Samsung Galaxy S4 Active – UK Price and Release Date
Samsung officially announced the Galaxy S4 Active this month and we have fresh informations (including price and release date) about the latest member in the Galaxy S4 family. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Active was a long rumored somartphone, but now that it is officially announced we have more information about it. As you know, this smartphone is aimed at outdoorsy persons, being the water and dust proof version of the Galaxy S4. It will be released in the United States and Sweden this summer but we don`t have any (official) information about its price.
Release date
The exact release date hasn`t been revealed by Samsung, but the online retail company, Clove pointed out that Samsung will release the new smartphone on the 1st of July.
UK Price
The same online retailer Clove made the price of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active public. On the Clove`s web site the Korean company’s latest smartphone is listed for £488 inc VAT, for the 16 GB internal memory version, in “dive blue”.
JK Shin, CEO and President of IT & Mobile Communications at Samsung, declared that: “The Galaxy S4 Active is the newest addition to the Galaxy series and is purposefully designed for active users who love the outdoors [...]“. he also added that “Samsung has taken the innovative features of the Galaxy S4 and added breakthrough protective design elements to create a device that thrives in an active environment and is built for a lifestyle of travel and exploration“.
Specs
The specs of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active are identical with Samsung Galaxy S4′s specs, but it has a full sealed design, very much alike Sony Xperia Z’s design. The Galaxy S4 Active is dustproof and waterproof with an IP67 rating – which means that it can stay in water for 30 minutes at a depth of approximately one meter. Samsung S4 Active also has a water resistant headphone jack.
As we just mentioned in the above paragraph, the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active has the same specifications as the Samsung Galaxy S4, except the rear camera: the Galaxy S4 Active has an 8 MP camera which represents a downgrade from the Galaxy S4′s 13 MP camera. The other specs are the same as the Galaxy S4′s: a 5 inch Full HD touchscreen with the TFT technology rather than SuperAMOLED tech (but the compromise had to be made due to the Galaxy S4 Active’s robust build). The CPU is the same 1.9 GHz quad core that you can find in the Samsung Galaxy S4.
The operating system that the Galaxy S4 Active will come with is Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 with some software features that the Galaxy S4 also has, such as: Air Gesture, Air View, Smart Pause and Smart Scroll. The networks that the Samsung S4 Active will be supporting are: NFC, 11.ac Wi-Fi and 4G LTE.
The only thing that keeps Samsung Galaxy S4 on top is its 13 MP rear camera, as otherwise, even if the Galaxy S4 Active is the more robust version of the two, it could have been the top one.
