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Samsung Unveils Galaxy S4

Francesca Martens |
March 14, 2013 | 7:23 p.m. PDT

Executive Producer

Unveiling of the Samsung S4 in New York. (Flickr/Samsungtomorrow)
Unveiling of the Samsung S4 in New York. (Flickr/Samsungtomorrow)
At a packed event at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Thursday, Samsung introduced the Galaxy S 4, a smartphone that Samsung hopes will win over the IPhone-dominated American smartphone market.

“Once you spend time with the Galaxy S 4, I’m very confident you’ll find how its innovations make your life simple and fuller,” said JK Shin, president of Samsung Mobile Communications, at the company’s first promotional event for the smartphone.

With this phone, Samsung is rethinking the way users interact with smartphone. Aside from the usual finger movements, the Galaxy S4 can be controlled by waving and tilting it. Other novel features are Smart Scroll which allows the front camera to detect people's faces and scroll the screen according to the angle the phone is tilted. Samsung hopes that the new touchless feature will help it win over some of Apple's market.

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