Everybody thinks this phone is going to be SO great! Sure i wanted to like it but its hard to like it with what it even looks like now. They should just call it the Samsung Galaxy s3s because all it is is a tiny update
1. 13MP camera? First of all who needs that on a cell phone. Phones are not desinged to take huge pictures its just going to clump up the file size. Anybody who wants realy pictures should get a real point and shoot. I personally will stick with the great HTC One line for a camera or even a 808 PureView
2. Air gestures and all that other crap to wave your hand over the phone. Theyre crap. sure they will be useful for a week but then they wont be used ever again. Also the whole 'working with gloves' thing is pointless i have thick motorcycle gloves that work on any phone i have used and they are trying to advertise it as a new feature.. Dont listen people!
3. Whats the point of an octo core processer?!?! nothing but sucking your battery is what its for. My computer doesnt even have an octo core processor and can play many games at the highest quality possible. Octo core processor is just samsungs way of feeling cooler, when it doesnt do anything different for the phone.
4. Contrary to popular belif the design HAS NOT changed. I will admit when my contract was up i wanted a note 2 but when i picked it up it felt like a fisher price toy. All they did with the new one was keep the same design and made a slightly larger screen. WHOO HUGE CHANGE! not.. ill stick with a 4.7 inch screen because even with my huge hands, 5 inches is idiotic. And from a screen standpoint it just cant compete with even the iphone 5
5. no new USEFUL features. I have seen NO innovation from this phone. HTC announced the One would have an ir blaster and look what the S4 did.. stole the idea. Good job sammy
As we all know the phone will sell well, there is no disputing that since samsung has great marketing. But i for one will not be getting this phone
Ok, so I see what you are saying here. You would rather carry a dedicated camera everywhere you go no matter what you are doing, great I am glad that works for you. It doesn't however work for everyone else and that is why so many options exist in the Android world and you are entitle to choose your best device based on your needs. It doesn't however make the GS4 a total fail.
Air gestures, are part gimmick, but I can actually see the useful nature of them and I have the choice of using them or not so again it doesn't make the GS4 a total fail.
Octo processor is not a 8 core processor like stuffing a 1000bhp egine into a Buggatti. It does however offer the abiliity for a quad core low cpu processor to do the work when only a little processor is needed and there fore use less power and save on battery life and then match it with another quad core high cpu processor for the big stuff (gaming,etc) and that will affect battery life but its a trade off. So again I don't see the GS4 as a total fail.
Finally we arrive at design. We are accustomed to seeing new phones every time a mfg rolls them off the assembly line with new skins, new bodys, new whatever they do to them. Auto mfg's get by on a 3-4 year cycle, Apple gets by doing it every 2 years with ZERO CHANGE and they are not affected by it and they don't even innovate year over year and what they launched last year (Maps = Fail, Passbook = Fail, quality control = Fail). So why can't Samsung slightly refine a new design and slightly change the aesthetics and offer more features under the hood and out do even Apple in that dept. So again I don't see the GS4 as a total fail.
Now I could be wrong on all of these points and you could be right, or your post asking if it was a total fail? what was meant to illicit conversation on these very points. I am not saying you are right or wrong, but that you have opinions on them and that is beneficial for further conversation and dialogue.