Samsung launched the much-awaited Galaxy S4 on March 14, and the top-end specifications and features of the handset are enough to compete with any other smartphone in the industry.

The Nokia Lumia 920 is one of the most powerful Windows Phone 8 (WP8) smartphones available, but are the specifications Nokia is offering enough to compete with the latest Galaxy S4?

Let's see how the Galaxy S4 compares with the Lumia 920.

Processor

The Lumia 920 features a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon Qualcomm S4 processor, which Qualcomm claims has "best in-class performance." Depending on the region, the Galaxy S4 will sport a 1.6GHz Exynos octa-core CPU (international versions) or a 1.9GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 (U.S. version).

Companies like HTC and LG have an uphill climb following the Samsung Galaxy S4 announcement. Here's what they must do.

After months of rumors and speculation, and one rather awkward press event, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is now an official smartphone. Indeed, we still have a month or more before it actually arrives, but Samsung has again changed the game for Android.

Or has it? What does the Samsung Galaxy S4 mean for other Android players and how should they react in the wake of the big reveal? As I see it, there are three important lessons to be learned from Samsung and the Galaxy S4.

Go big or go home
Watching last night's press event unfold, I came away with one big takeaway: Samsung will do whatever it can to get people chatting about its smartphones. Sure, I'm certainly not the only one who found the presentation of the Galaxy S4 to be cheesy, goofy, and even painful. But you know what? Everybody is talking about the phone today, right?

When we actually get the S4 in stores, I doubt that few people will even remember the stilted shenanigans. Yet, you can't deny that yesterday Samsung got your attention, for better or for

Here's Samsung's new Galaxy S4 next to an iPhone 5:

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Just a few years ago Samsung was struggling to catch up in the smartphone market. Now it makes more of them than anybody else and has Apple on the back foot, in addition to being the world's largest technology company by revenue. The heavily hyped launch of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone is the latest step as it tries to overtake Apple, and they've gone all out with a massive screen and impressive new features. 

Here are some of the core pillars of Samsung's strategy.

The ultimate fast follower

Samsung is better than anybody else at learning from its competitors. "A market reader is sort of the classic fast follower," explains Barry Jaruzelski, senior partner at Booz & Co and the co-author of the Global Innovation 1000. "It doesn't mean they ignore their customers, but they're very attuned to what competitors are doing and what other people are bringing to market first and observing what seems to be gaining traction, then very rapidly coming up with their own version of that innovation."

Samsung's aggression has gotten it into trouble in the past, losing a high profile case to Apple for imitating its design. But the reputation hit and the fine were a small price to pay.

Apple answers Galaxy S4 launch with new iPhone campaign. New page on Apple's site provides a laundry list of things that supposedly set the iPhone apart.

Samsung's just-launched Galaxy S4 is nothing special -- it's simply another member of the wannabe-iPhone crowd. At least that's what Apple would have you believe by way of a new marketing effort for its storied handset.

NEW YORK: The Galaxy S4, Samsung's latest and greatest, has a cute feature we'll probably see in a lot of phones soon: You can shoot both yourself and your surroundings at the same time, using the front- and back-mounted cameras. It's a bit like having a two-camera film crew follow you around.

But other than that, it's hard to point to anything that will set the world on fire in the new phone, revealed on Thursday at an event in New York. The S4 has what you'd expect from a new smartphone: a bigger screen and a faster processor. It may prove to be unfortunate that didn't stop there when it presented the successor to its hit Galaxy S III, because the phone has a grab-bag of features that don't come together as a pleasing whole.

The phone will go on sale sometime between late April and the end of June, from Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA, US Cellular and Cricket, Samsung says. If history is any guide

Samsung has finally unwrapped its much-awaited Galaxy S4 smartphone. It has a 5-inch screen, which is slightly bigger screen than the Galaxy S III. The bigger screen is crammed into a chassis that's actually a hair narrower and thinner than the S III's. The S4 has what you'd expect from a new smartphone - a bigger screen and a faster processor.

But the phone has some new features that may impress you. It has a cute feature we'll probably see in a lot of phones soon - you can shoot both yourself and your surroundings at the same time, using the front-and back-mounted cameras. It's a bit like having a two-camera film crew follow you around.

Samsung has taken the smartphone war to Apple’s doorstep with the Galaxy S4, unveiled in New York City on Thursday night.

The feature-rich S4 is the Korean giant’s latest attempt to topple the current king, Apple, from its throne.

“Once you spend time with the Galaxy S4, I’m very confident that you’ll find how its innovations make your life simpler and fuller,” J.K. Shin, president of Samsung Mobile Communications, told a packed New York audience.

Mr. Shin’s statement marks a sharp difference from the previous attributes Samsung has marketed its line-up with, namely strong hardware and soft price points, and instead looks to break into the late Steve Jobs’ domain – software, features and the ‘smartphone experience’.

The shiny new ‘smart scroll and smart pause’ feature, for instance, monitors the user’s eye movements and behaves accordingly. Tilting the S4, while staring at it, will scroll the web pages up or down accordingly. On the other hand, the ‘moving beyond touch’ option allows scrolling through web pages or photographs with a simple wave of the hand.

While India will be one of the earlier countries to receive the phone, according to a company spokesperson, Samsung is looking at shedding its copycat label — something it has often be criticised of in India and the U.S.

The high-profile song and dance launch in Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall proved one thing, however. The stakes in this war have never been higher

Certainly, Galaxy S4 is an improvement over Galaxy S3, but it lacks some revolutionary and interesting features. The handset is thin and light, which is great, however, it is missing the wow factor.

Obviously, in terns of specifications, performance and software features, the Galaxy S4 is one of the best offerings in the smartphone arena as now. There are a few egregious omissions from the flagship smartphone of the South Korean tech giant that need to be looked upon.

Specwise, Galaxy S4 packs a 4.99 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display with a stunning resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and a pixel density of 441 ppi, Exynos 5 Octa 5410 processor, Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean OS, 13MP rear camera, 2MP front camera, 16GB/32GB/64GB internal storage, a micro SD card slot supporting up to 64GB expandable storage, 2GB RAM, Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, Infrared port and a 2,600 mAh battery.

Samsung revealed the Samsung Galaxy S4 last night and it comes with numerous innovative software, however it doesn’t do a lot for me.

It comes with eye tracking software… The camera allows you to take a photo with the front and back camera at the same time… Why have these things been included, they aren’t needed, so no thanks, I’ll pass. At the same time the body of the handset doesn’t do it for me either. It is the same as all Samsung handsets, rounded with a plastic look. Even the patterns in the moulding are strange.

NEW YORK: Samsung unveiled a slim, feature-rich Galaxy S4 as its new champion to take on Apple in the fiercely competitive smartphone arena. 

While some industry analysts gave a thumbs up to the new phone and the plethora of features it boasts of, others refrained from terming it as a path-breaking product. Comparing it to Samsung Galaxy S3, technology analyst Jeff Kagan said, "The Samsung Galaxy S4 is very good, but looks like an evolution to the S3, not a revolution." 

"It is now clearly Samsung's flagship device; jam-packed with technology," said Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg. He also added, "the question is how many of these features will resonate with consumers." 

HTC's newest smartphone wonder, which only launched at the beginning of February, offers comparable specs and a gorgeous all-metal design that feels sturdier and more premium. HTC doesn't throw in many software attractions, but the One has everything that smartphone power users will need.

The One should go on sale before the GS4, probably by the end of the month, but at present it's scheduled to arrive at fewer carriers (AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile in the United States). That last point speaks to a perpetual factor in the HTC-Samsung war. While HTC's phones can hold their own

Besides attracting a lot of interest, the newly introduced Samsung Galaxy S4 is generating a lot of questions. In this FAQ, Let us tackle your top queries.

After a blowout event and bizarre press conference yesterday, the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S4 is upon us. In the run-up to its introduction the smartphone attracted huge interest and plenty of hype, which is only going to grow in the weeks until its consumer release. CNET will render our full opinion in a rated review then, but we know that you have plenty of GS4 questions in the meantime. Below are the most vital details about the handset, where it will land, and when you can get it. If you have any further questions, leave them in the comments and we'll do our best to answer them.

What are the GS4's most standout features?
Believe me when I say that Samsung didn't restrain itself when adding features to the GS4. The device has just about everything you'd ever need and then some. As for basic specs, the highlights include an IR blaster, a 13-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video, a 2-megapixel front camera, a SwiftKey-powered keyboard, a powerful processor (more on that below), a 2,600mAh battery, 2GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage with another 64GB available through the microSD card slot, NFC, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, support for 4G LTE networks. There even should be some form of LTE interoperability, which is a big deal. Exact details are to come, but that's something that the iPhone 5 doesn't have.

SAN FRANCISCO: Samsung's newest, feature-packed Galaxy S4 may put pressure on Apple to accelerate its pace of smartphone design and venture into cheaper devices - both departures from usual practice.

The latest Galaxy, unwrapped with much fanfare in New York on Thursday, out-does the iPhone in most technical aspects. But the challenges it encapsulates run deeper than just a simple specifications comparison.

Samsung's new smartphone raises the bar in terms of hardware and it packs in a ton of new features. Will it force Apple to respond with a beefed up iPhone?

With the introduction of the Galaxy S4, Samsung is making Apple's iPhone look like yesterday's hot smartphone. But will that be enough to make Apple respond when it releases its next iPhone?

With a massive marketing campaign, a 5-inch screen, 13-megapixel camera, and a host of new software features on top of Google Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2, the S4 could attract a following at the iPhone's expense, even at a high price (Samsung has not yet revealed pricing). The S4 will also be more widely distributed than the iPhone, with 327 carriers in 55 countries carrying the device starting in April.

Based on specs, the S4 outclasses the iPhone 5.

On the software front, the S4 includes a number of built-in apps that are lacking or less robust on the iPhone, such as Drama Shot, which turns a string of photos into a time lapse; Dual View, which lets

If you're looking for Samsung's new Galaxy S4 to define a novel new era of smartphone greatness, it's time to temper your expectations. The brand-new flagship smartphone, which runs the latest Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, improves hardware significantly and it piles on the features. Compared with the extremely successful Galaxy S3 that came before, it's a firm stride forward rather than a giant a leap, but it raises the bar again for Samsung's competitors. And by super-sizing the screen and packing in so much specialized software, the GS4 sets itself even farther apart from the iPhone.

The Galaxy S4 handset steadily draws from the same design language as the S3, but takes almost every spec to an extreme -- the screen is larger (5 inches), the resolution greater (1080p), the battery capacity higher (2,600mAh), the processor faster (1.9GHz quad-core or 1.6GHz octa-core), and the rear-facing camera stuffed with more megapixels (13, to be exact). But, once you've gone through the features checklist (which also includes lots of internal and external storage space and RAM), it's the software extras that Samsung continues to lean on to keep its phones one step ahead of the

There's so much momentum behind the Galaxy S franchise that Samsung could have put out nearly anything and have a hit on its hands.

No, it's not too early to declare the Galaxy S4 a roaring success.

So what if the latest flagship smartphone from Samsung Electronics won't be out for another month (at least)? Or that Samsung hasn't yet released any pricing information? Or that all of its key features had already been leaked in advance? Or that it's not even that different from the Galaxy S3?

The fact is, Samsung will sell boatloads of this phone, and the foundation for its success was laid down awhile ago.

On the eve of the new flagship's expected unveiling, clear images of a purported Galaxy S4 appear on a Chinese Web site.

The real Samsung Galaxy S4?

With less than 24 hours before Samsung's expected unveiling of the Galaxy S4, more images of the highly-anticipated smartphone have materialized on the Web.

A collection of images on Chinese site Mobile.it168.com features a handset with the Samsung brand that resembles other images and videos that leaked earlier this week. The image also features the text "Galaxy SIV."

Navigating the phone with your eyes is one of the Samsung Galaxy S4's rumored features. Reports conflict, but we take a look at how it all could work if the technology does indeed appear in the gadget.

If you believe the rumors, the successor to the Samsung Galaxy S3 (pictured) could scroll up and down based on your eye movements.

If the Samsung Galaxy S4 rumors pan out, Samsung's newest smartphone may let people interact with the screen using just their eyes.

Certain images of the a Samsung device with the model number GT-i9502 have appeared on a Chinese forum that seem to reveal a Chinese variant of the Samsung Galaxy S IV.

The images are a first for the device and offer quite a bit in terms of the deign and hardware. The person who uploaded the images to 52 Samsung claims that the device is Dual-SIM and will make its way to China Unicom. It would be wise not to jump the  gun just about yet considering it could be just one of the company's prototype designs.