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Watch Samsung Galaxy S4s get their groove on doing the surround thing in a Group Play demo

Watch Samsung Galaxy S4s get their groove on doing the surround thing in a Group Play demo

Posted: 22 Apr 2013, 08:03, by Daniel P.

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Watch Samsung Galaxy S4s get their groove on doing the surround thing in a Group Play demo

With the Galaxy S4 Samsung is shipping something it calls Group Play, which it demonstrated for us back during the official unveiling. It essentially allows one master device to control a few others, creating group music playback with all the makings of a surround sound system, but also works for pics and vids, too.

The feature is accompanied by playlists creation and sharing, visualizations, and so forth niceties for enhancing the Group Play effect. Now that Galaxy S4 handsets are already out and about, it's no surprise that we are getting live demos of the functionality, and it is coming to other Samsung gear, too, so check out the video demonstration below.

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posted on 22 Apr 2013, 08:07 21

1. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)

Amazing! Imagine playing the song below using Group Play, and using 8 Galaxy S4s together!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 22:32 2

31. AnTuTu (Posts: 1580; Member since: 14 Oct 2012)

Best smartphone ever in the history so far.

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 22:43

32. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)

I agree!

posted on 23 Apr 2013, 01:54

36. cheetah2k (Posts: 1746; Member since: 16 Jan 2011)

Apple must be looking at this and then going "WTF else can it do??" Gotta admit whether anyone uses these features or not, Samsung have surely got their schizzle together on the SG4

posted on 23 Apr 2013, 03:06

39. Daftama (Posts: 619; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)

The same amount of ppl widget will use these features...I think less lol average person doesn't even know that samsung has these features they be like everyone bandwagon a phone...dont get me wrong its a great I will be getting because of the power behind looks suck lol...but majority are idtios lol

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 08:10 14

2. huguleyite (Posts: 2; Member since: 19 Apr 2013)

How much cooler can you get?

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 08:11 9

3. mydi.maus (unregistered)

worthless..

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 08:14 31

6. nobelset (Posts: 270; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)

Like you?

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 10:28 9

15. WakaFlakaD (Posts: 527; Member since: 30 Apr 2011)

It's a very cool feature, but how functionality will it be for daily use? I think that's the standard that he took

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 18:46

29. joey_sfb (Posts: 6628; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)

Actually it encourage teens to get S4. They get to burst their favorite tune during break.

Its also useful if your friend has a s4 and you need temporary loudness to heard a clip in public.

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 08:13 12

4. piyath (Posts: 1051; Member since: 23 Mar 2012)

coooooooooooooool!!!!

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 08:14 7

5. moroninc (Posts: 193; Member since: 14 Jul 2012)

release it already .. so i can root the darn thing!

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 08:17 12

7. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)

LOL! It is a perfect tool using which you and your friends can easily piss off someone in a public places. :D

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 15:35

23. HDShatter (Posts: 1021; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)

Or just get something thats much cheaper than a bunch of S4s that sounds much better like a Sony xplod.

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 16:59 2

28. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)

Seems that you didn't get whole idea. :)

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 08:19 1

8. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 4330; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)

What if one S4 user don't have the same file? Large pdf files, lengthy HD videos and stuff like that.
Will it still work too?

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 08:53 5

9. kclgphilsbsa (Posts: 765; Member since: 21 Jan 2013)

Lol, den shre it frst

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 08:59

10. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)

What?

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 11:10 1

17. Deadeye37 (Posts: 193; Member since: 25 Jan 2011)

Yup, just share it first with that quick share feature (don't remember the official name).

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 12:25 1

20. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 4330; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)

Do you think that even makes sense?? Why would anyone want to share it first to another device just to group play?? I thought this would be some kind of wireless screen mirroring.

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 23:34 1

33. MultiYouTroll (Posts: 29; Member since: 19 Apr 2013)

you don't make sense.. why wouldn't you share a file if not for the group play?

posted on 23 Apr 2013, 00:53

35. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 4330; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)

Jezz! So You'll share files only for the sake of showing off the group play feature?
And not for keeping the file to yourself? That kind of defeats other file sending features.

posted on 23 Apr 2013, 02:39 1

37. kclgphilsbsa (Posts: 765; Member since: 21 Jan 2013)

Oh my.. educate urself,
U just find urself as a hater and talk nonsense excuses and discredts against d s4

posted on 23 Apr 2013, 05:34

40. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 4330; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)

Educate yourself first...i don't hate any device!!

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 09:26 2

11. Ninetysix (Posts: 2689; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)

Those are Galaxy S3 phones. You all got trolled.

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 12:07 10

18. Nephylim (Posts: 134; Member since: 04 Apr 2013)

stupid + blind + troll = you

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 12:21 7

19. SleepingOz (unregistered)

You must be really blind then, this ain't no ip4 -ip4s!
Same design cues doesn't mean same exact design.
The GSIV actually looks much better than the GSIII.

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 14:50 1

22. chocolaking (Posts: 495; Member since: 22 May 2012)

S3 and S4 has no difference in apperance.
I think it should really just name it S3s.

posted on 22 Apr 2013, 15:37 6

24. HDShatter (Posts: 1021; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)

Its different, if you can't tell the differences between an s3 and s4 your probably an idiot.