{"id":16321,"date":"2013-04-29T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16321"},"modified":"2013-04-29T00:18:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T07:18:21","slug":"the-samsung-galaxy-s4-is-the-worlds-first-peripatetic-computer-you-walk-you-work-and-you-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16321\/the-samsung-galaxy-s4-is-the-worlds-first-peripatetic-computer-you-walk-you-work-and-you-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Samsung Galaxy S4 is the world&#8217;s first peripatetic computer: You walk, you work and you thrive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/galaxy-s4-amazing.jpg\" alt=\"You walk, you work \u2013 and you get the job done.\" width=\"100%\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/galaxy-s4-amazing.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/galaxy-s4-amazing-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was walking around the house Saturday &#8212; busily working away, headset in my ear, making phone calls and dealing with emails &#8212; when it hit me:<\/p>\n<p>The Samsung Galaxy S4 is the world&#8217;s first peripatetic computer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy and natural to work &#8212; to do real work &#8212; while walking. Salesmaniacs know that you work better on the phone when you&#8217;re walking and talking, but that&#8217;s just one aspect of the the sheer utility of doing the desk work where the work is, instead of trying to disgarble the mangled reports of intermediaries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&#038;rls=en&#038;q=samsung+galaxy+s4&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8#hl=en&#038;gs_rn=11&#038;gs_ri=psy-ab&#038;tok=WRSqmszzNLG5OrtQtpP9Ew&#038;pq=samsung%20galaxy%20s4&#038;cp=21&#038;gs_id=g&#038;xhr=t&#038;q=samsung+galaxy+s4+review&#038;es_nrs=true&#038;pf=p&#038;client=safari&#038;rls=en&#038;sclient=psy-ab&#038;oq=samsung+galaxy+s4+rev&#038;gs_l=&#038;pbx=1&#038;bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&#038;bvm=bv.45645796,d.b2I&#038;fp=efb2df75729c2d6e&#038;biw=1272&#038;bih=854\" target=\"_blank\">Comprehensive reviews of the S4 abound<\/a>, pick your poison. I&#8217;m Apple to the core since 1985, so this was a big move for me. I have zero doubt that all smartphones are rip-offs of Apple, that without the iPhone, cell phones would still look and disappoint like the the Nokias and Motorolas of yore. But Samsung is number two and it is trying harder than Apple is now &#8212; a lot harder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/guide-to-galaxy-smart-devices\/galaxy-s-4-smartphone.html\" target=\"_blank\">The unique features of the phone<\/a> are gee-whiz and boy-howdy both, doubt you nothing, but that&#8217;s all just geekery (and the whole Android universe is rife with the kind of self-satisfied jargonistic needlessly-arcane asshattery that made normal people shun Unix (Eunichs?) geeks even before they made DOS for the dumb ones). What makes the S4 work is the way it&#8217;s made for work.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>* Size: Nice in my hand, maybe just a touch big for the wimminz, but very pocketable, unlike the largely-comparable Galaxy Note 2. (Between the lines: Leaving the phone out of the iPad and iPad Mini was an unforced error on Apple&#8217;s part.)<\/p>\n<p>* Weight: That plastic shell feels cheesy, but it makes the phone super-light. I can hold it stationary in one hand indefinitely, easily, without rest or stress. I sold my iPad 2 because the weight of the thing made it, <em>de facto,<\/em> a crippled laptop, not a usefully-mobile computing solution.<\/p>\n<p>* Software: This is still the weakest link for true peripateticism, computing while ambulating, working while you walk, but we&#8217;re getting there. The whole &#8220;app&#8221; diversion has been a disaster, with millions of people possessed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16321\/the-samsung-galaxy-s4-is-the-worlds-first-peripatetic-computer-you-walk-you-work-and-you-thrive\/#more-16321\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking around the house Saturday &#8212; busily working away, headset in my ear, making phone calls and dealing with emails &#8212; when it hit me: The Samsung Galaxy S4 is the world&#8217;s first peripatetic computer. It&#8217;s easy and natural to work &#8212; to do real work &#8212; while walking. Salesmaniacs know that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,379,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","7":"category-innovation","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2226,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2226\/video-podcast-with-daniel-rothamel-from-the-floor-of-the-nar-convention\/","url_meta":{"origin":16321,"position":0},"title":"Video podcast with Daniel Rothamel from the NAR Convention","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I am too much chagrined. 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