It's supposed to allow you to easily create shallow depth of field effects, and it works by taking a series of shots at different focal distances, and then lets you choose the best one later. This feature worked well and allowed us to take a picture of a bright room without losing any details in the shadows or blowing out highlights.Īnother camera feature showing great potential, but perhaps in need of a bit of fine tuning, is the S5's selective focus mode, which in theory, lets you take a shot and then select your focal plane later on. The S5's camera is also the first camera phone to boast real-time HDR settings, which will show you exactly what your picture will look like before you take it. Nevertheless, even in quite poor lighting, the auto focus speed was indeed impressive. In our brief testing, the rear camera did focus very quickly, but a few times it would focus on something in the distance rather than what we put right in front of it. The front camera is a much less impressive 2.0MP, which we suspect is the same front camera as on the S4. To help it in its task, the S5 is armed with a new and improved 16MP rear shooter with an f/2.2 aperture lens, with what Samsung tells us is the fastest auto focus ever seen on a camera phone, thanks to phase detection technology, at up to 0.3 seconds. No small boast considering the competition out there. The Samsung product manager we spoke to told us that Samsung wants the S5 to be the best camera phone in the world. It will be available in both 16GB and 32GB storage options and will come with Android 4.4 KitKat pre-installed. The S5 will be powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 801 silicon (quad-core Krait 400 CPU at 2.5GHz, Adreno 330 GPU) and 2GB RAM. The difference in clarity is indistinguishable in person, but you never like to see a spec go down. While the screen size has grown bigger, the screen resolution hasn't, and the S5 is fitted with a Full HD 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution Super AMOLED display - which actually gives it a slightly lower 432 ppi than its predecessor's 441 ppi. The front of the gold, black and blue models is black, while the front of the white model is white. The gold model has matching gold edges, while the other three have silver edges. The S5 will be available in four colors at launch: Charcoal Black, Shimmery White, Electric Blue, and what seems to be everyone's color-du-jour right now, Copper Gold. Those hoping for a radical, bezel-less, premium metal build will be disappointed, as unfortunately, Samsung hasn't changed anything here, and the S5 remains unapologetically 'polycarbonate' - although at least, Samsung has opted to ditch the glossy plastic for a dimpled semi-matte plastic finish - it's still plastic, but it feels nicer in hand and provides a bit more grip as well. Design-wise, other than being a bit taller, it looks much the same as last year's S4 with rounded corners and 'brushed' edges. One nice design improvement is that the S5 is IP67 rated, which gives it fairly robust protection against dust and water resistant - the trade-off is that the Micro-USB port is now covered by a sealed cover. It's also 0.2mm thicker (not that you can tell) and 15g heavier than the S4 at 145g. At 5.1-inches, the Galaxy S5 gains an inch on last year's model. Before we start, here's a quick look at how the S5 stacks up against last year's S4: Singapore has yet to be confirmed as one of them, but it seems likely. The Galaxy S5 will be available in 150 countries on 11th April. The Samsung product manager we spoke to highlighted five key areas that Samsung has targeted with the S5:īy the way, if you were one of the people that did find the S4's features useful, you'll be happy to know that everything the S4 did, from Air Gestures to Smart Scroll, the S5 can do as well. The Galaxy S5 represents an iconic design with essential and useful features to focus on delivering the ultimate smartphone on the market today through people inspired innovation. “Consumers are looking for mobile tools that inspire and support them as they improve their everyday lives. “With the Galaxy S5, Samsung is going back to basics to focus on delivering the capabilities that matter most to our consumers,” said JK Shin, President and Head of IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung. Samsung seems to recognize that many felt the same way, and for the S5, has re-focused attention on functionality and features that people actually use. When Samsung launched the Galaxy S4 last year, we found many of its software features to be innovative, but ultimately gimmicky and unnecessary for the majority of people. Hands-on: Samsung Galaxy S5 Back to Basics
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