Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom

portability, camera, usability, performance, price

size, reliability, reception

87% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

camera, performance, usability, size, price

reliability

86% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

usability

100% of the reviews on Amazon.ca give this product a positive rating.

There will be a group of people that really like the Galaxy S4 Zoom, cling to it, and defend it rigorously. It will have a cult following. But like the Galaxy Cam, it’s kind of a strange tweener product. It’s too bulky and slow to be a great Android...

Android-powered phone/camera hybrid with 10x zoom lens with OIS, Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE; quad-band 3G with HSPA; LTE, 4.3" 16M-color qHD (540 x 960)Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with Gorilla Glass 3, Android OS v4.2.2 Jelly Bean with TouchWiz...

Thicker and heavier than a smartphone, Screen not HD, sunlight legibility could have been better, Old chipset, Shared camera interface makes framing tricky, No FM radio

So, a phone or a camera, which is it? The Samsung Galaxy S4 zoom tries to be both, but it does better at one than the other. You should've all figured by now that it's the camera we're talking about. The S4 zoom has all the trimmings of a digicam. It...

Compact design ; Full smartphone functionality

Poor battery life ; Mediocre image quality ; Sluggish and inconsistent performance ; Limited camera control in third-party apps

The Galaxy S4 Zoom is clearly the product of months of tweaking, collaboration and research at Samsung, but there's much work still to be done. We love that this year's model is a bona fide smartphone, in that you can use it to not only share images...

Our first reaction to the Samsung Galaxy S4 zoom was "It's smaller!" You probably want to hear about the optics or the image sensor, but the simple fact is that the Galaxy Camera was the size of a micro four thirds, which people that are even remotely...

10x zoom lens and dedicated camera controls. Reasonable shutter lag and 3.6fps burst shooting. Good call quality.

Images on the noisy side. Bulky and awkward design for a phone. Only midrange CPU and gaming performance.

Out of the box you get 11.29GB of storage, and our 64GB microSD card worked fine as well. Media support is comprehensive, as the S4 Zoom had no trouble playing all of our test files, including DivX and Xvid videos at resolutions up to 1080p.

Rarely found combination of mid-range point-n-shoot digital camera and full-feature smartphone ; Improved photographic performance versus Samsung Galaxy Camera ; Easily outperforms most smartphone cameras ; 10x optical zoom lens sets S4 Zoom apart from...

Price is high versus camera-only options with similar photographic capabilities (although price varies with smartphone contract options) ; Only available through AT&T cell network initially ; Very slow start-up to first photo performance ; Quite a bit...

Samsung has created an interesting smartphone/digital camera combination with the Galaxy S4 Zoom, which offers full operational capabilities in both areas. This model is quite a bit thicker than what you'd find with your typical smartphone, which makes...

In May, its big brother modeled how to take the throne. The smaller Samsung Galaxy S4 emulates its sibling and does its job almost as well. And that is enough for this smartphone of the month award

High quality main camera; 10x optical zoom; High build quality; Good connectivity; Infrared port; Excellent display; Good performance; Current Android operating system

Retail price; Less compact than usual smartphones; Main camera cannot compete with similarly priced compact cameras

Samsung combines a compact camera and a smartphone in the Galaxy S4; a very innovative product. According to Samsung it is primarily a compact camera but can also be used as a smartphone.