Samsung Galaxy S4

It’s finally here, folks. Samsung has just announced the Samsung Galaxy S4, aka the “Life Companion.” It’s a polycarbonate device that will come with a 5-inch full HD Super AMOLED display that has 441 ppi. The Samsung Galaxy S4 will come with up to Cat 3 4G LTE with for all markets with the technology, an infrared LED transmitter, Bluetooth 4.0, a 13 megapixel camera, 16-64GB of internal storage with a microSD card slot and more.

That camera can also record photo and video with both the 2 megapixel front amera and rear-facing camera simultaneously. It’s all the rage these days, apparently, and Samsung takes it to the max with a bunch of filters, effects, and customization options to make it your own.
The chipset inside will either be Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa-Core chipset clocked at 1.6GHz or a 1.9GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor depending on region, though we’re not sure which chipset — either the S600 or s800 — Samsung is planning on going with just yet. Alongside that is 2GB of RAM, and the promise that Android 4.2.2 will be sitting beneath the latest version of Samsung’s custom TouchWiz user interface.

Key software features of the aforementioned TouchWiz include Samsung Smart Scroll, S Travel, S Health, S Translator, Group Play (for sharing your multimedia, games and memories), Air View, S Voice Drive, and more. We don’t have a price just yet, but you can expect the Galaxy S4 to launch on just about every carrier there is in just about any market you can think of. A quick early list gives us forthcoming availability at  AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, as well as US Cellular and Cricket in the US, as well as Deutsche Telecom, EE, H3G, Orange, Telenor, Telia Sonera, Telefonica, and Vodafone in Europe and other markets. Read on for full press details as well as watch the entire live stream of the press event on YouTube (skip ahead to the 40:20 mark).