At first the the S4 Zoom was nothing but a rumor, at the Sony press conference these romors have forever been layd to rest with the announcement of the 16 Megapixel S4 Zoom.
The smartphone camera duo is equipped with a 16 Megapixel lens with 10x optical zoom; other features of the camera aspect entail, a c-mos sensor, optical image stability, xenon flash and a feature called zoom ring.
Soom ring is essentially a tool for in call photo sharing, how it works is when enabled the ring surrounds the camera and when twisted it shares the photo with who ever is on the other end of the phone call.
One of the extra software included is photo suggest, this let's you know of photos taken by others in the area.
On the smartphone side of things, the phone is equipped with a 4.3 inch 960x540 super amoled screen, 1.5 GHz dual core processor, 1.5 GB ram, Android jelly bean and 8 GB internal storage( however storage is marked at 5 GB ) which can be upped to 64 GB via micro sd.
Size wise the zoom is 1.5mm deep and weighs in at 208 grams compared to the standard S4
7.9 mm and 130 gram body.
CEO J.K Shin is pleased with the phone saying that"It's truly best of both worlds without compromise."
No price has yet been confirmed and the phone should be available in the U.S. and Europe in the 4'th quarter. What do you think about the zoom, would you buy one?
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