Helpful Galaxy S4 Tips and Tricks

There are four mobile phone giants: Apple, Samsung, HTC and LG, which occupying the main smartphone market. Nobody can deny the fact that Samsung has experienced a rapid increase of shares in the cellphone market. This year, Samsung is climbing to the top of the smartphone market, thanks to its latest flagship Galaxy S4. If you are a Galaxy S4 owner or you are loyal to Galaxy series and plan to purchase a Galaxy S4, you are right here to get started with your handset. Here you have some helpful tips and tricks for the Galaxy S4.

Helpful Galaxy S4 Tips and Tricks

1)   Tips for Home Screen Modes

Two Home Screen modes are supported by Galaxy S4: basic mode (smarter mode) and easy mode. The basic mode is the default setting including all available functions, while easy mode only supplies an easier access for customers using smartphone for the first time. You can change the basic mode to the easy mode by touching Menu > Settings > My device > Home screen mode > Easy mode > Apply.

Galaxy S4 Basic Mode

2)   How to Adopt Motion and Smart Gestures

You can control your device with the options of motions or natural gestures of your hands.
Go to Menu > Settings > My device > Motion and gestures, and you will access the motion setting. Turn on the setting by sliding OFF to ON, you will find three features are available for you: Air gestures, Motion, and Palm motion.

Air gestures: The function performs by using a sensor to detect users’ specific movements. The sensor position is at the top-right upper part above the screen. The following picture marks the sensor position with blue circle.

Galaxy S4 Sensor Position

When your GS4 screen is turned off, you can hold your hands above the sensor to make the display active at Notification icons, Missed calls, New messages, Time & Date or Battery power. To scroll web pages and emails, you can move your hands up and down over the sensor. If you want to answer an incoming call or move to the previous or next item, you can move your hands left or right. To move icons to other screens, you can tap and hold icons with one hand, then move your other hand left or right above the sensor to drag them to other screens: Home screen, App menu and Calendar.

Motion: Galaxy S4 is special by its direct call and smart alert features. Placing the device to your ear will automatically make a call when you check contact pages, such as contact information or message details. When you have unread messages or missing calls, you will find these notifications immediately when pick up the handset. The Galaxy S4 contains the mute function, so the unanswered calls or activated audio or video will pause when you can turn the screen down.

Palm Motion: Galaxy S4 provides the function of capturing a screenshot. You can sweep your hands over the screen to trigger the function. Or you can mute music or FM radio by covering the screen with your palm.

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Galaxy Note III Coming with Flexible Display?

Samsung-Galaxy-Note-iii-with-flexible-display

Long before Samsung Galaxy S4 was manufactured, people had rumored that the Galaxy S4 would be equipped with a flexible display. However, it came out not as people predicted.

This time, when it comes to Samsung’s next flagship, Galaxy Note III, people again expect that it may use the flexible display. On Friday, a published report said that Samsung will start production of Galaxy Note III with flexible display in August and launch in September, possibly during the IFA 2013 show in Berlin.

According to the report, LG is also about to launch a phone with a flexible display, which pushes Samsung to use the new technique in the next flagship, otherwise, Samsung might lose the competition in the flexible display smart phone market.

Ever heard of WET FINGER TRACKING?

How often do you find yourself frantically rubbing your phone on your shirt, or your finger on your pants because a little wetness assures the digitizer won’t respond properly? Did you know some people don’t need to? This is an issue of the past with a few phone models such as the Sony Xperia and the rugged workman’s phone by Caterpillar the Cat B15 because they use “WET FINGER TRACKING” digitizers. But why isn’t it available on all new phones? Especially high-end models like the Galaxy S4 or the iPhone 5, seeing as how the technology has been around since at least mid-2011 when it was featured on the Xperia. Every day, at least five times I need to dry my screen because of rain, sweat, beer, just washed hands etc. and it turns out this could easily be avoided. If the technology is there, and you’re making the high-end models, why not use it???

CAT® . B15_ WATERPROOF PHONE CAN EVEN BE RUN OVER BY A TRUCK AND KEEP WORKING

4.3-inch Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Details Leaked

A batch of pictures which from an insider for SamMobile suggest that Samsung may be planning to release another smartphone, this one is the next gerneration of the Samsung Galaxy S3 mini. These pictures suggest a phone with the same design and similar construction as the Galaxy S4 but in a much smaller appearance, just as the S3 mini was a clone of the Galaxy S3.

The Galaxy S4 mini (or model number GT-I9190) owns a 4.3-inch screen, runs Android 4.2 with TouchWiz skin just like the S4, and features a Super AMOLED screen that is said to have 256ppi pixel density, compared to the S4′s 441ppi. It’s also rumored that it will come with a more modest 1.6GHz dual-core processor instead of the S4′s 1.9GHz quad-core.

The new phone suggests that people looking for a smaller version of the Galaxy S4 will have an option, however, they will definitely have to compromise what is inside. SamMobile said the Galaxy S4 mini is expected to be announced sometime in June or July this year, although Samsung is yet to confirm whether the phone is even in production.