Samsung Introduces the Galaxy S4 in Bangladesh

Samsung Electronics Bangladesh has announced the latest innovation of Samsung, the Samsung GALAXY S4, together with the country’s leading telecom operator GrameenPhone on 18 May, 2013. This amazing device is designed to get the users closer to what matters in life and bring their world together.

Sanghwa Song, General Manager, Hasan Mehdi, Head of Mobile, Samsung Electronics Bangladesh, Latifur Rahman, Chairman of Transcom Group, Arshad Huq, COO of Transcom Mobile Ltd. and Michael Malvebo, Director and Head of Product and Commercial of Grameenphone were present at the event.

Understanding what matters most in life, the Samsung GALAXY S4 was developed to redefine living and to maximize the fulfilment of life. This sleek and innovative smartphone makes every moment of life very meaningful; it understands the value of relationships, enabling true connections with friends and family. It believes in the importance of an effortless user experience, making life easy and hassle-free.

To ensure greater convenience for the customers, Samsung and Grameenphone will jointly come together to introduce a very unique offer.

Now let’s take a deep dive into the details of Samsung Galaxy S4:

Meaningful Moments - Gives Greater Enjoyment

The beauty of the phone is the highly crafted design encompassing a larger screen size and battery, minimized bezel; all housed in a light (130g) and slim (7.9mm) shape. The Samsung GALAXY S4 is slimmer yet stronger, with less to hold yet more to see. Powered by Android 4.2.2 and 1.6 GHz Octa Core (Exynos 5) processor, it has come up with simply unreal beauty. At launch, two color options will be available - Black Mist and White Frost.

A rich life is one that’s filled with meaningful moments and the GALAXY S4 captures and shares those special moments. The GALAXY S4 has Full HD Super AMOLED display to showcase images at their very best. Its 5-inch large screen has 441ppi for stunning viewing quality. The Samsung GALAXY S4 also utilizes Corning’s new Gorilla Glass 3, making it a durable travel companion for all of life’s adventures.

Equipped with a 13 megapixel rear camera, the GALAXY S4 also boasts a ‘Dual Camera’ function that allows simultaneous use of both rear and front cameras (2 megapixels). When capturing moments, users can choose from a variety of frame effects which blend the two pictures naturally and also adjust the size of the small picture inside the big one. Users can select 8 different ways to combine the two photos taken by the front camera and the rear camera. At the same time, the ‘Dual Video Call’ function enables users to make and receive a video call with friends and family while showing what they are looking at during the call.

True Connections – Brings People Together

With its ‘Group Play’ function, users can enjoy music, photos, documents and games with those around them without even requiring a Wi-Fi AP or cellular signal. This innovative feature enables users to connect directly with others to share, play and co-create content and entertainment instantly. Its ‘Share Music’ option allows users to have the same song playing on multiple phones in sync to create the best party atmosphere.

The GALAXY S4 brings all people closer together by breaking down language barriers. It makes international travel a joy, with ‘S Translator’ which provides instant translation, using text or voice translation on applications including email, text message and ChatON. This instant translation is possible both from speech to text and text to speech and ensures that you can rely on the correct information whilst abroad.

Effortless Experience - Makes Things More Convenient

In today’s world, options are being looked upon for smart ways to make life easier and less stressful. The GALAXY S4 ensures that tasks are effortless with innovative features that detect user’s face, voice and motions to enable screen control with no need for finger touch activation.

‘Samsung Smart Pause’ enables users to control the screen by where they look. When users are watching a video, the video pauses when they look away then it starts right up again when they are back. ‘Samsung Smart Scroll’ allows scrolling the browser or emails up and down without touching the screen. It recognizes user’s face looking at the screen and movement of wrist and then scroll the pages up or down accordingly.

‘Air View’ allows users to hover with their fingers to preview the content of an email, S Planner, image gallery or video without having to open it. Users can even see a magnified view on the internet browser, or a phone number saved in the speed dial on the keypad. With ‘Air Gesture’, they can change the music track, scroll up and down a web page, or accept a call with a wave of hand. 

With ‘S Voice Drive’ users can activate commands via voice control for optimization when driving. Once connected with a car Bluetooth, the phone automatically turns into driving mode converting text to speech so users can easily and safely check messages with no need to look at the screen.

‘Samsung Optical Reader’ makes life yet more effortless, by automatically recognizing text, a business card or QR code information, and providing useful functions such as translation, call, text message and search.

Empowered Living - Takes Care Of Health and Quality of Life

The GALAXY S4 empowers user’s life by keeping them up-to-date with health and wellbeing information using the new ‘S Health’ software. The combination of sensors built within the device systematically and automatically monitors a user’s health, surroundings and so much more to help improve quality of life. Also, users can easily check their health conditions using food diary, exercise diary and sleep monitor to stay fit and healthy.

Apart from these out of the world innovations, Samsung Galaxy S4 also offers basic but useful features like built in 16 GB memory (extendable up to 64 GB), 2 GB LPDDR3 RAM and a long lasting 2600 mAH battery.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 has been priced at BDT 67,500 in Bangladesh and available in selected Grameenphone Centers and Samsung Smartphone Café nationwide