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Leaked Android 4.2.1 screenshots from Galaxy S III confirm Smart Scroll features on GS4

By on March 6, 2013 at 9:39am in Mobile News

Screenshot_2013-03-06_8_42_AMIn what looks to be a fortunate misfortune, screenshots that were thought to be from the Galaxy S IV but aren’t have inadvertently confirmed certain features of the upcoming device anyway.

Screenshots from a leaked Galaxy S III ROM show off several rumoured features, one of which was reported by the New York Times this week: Smart Scroll. The Galaxy S IV, as well as its predecessor, will engage the front-facing camera to scroll up and down the page on “a range of applications,” like Chrome and Gmail.

The features also extend to something called “Smart Pause,” which pauses a video when your head moves away from the screen, though we feel like that feature could become more a nuisance than an advantage.

While we’re not sure what the interface will look on the Galaxy S IV, but we’d bet on it maintaining the overall visual approach of TouchWIZ, if not the same Nature UX that debuted on the GS3.

Source: SamMobile

Discussion

25 comments for “Leaked Android 4.2.1 screenshots from Galaxy S III confirm Smart Scroll features on GS4”

  • 45

    Now we just need to wait and see when the carriers will push the update to us. Still at 4.1.1…

  • FOTTL

    These are impressive features if they function properly but i just dont see myself using them, ill probably turn off anyway so not a reason to buy the phone based on that (my opinion). hope they have more impressive and useful stuff to offer

  • steve

    Smart Pause sounds ridiculous. I look away from videos all the time, it doesn’t mean I want them to stop playing. It would make watching something while doing something else kind of annoying.

    Also it would make my YouTube video feel like a whiny significant other – “why aren’t you paying attention to me?!”

    • drone

      Then turn it off, genius.

      jesus, ppl will find anything to whine about. Irony i suppose.

  • jay

    Update for 4.1.2 which runs even in south africa is not even in Canada announce. So never buy a locked phone only the international version. Why samsung selling not the phone unlocked in Canada? I think the biggest problem is the carriers in Canada.

  • Arthur

    I guess this feature will amount in numerous subsequent software fixes called upgrades.

  • eric

    Smart Pause is a great feature. Only stupid, uninnovative, sheepish Apple fanboys don’t see that. You people are such sheep.

    • RIP Steve J.

      “We put iTunes on Windows in order to sell more iPods. But I don’t see an advantage of putting our music app on Android, except to make Android users happy. And I don’t want to make Android users happy.”

  • Sébastien Dicaire

    battery nom nom nom nom

  • REDRUM

    THEY SHALL CALL IT eyeSCROLL!

  • saltorio

    Can’t wait for these features to get pulled from the Samsung ROMs and ported over to the (far better) 3rd-party ROMs on the SGS3.

  • Michael

    Christ a phone isn’t even released and people are already “fans of this” “you people” “sheep” for Christ’ sake. Stop being elitist pricks and use phones which work for you, either way, you pay someone for a smartphone, and that cash – regardless – ends up lining the pocket of some bajillionaire who doesn’t give a s**t whether or not people are sheep or don’t use smart scroll or like windows phone. Ld;dr, idgaf, my point is: some will use Smart Scroll and Smart Pause, both sound like features with a lot of merit behind them respectively, some users will neglect to find any usefulness in the features for their particular needs, and given the customizable nature of Android, will be able to turn it off. The end. Was that so hard?

  • Rag3r

    Although some of the new features might be gimmicky, at least they are showing an modicum of innovation. They may miss the mark 9/10 times but at least they come up with something cool every now and then. Can’t say the same about apples archaic Os design, no matter how snappy and fluid it feels. Can’t keep redesigning the case and calling it innovative and evolutionary.

  • jhon

    For the browser seems to be helpful but I think the video is useless

    Case will have to should be configured independently on that because of battery consumption.

  • MaXiM

    S3 is no doubt a really nice phone, packed with features, each of them more or less helpful. I have no doubt that S4 will be an upgrade – but unless it has what I need, I see no reason for me, personally, to get excited. I have a ton of features turned off already, because the battery has been sacrificed for a sleeker look. But for the ones still living in the dark ages of android 2.x, ios, small screens with terrible resolution and colour – it will be a bliss, for sure.
    Oh, I can only get excited when I think at the phones in 2 years from now, when I’ll probably retire my S3…

  • Plazmic Flame

    Michael’s post above wins, lmao

    TL;DR = IDGAF

  • Lindsy

    I have a Galaxy Nexus (Google Phone) and was really wondering why Google phones don’t get the udates firt like they are supposed to??

  • superfly

    @Michael….. So what are you saying exactly?

  • Kozbit

    I own a S3 and smartstay didn’t work for me that well :(

  • freedomispopular

    Once again Samsung is porting new software features the previous generation devices. Like them or hate them, you’ve gotta give them kudos for that.

  • Michael

    This is the difference between Samsung and Nokia smart scroll is a cool feature no doubt just like ICS 4.0 face unlock but is it really useful, are we really that lazy that we can’t use a finger to scroll, I know there are times when both hands may be preoccupied but on the regular that hardly ever happens. With Nokia the focus on more productive features, like better cameras, sunlight readability enhancements etc.

    Just my personal opinion, no hating.

  • kayn

    I’d look forward to this update if I thought for a second that I’d get the 4.1.2 update any time soon from Telus. 4.2.1 is pretty much a pipe dream at this point.

  • Steven

    Yawn…. Unless you stop building your phone with that cheap plastic, I’m done.

  • jplunks

    doesnt it seem that technology like this is a little much? i mean if the phone or phone”s” can do this, what else can it do that we do not know about?

  • saffant

    Why do fkrs leak stuff like this with only a week to go to the official announcement? Ruins all the anticipation.