Samsung Galaxy S4

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Samsung Galaxy S3 was born into privilege. She was born into a world already prepared to accept her. It helped, of course, that she was different and beautiful. That she did things that other phones didn’t do. Couldn’t do.

Samsung was trolling into new technology waters and turning gadgets into objects that we did more than use, but get into a union with. The S3 wooed and befriended us. Became our best mate, an in turn tried to topple the dog’s century-old reign as man’s best friend.  Now you have another best friend and one that you don’t have to pick up its poop. She was as obedient as the dog and with the biggest brain any phone has ever had, a brain that recognises your face, and your voice and your friend’s faces, a phone that would keep watching you until you fell sleep. Then it turned in herself. Designed for humans but inspired by nature.

I’m going somewhere with this, just hang on.

And it’s in this favoured era that the Samsung Galaxy S3 was midwifed. A world of glitz and functionality. And she was both adored and ululated; from the stuffy smorgasbord of Indian streets to the Fevalas of Brazil; from the cold metallic shores of Dakar Senegal to Cape Town’s Long Street. Samsung S3 wasn’t going to do any wrong before our eyes and when it did, we excused her because sometimes we excuse a beautiful woman when she does dumb things. But mostly we excused the S3 because she validated us.

And you will never find a people that need more validation than Nairobians. We are hungry to fit. We are starved of that shit. We adopt things, often-trivial things, in the hope that it will make us belong and be defined. We gloat about our 700k Japanese automobile acquisitions in the media. And when tweet breathlessly when we wait to board a plane. To Kisumu, for chrissake. Not Luanda. Kisumu. And we wake up and go to Twitter before we have brushed our teeth because in Tweeter we can start afresh and be who we can’t be in the flesh. We are Nairobians.  

And so the Samsung S3 easily found home in us.

Unfortunately, beauty has a window. Not a large window like the Lamu window but a small window, like a manyatta window. And time is beauty’s Achilles’ heels. Everything fades when touched with the bony hands of time. Beauty especially. Emma Too isn’t the woman she was in the 90’s. And to be fair, neither is George Michael. In fact, the only woman in the world whose truant beauty continues to defy time is Toni Braxton. Have you seen Toni in a bob-cut? Doesn’t she inspire nothing short of a minute’s silence?

And so the Samsung’s S3’s beauty had to transform, it had to succumb to time. And it did. The novelty wore off. More beauties came in offering more than just a lullaby. The room got crowded. After all the attention and razzmatazz that met its entrance in the room, the Samsung Galaxy S3 was confronted with the horrifying reality that the attention had shifted to other things and was faced with questions: What could it do? Have Pulse magazine take it’s picture at a shindig? Release one wobbly single with Sauti Sol? Get on Big Brother and last slightly longer than…  

The Samsung Galaxy got smart. It stood before a mirror one day and said, “I’m going to be a better person for myself first and then to the world.” Which, come to think about it, is something everybody who frequents Brew Bistro should tell themselves.

So she hit the gym. Avoided carbohydrates before 7pm. Joined a yoga class. Drank water instead of soda. Ate vegetables. And when it wanted to junk – because you have to reward your body- it ordered from Naked Pizza in Westlands, which is what the Nairobi’s weight and socially conscious crowd do when they want to look cool living healthy.

Then one-day Samsung Galaxy woke up and boom, things had changed. It had become the Samsung Galaxy S4.

Enter stage, right.

Don Draper, the quintessential cool-Neanderthal in Mad Men once said, “Great beauty inspires great emotion.” He didn’t know it then, but he could have been referring to the Samsung S4. 

Think of the S4 as a better S3. Even more contextualized, think of the S4 as an ex who was formerly an S3. Are we together class? Guys over there at the back, are we together?

No man will admit this but there is this party line that we all wish our exes well. It’s a heap of smouldering croak. We dont. We want to run into our exes and find them doing badly without us. We want to find the miserable and down to their luck. We want to find them with dry lips and bad shoes. We want to hope that she is dating a complete Orang-outang and she is so miserable and stressed with that hairy joke she gets her menses twice a month because her hormones are screwed up.

Because if we ran into her and she is looking like a flower that has finally bloomed (Tamms used that word the other day and it made me so proud I wanted to put her in my pocket) we will feel like we were the ones dragging her behind. If we run into her looking hot and moved on and very sexy we will feel lousy for letting go. And a part of us will want her back. And she won’t want us back. Because she now knows better. Or now gets better. That Orang-outang.

The S4 is that ex that looks good, the one who was the S3.

It’s that ex you will run into in a snazzy bar, cozying up with the new guy. And she will look bewitching. And you will walk over like a gent and say hallo and she will introduce you to the Orang-outang as Kim or Tim, of Felix (it’s always a name like that) and he will smile like a true prince and say nice to meet you and as you walk away he will turn to her and ask, “Is that Biko, THE jackass?” and she will nod and hold her throat pretending to choke herself and she will guffaw. But he won’t laugh to hard because he is a guy and he knows this is a carousel, that today you are the prince but tomorrow you are the jackass. He will understand that we all are someone’s ex. So he will chuckle and go back to his drink.

Look. You don’t know what you have till its gone. But here is one thing you will be glad you didn’t have in the S3…the plastic case. The S4 has a sexy chrome-like case. And the screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. I don’t know what that is, but if you told me a gorilla is protecting my screen, I will sleep knowing that my screen is safe. Plus the phone comes with this warranty that allows you to get a new screen fixed for free should the Gorilla be asleep as your friend reverses on your phone outside Mercury.

Another thing. The S4 went to the gym and got lighter (130g) than the S3 (133g). Which means if it falls on your toe it won’t feel like it’s a Nokia 5110 that’s fallen on it. Or a Motorola DynaTac 8000X (Google it, it looks like a Ukrainian missile).

Although I love the weight and shape of the S4 I miss the feel of the S3. The S3 was curvaceous. It had corners that seduced your palms. Have you ever held the handle bar of a Ducati? Or held a Samurai sword? Built to be held. 

When I held the S3 it would own my hands, it curled inside my palm, like a cat curls around your leg. Its almost like it helped me own it…like a nice pair of ass should. Know what I mean? No? And lets not act puritanical here and turn our nose at my references to the female posterior. I mean, everybody (except expatriates from Western Europe) likes the feel of a full ass in their hands…how it stays, voluptuous in its presence, dominating your hands and waiting for you and your limited – and repetitive – ideas.  

The Koreans have created many great things but they will never simulate an ass in hands like what they did with the S3. That phone was built to be held. And this is not lewd guys, this is high art.

In the looks department the S4 triumphs. There is something clean about the phone. Like it spends the whole day having a bubble bath. Something proper about it. Like it knows how to use its cutlery from the outside coming in. Like it will sit like a lady, not like Phillip Mwaniki – fwaaa. You get the feeling that the S4 is a different kind of pedigree when you look at the superior screen that is much brighter and with colours that are far more vivid than any other Android handset I know.

Here is a story.

I got my S4 handset a few days after the launch last month. The following week I happened to have stepped into a bank in Upper Hill to do some banking.  

So I’m at the counter filling some form am on my phone using the calculator. Oh by the way the calculator on the S4 as many of its features has been so simplified even my daughter uses it to practice her math. True story.

Anyway, the teller lady all of a sudden asks, “What phone is that. It’s not an S3, is it?”

“It’s actually an S4.”

“It’s out?” She asks unable to mask her surprise. My head grows bigger. I stand on my tiptoes to look taller than the counter height.

“Yes. Came out last week.” Oh, the phony nonchalance.  

“Oh cool.” She says before looking back at her screen and I’m assuming she is looking at my account balance to see how much I’m worth to afford the phone. I’m sure she really did everything not to laugh after seeing my balance. Because I do too. All the time.

“Is it any better than the S3 (I’ve gotten that question a lot, people never really compare to the iPhone 5, always the S3)

Do you remember your first phone,” I ask to explain further.

“Ah huh…”

“Now do you remember who you were then, how you felt about owning a mobile phone…how you always wanted it to ring?”

“Yes,” she smiled knowingly.

“Now the S4 revives that feeling.”

“Ah I know what u mean,” she enthuses, then she asks. “Does it have any new cool features?”

So I demo the Air-view and Air-gesture. I show her how you can scroll down the page without touching the screen. Or receive a call without touching the screen, hell or browse down a page without touching the screen.

She is very impressed.

Then I put on my best Jack Nicholson drawl and bullshit her. “See, this phone is like one of those chicks who are so insanely attractive you don’t want to touch them because they look so brittle they might break. So you touch them with your eyes.”

She laughs at that.

“That is the S4. So hot you don’t want to contaminate that beauty with a touch.”

She giggles now because I’m being ridiculous and idle. She shakes her head probably wondering why it has to be the broke guys with the smart mouths.  But I have to move on because she might get fired.

 The S4 thinks faster and better. It makes decisions faster and it aspires to think like you do. Some of the tweaked the features don’t make sense to me but most are useful.

The Korean blokes in white lab coats have not just built a phone. They have pre-empted your habits, which means they have managed to stay ahead of you without leaving you behind. They have also realised that you want to look better…so they have training thing to make u exercise, because they don’t want your “life companion” looking better than you do.

Which brings to me to my question: How much further can then Koreans push the envelope? If my thoughts count I want a phone that will change colour depending on my mood. Like if I’m broke and I hold it up, it turns pale grey. If my landlord calls and I’m anxious it turns orange. If I call that cat that has owed me money for yonks and he doesn’t pick my calls it turns red. Or if Tamms calls it turns purple her favourite colour, the colour of royalty. Or if it’s an unknown number and it’s who I suspect it is it turns into the colour of an Orang-outang.

Samsung. Over to u.

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  1. Great review.

    However I always suspect the word “Samsung” means “sleek but fragile” in Korean.

    1. Someone should tell Biko that the iphone5 has this thing called Siri. You ask the phone to tell you a joke and it does, you ask it to text, set the alarm and it does via voice. No touching the phone. s3 s4 are nothings.

    2. I’m replying to the person saying #someonetellBiko

      The S4 has Google Now. Does pretty much the same thing. You tell it I love you, it says I think I love you too. You can ask it for the weather. You can ask it to call/text someone. You can ask it for directions home. You can ask it what movies are showing. Even tell it to make an egg 😀

    3. @savvy i dont think thats something we should be proud about..making a phone tell u i love u..how lonely is that..LOL

    4. i just wish the phones were more girl friendly..they are kinda big for my taste i like the size of an i phone.THAT i can work with.s3 and s4 look like your walking around with mini tabs!!!

  2. “..it manages to stay ahead without leaving you behind…” I want a sit down with your brain….one ward…fantastic

  3. So…what I’ve learnt from this post is that I would never want to be behind you in the queue at the bank. You’re one of those guys 🙂

  4. …….My head grows bigger. I stand on my tiptoes to look taller than the counter height” Hahahaaa, Impressive!

  5. ” We want to hope that she is dating a complete Orang-outang and she is so miserable and stressed with that hairy joke she gets her menses twice a month because her hormones are screwed up” tihihihi

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  6. “Everybody (except expatriates from Western Europe) likes the feel of a full ass in their hands…how it stays, voluptuous in its presence, dominating your hands and waiting for you and your limited – and repetitive – ideas” …. Said like a true black man! Good one Biko. Now off to trade-in my S3.

  7. hahaha..oh biko biko biko..nw that phone is a killer.i wonder wats next for samsung…nokia has officially been overthrown..#samsungsupremacy#..hahaha.kudos

  8. The S3 is just like the feel of a full ass in their hands…how it stays, voluptuous in its presence, dominating your hands and waiting for you and your limited – and repetitive – ideas.

    now i have to explain to the board why am grinning like a Cheshire cat with a full belly.

  9. This sentence has left me in stiches…….See, this phone is like one of those chicks who are so insanely attractive you don’t want to touch them because they look so brittle they might break. So you touch them with your eyes.”…very intresting read biko

  10. You humanized it; actually womanized it you, erm, you, Biko.

    Great read, as usual

    http://benzerbett.wordpress.com/

  11. No man will admit this but there is this party line that we all wish our exes well. It’s a heap of smouldering croak. We dont. We want to run into our exes and find them doing badly without us. We want to find the miserable and down to their luck. We want to find them with dry lips and bad shoes. We want to hope that she is dating a complete Orang-outang and she is so miserable and stressed with that hairy joke she gets her menses twice a month because her hormones are screwed up…nthng short of the truth,how we all lie

  12. wow, I’m early in class I didn’t scroll for long to ‘Leave a Comment’….so I won’t be a ghost today.
    …and I think you get paid by these Koreans

  13. hehe,you guy,this infatuation you have for Toni never ends?But I won’t be impressed for as long as they still don’t have a phone I can cuddle with,or fight with,or go for picnics with…you get my drift,hehe,good piece though,one of those thoroughly entertaining,with absolutely no point pieces

  14. great piece as usual even though a tad intimidating but awesome nonetheless
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  15. Biko, you have an amazing way with words. Never, do I read your pieces just once…. does Philip Mwaniki know about your open-legged comments?

  16. I love how u dramatised the two phones,damn!even comparing it to a womans ass????really biko??if all hell broke lose in ur life,please consider marketing or advertising.great post though.

  17. So now we know you have the phone and can drawl like Nicholson and fly with the best crowd to eat pizza at werreva…Hahaha! It’s a good phone!

  18. Its easy to see the luopean in you. I just hope you don’t touch yourself while looking/touching your S4.

  19. ..But he won’t laugh too hard because he is a guy and he
    knows this is a carousel, that
    today you are the prince but
    tomorrow you are the jackass. He
    will understand that we all are
    someone’s ex. So he will chuckle
    and go back to his drink…
    Great line there Biko..
    With that being said..you owe us Lumia fans a kawaida article…

  20. I am so voting you to be the unofficial Samsung Galaxy spokesperson my blackberry feels like I am walking around with a mkebe…great writing as always Biko

  21. This feels to me like a beautifully written advertisement so I didn’t finish reading it, went straight to the comments section and found a link to fra’s page. She’s all grown up Biko, you should visit her page and let her know what you think.

  22. You just got yourself into WW3 with the Apple fanboys. But seriously….great review. I hope Samsung is paying….

  23. I know the feeling of wanting it to ring…and how you keep holding it and scrolling and checking… tiihii. Great article as always Biko, kudos

  24. Best review I have ever read! When I grow up, I want to be able to write like this…sometimes 🙂

  25. Great article as usual.
    As for your hate of the orangutan, i don’t understand why! They are cute!
    That bit of Nairobians needing to be validated, so true!

  26. ……..”I don’t know what that is, but if you told me a gorilla is protecting my screen, I will sleep knowing that my screen is safe. Plus the phone comes with this warranty that allows you to get a new screen fixed for free should the Gorilla be asleep as your friend reverses on your phone outside Mercury……”;-)

  27. Guess what I just did, I used to own a nokia phone 3210, (Like 5 mins ago) Just gone to 6th floor, removed simcard and ditched that thing. Now am phone less and saving towards an S4.
    Long journey ahead.

  28. Disclaimer: (1) I have already located the punishment corner for insubordination (Flag post or is naughty-corner now?); (2)This is not a call for you to run for the hills (or Congolese forest for that matter) – again.

    I have always wondered – doesn’t it get boring? To have repeated comment after comment: “Oh what a great story”; “Oh Biko – the pun in that story” (interlaced with hundreds of copy-pastes). Do you read each of these comments or simply scroll through and hope to find a reader with a different view? YES – you are an amazing writer (hey – we voted for you to win the BAKE awards) but when do you know when to pick up the pace?

    Yes, this was a marketing piece, how much more exciting do I want it to be? But you already set the standard so high with the S3 review that this pales in comparison.

    As the bullies from the backbench consider if to tear me apart (Fra comes to mind): No – I am not a great/aspiring writer but then again, do I need to be a renowned chef to realize I’m eating raw/spoilt food? Or do I have to be a doctor to know I am ill? (Well, unless mentally in which case you can have the 500bob for helping fill the vacancies at Mathare).

    *walks quietly to the flag post to wait for my punishment.

  29. Biko, Guys,

    Ever seen a Galaxy S III? Good. You’ve pretty much seen the Galaxy S4, then. No joke, Biko himself told me he’d gotten confused between the S III and the S4.

    The similarity comes from the same plastic construction and finish, same removable back cover, same logo placement, camera placement, speaker placement; same everything. The only real differences come when you inspect it a little more closely.

    There can only be one word for the way TouchWiz/Nature UI (or is it AirWiz) interacts with Android on the Galaxy S4: obnoxious. Oh. My. God. You have no idea. It’s so annoying to use day-to-day! Samsung is also desperate to cram all it’s stuff in front of you to get you to use it, from S-Travel, S-Fitness, S-Planner(calender)…phew! First thing I wanted to do is actually get rid of most of that, because let’s face it: you and I will use it once — if that — and then never use it again because it’s gimmicky.

    If you’re a massive fan and love everything the gadget giant does, then the S4 is for you. You’ll be happier in the Samsung ecosystem with your S-everything than you will adjusting to something else like Sense 5 on the HTC One. If you’re just someone looking for the best Android phone you can get, however, the phone for you is still the HTC One. If you can forgive the terrible pun, it’s still the ‘one’ to beat. I changed mine, from the S4 to the HTC One. You do not need validation Nairobian, go get ‘One’!

  30. Biko… thoroughly enjoyed reading this piece. Certainly, Samsung should do more than give you a phone to review.

    In the meantime, we’re tired of paying homage to Toni … lol.

    Stop hating on us Brew Fans… one man’s meat… careful, we might poison you.

    Poor Philip Mwaniki… or is it fortunate for him? Here comes his 10 seconds of fame.

  31. Boss, we are in consensus that your writing is spectacular. That said, in my opinion, if I was to chose between an S3 and S4 using your reviews as the only guide, I would settle for the previous one any time.

    However, if i was to chose the better entertaining review of the two, S4 review would carry the day.

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  32. Hey Biko,

    It’s amazing how you’ve single handedly managed to convince many a good people on this platform to spend money they do not have on a gadget they probably don’t need. I sense an unadulterated wave of impulse buying. Your advertising skills are judicious though, I will give you that.

    Good reading you here again Sir Biko;Thank you…

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    1. You sound like Tyler Durden in ‘Fight Club’ – the book that supposedly seeks to fight middle-class sloth and indulgence (fancy buying soap made from your own fat after a visit to the liposuction clinic?).

      Maybe we should all rebel at this well-written trope propels us to the shops until June next year when ‘S V-deluxe’ hits the stores and the sight of S4 gives you tremors because it is looking like the saggy-bottoms of a geriatric.

      What’s the world’s coming to now? An advanced version of Mr. Bell invention has now become a tool for approbation!

  33. Great piece in terms of coherence structure and choice of words plus the enthralling symbolism but as a review nah bro…too good to be true you are on these Koreans pay role you choice of adjectives to describe the S4 sells you out also try and make comparisons with real competitors.

    No offense but this piece is more of a lads rooftop shouts that his mothers cooks the best coz he hasn’t tried anything else.

  34. Y’all aspiring S4 owners should pay your shylock debts and bladhy start acting responsible before i feed your sorry asses to the fishes. you taking an entire loan to buy a phone Biko just marketed so you look cool. get some financial blogs to read. Nonsense.

    1. Get a life Kagwiria,this is all meant for our enjoyment!Then you should pay to read this?Let BiKO be.

  35. “See, this phone is like one of those chicks who are so insanely attractive you don’t want to touch them because they look so brittle they might break. So you touch them with your eyes.” ….Smooth you just have a way with words and Samsung should hire you!
    Good read

  36. What’s a piece so well written that you are confused on what to comment?
    So many good lines that you are not sure on what to pick?
    And the amazement that every other piece is always good?

  37. Great piece, could just see the phone. Unrelated, pity the guy who was going after the same chic as you in house school. One letter from you and the dude be forgotten. You have a way with words. Glad log in to just take it all in. Think should add no homo

  38. i have noticed that eveyrtime you post my girlfriend will talk about Biko Biko Biko the whole fucking week! She will also keep quoting ati some stupid comment you wrote in your blog, and she keeps begging me to read your work how good you are. I am sick and im tired of it. I prefer when you dont post in weeks because i get my piece and quite. and i dont read your work, i told her i will never read your work.

    1. Is this something a beer can fix? Me and you. A bar of your choice. A day of your choice (except Sundays). I’m buying.

    2. hehe..Biko,this is what he probably wanted..your attention and an article about him to boot..of course high school will want to know how this meeting went down if he agrees to it and finally the girl friend can talk to him about him for once and not Biko. This meeting will be a”mantalk” literally.

    3. @Ma. You are shallow and so I won’t bother with your reply.

      @Wakesho: Actually I don’t need a drink from Biko or an opinion from you.

      @Bikozulu. I don’t drink alcohol. But we can meet for coffee.

    4. I like shallow. Its always very close to the surface of the truth. You just agreed to a coffee to meet a guy whose work you will never read instead of sitting down for coffee with your girl friend to discuss the problem you have with her.It is her who talks to you about Biko.Biko isnt the one nagging you here.

    5. ….i feel you, bro. I gets the irate when my ‘piece’ and ‘quite’ is violated. Makes me want to hurl a dictionary at someones!!!! I swear!!!!!!!!

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    6. So, i decided to read all of Biko’s posts before he opens a new chapter and i don’t remember laughing out so loud like i just did. I am technologically challenged and don’t go for new ‘toys’ when they hit the market, so judging this post by the title i assumed i wouldn’t enjoy it. Anyway, to avoid deviation from the point i want to express here is that i love words. It will be a pity if my future husband/boyfriend hates words. This man is purely insecure and i can bet with you he read this post before commenting. ION, maybe it is only me, but it is hard not to fall into admiration with a person who writes this good..there it is; I said it!

  39. Teren teren; Sema *Ndrama*… Biks, hell has no fury like a boyfriend scorned… How about you flee to Congo I’ll send you a smoke signal when the dust settles…

  40. ahahha at TIRED OF YOU, BIKO!!!!!!!!!!reminds me of me and after reading this, I will be telling my boyfriend and quoting some lines in here!!!!!!!

  41. Great piece Biko!

    Oh by the way those guys bitching whether it is an advertisement or not you must be very shallow (‘This feels to me like a beautifully written advertisement so I didn’t finish reading it, went straight to the comments section…’). I think we should equate you to some cheap Nokia. I also think you belong to that group that called *blondes* and this adage must have been coined for you… ‘if you want to hide something to an African, hide it in a book’

    Go to the net and read reviews on Cars, Phones etc…. your jaws will drop and you will roll on the floor saying the reviews were done by the owners of those firms. Everyone is entitled is to a review whether positive or negative so do yours….

    Give credit where it is due, if something is good it is GOOD or what did you want Biko to write about, your small ugly ass, or your smelly feet?

  42. this phone is like one of those chicks who are so insanely attractive you don’t want to touch them because they look so brittle they might break. So you touch them with your eyes.— actually experienced this type of girl. smh,,,the kind you even fear to marry

  43. Awwwww a man after my heart! If only u were a male version of Toni Braxton…Never mind with S4 you are that and more! 🙂

  44. I had to search for that pithy line from the book I referred to up there:

    “Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don’t need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don’t really need.”

    I hope this S4 gizmo won’t be doing the same to us.

    Good review though it beats me how you review something without even posting a pic of the thing?

  45. Biko,i took the liberty of asking Don Vito Corleone what he thinks about the samsung & the iphone and this is what he had to say

    “Swag,a word i hate like that swine Barzini , is for boys and class is for men. Handling any Galaxy S-whatever is the closest you’ll ever get to an iOS experience. But i am one who appreciates the fine things in life. I consider myself Sicilian not Italian and so I prefer the Lumia experience”.

  46. In highschool we have an open policy of voluntary admission..If you parents(spouse) insist you must learn from us,then sample a few of our classes just for one term them decide if you will join us or the school across the road.the guidance and counselling office can facilitate this.Secondly not all days will we have games,eat meat or learn social studies..We also teach chemistry and physics which are not compulsary so for those not taking them the library is always open while you wait for the homescience and religious studies bell to ring..lastly let us focus on positive critism and encourage coexistance.avoid commenting abt the yellow skirts of the teachers on training(TP)..thank you..(from scouts desk)

    1. Hahaha you said it well. I am enjoying the comments tho, finally our high school got haters! Some need to be booooooooooeeedddd!

  47. ” And she won’t want us back. Because she now knows better. Or now gets better. That Orang-outang.” – General Zod likes your sense of humor.

  48. Am i the only one in class who feels cheated today? Oh, and by the way S4 was a marketing genius but if you want the real deal, Sony Xperia Z boy!

  49. Just wondering about the high school peeps up in here who believe the only way to own the S4 is by running into debt, High School members can afford ‘oh ye of lil faith’ unless ofcourse you speaketh abt ya self 🙂

  50. Yep, I also feel cheated this week for some reason. I guess it’s because I feel used. I feel like you tried to push a product I don’t need down my throat. No thanks, I will stick to my Samsung Galaxy Tab. The unwritten rule of reviews is that you have to let your audience know you have been paid to do the review (if you have been paid) , otherwise your readers won’t trust your opinion anymore. I liked the S3 review better. I know you are always excited to post when your article is done but pleeeease PROOFREAD first.

  51. How come my S4 is not as exciting as this one sounds? Personally prefer the Lumia 920. And what is it with peeps getting offended by other people’s comments / opinions, and attacking them? The comments are quite a study how people think, or don’t…

  52. I like the phone,very innovative.Check technology books at http://www.booksfromus.co.ke for the latest phone release

  53. @ NameNdiransh….you guy!Why do i like you already!?And i rarely like people, so that’s a compliment right there!

    Baba Tamms….Keep writing, i’ll keep reading!Awesome as awesome can get!

    In my playist ‘I’m blind to you, Fu*kin haters..’

    Peace y’all!!!!

  54. Now you’ve made me regret buying an S3, when there is an S4 to be had. LOL. Lovely and engaging piece of writing. You’re good.

  55. Lost an S4 last month, I own a mulika now!!and you have just destroyed me in a way that ill never recover!!EVER!!

  56. This was just beautifully crafted!! However, it has sparked a debate in the entire office and there are botties of whiskey at stake…kindly clarify to us, is the current boyfriend the Orang-outang being introduced as Tim/Kim or Felix or is he actually the ex in para 18? I need to take these botties home