If you’re fed up with phones approaching the size of roof tiles, and just as uncomfortable to hold, then take a look at the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini.
Just coming on to the market and retailing around £350 on pay-as-you-go, the Mini is small enough to pop into your pocket or to use one handed. It comes in just two colours, black or white. It’s a teeny 61.3mm wide, 124.6mm height and 8.94mm deep and weighs just 107g.
Under the bonnet there’s a 4.3in qHD sAMOLED display at 540×960 qHD resolution and a powerful Dual Core 1.7GHz processor. There’s 1.5GB RAM and either 8GB or 16GB ROM. The camera at the rear is an 8megapixel shooter plus a 1.9megapixel HD on the front. The phone runs on Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2.
The Mini Galaxy S4
The 1900mAH battery will give you nine hours of 3G internet or 11 hours on wifi. On standby you can get 300 hours. It has an accelerometer, geomagnetic, gyro, light and proximity sensor.
Hot on the heels of the Samsung Galaxy S4, the Mini has a lot of the same features, including Group Play where you can link your phone to those of your friends to use the handsets as a speaker system. You can also create a photo collage or play a game together.
One of the things that we love here at Androidizen is the S Health app on the full sized Galaxy S4 and we’re pleased to see it’s been ported over to the Mini. All you do is download the application from Samsung Apps and you can keep tabs on how many steps you’ve done in a day, how much you’ve consumed in calories. If you download the S Band which is sold separately then it’s like having your own personal trainer.
If you travel a lot, or even go outside your own locality, then the S Travel app is a fantastic way to get tourist guides, find out the best places to eat, things to see and how to get there. It really is a fantastic map in your pocket with so many added extras.
The Samsung Link means you can share all your content with friends or family and you can also upload pictures or video to a Samsung TV set. HomeSync, which is sold separately, means that all your media can be stored and shared and you don’t need to worry about losing it or about capacity or security loss because it’s stored remotely.
You can download a user manual from the internet or there’s a nifty tutorial on www.samsung.com which will get you started with some easy to follow tips.
If you shop around you should be able to get the handset much more cheaply on a two-year contract. Three have been offering it for £26 a month on a two-year deal.
Watch out for reviews of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active and the Samsung Galaxy S4 zoom which promise some additional features, in particular for the camera on the S4 zoom.
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