I’d had a few androids and not long before it was released I’d got my hands on an s3 but as soon as I saw this phone it was so SLEEK. Like for the time,it was definitely the BLEEDING edge and I had to get it immediately. This and the Note 3 were peak Samsung. Or I would say the s4 and Note 4 but the s5 was really just a chunky s4 in my opinion. A lot of people say the S7 and phones like that were peak but I feel like that’s when they started kinda wanting to be more like Apple and I prefer them this way.
The title of this video is misleading - this is actually just a retrospective of the Galaxy S4, not an in-depth video into how the phone performs with regular usage in 2024.
Yes, the title is clickbait, but everyone knew that. You can't use an S4 in 2024 because its 2G/3G and VoLTE is required for voice and activating a phone.
@@matthewjbauer1990 In canada i can still use it with lineageos, but its incredibly show (as expected), i say the oldest phone you would want to use is maybe the s7 at the absolute lowest
@@idk7420 Yes, I know that the S4 had 4G and VoLTE and 4G but it wasn't widely implemented here in the US because it requires a VoLTE and 4G profile from the carrier which many didn't publish for that phone because when it came out, VoLTE specifically wasn't necessary.
In high school I was an LG boy all the way. One day I remember my friend whipped out her new phone and let me tell you it looked so bright and vivid. The colors legit popped. It was a galaxy S4. Say what you want about Samsung but 2011 through 2014 was peak. The galaxy S5 was when Samsung really hit their stride. Then they tripped with the S6.
@@wateriver The S6 was terrible. I think their top 3 S phones as far as bleeding edge factor would be S4,S8 and S21 ultra. Everything else has just been idk. The S10 series was nice but awkward in my opinion.
Ikr, the s6 was a horrible phone, mine would overheat like crazy by just navigating through the menus, battery life was horrible, and all the bloatware Samsung put it in there meant there was not much storage available for the user, and unlike the S4 it didn't have expandable storage, and finally, two purple lines appeared on the screen even though I never hit the screen. The s6 was just a galaxy S4 with glass back and way less features.
One of my all time favorite phones. I rocked this back in the day and swapped bstteries constantly. I dont think I ever used the charge port on the phone. Loved the S4.
The S4 was my first new smartphone. I paid it with my money and my parents added to their Verizon contract. I remember liking it but the storage I dislike because it was 16GB (if I remember correctly) and with the Samsung and Verizon bloat I had 8GB to play with. Then I learned you can disable some bloat and move apps to SD card by default made it a really good phone. To this day my favorite case is the SView and saw they still making some for S24 Ultra and half tempting getting it
The galaxy s4 with that amoled 1080p display aghhh. I’ll never forget going into sprint and pixel peeping like godDAMN. I busted my ASS and worked a few weekends and bought one off Craigslist for probably 350 at the time idk. I remember proclaiming that phone as my best friend 🤣 that was the phone that launched me into the dark next 7 years of absolute phone addiction where I would go out to eat with all my friends and be the person who just blandly talks but never actually stops messaging and checking instagram 🤣 kinda bittersweet but this phone compared to most other options at the time was ADDICTIVE.
This was the greatest smartphone of it's time .. Was my favorite still my favorite in Sammys book Mu Favorite galaxy list S4, s7edge , note 8 ,s9 plus , s10 plus and my current note 20 ultra
There’s was black edition S4 which had the faux leather back as that year’s Note also had. I bought a replacement black edition back and put it on my regular S4. Fixed the glossy and slippery issue
I had this phone with the S View cover and I remember when I turned it on for the first time and I was shocked by the screen. It was so vivid and bright
I remember getting my Galaxy S4 32GB at that time on launch day, got it in this exact colour (Black Mist), absolutely enjoyed using it. I came from a S3 and the S4 was a very nice setup up, especially in terms of Battery Life, Screen Quality and RAM as the S3 (i9300 Exynos) had come with too little (1GB), the S4 landed with 2GB RAM along with that Exynos Octa Core chip and significantly larger battery. The big thing for me was the move from HD720P screen on S3 to S4’s FullHD1080P panel which was just spectacular, it is actually insane the jumps that were being made in display tech, chips, memory etc…around this time, also the absolute absurd amount of sensors Samsung put in the S4 some of which were removed in succeeding models. What I loved about Samsung around this time was how aggressive they were in implementing many features, throwing everything at the wall, throwing a big battery, a top of the line screen and still selling at a decent price. These devices were also so well built from an ergonomics point of view, “big” at the time but soooo easy to hold and use. This was an amazing time in Mobile, so glad I was able to love through it and enjoy it 😄 I eventually moved the following year to a Galaxy Note 4 which was another level of beast as well.
I remember I was working at T mobile at the time a ran like two likes when I got the call my all white S4 came in from the employee purchase thing those was the days all cell phones looked different
I agree 💯 and it was my second smartphone. My first was a Sony Xperia Ray which was only 3.3 inch and going to the S4 with 5 inch was a huge leap back in the day. 😂
That was a great commercial actually! I remember upgrading my S3 to S4 and it felt like a big update! I had a metal case that screwed together made it feel like a tank!
My second smartphone… my bestie and I both had one and we LOVED beaming things… it’s the one thing we miss the most out of any phone today… I wish they would really go crazy and bring it back
4:43 Well my dad had a S4 and he bought it from Korea.That phone's back had leather kind of texture if I'm correct and also it had an actual antenna like wth.
Feature where you could record yourself while recording with back camera was eventually reintroduced around 2020 or 2021 , can't remember exactly , but is a good way to video blog things without needing two separate devices. I'm guessing that some 3rd party camera software kept it alive in a mean time , but it's neat feature to have , when you need it. Also , S4 had feature if the phone rings and you turn the screen to face any surface , it'll silent the phone and if already on the screen , it'll assume that you want it to be silent. I found that feature very useful , but , depending on the phone case and did it utilize gyro to be able to tell if you wanted it silent , I can also see it being a bad thing in some cases where you didn't want to accidentally miss the very important call.
those days of my samsung galaxy s3 , then samsung galaxy s4, and now my samsung galaxy s10 plus......lets see which one will i have next.......nice to see.....
Both S4 and Note 4 were amazing devices. Sure, the Note 4 shared components with the S5, but the S5 never felt as such a large step as the S4 was over the S3.
It truly is and the 6 set a new emphasis on design aesthetic and 8 was the next inflection point no button bigger screen. Then the 10 to today were just refinements. But the 4 was truly ahead of its time.
I loved my Galaxy S4, but I switched to Apple after. It was my last Android phone. The reason behind that is simply the years and years of software support. I keep my phones for at least 3 years.
The 1st real Smartphone I ever used was an S4 Active I got at a job 2014. Parallel to that for personal use, I was using a Moto G4 or G5 and there was no comparison. But I am cheap and to this day, I buy all my phones unlocked on cash, sometimes refurb if needed for price. I wish there is a phone made by Samsung or Moto the size of an S4 that has a 4k 90Hz+ display that is decently fast. I'd buy it in a heartbeat as most phones except for flips are too big for me.
Dang.. I used the thermometer and humidity sensor almost daily on this thing. I was outside often in college band and Boy Scouts so I wanted to know the temperature without having to go through a weather app.
Phones were exciting until 2015. After that they all became boring. Im using an 13 Pro Max and sometimes i remember the good old days when I had the iPhone 2G, 3G or the first Galaxy S or HTC Magic. Even the Custom Rom Scene back than was way more active than today.
I had SII it broke with 6 months. I stuck with Motorola for nearly 20 years after that. It wasn't till last year where I was done with Motorola, and returned to Samsung.
I mean it literally was my first ever real smartphone… I dont count that weird LG thing I had before… After that I had 2 Samsung S5 ( lost my first) , then I got my dads S7 Edge when that was already Old ( yes I used a S5 for waay too long probably) , then The edge Dropped and bye bye screen… 2 years with an LG velvet later and that thing was struggeling to keep up with what I wanted to do with it… so I finally said: screw it, Lets just spend big One time and be done for the next years! And thats how I got my Iphone 13 Pro Max. Well I have a 16 now but that was basically just because I really WANTED that for its 8 gigs of Ram … The 4 gigs kinda started to annoy me in small ways( I didnt even want it for AI, just for… you know, the RAM itself…) and yes, doubling the RAM IS very much noticable…obviously…
went from s4 to s6 then back to note 3 and the note 3 was a tank it survived everything bucket full of vodka being drenched in puke used as a soccer ball used as a frisbee against the wall dont ask why i was stupid back then
I tried using it with lineage os 18, but RUclips was lagging while watching 720p60FPS, SO it's unusable for me. Maybe you have snapdragon version, exynos version is really unusable nowadays. Samsung Galaxy s7 thought... THAT'S THE PHONE. I still watch RUclips on in when my main phone is charging.1080p60FPS at 2x speed? No problem for s7, and that display is just gorgeous 😍
S4 was my second ever smartphone. (1st being the iPhone 4S) And this phone was wayyyyy ahead of its time. It will forever hold a place in my heart.
I’d had a few androids and not long before it was released I’d got my hands on an s3 but as soon as I saw this phone it was so SLEEK. Like for the time,it was definitely the BLEEDING edge and I had to get it immediately. This and the Note 3 were peak Samsung. Or I would say the s4 and Note 4 but the s5 was really just a chunky s4 in my opinion. A lot of people say the S7 and phones like that were peak but I feel like that’s when they started kinda wanting to be more like Apple and I prefer them this way.
Really agree with this! A heck of a beast phone during that time
A legendary phone. Back in the early mobile days it was ahead of its time. Features that iPhone didn't have like a 5 inch screen.
The title of this video is misleading - this is actually just a retrospective of the Galaxy S4, not an in-depth video into how the phone performs with regular usage in 2024.
Yes, the title is clickbait, but everyone knew that. You can't use an S4 in 2024 because its 2G/3G and VoLTE is required for voice and activating a phone.
@@matthewjbauer1990 In canada i can still use it with lineageos, but its incredibly show (as expected), i say the oldest phone you would want to use is maybe the s7 at the absolute lowest
@idk7420 my backup phone for authentication purposes still works but is very slow, s6 edge
@@idk7420 Yes, I know that the S4 had 4G and VoLTE and 4G but it wasn't widely implemented here in the US because it requires a VoLTE and 4G profile from the carrier which many didn't publish for that phone because when it came out, VoLTE specifically wasn't necessary.
Thanks.. I thought it had Custom Rom in 2024
In high school I was an LG boy all the way. One day I remember my friend whipped out her new phone and let me tell you it looked so bright and vivid. The colors legit popped. It was a galaxy S4. Say what you want about Samsung but 2011 through 2014 was peak. The galaxy S5 was when Samsung really hit their stride. Then they tripped with the S6.
@@wateriver The S6 was terrible. I think their top 3 S phones as far as bleeding edge factor would be S4,S8 and S21 ultra. Everything else has just been idk. The S10 series was nice but awkward in my opinion.
I miss my note 10, and I personally loved the s6 edge
Ikr, the s6 was a horrible phone, mine would overheat like crazy by just navigating through the menus, battery life was horrible, and all the bloatware Samsung put it in there meant there was not much storage available for the user, and unlike the S4 it didn't have expandable storage, and finally, two purple lines appeared on the screen even though I never hit the screen.
The s6 was just a galaxy S4 with glass back and way less features.
S5 overheated
The s6 is just like a galaxy s7 lite or a s5 with better cpu and more ram and more premium design but with less features
Last time I was this early, the Galaxy S4 was brand new
That was so funny I forgot to laugh
That phone still has a beautiful display!
20 million units sold in 2 months is unheard of today
I just watched your 2021 S4 video this morning, perfect timing 😂
One of my all time favorite phones. I rocked this back in the day and swapped bstteries constantly. I dont think I ever used the charge port on the phone. Loved the S4.
The S4 was my first new smartphone. I paid it with my money and my parents added to their Verizon contract. I remember liking it but the storage I dislike because it was 16GB (if I remember correctly) and with the Samsung and Verizon bloat I had 8GB to play with. Then I learned you can disable some bloat and move apps to SD card by default made it a really good phone.
To this day my favorite case is the SView and saw they still making some for S24 Ultra and half tempting getting it
I was in the first 10 people in my country trying it. I loved it.
The galaxy s4 with that amoled 1080p display aghhh. I’ll never forget going into sprint and pixel peeping like godDAMN. I busted my ASS and worked a few weekends and bought one off Craigslist for probably 350 at the time idk. I remember proclaiming that phone as my best friend 🤣 that was the phone that launched me into the dark next 7 years of absolute phone addiction where I would go out to eat with all my friends and be the person who just blandly talks but never actually stops messaging and checking instagram 🤣 kinda bittersweet but this phone compared to most other options at the time was ADDICTIVE.
This was the greatest smartphone of it's time ..
Was my favorite still my favorite in Sammys book
Mu Favorite galaxy list
S4, s7edge , note 8 ,s9 plus , s10 plus and my current note 20 ultra
There’s was black edition S4 which had the faux leather back as that year’s Note also had. I bought a replacement black edition back and put it on my regular S4. Fixed the glossy and slippery issue
miss the era when samsung literaly caters to everyone, they had the J, Young, or the Ace series (the smallest one) its like what nokia tried to do
They still do. In fact they've got so many variants of phones in the A series range that hits every price point it's confusing.
@@jonfreeman9682 A and M series, but everything looks all the same
Love for s4..big time love...Touchwizz awsome(my opionion)
Those true to life effects awsome.
I had this phone. My mum had it as her first smart phone. My first one was an S3then I got an S4.
I had this phone with the S View cover and I remember when I turned it on for the first time and I was shocked by the screen. It was so vivid and bright
I remember getting my Galaxy S4 32GB at that time on launch day, got it in this exact colour (Black Mist), absolutely enjoyed using it.
I came from a S3 and the S4 was a very nice setup up, especially in terms of Battery Life, Screen Quality and RAM as the S3 (i9300 Exynos) had come with too little (1GB), the S4 landed with 2GB RAM along with that Exynos Octa Core chip and significantly larger battery.
The big thing for me was the move from HD720P screen on S3 to S4’s FullHD1080P panel which was just spectacular, it is actually insane the jumps that were being made in display tech, chips, memory etc…around this time, also the absolute absurd amount of sensors Samsung put in the S4 some of which were removed in succeeding models.
What I loved about Samsung around this time was how aggressive they were in implementing many features, throwing everything at the wall, throwing a big battery, a top of the line screen and still selling at a decent price. These devices were also so well built from an ergonomics point of view, “big” at the time but soooo easy to hold and use.
This was an amazing time in Mobile, so glad I was able to love through it and enjoy it 😄 I eventually moved the following year to a Galaxy Note 4 which was another level of beast as well.
I remember I was working at T mobile at the time a ran like two likes when I got the call my all white S4 came in from the employee purchase thing those was the days all cell phones looked different
The Galaxy S4 was my first Samsung phone and it holds a special place in my heart. Ever since I have only used Samsung phones as my main devices!
I agree 💯 and it was my second smartphone. My first was a Sony Xperia Ray which was only 3.3 inch and going to the S4 with 5 inch was a huge leap back in the day. 😂
I just LOVED my S4... Had a chinese clone for 2 years, then bought the original used. This was one of the best phones i ever had.
That was a great commercial actually! I remember upgrading my S3 to S4 and it felt like a big update! I had a metal case that screwed together made it feel like a tank!
My second smartphone… my bestie and I both had one and we LOVED beaming things… it’s the one thing we miss the most out of any phone today… I wish they would really go crazy and bring it back
Good vid I want see u Making vids in 2036
Plan is to make them until 2091, then retire
😂
4:43 Well my dad had a S4 and he bought it from Korea.That phone's back had leather kind of texture if I'm correct and also it had an actual antenna like wth.
man bring back memory even though i dont hve this phone 😂
I loved this phone, I still have a copy and it still works^^ Great video!
Hi Josh can you do a review of the note 9 or note 10 in the future?
First android phone I ever got. Granted it didn't last as much as I hoped but I loved it
Even though this phone is no longer updated. But the custom roms can help the Galaxy S4 run well and start a new life
But it never runs smooth with custom ROMs because the chip isn't powerful enough.
@@jonfreeman9682 not true
My Samsung galaxy S4 is 10 years old. It works perfectly.
Love this phone so much back in the day.
I went from a Blackberry to this exact phone and this thing just blew me away.
Feature where you could record yourself while recording with back camera was eventually reintroduced around 2020 or 2021 , can't remember exactly , but is a good way to video blog things without needing two separate devices. I'm guessing that some 3rd party camera software kept it alive in a mean time , but it's neat feature to have , when you need it. Also , S4 had feature if the phone rings and you turn the screen to face any surface , it'll silent the phone and if already on the screen , it'll assume that you want it to be silent. I found that feature very useful , but , depending on the phone case and did it utilize gyro to be able to tell if you wanted it silent , I can also see it being a bad thing in some cases where you didn't want to accidentally miss the very important call.
those days of my samsung galaxy s3 , then samsung galaxy s4, and now my samsung galaxy s10 plus......lets see which one will i have next.......nice to see.....
I loved this phone!!’
Best looking Samsung phone with a bezel, followed by the S6 in my opinion.
Note 7
Both S4 and Note 4 were amazing devices. Sure, the Note 4 shared components with the S5, but the S5 never felt as such a large step as the S4 was over the S3.
Watching this on my s23 now. Where has the time gone?
the Galaxy S6 feels much more like the successor to the Galaxy S4
Exactly s6 was the successor of the s4
And s7 edge the true successor of s5
It truly is and the 6 set a new emphasis on design aesthetic and 8 was the next inflection point no button bigger screen. Then the 10 to today were just refinements. But the 4 was truly ahead of its time.
I loved my Galaxy S4, but I switched to Apple after. It was my last Android phone. The reason behind that is simply the years and years of software support. I keep my phones for at least 3 years.
I've had 3 Samsungs: Galaxy J1 Ace, Galaxy S8, Galaxy A52, and I've liked them better than the alternatives.
Goodness I loved this phone and it's feature set it was one of my dream phones when it dropped
The 1st real Smartphone I ever used was an S4 Active I got at a job 2014. Parallel to that for personal use, I was using a Moto G4 or G5 and there was no comparison. But I am cheap and to this day, I buy all my phones unlocked on cash, sometimes refurb if needed for price. I wish there is a phone made by Samsung or Moto the size of an S4 that has a 4k 90Hz+ display that is decently fast. I'd buy it in a heartbeat as most phones except for flips are too big for me.
this is my first samsung phone 😅 and now on S24U ❤
It would be kinda cool to compare the main camera of this phone or a old flagship phone to a new flagship's selfie camera:D
Still my favourite phone till this day. I miss my Purple galaxy s4
I like how you started using persona 4 music I just noticed it
It's still the most iconic phone I've ever used
Dang.. I used the thermometer and humidity sensor almost daily on this thing. I was outside often in college band and Boy Scouts so I wanted to know the temperature without having to go through a weather app.
The MOST SOLD Android EVERRR!!!
Sold more than even the S3. Yes.
watched ur S5 review earlier, are you on a marathon to review all galaxy phones in descending order ... down to the S1 ?
Those were the fun days of Android in general.
Samsung should bring back air gestures and the IR blaster. 2 features I miss the most on galaxy.
This was also one of last generation of smartphones with a removable battery
My grandpa loves this phone very very much and he is still using it. It's his sixth galaxy s4😅
Edit: And his 12. Battery
Josh, find a European model S9+. Peak Samsung in a lot of ways. Plus with the correct ROM, you can make it run Galaxy AI
I miss the "the next big thing is here" tagline, That was Samsung at their best
Phones were exciting until 2015. After that they all became boring. Im using an 13 Pro Max and sometimes i remember the good old days when I had the iPhone 2G, 3G or the first Galaxy S or HTC Magic. Even the Custom Rom Scene back than was way more active than today.
my father still use it .. although i have to install custom rom on it so that apps will still work upto this day
My third ever smartphone, first being a Nokia, then LG G3, then this.
I had SII it broke with 6 months. I stuck with Motorola for nearly 20 years after that. It wasn't till last year where I was done with Motorola, and returned to Samsung.
This was my first Galaxy. It was a nice phone but good god my battery life was HORRIBLE
But I remember the camera shutter was sooooooo slow. Took like 3-4 seconds to take a single photo in compared to my iPhone 5
All the sensors my adhd loves sensors😂 I need to buy this phone just because
Sheesh how does your videos look so pretty like that?
My mother had this while my father had the iPhone 5.
I loved this phone
This phone got longer Android support than the Galaxy Note 3 that came out 6 months later
I mean it literally was my first ever real smartphone… I dont count that weird LG thing I had before… After that I had 2 Samsung S5 ( lost my first) , then I got my dads S7 Edge when that was already Old ( yes I used a S5 for waay too long probably) , then The edge Dropped and bye bye screen…
2 years with an LG velvet later and that thing was struggeling to keep up with what I wanted to do with it… so I finally said: screw it, Lets just spend big One time and be done for the next years! And thats how I got my Iphone 13 Pro Max.
Well I have a 16 now but that was basically just because I really WANTED that for its 8 gigs of Ram … The 4 gigs kinda started to annoy me in small ways( I didnt even want it for AI, just for… you know, the RAM itself…) and yes, doubling the RAM IS very much noticable…obviously…
💯🔥
I Love Samsung Phones
went from s4 to s6 then back to note 3 and the note 3 was a tank it survived everything bucket full of vodka being drenched in puke used as a soccer ball used as a frisbee against the wall dont ask why i was stupid back then
Please upload every week 🥺
Did bro just call a 5 inch screen phone a phablet 😂
I typed this comment and watched this video on my S4 With lineage OS 21
I tried using it with lineage os 18, but RUclips was lagging while watching 720p60FPS, SO it's unusable for me. Maybe you have snapdragon version, exynos version is really unusable nowadays. Samsung Galaxy s7 thought... THAT'S THE PHONE. I still watch RUclips on in when my main phone is charging.1080p60FPS at 2x speed? No problem for s7, and that display is just gorgeous 😍
Can you do a review on the s20 in 2024?
I had one 🤣
I hope you made sure to use the air gesture features as much as possible
GT-I9506 S4 used a Snapdragon 800
Droid DNA was the first phone with 1080p not Samsung
Had that phone and it overheats a lot. Overheating ended that phone. 😅😅😅
Do the note series
I have this phone back then now my granny use it
I miss external storage. When Samsung did away with it made me switch to iPhone…
Now make a video about using a samsung galaxy mega 6.2 in 2024
think my mom had one of these lmaoo
Bring back the ir blaster
I miss that UI look.
Persona 5 music in the background
So I guess next is the S3
The real phablet was the galaxy mega
Now why would you use one in this time
Galaxy, not.
E4 Note10+
In the S20 Ultra, I'm sorry.Note twenty ultra are the best ever
Samsung only got worse since they got rid of DJ Koh I believe
5 inches are quite small by to day standards 😂😂😂
4 inches is significantly smaller than 5 inches😂😂😂😂
I am in India.
How many stolen gift cards to buy that?