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Whats all this hate for Galaxy S4 about?


Now that the Galaxy S4 has been announced, there are two very distinct camps about it , the "wow this is great" camp and the "WTF Samsung this is an Galaxy S IIIS" camp . now i fall in the former of the two, but i know a lot of peope fall in the latter, now i must preface this with saying that i have never seen the Galaxy S4 in person i've only seen renders and Photos taken by news outlets such as The Verge and Engadget, the Galaxy S III on the other hand i have seen and handled numerous times and my girlfriend has one.

A lot of people i know have been talking about the Galaxy S4 and comparing the jump from the Galaxy S III to the Galaxy S 4 as the same type of jump between the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S, in the sense that, it's a minor upgrade that isnt really worth it, now i dont understand why this is, if you think about this spec by spec, this is much more akin to the jump betwen the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 5


visual comparrisons aside, if we look at it on  a spec to spec basis, Of course the S4 is an iterative upgrade, but its the same iterative upgrade as the iPhone 5 , they iterated on almost every component, making it better, making it faster , making its slimmer etc, if it really was the upgrade from the iPhone 4 to the 4S , samsung would have thept the same body, the same screen, the same battery and all they would have upgraded would be the SoC and the camera essentially, if they had done that, i would understand why people would be pissed, but Samsung didn't do that, they made the screen bigger, the made it (much) higher resolution, they made the camera 13MP and added some crazy ass floating gestures to accompany The newest version of Android available! they upped the RAM to 2GB, they made it thinner, they made almost every aspect of this phone better, and it does look different, yes, very slight difference that are not noticible to most people, bu atleast they didnt keep the same shell as the S III and shoe horn some new internals in, for those of you wondering, here is a little chart of the specs between the two :


for the record, if the chart looked like this, i would be pissed, and i would understand why some people call it a Galaxy S IIIS


but it doesnt, it looks like the first chart, and like i said, they are doing something that no other Android OEM is doing right now, they are launching with the newest version of Android available at the moment, Jelly Bean 4.2.2, for comparisson, the HTC One has 4.1.2 and 4.2.2 launched in mid January.

So i ask again, Why all the hate for the S4? is it because of its use of plastic? because if it is, my answer is : Really? look at a first gen iPhone with an Aluminium back now and see what a state its in, have a look at a HTC Legend and see what a state its in, same with the HTC Desire HD, the Original Motorola Milestone (DROID) my point is that whilst the plastics (Polycarbonate if you prefer to use their term) Samsung used might not feel 100% premium and worthy of a flagship, tell me how many snapped backs you have seen from an S II ,and an S III, and a Note and Note II? and all the other Hypreglaze/Plastic backed phones that samsung make? i would almost bet the Samsung looks better at the end of the 2 years, and if it doesnt, you can change the back, how crazy is that, a back cover, that you can remove and et a new one if it does so happen to break, or get scratched up and ends up so ugly you cant bear it, also, if your battery starts depleting at an Alarming rate, there is this crazy technology that lets you remove the battery, and put a new one in, or an extended one if you are going on a crazy roadtrip and wont be near a power plug anytime soon, my point is, HTC's reason for sealing the battery in is it can make the phone thinner, samsung made a slimmer phone with a bigger battery and that battery is removable, im not sure how anyone responds badly to that?

Anyway guys, sound off in the comments below if you think im an idiot, or if you think im biased towards Samsung, or think that the S4 is awesome and how dare other people be mean to your little baby, i want to hear what you guys have to say about it.

-Dom

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