Galaxy S4 Zoom review: great camera, average phone

It’s amazing the type of gadgets they come up with. Samsung in particular is well-known for dropping devices on us that we don’t really need. Like this one, the very cumbersome Galaxy S4 Zoom, the world’s most obvious camera phone.

So the S4 Zoom, what’s it all about? It’s like an S4 Mini strapped to a 16MP auto-focus camera. It almost seems a trifle rude of Samsung to add the word “S4” to the Zoom, as the performance of this curiosity is well below-par. Whereas the S4 is a speed demon, the S4 Zoom is sluggish. While the S4 is sleek if not too plastic in form, the S4 Zoom is cumbersome beyond all rational explanation. Why did Samsung make this? It’s not as if we needed this gap in the market.

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