Samsung Galaxy S4 Sold for $99?
Samsung's latest smartphone, Galaxy S4, will head to US mobile carrier T-Mobile on May 1st with a friendly price tag of $99.
T-Mobile talked about unlimited data and contract-free plans for the device. The company announced that the handset will receive full 4G LTE connectivity.
The date sounded a little off. However, an exec of T-Mobile said that the consumers may see the device by the end of April or on the first week of May.
As for pricing, this is nothing new to T-Mobile but might be new for the vast majority of users from other networks. The Galaxy S4 will be yours contract-free for $100 from T-Mobile. However, you'll be required to make monthly payments of $20 for 2 years to pay it off.
In Australia, it is still unclear as to when it will arrive in various networks that plan to offer the device.
South Korean tech giant Samsung unveiled the successor of the Samsung Galaxy S3 - Galaxy S4 and wowed many critics and reviewers. The smartphone will battle head on with other smartphones in the market.
Samsung Galaxy S4 is equipped with Super AMOLED HD screen display with 1080x1920 pixel resolution at 441 pixels per inch trumps the iPhone 5's 1136x640 Retina display. The S4 has 2GB of RAM and will be available in 16, 32 and 64 GB models, with a Micro SD slot capable of housing up to 64GB extra storage space.
The new smartphone from Samsung will be available in Telstra, Vodafone and Virgin Mobile and will work on the 3G and high-speed 4G LTE mobile networks in Australia.
The S4 will run on the latest version of Google's Android operating system (4.2.2 Jelly Bean) and be powered by Samsung's new Exynos 5 Octa processor. However, the device will run on Qualcomm's quad-core chip in the US. The phone features an upgraded 2600 mAh battery, compared to the 2100 mAh batter of the Galaxy S3.