Friday 7 March 2014

Samsung Galaxy S5



Samsung had launched its new smartphone Galaxy S5 at MWC Barcelona. It is unknown for Samsung Galaxy S5 actual release date yet, however it is expected to be April. Galaxy S5 price still kept in secret yet.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 SCREEN SIZE AND RESOLUTION

SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 is a 5.1in screen with a Full HD (1,920x1,080) resolution. SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 is a little larger than on the Samsung Galaxy S4, which had a 4.99in display, both the resolution are same.

Despite the slightly larger screen, Samsung only increase the size of the Galaxy S5 slightly and it measures 142x72.5x8.1mm and weighs 145g compares to the Galaxy S4, which measures 136.6x69.8x7.9mm and weighs 130g.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 DESIGN

Samsung Galaxy S5 doesn't look a big different to its predecessor Galaxy S4. Its core material still plastic, with a ridged metal-effect band running round the side. The rear has a dimpled back.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 FINGERPRINT SENSOR

Samsung Galaxy S5 has fingerprint sensor built into the Home Button as predicted, rival with the TouchID scanner in the Apple iPhone 5S. As standard usage and expectation, Samsung's fingerfrint scanner can be used to unlock the phone with a finger swipe.The fingerprint reader can also be used to secure and unlock private storage on the phone, so you can lock down images you wish to keep especially private. 

Online payment processor, Paypal is supported and can be used to authenticate by Galaxy S5 fingerprint sensor.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 PROCESSOR

2.5GHz quad-core processor is used for the Galaxy S5.The S5 completed the Sunspider JavaScript benchmark in just 408ms, which makes the S5 not only by far the fastest Android phone we've seen, but the fastest phone of any type.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 CAMERA

As market predicted, Samsung has upped the camera sensor from the 13 megapixel in the Galaxy S4 to a 16 megapixel for the Galaxy S5. Samsung has worked on improving the user camera experience.

For starters, Samsung is claiming that the Galaxy S5's camera has the world's fastest autofocus speed of up to 0.3 seconds. For anyone that's tried to take a quick photo from a smartphone only to have the focus hunt for a lock, this could be a real boon. Next thing is Selective Focus mode, which lets you focus on a specific area of the frame, blurring everything else out. It should allow for some neat depth-of-field effects.

In video mode the camera can shoot Ultra HD 4K (3,840x2,160) video at 30fps. That's really impressive for a camera, although you're going to need a large memory card to shoot a lot of video. Fortunately, there's a microSD card slot, which can take cards up to 128GB in size.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 BATTERY

Samsung has upped the battery in the Galaxy S5 from the 2,600mAh model in the Galaxy S4 to a 2,800mAh. It is expected the battery life to be the same as Galaxy S4, given that the larger size of Galaxy S5. However, Samsung has a new power-saving mode. This switches the phone's screen to black and white mode, shutting down all unnecessary features to minimize battery consumption

SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 4G LTE AND WI-FI

Samsung has upgraded the wireless connectivity technology for Galaxy S5. With the category 4 LTE, Galaxy S5 will be compatible with more networks. When 4G network become more common, this could be very useful. Wi-Fi has been upgraded to 80.11ac with 2x2 MIMO. 

SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 FITNESS

Fitness was going to be a big part of the Samsung Galaxy S5. With the new version of Samsung's fitness tracking app, S Health 3.0, the phone now has a built-in heart rate monitor.