The Nexus 4, on the other hand, costs $349, so there's a substantial difference in pricing. The Samsung Galaxy S4 unlocked will cost you anywhere up to around $800. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition will be available through Google Play for $649 (£425) unlocked on 26 June, so will work on all networks.
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The SGS4 GE will likely be the pure Android storage king. However - and this is a significant point - like the conventional version the SGS4 Google Edition will let you expand the memory via microSD, something that Google's own Nexus 4 won't let you do. Of course, the regular SGS4 comes with options for 32 or 64GB as well, which you'll not get here. With the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition ditching the software, you'll probably get more like 13GB to use.
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Yes, Samsung's software eats a huge chunk. The Samsung Galaxy S4 has been criticised because, although the internal memory is 16GB, you get only 9GB to actually use. That means that when there's a new version or feature in Android, like Android 4.3 or the rumoured next interation Key Lime Pie, you'll be able to get it, without waiting for Samsung as you will with the regular SGS4. Samsung isn't the worst when it comes to pushing out updates, but Google has said that the SGS4 Google Edition will get timely updates, just like the Google Nexus devices. S Beam will become straight Beam, there will be no S Voice, no smart stay or smart scroll, no S Health.
That means everything will look like Android, behave like Android, just as Google intended. The SGS4 Google Edition dumps the lot, landing with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. It changes just about everything visually, as well as bringing a huge range of features to the device. This is the biggest difference: the SGS4 comes with Samsung's user interface layered over the top.
Will there be an eye scroll? Will it work? It will certainly be the center of attention.įollow me on Twitter or join me on Facebook.SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT 1. There's not much sexy left now that Apple has music and movies and Google has YouTube. Samsung is chiefly a manufacturing company but the innovation race is all about integrating services. Given Samsung's extensive operations in the medical sector this would seem a more substantive route for it to explore right now. On the other hand Samsung is rumored to have some kind of medical monitoring service up its sleeve. But it looks more likely that the technology is in its infancy and will require users to train the system, and be patient with its errors. That's about where it stands for a feature that might make the S4 a stellar success. And it turns out that Samsung has registered a trade mark "eye scroll". A staffer at Samsung leaked the feature to the New York Times last week. Information about eye-scroll in the S 4 comes from two sources. Nokia in fact announced, in 2010, that it was working on eye-scrolling software for mobile phones but has never announced being near to a commercialized product. Still, it shows the Koreans have a track history, as does the video pause facility in the S3. They are intended for people with degenerative diseases.
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On the other hand, a small group of Samsung engineers has been working on medical applications of eye tracking, using open source code from Eyecan and the Not Impossible Foundation. But who is Samsung's provider? None of these companies acknowledge a partnership on eye scroll with Samsung on their websites.Īnother market leader, SMI, perhaps the most advanced research-led company in the space, carries no information about a partnership with Samsung on its website either. LG and EON Reality both released screen-based, glasses-free, eye tracking products in 2011. The commercialization of what some people call gaze control is led by Swedish company Tobii but they were only at the stage of a prototype tablet with NTT DoCoMo in 2012, anticipating a commercial launch in 2014/2015.Įxtremetech recently pointed out that Tobii's device is far too large to fit into a smartphone (see this Economist piece on eye tracking for more background).
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