We all know that the next big thing was unveiled a month back at MWC 2014. To my and everyone's surprise the device was not what we all wanted it to be. Basically we need to understand that Samsung hasn't made a bad device, the rumours made it. I don't know how many of you saw a leaked box cover of a samsung device which got leaked prior to release. The specs was a 5.25" QHD ( there's a huge difference between qHD and QHD and if you're not familiar its better to use 2K) resolution. 20.7 MP camera, a solid 3000 mAH battery and 3GB of ram.
This is what everyone wanted to see when Samsung was saying "THIS IS GALAXY S5" and when it didn't we all hated Samsung for that. It was not just me but most of the reviewers who were present there were not happy. But later when they got to have a hands on the device everything just changed. Most of them were praising the device for how it has evolved. From the moment the galaxy s5 was unveiled i told
+Mathew Poynter that am going to get one and he was saying as i quote was "am disappointed man. This not what i expected". I was sure the galaxy s5 is the one am going to get anyway because i had the chance to realise the betterment of the device in mean time people weren't over the shock of the unexpected specs sheet samung gave in.
There is always two sides for a coin. Yes the galaxy S5 isn't everything that were rumoured to be but its everything a average consumer would want. what is that? you would ask and its as simple as "running with no issues out of the box". Every time Samsung made their breakthrough technologies invested on every galaxy device we always faced issues. Ever since the galaxy S. The galaxy S was an icon of a android devices. Still the issues were pestering the consumers. When the galaxy S2 came out it had issues with the new super AMOLED+ screen and that was one among the first phones to sport a dual core processor home made branding (exynos). The phone was state of the art at hardware thus was good at everything (theoretically) but lacked proper colour reproduction, blue tint to the top corner of the screen, low battery life, poor audio and so on. The galaxy s3 came out and it sported a quad core processor and it had a HD AMOLED technology which they switched back to the super AMOLED and not the same super AMOLED+ used on the galaxy S2. Though it was the hottest selling phone for Samsung till date, its still not the phone where everything is ok. Samsung did not stop there and when the galaxy S4 came out it was an octa core phone with FHD super AMOLED technology and that's where the screen issues mostly were addressed and finally improved drastically. No one knows what would have happened if Samsung's galaxy S5 would have had a QHD display. Why do we need QHD on a phone with the pixel density already super-passing the mark of 320?. We did see the OPPO FIND 7 and we did come to know how much the QHD made the phone compromise on display quality and performance.
Well to anyone's knowledge this is the first time Samsung created a opportunity for itself to fixed all the issues it had carried out till date for all these years. The FHD super AMOLED on the galaxy S5 is one of the best displays out there and this is not just told by me but by the experts from Display mate. It has the Brightest screen every made on an AMOLED and the dimmest too. It has an awesome fluid, well and beautifully polished UX and came out with the least gimmicks ( e.g.heart rate monitor). They've fill in so many wonderful features into the phone like the ultra power saving mode. It has one of the deepest speakers any galaxy device has ever sported thus making the sound more punchy where its needed and loud enough as well (don't compare with boom sound). To be frank the galaxy S phones were never good with audio quality and to my surprise the galaxy S5 was awesome with its output in ears. The music player has more features that are very useful and the camera is a stellar. If you knew this or not the galaxy S phones always borrowed their camera technology from Sony. For the first time Samsung has implemented its very own sensor which is called ISOCELL. They are not just on papers feels sound but practically does. Its one of the best cameras you can get on an android device. So being a iterative update over its predecessor isn't a bad thing. I got the chance to use the galaxy S5 and am not getting into more details about the device because i will be getting my Brand new galaxy S5 tomorrow and the unboxing and walk-through sessions will be live broadcast on youtube along with
+Mathew Poynter on the boat. The galaxy S5 is one of the best phones in its class and i would recommend for one over any other manufacture not because you would am a Samsung fan but to know why and to get your doubts cleared stay tuned for tomorrow. The broadcast time will be posted tomorrow at GMT ASAP i receive my package. keep a check on
Samsung Galaxy page on facebook.
UPDATE : The galaxy s5 unboxing and the walkthrough tour will commence by 5 pm GMT or 6 hours from now. The link will go live 5 minutes before the broadcast starts.
