{"id":646601,"date":"2013-03-13T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=620009"},"modified":"2013-03-13T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:00:44","slug":"bloomberg-all-but-confirms-samsung-galaxy-s-4-features-any-surprises-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646601","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg all but confirms Samsung Galaxy S 4 features. Any surprises left?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Thursday, Samsung will introduce its Galaxy S 4 smartphone in New York City. I’ll be there to cover the event and see the handset. But there may be little in the way of surprises at this point: On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported on several of the phone’s specifications<\/a> provided to them by “two people familiar with the product.” And if you were hoping for something vastly different in the Galaxy S 4 compared to previous reports, you might want to reset your expectations.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, I wrote up what I features and functions I though the Galaxy S 4 will have<\/a> and if Bloomberg’s sources are correct, I wasn’t far off. Per Bloomberg:<\/p>\n

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“The phone will sport a 5-inch screen, slightly larger than the one on last year\u2019s S3, according to two people familiar with the product. The U.S. version will use Qualcomm Inc.\u2019s quad-core chip, giving the phone more processing power to handle multiple tasks at the same time, they said. In other markets, it will rely on Samsung\u2019s \u201coctacore\u201d eight-core chip, the people said.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t speculate on the Galaxy S 4 camera, because I\u00a0inadvertently\u00a0forgot to. Bloomberg’s sources fill that gap by saying the Galaxy S 4 will use a 13-megapixel camera. I’d expect some innovation in the sensor or optics as megapixels alone don’t guarantee high-quality images.<\/p>\n

\"Smart<\/a>Samsung’s\u00a0eye-scrolling feature<\/a> reportedly won’t be included with the Galaxy S 4, says Bloomberg’s sources, but it could appear in the future. The hardware to enable such functionality is already available in Samsung devices, so it could be added in a software update.<\/p>\n

I still stand by my predictions of the Galaxy S 4 shipping with 2 GB of memory and Android 4.2 as well as support for the new 802.11 a\/c Wi-Fi standard. And nobody has given me any reason to think this won’t be another plastic-based handset with design cues similar to the company’s Galaxy Note 2.<\/p>\n

At this point, I’m not expecting any magical unknown features in Samsung’s newest handset to be shared tomorrow. But as I noted earlier this week: That probably won’t matter when it comes to successful sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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