Remember when there were rumors swirling that Samsung's next Galaxy smartphone would include eye tracking? And then Samsung held a big event and announced the new Galaxy S4 would identify facial expressions and scroll down automatically — and pause videos when users look away?
All this super-exciting stuff? Does. Not. Work.
Samsung made a big deal out of features that no one asked for and then botched them in the end.
It's a shame because the Samsung Galaxy S4 is an otherwise nice Android offering.
The unit I tested is from AT&T, which is selling the S4 at $199 with a two-year contract.
The 5-inch 1080p resolution screen is gorgeous.
The quad-core processor exudes power, and AT&T's LTE was a joy to use.
But compared to the HTC One and the iPhone 5, the Galaxy S4 can feel insubstantial.
The body is made of plastic, which doesn't inspire a ton of confidence.
The 13-megapixel camera gets the job done, but it still falls short of the picture quality and color saturation delivered by the iPhone 5.
Yet in every other way that counts, this and other new Android smartphones are increasingly making the iPhone look static and antiquated.
Still, anyone interested in this phone should disable those gimmicky features that don't work, which is easily done. Smart rotation is supposed to adjust to your angle of sight. But it only worked about half the time for me. The screen would either adjust in a way I didn't want or do nothing at all.
A smart pause feature is supposed to detect when you are facing away from the screen. That also worked about half the time. Videos you're watching will end up pausing randomly unless you disable this feature.
Smart scrolling was the worst of the gimmicks because for me, it just plain never worked. A few times a page I was reading would scroll downward before I was ready, but that was the closest I came to this function.
It boggles the mind that Samsung would enable features that are clearly in beta without labeling them as such.
As Apple has shown, it's not as important to be first with a feature as it is to have it work better than anyone else.
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