Samsung today launched its highly anticipated flagship smartphone of its highly popular Galaxy S series dubbed as Galaxy S5.It has many key software updates and many hardware updates over its predecessor.Samsung launched Galaxy S5,Gear 2,Gear neo in its conference in Barcelona today.
The Galaxy S5 has many key updates.
The Galaxy S5 has many key updates.
The Galaxy S5 has a full HD 5.1 inch Super amoled display.It makes the screen even more beautiful than already impressive Galaxy S4's screen.
The vice president of Samsung quoted in the confference that "in your hands, a smartphone has never felt better".Justifying this statement Samsung has finally given up the polycarbonate design which was highly criticised to be used in a premium smartphone like the Galaxy S series.
Samsung made some important changes to its touchwiz software with some key innovations.Its now clearly simple and uncluttered.The settings menu has been changed as clear and big separate options which is nicer way to look at.
Samsung claims that the battery life is significantly improved over the S4.It has a 2800 mAH battery.Samsung claims 10h batter life for lte browsing and 12 h for video playback.
Samsung has changed the camera significantly without increasing the mega pixel count. It still has a 16 MP camera but has significantly increased the sensor.Samsung claims that it is smartphone with fastest AF with a 0.3 sec shoot time.It also has a Rich tone (HDR).
Samsung updated the wifi connectivity significantly in the latest smartphone.Samsung claims that we can download 1 Giga byte file in about 30 secs.That is really speed and if their claims are true then Samsung has a real update on the network.Let us wait for review to come out on this segment.
Samsung claims that its new flagship phone is water and dust resistant. Samsung claims that we can use the phone in whatever condition you are put in life like a rain or a bright sunny day. Samsung also has auto brightness to adjust to whatever temperature conditions.
Samsung next big announcement was Ultra power saving mode.It claims that if Smartphone is around 10 % battery life we can use our phone around 24 hours using ultra power saving mode which brings your phone into black and white and with only basic features like sms,call etc.
Samsung announced finger print scanner built in in the home button. User can swipe in to the home button to unlock the phone,make mobile payments and secure content.
Samsung also announced Kids mode in which parent's can secure their content and important files away from their kids when they use their Parent's phone for usage like games etc. The kids mode comes with pre installed apps and games related to children .
Bottom line is that Samsung S5 was a good update with no wow factor though. It is good update if you are S2 or S3 customer.It can be totally ignored if u have a Note 2, Samsung S4,Note 3.
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