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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Samsung Galaxy S4 Ranks No.2 on Camera Test, Surpassing iPhone 5

Since Samsung’s newest flagship Galaxy S4 was released, it has outperformed its earlier predecessors in popularity as well as sales speed in Samsung’s history. With a super AMOLED screen that delivers sharp photos, Galaxy S4 is more impressive by its unique features including Smart Pause, Smart Scroll, Smart Alerts, Group Play, and Air View. And not to forget, most people can’t resist the temptation of Galaxy S4’s embedded dual cameras, 13 MP autofocus rear camera plus a 2 MP front-facing camera.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Camera picture from BGR

Among a ranking list of popular cellphones’ cameras at DxO Labs, Galaxy S4’ camera gained an overall 75 points, ranking No. 2 just beaten by the Nokia 808 Pureview with 77 points, while it surpassed Apple iPhone 5 at a score of 72. DxO Labshas obtained its reputation as a professional cellphone camera testing and analysis website.
Galaxy S4 achieved it’s high score mainly due to its accurate autofocus in fast speed, excellent performance in pictures delivery, amazing images with high-saturated color in bright light, as well as superior auto-exposure feature. Despite of Galaxy S4’s weakness at image capture in low-light conditions and over-sharpening halos problem, the firm still pointed out Samsung Galaxy S4 continues to demonstrate the cellphone’s inexorable technological progress as manufacturers continue to place prominence on these devices for image capture.

$237 to Build A Samsung Galaxy S4

Galaxy S4 Teardown

How much will it cost to build a Samsung Galaxy S4? When you’re dishing out about $800 for a phone you may have thought about this question. IHS, a market research company, has recently done a teardown on a 32GB model of U.S. version of Galaxy S4. After analysis, they found that it costs about $237 to build this device, which is more than that of a 16GB iPhone 5($205) and of the Nokia Lumia 920($209).

The cost for different versions of this phone can be slightly different. For instance, the versions of the phone sold in U.S. use a Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm, which costs about $20; while those sold in Korea and other markets usea Samsung-made chip, which costs $28. But you get the idea.

So if you’re going to buy a Galaxy S4, you’re leaving approximately $580 for all the people between you and the factory. Not a bad deal… for them.

T-Mobile’s Galaxy S4 Online Sales Delayed to April 29th

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 online sales will be pushed back to Monday, April 29th, due to an unexpected delay with inventory deliveries. The smartphone was originally planned to be available on T-Mobile website on Wednesday, April 24.This unpleased news of 5 days delay makes all T-Mobile customers desiring to get new Galaxy S4 suffer a little bit longer wait.

With the plan of selling the Galaxy S4 at physical retail locations on May 1st, T-Mobile says it is working with Samsung to have enough devices delivered in time for the new date. The following is T-Mobile’s apology:

We know customers are really looking forward to getting their new Samsung Galaxy S4 soon. However, due to an unexpected delay with inventory deliveries, the Galaxy S 4 will not be available on www.T-Mobile.com as planned on Wednesday, April 24. Instead, online availability is expected to begin on Monday, April 29. We apologize for any inconvenience and are working with Samsung to deliver the device to T-Mobile customers as soon as possible.

AT&T customers may get good news, for AT&T has sent out updates on this smartphone device arrival date. AT&T announced customers who preordered their Galaxy smartphone early can begin receiving it as soon as April 25th. Sprint will sell the Galaxy S4 on April 27th, and Verizon has yet to commit to a date. Maybe AT&T customers are the first to get their Samsung’s Galaxy S4.