Samsung Galaxy S4 version of Nexus: Android is pure - Tom's Hardware Guide

The Samsung Galaxy S4 will have a version of “cleaned”. Basically a Nexus product that you can buy directly through Google to 649 dollars. It will be available from 26 June to U.S. consumers, but do not yet know if the offer will be valid also for Italy or other countries.

Into The Android 4.2 smartphone will use in its “stock”, ie without changes by the manufacturer. Will then TouchWiz interface Samsung, while the other characteristics will be the same. This special edition of the GS4 receive new versions of Android as soon as Google will make them available, while the standard model instead have to wait for the official update from Samsung.

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Into “is a spectacular device,” said Hugo Barra Google during the Google I / O, the annual conference of the Californian. Some in the audience have complained about the price too high for this “Nexus GS4,” which costs more than double the Nexus 4 , at least considering the price in the U.S. and elsewhere in Europe (€ 299), because in Italy smartphone manufactured by LG officially costs 500 euro .

Into There is no need to hope that other manufacturers do the same, however: HTC has already said, for example, that for the HTC One (Review HTC One, Android jewel aluminum) there is no similar project. There are no official statements from Sony, LG or others, but fortunately there is always the possibility of using the famous cooked ROM – always remembering that you can lose the warranty. Who wants to deepen the contents of Google I / O 2013 can do so by reading this article .