Finally,
phone manufacturers are starting to take the notice of how delicate their
flagship phones are, and working on making them more rugged. Or at least Samsung
is.
Up
until now, Sony’s had the advantage of having rhe only flagship phone in the
market with IP55 and IP57 certifications floating around - the Xperia
Z.
Meaning, the only flagship device to be water and dust resistant, but if the
words of Young Soo Kim are to be believed, that might be changing very
soon.
If you’re wondering who Young
Soo Kim is, he is the President of Samsung Gulf and during a Q&A session, he
let slip that a water and dust resistant Galaxy S4 was in the works. It’s about
time Samsung stepped up the game, especially given that the demand for higher
resistance to corrosives has been pretty high. Samsung does have a few phones in
its middle tier that are water and dust resistant, but a lack of such protection
on the premium phones did not make sense.
Even if Young Soo Kim’s words
are to be believed, it is quite possible that the rugged Galaxy S4 is only going
to be a prototype that would not see the light of day anytime soon, if at all.
At the end of the day, the only way to be sure that a device like this one is
going to be hitting the market is when Samsung itself officially announces the
same, which seems to unlikely at the time.
However, if you don’t care
about the weather sealing and must have the Galaxy S4, it launches in India on
April 26, and is expected to be priced quite competitively with respect to the
iPhone and HTC One.
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