Samsung Galaxy S4 Specs at A Glance, Barack Obama Might Be Using the Device at The Present Moment!

The Galaxy S4 from the house of Samsung was announced and released back in 2013. The phone arrived with a 5-inch capacitive touchscreen that had a Super AMOLED display and 16m colors.

The screen had a display resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels, and the pixel density on it stood at 441ppi. A layer of Corning Gorilla Glass 3 was added to the screen for added protection. The device had the measurements of 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9 mm, and it weighed in at 130g.

Under its hood, the device packed a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 Quad core processor. The processor was coupled with 2GB of RAM. A Qualcomm ADRENO 320 GPU was also built into the device to provide the juice needed for running games and playing videos.

The rear camera on the device was a 13-megapixel one that had a f/2.2 aperture. Some of the features that the camera came with include- autofocus, geo-tagging, face detection, smile detection, touch focus and HDR. A LED flash was also built into the device for the purpose of photography under low light conditions.

As for the front camera, it was a 2 megapixel one with a f/2.4 aperture. The front camera though nothing fancy, was capable of taking decent selfies and churning out 1080p videos at 30 frames per second.

The device arrived with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean out of the box. However, it was upgradable to Android 5.0.1 Lollipop. The Android OS was combined with Samsung’s own TouchWiz User interface for the Galaxy S4.

As for the internal memory department, the Galaxy S4 came in three different variants. The entry level model packed 16GB of internal memory, while the next model came with 32GB of it. The most high-end model of the device arrived with 64GB of inbuilt storage space.

The device had a built in microSD card slot, using which users could expand the storage space of the device up to 64 GB through a microSD card.

The connectivity features on the device included- Wi-Fi802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, DLNA, Hotspot, dual-band and Wi-Fi direct. Bluetooth v4.0 was also built into the device. Also included were- NFC, GPS, and Infrared. A micro USB 2.0 port was also present on the device for the purpose of charging and data transfer.

The Galaxy S4 packed some sensors that included- gyro, accelerometer, humidity sensor, temperature sensor, compass, barometer, and gesture.

The device was powered by a removable Li-Ion 2600mAh battery that had a stand-by time of 370 hours on the 3G network. The battery provided a music playback period of 62 hours and talktime of 17 hours.

Samsung introduced some color variants of the device which are- Black Mist, Arctic Blue, White Frost and Black Edition.

It has been revealed that the smartphone that Barack Obama is currently using is the Samsung Galaxy S4. When Obama became the President back in 2009, he wanted to keep using his personal BlackBerry. However, he was given another BlackBerry device that he would use during his tenure as the President of America.

The device that was issued to him was the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition. It was a highly encrypted device that ensured the secrecy of anything that was stored on it.

In his recent appearance on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show, Obama stated that he is currently using a smartphone which is heavily locked down.

He did not mention the handset that he is using, however, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is the only mobile phone that is supported by the Defense Information Systems Agency. This agency is tasked with providing communication services to the White House.