play which is allows you to play music together on multiple devices or a game and play the same game on multiple devices there are new camera filters that are similar to what you see on the Galaxy camera there's also things like sound and shot which will attach an mp3 file to a photo or cinema photo which will allow you to make a Jif of an image you take a series of images and it makes a gift for you there's also dual shot which will allow you to use the front-facing and back facing camera at the same time you have chat on which will allow you to do video chat using both cameras or screen sharing using the chat service there's also s translator which does exactly what google translator does live but it's just s translator now you also have s voice which we've seen already is the same thing as Google now - the predictive search but it's now Samsung based so you have the S theme going on here and you also have s health which is a monitor of your physical health goals so if you look at all these things that Samsung is putting together it's pretty obvious that there is a ton of s stuff and Samsung stuff and they just named all of the things they named everything they possibly can to give it a name that people will remember it's a feature that they are trying to sell not a hardware thing but a software thing and because it is software pretty much all these things are also going to be available in an update of the galaxy s3 and the galaxy note 2 now we tech people were of course rolling our eyes when Samsung spent half an hour showing how we could swipe from tab to tab in the web browser without touching the screen but that wasn't for us that wasn't for the couple hundred thousand tech people watching that was for the people the average people who actually have never seen that happen before on any device and think wow can the Sony Spurrier's e do that no can the Oppo find five do that No i phone do that no so I think I want this coin instead usually we don't really consider these features important but then some of us tech people actually think you know they actually ask the question if I root this device and put CyanogenMod on it am I going to lose that s-pen feature am I going to lose that airView feature so it's actually becoming more important to us so the Samsung S features and s stuff is actually getting to us now and it's becoming a thing that we associate with the galaxy brand and the galaxy hardware now all the software based enhancements and things like that on top of android without ever mentioning android naturally brings up the question is Samsung moving away from Google are they moving away from Android altogether could they build their phone on a new operating system and my answer to that would be no I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon I think it could go the way of the Kindle Fire where it is built on top of Android technically but you would never know unless they told you and Samsung could probably pull something like that off because they can skin it so heavily and really make it such a Samsung experience the way Amazon made the Kindle Fire such an Amazon experience that you would never know it's running Android that being said their tagline for the galaxy s4 is Life Companion which is interesting by itself I've never seen that as a tagline but there you go life companion has all these new features that are all software based and Samsung is clearly making a move towards value added by a software instead of value added by a hardware and that's the galaxy s4's features explained there you go guys hope you enjoyed this video if you did definitely feel free to give it a thumbs up and 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