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when a smartphone arrives at your door in a box in this kind of condition you really hope that there's a rugged device inside well fortunately if the spec sheets are to be believed this is one of the most durable devices you can get from Samsung so let's see if it survived the rough treatment of our friends at UPS I'm Michael Fisher this is PocketNow and this is the samsung galaxy s4 active let's unbox it and see if it's intact ok so this is the box in exactly the condition it arrived in from from UPS so we want to say thank you for AT&T thank you to AT&T for sending this to us it's not a teenage felt that I did arrive this way hopefully this rugged device survived this apparently rough passage so the first thing we see is a QuickStart guide before even seeing the phone put that aside hooray no shattered display oh oh and we got a color this is not the urban grey version we were expecting but the dive blue oh that is impressive Wow Wow vocabulary fails me as I look at this very very shiny die blue phone this phone also available once again in urban gray and orange flare I'm gonna put it aside for a second and see if what else is inside the box here let's see Samsung has bundled in some literature here now you have nothing to lose upgrade to the Galaxy s4 active samsung Smart Switch that's what this is a cloud based solution that they're advertising as well as texting and driving it can wait drive mode from 18 t we'll look into that in a future video USB cable in white very nice and the Samsung charger we are familiar with anything else going on in here no just decrepit blown out cardboard packaging let's get it out of here ok so coming back to the Galaxy s4 active itself we're just gonna drop it on the table here and put it next to another rugged device that we happen to have on hand these don't meet exactly the same standards for durability but they are definitely serving the same market segment this is the Kyocera torque from Sprint the push-to-talk enabled rugged phone that we reviewed few months back and you'll notice there is quite a difference here in in thickness in overall size and the entire design language is different that's not just because these are coming from different companies it's because until now or until recently manufacturers have not really focused on durable device of making different durable devices resemble their flagship counterparts any other functionality or appearance see this is very very clunky very very brick like the Galaxy s4 active is actually not so that isn't very interesting change of pace okay once again we have the microphone positioned and we have the AT&T it can wait campaign good reminder there do not text while driving it can be fatal let's get the screen protector out of here beautiful thing that panel is the size we were expecting this is a 5-inch 1080p display not AMOLED this time around TFT LCD instead but maintains that 443 PPI very very high resolution especially for a durable device let's take a tour around the hardware taking a look around the phone still can't really get over this awesome dive blue color here but let's take a poke around you'll notice that the capacitive home and backyard schema the capacitive back and menu keys have been replaced with physical buttons down here flanking the always been physical home button see if we can get a little bit of a close-up there for you now that is handy as we were talking a little bit about the pocket now weekly on the pocket a weekly podcast today always nice to have physical buttons on a phone that can go underwater and yes this phone can spend some time underwater it is rated to ip67 standards for immersion meaning it can survive and up to a meter of water for up to 30 minutes if I recall correctly this is a sticker talking about how to best protect the device firmly seat the battery cover and USB cover before use so obviously this device not relying on a nano coating for protection but on keeping water out of the casing there's our AT&T branding on the back of flash camera has taken a step down from the 13 megapixel camera on the galaxy s4 to an 8 megapixel camera here and there's no another something Kyocera torque we have this nice coin-operated slot almost to seat the battery door in it's gasket that is not present on the s4 active it just looks it feels like a regular ol battery door that's not even that much thicker that's fascinating at any rate I'll put that aside here's our battery 2600 milliamp hours not two thousand milliamp hours it was a slight error on Tony's part but we can forgive him that from London because he shot something like 2 1 T videos or 200 I'm not sure it felt like anyway we'll go ahead and replace the battery cover here seated properly and then we'll look for that USB cover there it is here's our there's how we clear that make sure that water stays out of there by reseeding that and it looks like it's on a little rotating hinge really feels quite quite low-profile almost flimsy for something that's supposed to keep water out but we will see how that works some exposed screws here power standby on the side no physical hardware camera button but as I think we saw from London you can trigger the camera using the volume keys which are on the other side there's our headphone jack nope right there no cover for that one IR port you can still control your TV remote from here we'll go ahead and see if we can power this device on press and hold on power standby that's a 2 megapixel webcam up top I believe and underneath driving this experience is a 1.9 gigahertz processor 2 gigs of RAM 16 gigs of storage but there is microSD as always there's our AT&T splash screen blowing out the frame with its brightness and this is available if you're interested from AT&T as of today in the United States - 1 9999 on contract or 5 94 99 without little pricey but maybe worth it if you are someone who needs a rugged phone and doesn't want to sacrifice too much in terms of features and specs we're gonna have a lot more on the Galaxy s4 active but for now there is your unboxing folks we have a lot more on the galaxy s4 active here on YouTube including Anton Dino dropping one in a tank full of water in London at Samsung premier 2013 event go check that out it's a good time but before you go leave us a like here if you enjoyed the video drop us a comment if you have something to say we'll try and get back to you and please do follow us on our social media sites and subscribe here on YouTube until next time thank you for watching and we'll see you again soon idiots and subscribe here on YouTube until next time thank you for watching and we'll see you in again reviews again and we'll see you again soon