Smart scroll note 4 software#
Smart scroll note 4 series#

The S Health app is supposed to be able to track distance traveled and give you local identification of current temperature and humidity. S Health includes support for an integrated pedometer, temperature and humidity sensors in the SGS4.

Smart scroll note 4 software#

The final new software feature of the Galaxy S 4 is called S Health. The Samsung Optical Reader app also supports reading QR codes. The SGS4 will ship with some form of optical character recognition, allowing you to scan business cards and automatically populate your contact list with elements from the card. Samsung does have a good amount of control/granularity in the SGS4 software for these features. I tested both features and they seemed to work intermittently, although I’m not a fan of making judgement calls on software until final builds are available.Īll of these gesture and camera based user interface features can be enabled/disabled, many on a per application basis but at minimum on a global level. With the Galaxy S 4, Samsung expands the use of the front facing camera to enable pausing/unpausing of video playback depending on whether or not you’re looking at the display, and enabling tilt to scroll if the camera detects that you’re looking at it. With the Galaxy S 3 Samsung introduced Smart Stay, another feature that leveraged the front facing camera to detect when you’re facing the smartphone and keep the screen on as a result. You can also use Air Gesture to answer a call, which Samsung views as a good solution for SGS4 owners that have their smartphone in a car dock while driving. You can swipe your hand in front of the smartphone to switch songs, move between tabs in the web browser, or scroll up and down a web page. The Galaxy S 4 also supports Air Gesture, which leverages the IR gesture sensor to enable large hand gestures for UI control. Update: You can also use the SGS4 with gloves on, similar to Nokia's Lumia 920. It also works in the email and gallery apps as well. Air View works in Samsung’s web browser as a magnifying lens or to trigger a preview of open tabs. Through some clever tuning of the capacitive touch stack, the Galaxy S 4 is able to sense the presence of your finger up to about a centimeter away from the display. With the Galaxy S 4, Samsung enables the same functionality - but without the S Pen. Holding the S Pen above the screen would enable you to preview video, peek at the contents of an email, etc.

Smart scroll note 4 series#

With the Galaxy Note series of devices, Samsung enabled hover support with the S Pen. It’s not clear what application/DRM limitations exist here, but I can see this being the new tap-to-share for encouraging groups of friends to all buy Galaxy S 4s. The idea is to leverage multiple devices to fill a room up with audio. What Group Play does is allows you to wirelessly tether multiple SGS4s together to all play the exact same song. The Galaxy S 4 supports wireless streaming of music to up to 8 other SGS4 devices with a feature called Group Play. S Translator is also supported in the Email and ChatON apps. Samsung isn’t announcing what partner it’s using to do the actual translation at this point. This functionality has been enabled by Google Translate for a while now, but turning it into a feature and making it very obvious on the Galaxy S 4 is a clear attempt to hit a broader audience.īased on my limited experience with the translation, it seems like the bulk of the work is being done in the cloud. You can type or speak sentences to be translated and either read the translation or have your phone speak it. Chinese, English (US/UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish languages are all supported at launch. Samsung is shipping its own cloud based translation app on the Galaxy S 4 called S Translator.