Samsung’s Galaxy S4 was probably the best selling Android phone of 2013, but its ruggedized variant, the S4 Active, was the device the company should have launched as its flagship instead. Not only is the S4 Active better built, but it’s also more handsome, waterproof, shock proof, and it swaps out the AMOLED panel for one of the nicest LCD displays the internet has ever seen.
Now take all that and bump up the specs, would such a device be the perfect phone?
According to the Russian website Hi-Tech, there’s a new S4 Active on sale in Korea that has a Snapdragon 800 under the hood, a new 13 megapixel camera, and 32 GB of built-in storage. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a variant that absolutely needs to hit international markets, though there’s a high probability that it won’t.
Why did Samsung create a variant of a variant of the GS4? Because they’re Samsung. This is what they do. Don’t try to understand their product portfolio, just embrace the fact that you’ll never be able to figure out why the company comes out with seven hundred different smartphones every year, each marketed and priced at a different segment of the market.
