The Samsung Galaxy S4 release date may not have been pinpointed, but as rumor has it, the launch window should fall sometime in April. We had revealed this piece of information earlier. However, the news that we have come up with now is that the smartphone may see its way through the market during the third week of the month.
From what we hear, the Galaxy S4 will be a part of an internal sweepstake in a mobile retail store in New Zealand. To be precise, the smartphone will be handed over as a prize to winners of the raffle. The pictures attached below denote that this program will run until April 8, which could only mean that the handset should be striking stores post the first week.
Now, there have been various speculations concerning the device, some even revealing certain specifications. For instance, it is quite possible that we might be advancing towards yet another 5 incher bearing a Super AMOLED touchscreen. Keeping pace with recent norms, the company has apparently embedded it with a 13MP main camera featuring auto focus. Moreover, the supposedly integrated quad core processor might just be based on ARM’s big-LITTLE architecture.
The handset may be optimized for the latest version of Android Jelly Bean and as far as its thickness goes, it may be only 9.2mm thin. What’s more, people could even expect an S Pen packed along with it, which as of now, has only been the heritage of the Note family. And a certain buzz about the phone including features codenamed Eye Pause and Eye Scroll has also been doing the rounds.
We know that the Samsung Galaxy S4 skipped the CES at Las Vegas last month and the guys over at Phone Arena say that it would be wise not to wish for it to be unveiled at the MWC 2013 either. The launch ought to be pegged anytime in between April 15 to 22. The website furthermore conveys that instead of NYC, it might be Silicon Valley that may witness the smartphone’s launch initially.
Let’s swiftly run through the device’s anticipated specifications:
5-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display
13MP main camera
Android 4.2 OS
Quad core Exynos 5440 processor
9.2mm thickness