Galaxy S5 is the new flagship smartphone from the Samsung. The improvements are done in the areas such as processor, RAM size and in design. Samsung Galaxy S5 price in India is Rs.46,450.
Samsung Galaxy S5 sports 5.1 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen with screen resolution of 1080×1920 pixels and pixel density of 432ppi. The display screen has the Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The device has finger print sensor and Galaxy S5 is a water and dust resistant device.
Like previous Galaxy flasgships, even Galaxy S5 comes in two variants. One with LTE and one with 3G connectivity. In India, 3G device with Octa Core Exynos 5422 processor with has two clusters. One cluster consist of high performance four cores that use A15ARM archotectecture clocked at 1.9GHz and 4 cores based on A7 architecture running at 1.3GHz. The Global variant is powered by Snapdragon 801 processor running at 2.46GHz. The graphic chips also comes in two variants. The Exynos version comes with multiple cores of Mali-T628 and snapdragon version comes with Adreno 330.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with 16MP primary camera and 2MP front facing camera. The device is powered by 2800 mAh battery. Internal storage of the device is 16GB/32GB and supports microSD card upto 64GB. Connectivity features of Galaxy S5 are 2G, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, LTE, USB tethering, WiFi hotspot.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Samsung Galaxy S5
Pros of Galaxy S5
- Very good camera performance
- Powerfull performance.
- Fingerprint scanner and heart rate monitoring features.
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- IP67 certification for dust and water resistance
Cons of Galaxy S5
- There is not much intutive changes compared to Galaxy S4.
- No Optical image stabilization and dedicated camera key.
- Expensive. The price is not justifies the features.
Samsung Galaxy S5 Tips
Samsung Galaxy S5 tethering
Samsung Galaxy S5 can be used as modem using the USB tethering features and WiFi Hotspot features. For more read my earlier post on How to use Samsung Galaxy smartphone as Modem.
Samsung Galaxy S5 PC suite: The device runs on latets Android 4.0.4 Kitkat. You can download free Mobile PC suite for Samsung Galaxy S5 from the official Samsung support page or by clicking Samsung Mobile PC suite.
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