No you are not seeing a mirage Sprint has released the Samsung Galaxy S4 in "Purple Mirage" is available from Sprint online and if you buy one, you get another one free or you can buy one for $99.99.
Sprint claims it makes a wonderful color for "Back-to-School." However, whatever color you buy, Sprint has a buy-one-get-one- free deal, when buy one Samsung Galaxy S4 for $199.99 with a qualifying plan and new activation, you get one free after a rebate.
If you only need to buy one Samsung Galaxy S 4, Amazon
Consumer Reports gave the GS 4 its highest rating formerly held by the LG Optimus G calling it the most advanced Android smartphone with top-notch performance and excellent camera. They liked the glove enabled and cold weather use of the touchscreen, mutlitasking, IR remote and gesture controls.
The Galaxy S 4 is powered by Android 4.2.2, Jelly Bean, and has 5-inch full HD Super AMOLED touchscreen, 1.9GHz quad-core processor and access to the Sprint 4G LTE network. It also offers Multi Window, which allows the use of two apps side-by-side.
Galaxy S 4 features dual cameras: a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera and 2-megapixel front-facing camera with a Dual Camera function that allows simultaneous use of both cameras. Other features include Drama Shot,Eraser Shot and Live Filters.
Galaxy S 4 adds new touchless navigation with innovative features that detect face, voice and motions to enable screen control.
- Air View lets you review emails, photos in the gallery, or even the stories in Flipboard by hovering your finger over the screen.
- Smart Pause pauses a video by looking away from the screen.
- Air Gesture allows the user to answer a call or skip to the next song by waving his or her hand in front of the screen.
Easy Mode simplifies the home screen layout, camera, calendar, messaging and the Internet browser to make the settings menu easy to navigate for first-time smartphone owners.
The Galaxy S 4 has many "green features" including ULE Platinum Certification, energy efficent charger and recyclability rate is 87.1 percent. The device has eliminated the use of many environmentally sensitive materials, including polyvinyl chloride (PVC), brominated flame retardants (BFR), halogen, beryllium, phthalates and nickel. Packaging is 99 percent recyclable; 100 percent of the paperboard is derived from post-consumer recycled materials.
To everyone looking to get the Galaxy S4 on BOGO. Look otherwise.. As of 8/17/13 the deal, is officially OVER. Though the website still says bogo, it IS over.
This article was published on Friday. Today, Sunday Sprint has a buy one get one free only for HTC One. Instead of BYGO Samsung Galaxy S4, you get $200 off a Samsung tablets.
Prices at Amazon do appear to be holding.