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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Streamlined - Sunday, July 21, 2013 - link
Why did you use the 3rd gen ipad instead of the current model? Just because than Apple would have been at the top of every GPU chart?DGPickett - Sunday, September 22, 2013 - link
What, no 3G, 4G and wifi comparative data bandwidth tests? Communications power is a big part of the things "raison d'etre" !hizoka - Saturday, December 14, 2013 - link
galaxy s4 best smartphone everhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BV1NKCW?_encoding=UTF8...
EDDYSEGARAN - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
Hi,I have problem with wifi connection at some hotspots and hotel rooms.
I was told IPhone and IPad wifi power are not strong comparatively with Samsung or other android phones.
Is it true ? Are there any official test or comparisons done.
If there is, please provide website links.
Thanks
EDDYSEGARAN - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
My current model is IPhone 5 and IPad Mini.Are there any official test or comparisons done.
If there is, please provide website links or email to me: davidsegar77@yahoo.com.
Thanks
EDDYSEGARAN - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
I was told Iphone / Ipad battery last longer due to the weak wifi power. is it true ?WPX00 - Friday, July 15, 2016 - link
I know this is years late, but my S4 is utilizing an IMX135, not an IMX091.