Samsung on Thursday highlighted many new features in its latest Galaxy S4 smartphone during a Broadway-style presentation, but was surprisingly quiet about the technology that tracks facial and eye movement, which could enhance the video and browsing experience on the device.
The world's largest smartphone maker introduced its flagship Galaxy S4 product with a 5-inch screen at an event in New York City. Among the gaggle of new features in the LTE smartphone is a function called Smart Display, in which a front-facing camera recognizes eye and face movement to pause a video or scroll down a browser without touching the screen.
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Another related technology called Smart Scroll can scroll up or down a web page depending on a user's facial movement. A green indicator signals that the smartphone knows that the face is looking at the screen. Combined with the tilt of the smartphone, the browser windows will automatically scroll up or down.
The new technologies are part of a raft of new features introduced by Samsung so the smartphone could be used without touching the screen. The company has enabled gesture recognition technologies in which a hand can be hovered over the screen to preview news, email, files in a folder and information in calendars. Gestures can also be used to scroll in browser windows, switch between browser tabs, or even accept phone calls.
The Galaxy S4 will be available from 327 operators in 155 countries starting at the end of April, though no specifics on its price or shipping were provided. The smartphone has a super AMOLED display with density of 441 pixels-per-inch, a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front camera. It weighs 130 grams, is 7.9 millimeters thick and depending on the market, may come with a 1.9GHz quad-core processor or 1.6GHz Samsung Exynos 5 eight-core processor. Other features include up to 64GB of storage and 802.11ac Wi-Fi.
The Galaxy S 4 also supports Air Gesture, which leverages the IR gesture sensor to enable large hand gestures for UI control. You can swipe your hand in front of the smartphone to switch songs, move between tabs in the web browser, or scroll up and down a web page. You can also use Air Gesture to answer a call, which Samsung views as a good solution for SGS4 owners that have their smartphone in a car dock while driving.
The successor of the most popular smartphone from the most widely adopted platform - it doesn't get much bigger than this in the mobile industry. After months of rumor frenzy and high-pitched hype, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S4 at their Unpacked event in New York.
Squeezing a larger screen of higher resolution in a more compact and lighter body, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is also the first smartphone to feature an octa-core CPU. The Exynos 5410 chipset has a set of four Cortex-A15 cores to do the heavy lifting and another quartet of power-saving Cortex-A7 cores, which handles the less physical tasks. There will be a version of the Galaxy S4, powered by a Snapdragon 600 chipset too, but we are unsure which markets will get it.
More power, a better screen, a host of new exclusive software features and a larger battery to keep it going longer - the Samsung Galaxy S4 has all the right boxes ticked to be considered a worthy successor to what many considered the uber smartphone. It also has a key advantage over its direct rivals in running on the latest Android 4.2 platform.
The second Jelly Bean release isn't an incredibly massive upgrade, but offers some cool new features that take the user experience up a notch. Of course, Samsung will be more than keen to direct your attention to its home-baked goodies like Eye-scroll and Auto pause, which surprisingly or not, work pretty well.
On older Samsung smart TVs, go to the Smart Hub menu > Settings > Support and look for Terms & Policy, then disable SyncPlus and Marketing. You can disable Voice Recognition Services in this section, too.
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A few other simple options could be impractical, such as disconnecting your smart appliances from the internet. This renders gadgets that rely on an internet connection, like smart speakers or the web features of smart TVs, useless and may not be a viable option for most people.
In 2010, the Human Media Lab, with Arizona State University, developed the world's first functional flexible smartphone, PaperPhone. It pioneered bend interactions and was first shown to the public at ACM CHI 2011 in Vancouver.[2]
Breaking all the anticipation and waiting, Samsung is ready to redefine the smartphone experience with their new launch of Samsung Galaxy S4. Adding to the range of Galaxy series, Samsung Galaxy S4 is receiving glowing reviews from all corners. Samsung's next superphone has got a 5-inch Super AMOLED screen display and a superfast quad-core 1.9 GHz Snapdragon 600 processor.
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Both Air Gesture and Smart Screen are fairly easy to use, and Samsung provides instructions on how and when to use each of them. They didn't feel intuitive to the smartphone experience, though, and they only worked properly when my face was just the right distance from the device. We can't help but feel like they'd be more useful on a tablet. Both Air Gesture and the various "Smart" features can be toggled on and off from the Quick settings menu.
On the one hand, it wasn't necessary for Samsung to package all of its own applications with the stock Google ones. On the other hand, Samsung has made some of its own applications truly useful; for instance, the company gives you the ability to track your phone if you lose it without forcing you to download and set up a third-party app. Samsung has also included apps that integrate with the devices you already have in your house, like your television and your computer. And while the company's overall "life companion" motto is pure marketing cheese, it's obvious that this is exactly what Samsung is trying to achieve with its handset lineup. The S 4 starts with features like the ability to simplify the Android Home page for, say, an elderly parent who is just hopping on the smartphone bandwagon. The company's goal is made clearer with the inclusion of applications like S Health, which lets you forgo buying a third-party gadget like the FitBit so you can stick with Samsung to track your wellness.
But there is a downside to all this. Samsung may be attempting to achieve for the Android-using public what Apple did with the iPhone. It's going to make it easy to use for anyone who wants to use the Android platform, and it's also going to include all of the features any person would ever want to use on a smartphone to attract those newcomers. But this is what causes application bloat, and it's why some Android users are so attracted to stock Android or Google's Nexus device lineup. To be fair, Samsung isn't the only company doing this. It's an issue that plagues many Android handsets across OEMs, but it would be nice if the company that's manufacturing such a popular line of handsets would pull the reins back on its Android takeover.
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