I have been buyer Samsung products for close to 10 years. From TV's, Blu Ray DVD, Cameras, and now My S4. I have only had my S4 for a week, but I can go ahead and say it is the best phone I've ever had. The camera alone has more features than all the features of my last phone. My only con would be the battery life, just thought a battery of 2600mAh would last longer than 10 hours. Although that was 10 hours of constant use, this is the first battery of this size I've ever used. I will check back in a month from now to update my experience.
Pros: Bright display, Inexpensive, Lightweight, camera features
This is the BEST phone that I've had!!! I was in the market for a new phone, since I was eligible to upgrade. I had the Motorola Droid Razr; but was looking for something better.
The Galaxy S4 performs excellent, however the screen breaks easily. Many consumers have seen cracks starting from the top middle-right side of the screen under normal-use circumstance. Under careful care this is a great phone.
Many features are amazing, including the tap-transfer of images. Some features are hard to use like the auto-scroll.
We upgraded to these phones a week ago because of a special price. I had a Iphone and him just a plain old dumb phone. It took me a few days to get use to the differences between the iphone and galaxy s4. My husband on the other hand had no trouble with his phone and he never had a smartphone. I would highly recommend this phone for new smartphone users.
I loved my Galaxy S4 until it was upgraded to Android 4.3.
I use my phone a lot for texting and looking things up on the web. Android 4.3 really messed up the typing program. The program now puts in words that only it recognizes not what I type in unless I save it to my recognized words.
Had I known how bad Android 4.3 would be I would have bought an iPhone. I like the s beam options and other neat sharing features, but those do not out weigh the typing problems with Android 4.3.