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I am curious as to what in the Samsung Galaxy S4 looks cheap to you?

I think he meant that the launch show looked cheap; which is kind of ironic considering the fact that they booked out Radio City Music Hall...

Exactly, the whole presentation looked artificial to me. Like they were forcing themselves to be liked, instead of just being natural.

W.r.t the device - as I said, some nice features but I am not a big fan of plastic phones. It might sound funny, but I like that I can 'feel' my iPhone when I'm holding it.

I'm not the OP but I was in the show and was able to use them after it finished. Yes its a nice phone but in comparison with other phones out there (HTC One, Xperia Z, even the iPhone 5) the S4 looks cheap. Its the product of "lets see what we can stuff in there, the more the better".

The testing conditions weren't ideal but half of the features (translation, scrolling without touch, etc...) are still half-baked, or they definitely look like they are. And Touchwiz as UI seems really bad now that stock Android has become so appealing in design.

So yeah, its a really powerful phone with good potential ideas but the package, looked as a whole, looks cheap.

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