Samsung Galaxy S 4 Review - Part 1
by Brian Klug on April 24, 2013 12:01 AM ESTNAND Performance
The Galaxy S 4 ships with either 16GB or 32GB of NAND on-board, but allows for expansion via a microSD card slot. The latter is a quickly disappearing feature on modern smartphones, but it remains a point of differentiation offered by Samsung. We were sampled a 16GB version of the Galaxy S 4, which arrived with 9.62GB of usable space after the OS and app pre-load.
As always we're using Androbench (with modified settings) to quantify NAND performance. Thankfully NAND performance has been steadily improving on modern smartphones/tablets, and the Galaxy S 4 is no exception. Sequential read performance actually sees a tremendous boost compared to most of the other devices in our charts here. Optimizing for sequential read performance makes a lot of sense, but it's good to see Samsung being competitive on all fronts here.
It is worth pointing out that NAND is treated very much as a commodity in these devices, and it's entirely possible that you'll see performance deviate from what we've shown here depending on what controller/NAND/firmware combination you get in your device.
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sigmatau - Thursday, April 25, 2013 - link
Better screen on the HTC One. You can't see shit in sunlight on OLED screens. And the speakers are a huge difference.Thud2 - Thursday, April 25, 2013 - link
I have an HTC ONE and it's amazing in all respects. Beautiful, fast, great camera, great screen, I've seen all day battery use so far, great phone, I have no complaints, all the complaints I've seen online seem like ninja Samsung reps or fanboys, but one recommendation. GET A COVER!!! I was one of the ones who said "No, it's to nice to cover up!" No joke, the first person I handed it to dropped it handing it back to me, on a concrete bar! IT IS A SLICK PHONE and not metaphorically! It is SMOOTH! To the point of being hard to hold. I love the look, but sadly it needs a cover. Luckily it's so small that it's still smaller than other phones even with a cover.shaolin95 - Thursday, April 25, 2013 - link
Is a phone not a hockey puck!Enough with the stupidity.
Alvar - Monday, April 29, 2013 - link
6 Reasons to get the Samsung Galaxy S4medi02 - Monday, April 29, 2013 - link
What about notebooks, pretty please. Do all high ends now have to be metal body?How come aluminum (soft metal) is somehow inherently superior to all kinds of plastik in the world?
shaolin95 - Monday, May 27, 2013 - link
Such a lame comment....you see most users do not use the phone as a hockey puck! So stop it with the BS arguments.kurama_k - Monday, July 29, 2013 - link
Easy replace the back cover with thishttp://www.amazon.com/GINOVO-Brushed-Aluminum-repl...
bromegaman - Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - link
"with the power button about four thirds up the right side, volume rocker four thirds up the left side.""four thirds"? Seriously?
Brian Klug - Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - link
Ugh, reminds me of the 5/4 people are bad at fractions joke, except it's me making the mistake. Fixed!-Brian
JimRamK - Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - link
Maybe you were thinking of the Camera sensor?