The Samsung GALAXY S4 Zoom is a camera phone that is designed from the ground up for those who their main aim is to shoot photos and after that share them on the web via services like Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Google Plus and other online photo and social media sharing services.
Is it a phone? Or is it a camera? We take a look at this strange new addition to the S4 brand…
The very first thing that came to my brain when I noticed the products was to think about if there’s going to be a way to pop a SIM in it. At first, I thought it was simply just going to be a camera which has the capability to connect to the web via WiFi. To my surprise it connects to the internet via mobile data connection using a micro SIM – the exact same type that the Samsung GALAXY S3 and S4 use.
Samsung is not scared of developing new product categories. When it first introduced the Galaxy Note everyone mocked the ludicrous oversized ‘phablet’; two years later it’s one of the biggest selling ranges in the entire mobile landscape. Will the same be true of the S4 Zoom?
Is it a parody of a camera phone, to be quickly consigned to history, or is it the start of something big? We’ve put it to the test to give our initial view.
The Galaxy S4 Zoom is a classic ‘two devices in one’ product. Look at it from the back, it’s a phone. Look at it from the front, it’s unmistakably a camera. To be fair, it feels more cohesive in the hand than it looks in the images, but there’s no denying that it is a very strange concept.
The phone part is technically an S4 Mini rather than S4. The specs consist of a 960