Samsung Galaxy S 4 Is a Good, but Not a Great, Step Up - Walt Mossberg - Personal Technology - AllThingsD

Walt Mossberg on the S4

"I’ve been testing the Galaxy S 4 intensively for four days and while I admire some of its features, overall, it isn’t a game-changer. It’s an evolution of the prior model and despite some improvements, it still is especially weak in the software Samsung adds to basic Android. I found Samsung’s software often gimmicky, duplicative of standard Android apps, or, in some cases, only intermittently functional.
I urge readers looking for a new Android smartphone to carefully consider the more polished-looking, and quite capable, HTC One, rather than defaulting to the latest Samsung."

Samsung Galaxy S 4 Is a Good, but Not a Great, Step Up - Walt Mossberg - Personal Technology - AllThingsD