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03.08.13
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LETTER
ANOTHER WEEK GONE BY and another
week closer to the unveiling of the next
Android superphone: the Samsung Galaxy S IV.
We’re less than a week away from the event
where it will debut to the world and,
somewhat predictably, we’re starting
to see some leaks of bits and pieces about
the phone’s functionality — though nothing
as concrete as showing the thing itself just yet.
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The biggest clue we have is a selection
of screenshots highlighting two interesting
eye-tracking additions: Smart
Scroll and Smart Pause. Users of the
Galaxy S III or Note II will likely be familiar
with Smart Stay, which promises
to keep the phone from auto-locking
the screen while you’re looking at it.
These, then, would be logical extensions
to that sort of functionality.
Smart Scroll would, we’re told, automatically
scroll whatever it is up or
down when you look at the bottom or
top of the screen. Smart Pause, meanwhile,
would pause whatever current
video is playing when you look away
from the screen. There’s certainly the
potential for these to be hugely annoying
if done poorly, and indeed I
haven’t always been impressed with
how Smart Stay works on my Note
II, but I’m personally very excited to
see what Samsung can do with this.
I’m generally not a fan of Samsung’s
Android customizations, but the company
deserves credit for trying to do
something new on the interface side.
The big question, though, is whether
Samsung will try something truly new
on the hardware front, or whether it