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"One day after AT&amp;amp;amp;T opened pre-orders\u00A0for the Galaxy S4, Samsung has confirmed what we all expected, that the rollout of the latest blockbuster device in the US begins this month with all seven carriers involved -- that's AT&amp;amp;amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, U.S. Cellular, Cricket and C Spire.\r\n\r\nAT&amp;amp;amp;T is pricing the phone at\u00A0$639 upfront, or $199.99 on a two-year contract, but the announcement\u00A0from\u00A0Samsung says that each carrier will dictate their own price and launch date, but we can expect more details &amp;quot;in the coming weeks&amp;quot; (some launches will slip into May). US carriers require time to test devices on their networks but, thus far AT&amp;amp;amp;T aside,\u00A0Sprint has confirmed the device for April 27 (from $249 on contract), with T-Mobile pencilling in April 24 for its online launch (priced at\u00A0$149.99 on a 2-year-$20-per-month deal).\r\n\r\nSamsung has also confirmed that a range of top retailers -- including\u00A0Best Buy, Costco, Radio Shack and Wal-Mart -- will stock the Korean firm's flagship smartphone:\r\nThe Galaxy S 4 is optimized for powerful performance on the nation\u2019s fastest networks and will be available on AT&amp;amp;amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless as well as U.S. Cellular, Cricket and C Spire starting during April. Additionally, consumers can find the Galaxy S 4 at Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile, Costco, Radio Shack, Sam\u2019s Club, Staples, Target and Wal-Mart.\r\nThe Galaxy S4 was unveiled in March\u00A0and\u00A0will go head-to-head with the HTC One, as well as the next-generations of iPhone and Nexus smartphones that are likely to be released later this year.\r\n\r\nThe device has a 5-inch 1080p display, set at an impressive 441 ppi. Under the hood is a quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 processor, bumped up by an additional quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 chipset.\r\n\r\nThe Galaxy S4 comes stocked with 16GB of internal storage, although that\u2019s expandable via a microSD card, and runs on the latest version of Android (version 4.2.2) with Samsung\u2019s TouchWiz skin slapped on top.\r\n\r\nThe device also has a mighty Li-Ion 2600 mAh battery, which should do a pretty decent job of counterbalancing the smartphone\u2019s power-hungry processors, and 2GB of RAM handling multiple apps and tasks.\r\n\r\nYou can find more details about the impending UK launch here, with information for Canada here.\r\n\r\nHeadline image via Sweetlabs / Flickr"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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