NEW YORK: Samsung Electronics is kicking up its competition with Apple with its new Galaxy S 4 smartphone, which has a larger, sharper screen than its predecessor, the best-selling S III.
Samsung revealed the phone at an event Thursday evening in New York.
The Galaxy S 4, which crams a 5-inch screen into a body slightly smaller than the S III’s, will go on sale globally in the April to June period.
In the U.S., it will be sold by all four national carriers — Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA — as well as by smaller ones US Cellular and Cricket.
Samsung didn’t say what the phone will cost, but it can be expected to start at $200 with a two-year contract.
Surging Samsung surpassed Apple to become the world’s largest smartphone maker in 2012. Samsung had 29 percent of global smartphone unit shipments in the fourth quarter, compared with 21 percent for Apple, according to data Bloomberg compiled.
