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[Stemo]

Finally decided that my galaxy S was a bit old and got an S4 last week. Been having a play with it since and, apart from it being much bigger, I can't see a lot of difference. It does all this near field communication stuff and has lots more pre-loaded, useless apps, but the actual phone/camera/ texting/email bits are almost exactly the same. Disappointed.

[Stemo]

Oh yeah, and the battery life is shite.

[cam2502]

I stupidly went from an iPhone 4 to an S4. Hated it. Just didn't like the set up/ lay out and it felt cheap to me as well . Never again , so I'm back to an iPhone s4 now.

[Stemo]

I stupidly went from an iPhone 4 to an S4. Hated it. Just didn't like the set up/ lay out and it felt cheap to me as well . Never again , so I'm back to an iPhone s4 now.

I'm very old so please explain. Is that an iPhone s4 or an iPhone 4s? 

[cam2502]

It's been a long day.... iPhone 4s

[PhilRich]

Can I have your 'old' Galaxy Steve
Me & swmbo have just been dragged into the Modern Age with a LCD flat screen TV courtesy of our Eldest and he reckons it's time to pension off our Samsung G600

[Entwood]

mmm just been "upgraded" by fodaphone from an HTC one V to a Galaxy S4 mini .. but the monthly outgoings dropped by £7 a month !!!

'Tis a little strange in the way it does some things, but that's a matter of getting used to it methinks ...Only thing I don't like, so far, is I can't seem to get individual shortcuts to different e-mail accounts, I have to use a single "e-mail" selection and then go to whichever account I want to read... HTC was better in that regard..

At least the S4 mini is a reasonable size ... it seems that mobile phones are now going back to being the size of bricks !!

[Marks DTM Calib]

S4 is a very good phone, fantastic display, best in the business by some distance.

Beware of some of the standard apps installed though, the text messenger app is dodgy as it will auto convert long texts into MMS which costs (plenty of options out there to use instead (e.g. Go SMS Pro)). Keyboard could be better (most cope with it) but Swiftkey is a good alternative.

Plenty of alternative email options to which support what you want.

[Gaffers]

Agreed, the S4 is easily one of the best phones on the market.  Additedly it wont be everyone's cup of tea but I am considering not upgrading it when my contract end.....I dont see a need

[Stemo]

S4 is a very good phone, fantastic display, best in the business by some distance.

Beware of some of the standard apps installed though, the text messenger app is dodgy as it will auto convert long texts into MMS which costs (plenty of options out there to use instead (e.g. Go SMS Pro)). Keyboard could be better (most cope with it) but Swiftkey is a good alternative.

Plenty of alternative email options to which support what you want.

I have disabled a lot of the pre- loaded apps, despite the warnings that my phone might throw a wobbly if I did (yeah, right) and, as you can imagine, the few texts I send are very short and to the point. Actually, since I posted, I am starting to develop a relationship with it. I don't like change, but it is, as you say, a very good phone for those that know how to use it properly.
My complaint about battery life turns out to be unjustified as well. You tend to 'play' a lot with new phones, thus running it down very quickly.
I had my S for about three and a half years, so I guess I am a bit set in my ways.

[pscocoa]

You can disable the mms facility - could be expensive if you not on your guard for that. mrs was caught out with that but Orange kindly reversed the charges.

[Entwood]

OK .. all you Galaxy S4 mini experts .. odd one I can't sort ..

I've set up contacts under the "phone" side and only see the contacts on the device, as there is a selection for what contacts to view...... but under "messaging" there is no such selection so the contacts on the device show, as well as a duplicate of every single entry from the gmail backup .. and the only way I've found of removing the duplicate entry is to delete the gmail account .. which is a pain to have to keep doing.. how can I make the "messaging" contacts show just those on the device ??  can't find any selection choice anywhere ..

[Sir Tigger KC]

Can you use it to make a telephone call Uncle STEMO? 

[Stemo]

OK .. all you Galaxy S4 mini experts .. odd one I can't sort ..

I've set up contacts under the "phone" side and only see the contacts on the device, as there is a selection for what contacts to view...... but under "messaging" there is no such selection so the contacts on the device show, as well as a duplicate of every single entry from the gmail backup .. and the only way I've found of removing the duplicate entry is to delete the gmail account .. which is a pain to have to keep doing.. how can I make the "messaging" contacts show just those on the device ??  can't find any selection choice anywhere ..

Are you sure they are Gmail contacts, Nige? Just had a look at mine and all the contacts show twice but mine are not backed up to Gmail. It may just be showing all contacts, device and sim. I think this is so because a couple of recent numbers I have saved to the device, but haven't yet moved to sim, are showing only once.

[zirk]

Not a Galaxy user, so cant comment, but a friend of mine has just been upgraded to an S4 by Vodafone, had a play with it, and decided, nope not for me, and gone back to using his old trusty Galaxy SII,

Which is a shame as the SII was heading my way, in a form of a cheap hand me down.