riddle, that hybrid samsung s4 zoom was unveiled just few days ago at E3 expo. In US, they may release S4 zoom may be during holiday season or sooner. But I've heard for those impatient souls in Germany they've already started taking pre-order(takes months) for this monster, priced at 500 euros. I don't think this hybrid device is for you, since you are looking for smaller compact device as per our discussion on chat last time. Ergomically, this device has not yet reached at publics hands yet, to be tested out but looking through videos and images, the selling factor for it would be it's 16 MP camera with 10x optical zoom. Other than that, there is no difference between this and S4 mini. Dont go for the word 'mini' on S4, it's still slightly bigger than your iphone that you are quite acquainted with for a while. Hope that helped your query.