Samsung Galaxy S4 – is £630 too much for a phone?

I’ve had a Samsung galaxy for 2 years and changed to iPhone 5 2 weeks ago. I much prefer the iphone: more responsive, smaller, lighter, better battery life, can operate with one hand, simpler to use, cooperates with my ipad via iCloud. But I appreciate that some may prefer a bigger display or lower price…each to his own.

You are comparing a 2009 phone to a 2012 device.

so specs dont matter to you? you dont mind spending a close enough amount on a vastly inferior product because of the apple brand?

i have owned a htc desire(first android phone) galaxy s iphone 4 and then the galaxy nexus and i havent experienced any of the above issues. I watch movies on my tv at home i just prefer higher resolutions where i can remember all that marketing crap jobs was saying about the iphone 4 had a retina screen with a resolution higher than the eye can perceive but you will notice a sharper texts etc. The iphone 5 has 1136×640 resolution 326 ppi while the galaxy s4 is 1920 by 1080p with a ppi of 440. Why not get more for your money? you say that andoird phones are like “exotic cars” but apple stuff are priced like them for incremental updates(and overpriced for more memory)

why? because the note 3 will be out? the gs4 will still be an amazing phone. I mean if its too pricey for you; you could always go for a motorola defy for 50 quid

you could have got alot more features etc for the same price. What phone did you get?

fair enough but most smart phones have a pinch to zoom feature

but wouldnt you prefer one device that does the job of you phone, tablet etc in one great package? this phone is around the price of the latest ipad but is many times more powerful(benchmarks prove this) the definition is also several times higher than the “better than the eye can receive all powerful retina display” and its an oled screen meaning organic light emitting diode which uses less power and has great colour reproduction. The higher definition and 5 inch screen means that you will be more than fine.

if you bought an ordinary latptop for about 500 and this phone you would have saved yourself over a grand easily and you would have much better specs and would be able to do more But hey it’s your god given right to spend money on insanely overpriced junk that is made by a company that steals ideas rebrands them and sues other companies. Seriously apple behaves like they are in ibms position. ibm puts insane amounts in r and d and other companies have used their stuff but no lawsuits. While apple on the other hand literately invented the concept of the aluminium unibody and the firewire port(only about 10% of people remember what that it is). No other company did unibody construction before apple because of how wasteful it is(the end user needs to replace the entire device if things go wrong)

one allows you to expand the memory the other doesnt the htc one “ultra pixel” camera produces over processed pictures which reviewers are saying tanked. Btw the iphone 5 cost £142 to build(64gb model and roughly 20 pounds between sizes yet massive retail difference) the htc one build price hasnt been released yet but doubt its different. Unibody construction is incredibly wasteful and gives you less in terms of control when fixing it(you need to replace the whole thing)

32gb more than enough for myself and most others. The issue with over processed photos has already been rectified in the next firmware. My last three phones have been the iphone 4, the S2 and then the S3 and while i like the spec of the S4, My htc one is on another level. I honestly don’t believe £630 is justifiable when phones that are just as good if not better are available for £120+ cheaper. But that’s just my opinion.