Samsung Galaxy S5 Review: Performance, Camera, Design and Battery Life

Samsung has introduced a fabulous camera on this Samsung Galaxy S5 with a 16 megapix camera that it is a very good camera as I mentioned earlier and the pictures that it can take are very good and also the biggest thing is that even in HDR mode the pictures that it can take are very good another thing that I like is the waterproofing features that's the IP67 certification though this is a water resistant phone uh it's not very bulky phone so I think so many people will appreciate that it's a water resistant device now coming to the overall performance the overall performance of this Galaxy S5 was very Snappy and I have to say it has to be one of the most Snappy Samsung based Android phones that I have tested now coming to touch whz and I would say the Touchwiz on this is the new TouchWiz and it's a lot less heavy another thing that I was happy with the Galaxy S5 is that though it Sports octacore processor the model that we are testing has the octacore processor I was worried about the heating issues and I have to say yes the phone gets a little bit warm when you're using it normally but it doesn't does not get uh very hot like some other Android phones for example the Samsung Galaxy S4 the Octo version had heating issues but I did not face any major heating issues with the Galaxy S5 during my testing I was also happy with the battery life that I was getting on the S5 and I would say in terms of battery life it's slightly better than the Galaxy S4 but this Galaxy S5 even has that ultra power saving mode and if you enable that you can easily e out a couple of more hours of battery life so definitely that ultra power syn mode is beneficial now coming to the cons of this device uh and the first thing is the design many people might not like the design of this phone and yes the back is now that dimpled back and in terms of functionality I would say it provides a lot better grip compared to the Galaxy S4 but it's a mixed opinion that some people might like the backing or not also in terms of design uh the Samsung has increased the size of the Galaxy S5 a little bit now it sports that 5.1 in screen and the phone is a little bit wider and I would say the Galaxy S4 was pretty comfortable holding in one hand but this Galaxy S5 is on the border line uncomfortable so if you're planning to get this device I would suggest that go to a local store and handle the device for a few minutes to see if it's comfortable for you or not another minor con is the fingerprint scanner now the S5 has that fingerprint scanner but I would say in my testing uh the fingerprint scanner works around 50% of the time I hope that Samsung can improve that functionality also Samsung has introduced this hard trate sensor it might be beneficial for some people but Samsung ored the optical image stabilization they should have included because the camera on this is very good in normal lighting but in very low lighting conditions the camera is a little bit weak and if Samsung would have included the optical image stabilization uh it would have been great but sadly there's no Optical image stabilization on the Galaxy S5 another con that I have with the Galaxy S5 is the speaker uh though it just has a single speaker and it's adequately loud but I've noticed that when you keep the speaker at max level uh the back actually the complete back kind of vibrates so I don't get it uh and it gives you that cheap feeling so I'm not very impressed with the speaker quality that is provided on the uh S5 and it actually at max volume though it's adequately loud the entire back panel vibrates so these are some of the cons of this Galaxy S5 now coming to the price yes I feel that the pricing of this Galaxy S5 especially in India is pretty high around the 50,000 Mark that's almost us $850 so end of the day it comes to you in terms of overall performance I would say the performance of this Galaxy S5 was very good in around 2 weeks of my testing I hardly faced any issues of lagginess or sluggishness on the phone and now ultimately it comes down to you uh considering the price point of this Galaxy S5 is it for you or not it's ultimately for you to decide

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi there this is Ranjit and in this video we'll be doing the full in-depth review for this Samsung Galaxy S5 and I have been using this Samsung Galaxy S5 as my primary smartphone now for about 12 days and I'm going to talk about uh the general features uh and how it performs and at the end of this review I'll also talk about the pros of the Samsung Galaxy S5 and some of the cons that I have with the Galaxy S5 so let's get on with the in-depth review for the Samsung Galaxy S5 so here we have the Samsung Galaxy S5 and uh the version that I have is the exos octacore version the Galaxy S5 we get in two varieties one comes with the Qualcomm based processor and another with the exos octacore that is Samsung's own 8 core processor the one we have is the exos octacore processor and it also has the Mali 628 GPU apart from that other specs are similar both the models have 2 GB of RAM and uh actually the Samsung Galaxy S5 the screen has been improved a lot it's a 5.1 in screen and before that let me give you a physical overview because there are some changes uh we have the IR Blaster over here secondary microphone and uh this is the earphone and I'll talk about the earphone a bit later the quality is pretty good and the design has been changed from S5 we have this ridges over here and it's a personal uh preference I don't like this design but some of you might like it we also have the power button and if you notice closely uh the power button has been uh reduced in size significantly and again we have nothing else on the bottom we have a flap here because now the Galaxy S5 is water resistant that is IP67 certified so we have this flap to cover the uh USB 3 port and this port is the micro USB 3 Port but you can uh use your regular micro USB cable and actually with the exos version Samsung has supplied the regular micro USB cable actually I have done already the unboxing of this uh S5 so if you want to know what comes inside the box you can check out that video uh moving further along we have nothing over here and we have the volume rocker again as you can see due to that it is kind of hidden and moving towards the back here we see the design change and if you notice closely uh we have this dimpled uh textured back and actually in terms of functionality it provides a lot better grip compared to the S4 in my opinion the S4 was very slippery device but due to this uh dimpled back this one provides actually a lot better grip and if you notice we have uh this new uh thing this is a heart rate sensor come flash over here and we also have the 16 megapixel camera which uses Samsung's own ISO cell we have the Samsung branding and here we have the opening for the speaker we can open the back cover as usual we have an indent and we can easily open it up like this as as you can see we have a a huge battery that's a 2800 mAh battery and you can add your micro sun and a Micro SD card and now micro SD cards up to 128 gigs are support and if you notice the back cover we have this rubber gasket over here and uh this is for the water resistant feature so when you place it back you should be a little bit careful that you plug it in properly like this and uh we also have the new thing that is the fingerprint uh sensor over here as you can see and you can just swipe your finger to unlock the device moving towards the front we have a 2 megapix camera we also have the array of sensors like light sensor proximity sensors Etc and we also have the Samsung branding now coming to the year piece I tested this device for almost 2 weeks as my primary device and uh in India I was using the AEL as my cellular carrier and in terms of voice call Quality I've must have made hundreds of calls the voice call Quality was very good so I have no problems regarding the voice call Quality on this device regarding the speaker I'm not that happy the problem is not the volume uh but it's the clarity and we have the 5.1 in screen again it's a full HD 1080p screen and again in terms of viewing angles it's excellent and the screen is a lot brighter compared to the Galaxy S4 and even outdoors I would say uh the screen is actually fairly visible compared to other AMOLED screens but it's not as bright as some of the IPS SC greaten screens moving towards the bottom we have the standard this is the home button and we have now two uh touch type capacitor buttons but this is the multitasking tray as you can see and this is the back button uh this multitasking tray can also act like a menu button if you just hold it for a second as you can see it acts like a menu button and if you notice closely the interface has changed a little bit and this is the new touch wh version that we get with the Galaxy S5 and if you move extremely to the left we have this my magazine View and this is kind of a glorified Flipboard because whenever if you just click on any story it indirectly opens into Flipboard I'm not a big fan of this but uh some of you might use it but it's not mandatory and you can actually disable it just use this guesture and just go to the home settings and just uncheck this and now if you scroll you don't get the my Maxine let's look at the settings and you'll notice that now the icons are rounded in color if you just hit this you get access to all the icons and we do have some new functionality like the toolbox I'll talk about a bit later let me just go back and let's look at the settings and uh by default it will be in this view that is the grid view let me just maximize all the options and if you just scroll down we have over 60 options so actually I find this a little bit difficult to use because you have so many options you need to just scroll up and down up and down to figure out what you really want but fortunately we do have have the old modes you can just go to this list view also like this or you can go to the tab view which is kind of similar to what we found on the Galaxy S4 here we have the Quick Settings connections devices and controls like this and this is the general thing so let's look at the Android version that we get out of the box and as you can see we get the Android version 4.4.2 that is KitKat out of the box on the Galaxy S5 so let me go back and regarding the internal storage uh Samsung has said that we'll get the Galaxy S5 two variants that 16 or 32 GB variant but in India at the time of shooting this video only the 16GB variant was available and this is the 16GB variant and uh we can add a Micro SD card as I mentioned and uh the thing is that not all the apps are movable to the SD card only a few apps can be kind of moved and let me show you the same and you click this and you can go to the applications and go to the downloaded applications and from here some of the application not all mind you can be moved to the SD card for example uh for example the Chrome browser cannot be moved and you don't get the option of highlighting this move to SD card but it works for some of the apps for example let's see for example uh as you can see this uh Subway Surfer was on the SD card as you can see 47 mag is on the SD card so some of the apps can be moved but not all I would say hardly about 25% of the apps can be moved to the SD card for example let's try to move and22 also that's not movable so yes some of the apps can be moved but the functionality is kind of pretty Limited in my opinion and uh I noticed that very heavy apps simply cannot be moved for example uh let's say this I have this Asphalt 8 and it is uh just notice that that currently it is using 8 .1 GB of internal storage is used and let's try to move this asphal 8 I noticed that the entire app cannot be moved but only a part of the app can be moved to the SD card and as you can see out of that 1.4 gigs only 55 MB or so was movable I had better luck with dead trigger for example epex uh almost half the size of the app could be moved to the SD card as you can see almost 58 megx so moving of apps to the SD card is kind of a hit or a miss and I'm sadden to see that uh though the Samsung Galaxy S5 in India is priced pretty high it's priced almost at around 51,000 we are just getting the 16 GB variant for that price now coming to the headphones uh the supplied earphones that Samsung has supplied are actually pretty good in terms of audio quality and also the quality is pretty decent it has this flat type cable and also uh I also tested it with third party headphones and the music quality that you can get from this earphone is actually pretty good and now to give you an idea about this new touch uh Vis interface as you can see the animations are a little bit different and this is the app tray you don't get this guesture in the app tray now but you do have options over here and actually not a lot of all the Samsung's extra apps are installed by default uh only a few of them are installed and you can go to this Galaxy Essentials and download the extra apps if you would like also it has built IR Blaster and that also works actually very well and uh for example as you can see we have the smart remote and I have configured it for my television and the satellite provider that I'm using is T Sky uh when you set it up it asks us and right now it is showing us what is going on in t sky for example if you go here we have categories and if you just hit the movies it kind of shows you currently the movies that are running uh for example in action it says we have this one and others it does not show all the listings but it does show some of the listings and if you tap on this and if you just hit this watch on now and if you are in front of your TV it'll switch on to that channel so that functionality is there but if you want to just go to the traditional remote you can always hit this option and this way you can control your uh television or the satellite receiver Etc so that functionality actually works very well now as we are connected to my Wi-Fi network and regarding the Wi-Fi network it supports both the two 2.4 GHz as well as the 5 GHz band and in terms of raw Wi-Fi transfer speeds uh on the AC band I could get some very good Wi-Fi transfer speeds um now let's fire up the browser we have two browser this one is the stock uh one that is customized by Samsung and we also get the stock Google uh browser also Pages this is the Samsung stock browser and uh Samsung has customized this one uh for example let me just end this and we can switch between tabs like this and as you can see we have some extra settings over here but let's look at the Chrome browser uh and here let's go to tech.com and this is not the stock keyboard I'm using the Swift keys but even the stock keyboard is pretty good and it works as expected and as you can see it loads the website pretty quickly again it's a very powerful phone class leading specs again so in terms of web browsing I did not have any issues with this device uh let's just try to open one of the stories uh we have a YouTube video in this uh page and as you can see the orientation change was also pretty quick and let's try to play back this video I'll keep the volume at Max hi there this is ranit from tas.com and in this video we're going to do the unboxing and I have a first VI angles are also very good as you can see and as you can see in India they are including 16 GB SD card so regarding the speaker the volume output is okay but at max volume like this this entire back panel kind of vibrates so I don't like that let me get out but in terms of web browsing you'll have no issues with this device now coming to one more thing where Sam has hugely improved this S5 is the rear facing camera the rear facing camera supports Samsung's own ISO cell and it's a 16 megap sensor and I have to say the camera performance on this device is excellent it takes the photographs very fast for example if you just tap in it focuses and Samsung says that it has one of the fastest autof focusing uh and there are a lot of modes available here and also this phone even the exos version can record video in 4k if required and another thing is that it has uh this HDR mode which is kind of live if you switch it on it gives you a realtime preview how the pictures will look in HDR so I think so that's a big Improvement I won't get into detail about the camera because I've already made a 12-minute video regarding the camera sample shots Etc so in terms of camera performance I'm very happy if you want to check out the sample shots and videos that I've taken with the Galaxy S5 you can check out the camera review that I did link for that video video will be in the YouTube show notes but overall I would say in terms of camera the performance is very good but in very low lighting conditions yes the camera still shows some weaknesses but if we compare it with the Galaxy S4 the camera on this Galaxy S5 is definitely much much better compared to the camera that we found on the Galaxy S4 and I will say that uh among Android phones uh it has to be one of the best camera phones that I have tested so if you take a lot of photographs you won't be disappointed with the camera on this Galaxy S 5 now if you notice we also have this sensor over here and this is the heart uh rate sensor and you can access it while the S heal app you just need to keep your finger here as if you can see it's firing a LED it won't get a correct measurement right now because I was moving the phone and actually if you are walking around and talking around it does not take as you can see it is showing 122 that's totally wrong if uh my BPM was so high uh I would have to be in the hospital or something like that uh to get the accurate measurement for example let me show you this but it gives you actually more accurate figures for example my normal BPM uh was around between 75 to 85 and to get the correct figure the issue is that for example when you place it over here you should not move or you should not even talk then only it gives you the correct figure for example let's try that and I won't talk this time and as you can see now we got a figure of 83 so yes we have that functionality but it's up to you how useful that is or not instead of this heart trate sensor I would have uh felt that if Samsung would have provided us Optical image stabilization that would have been a better option now in terms of gaming also I had some very good experience and in terms of gaming I played uh some casual games to even some high-end games with this galaxy S5 and it could play all of them without any issues I've already made a dedicated video regarding the gaming performance of this Galaxy S5 so if you are interested in those features you can check out that video also in terms of sensors uh Samsung did not skimp on any sensors and even while using it on GPS it works actually pretty well um and it loged to the GPS very quickly and let me now show you this tool box option and as you can see see we get this small icon over here and if you click here it shows you some recent tabs you can customize it obviously and it is easier to jump between apps this way obviously we have the multi- window support Etc but we also have this feature like this as you can see you can easily disable this if you don't want it here from the tool boox obviously it's a Samsung phone we also have the multi- Windows support and you just press this back key for a while and you get access to this multi- window and you can have two apps running at the same time without any issues and this also works pretty well also some of you have asked me if this Galaxy S5 supports usb OTG yes it does uh support usb OTG and I had no problems regarding that so what do I feel about the Samsung Galaxy S5 let's talk about the pros and cons and let me start with the pros first and the first huge Improvement I would say is that ISO cell 16 megapix camera that Samsung has introduced on this Samsung Galaxy S5 it is a fabulous camera as I mentioned earlier and the pictures that it can take are very good and also the biggest thing is that even in HDR mode the pictures that it can take are very good another thing that I like is the waterproofing features that's the IP67 certification though this is a water resistant phone uh it's not very bulky phone so I think so many people will appreciate that it's a water resistant device now coming to the overall performance the overall performance of this Galaxy S5 was very Snappy and I have to say it has to be one of the most Snappy uh Samsung based Android phones that I have tested now coming to touch whz and I would say the Touchwiz on this is the new TouchWiz and it's a lot less heavy another thing that I was happy with the Galaxy S5 is that though it Sports octacore processor the model that we are testing has the octacore processor I was worried about the heating issues and I have to say yes the phone gets a little bit warm when you're using it normally but it doesn't does not get uh very hot like some other Android phones for example the Samsung Galaxy S4 the Octo version had heating issues but I did not face any major heating issues with the Galaxy S5 during my testing I was also happy with the battery life that I was getting on the S5 and I would say in terms of battery life it's slightly better than the Galaxy S4 but this Galaxy S5 even has that ultra power saving mode and if you enable that you can easily e out a couple of more hours of battery life so definitely that ultra power syn mode is beneficial now coming to the cons of this device uh and the first thing is the design many people might not like the design of this phone and yes the back is now that dimpled back and in terms of functionality I would say it provides a lot better grip compared to the Galaxy S4 but it's a mixed opinion that some people might like the backing or not also in terms of design uh the Samsung has increased the size of the Galaxy S5 a little bit now it sports that 5. 1 in screen and the phone is a little bit wider and I would say the Galaxy S4 was pretty comfortable holding in one hand but this Galaxy S5 is on the border line uncomfortable so if you're planning to get this device I would suggest that go to a local store and handle the device for a few minutes to see if it's comfortable for you or not another minor con is the fingerprint scanner now the S5 has that fingerprint scanner but I would say in my testing uh the fingerprint scanner works around 50% of the time I hope that Samsung can improve that functionality also Samsung has introduced this hard trate sensor it might be beneficial for some people but Samsung ored the optical image stabilization they should have included because the camera on this is very good in normal lighting but in very low lighting conditions the camera is a little bit weak and if Samsung would have included the optical image stabilization uh it would have been great but sadly there's no Optical image stabilization on the Galaxy S5 another con that I have with the Galaxy S5 is the speaker uh though it just has a single speaker and it's adequately loud but I've noticed that when you keep the speaker at max level uh the back actually the complete back kind of vibrates so I don't get it uh and it gives you that cheap feeling so I'm not very impressed with the speaker quality that is provided on the uh S5 and it actually at max volume though it's adequately loud the entire back panel vibrates so these are some of the cons of this Galaxy S5 now coming to the price yes I feel that the pricing of this Galaxy S5 especially in India is pretty high around the 50,000 Mark that's almost us $850 so end of the day it comes to you in terms of overall performance I would say the performance of this Galaxy S5 was very good in around 2 weeks of my testing I hardly faced any issues of lagginess or sluggishness on the phone and now ultimately it comes down to you uh considering the price point of this Galaxy S5 is it for you or not it's ultimately for you to decide I hope that you found this uh video review helpful if you found it helpful I'll appreciate if you can click the like button and also share this video with your friends and if you aren't subscribed to my YouTube channel hit the Subscribe link thank you for watching this video this is ranit and I hope to see you in my next videohi there this is Ranjit and in this video we'll be doing the full in-depth review for this Samsung Galaxy S5 and I have been using this Samsung Galaxy S5 as my primary smartphone now for about 12 days and I'm going to talk about uh the general features uh and how it performs and at the end of this review I'll also talk about the pros of the Samsung Galaxy S5 and some of the cons that I have with the Galaxy S5 so let's get on with the in-depth review for the Samsung Galaxy S5 so here we have the Samsung Galaxy S5 and uh the version that I have is the exos octacore version the Galaxy S5 we get in two varieties one comes with the Qualcomm based processor and another with the exos octacore that is Samsung's own 8 core processor the one we have is the exos octacore processor and it also has the Mali 628 GPU apart from that other specs are similar both the models have 2 GB of RAM and uh actually the Samsung Galaxy S5 the screen has been improved a lot it's a 5.1 in screen and before that let me give you a physical overview because there are some changes uh we have the IR Blaster over here secondary microphone and uh this is the earphone and I'll talk about the earphone a bit later the quality is pretty good and the design has been changed from S5 we have this ridges over here and it's a personal uh preference I don't like this design but some of you might like it we also have the power button and if you notice closely uh the power button has been uh reduced in size significantly and again we have nothing else on the bottom we have a flap here because now the Galaxy S5 is water resistant that is IP67 certified so we have this flap to cover the uh USB 3 port and this port is the micro USB 3 Port but you can uh use your regular micro USB cable and actually with the exos version Samsung has supplied the regular micro USB cable actually I have done already the unboxing of this uh S5 so if you want to know what comes inside the box you can check out that video uh moving further along we have nothing over here and we have the volume rocker again as you can see due to that it is kind of hidden and moving towards the back here we see the design change and if you notice closely uh we have this dimpled uh textured back and actually in terms of functionality it provides a lot better grip compared to the S4 in my opinion the S4 was very slippery device but due to this uh dimpled back this one provides actually a lot better grip and if you notice we have uh this new uh thing this is a heart rate sensor come flash over here and we also have the 16 megapixel camera which uses Samsung's own ISO cell we have the Samsung branding and here we have the opening for the speaker we can open the back cover as usual we have an indent and we can easily open it up like this as as you can see we have a a huge battery that's a 2800 mAh battery and you can add your micro sun and a Micro SD card and now micro SD cards up to 128 gigs are support and if you notice the back cover we have this rubber gasket over here and uh this is for the water resistant feature so when you place it back you should be a little bit careful that you plug it in properly like this and uh we also have the new thing that is the fingerprint uh sensor over here as you can see and you can just swipe your finger to unlock the device moving towards the front we have a 2 megapix camera we also have the array of sensors like light sensor proximity sensors Etc and we also have the Samsung branding now coming to the year piece I tested this device for almost 2 weeks as my primary device and uh in India I was using the AEL as my cellular carrier and in terms of voice call Quality I've must have made hundreds of calls the voice call Quality was very good so I have no problems regarding the voice call Quality on this device regarding the speaker I'm not that happy the problem is not the volume uh but it's the clarity and we have the 5.1 in screen again it's a full HD 1080p screen and again in terms of viewing angles it's excellent and the screen is a lot brighter compared to the Galaxy S4 and even outdoors I would say uh the screen is actually fairly visible compared to other AMOLED screens but it's not as bright as some of the IPS SC greaten screens moving towards the bottom we have the standard this is the home button and we have now two uh touch type capacitor buttons but this is the multitasking tray as you can see and this is the back button uh this multitasking tray can also act like a menu button if you just hold it for a second as you can see it acts like a menu button and if you notice closely the interface has changed a little bit and this is the new touch wh version that we get with the Galaxy S5 and if you move extremely to the left we have this my magazine View and this is kind of a glorified Flipboard because whenever if you just click on any story it indirectly opens into Flipboard I'm not a big fan of this but uh some of you might use it but it's not mandatory and you can actually disable it just use this guesture and just go to the home settings and just uncheck this and now if you scroll you don't get the my Maxine let's look at the settings and you'll notice that now the icons are rounded in color if you just hit this you get access to all the icons and we do have some new functionality like the toolbox I'll talk about a bit later let me just go back and let's look at the settings and uh by default it will be in this view that is the grid view let me just maximize all the options and if you just scroll down we have over 60 options so actually I find this a little bit difficult to use because you have so many options you need to just scroll up and down up and down to figure out what you really want but fortunately we do have have the old modes you can just go to this list view also like this or you can go to the tab view which is kind of similar to what we found on the Galaxy S4 here we have the Quick Settings connections devices and controls like this and this is the general thing so let's look at the Android version that we get out of the box and as you can see we get the Android version 4.4.2 that is KitKat out of the box on the Galaxy S5 so let me go back and regarding the internal storage uh Samsung has said that we'll get the Galaxy S5 two variants that 16 or 32 GB variant but in India at the time of shooting this video only the 16GB variant was available and this is the 16GB variant and uh we can add a Micro SD card as I mentioned and uh the thing is that not all the apps are movable to the SD card only a few apps can be kind of moved and let me show you the same and you click this and you can go to the applications and go to the downloaded applications and from here some of the application not all mind you can be moved to the SD card for example uh for example the Chrome browser cannot be moved and you don't get the option of highlighting this move to SD card but it works for some of the apps for example let's see for example uh as you can see this uh Subway Surfer was on the SD card as you can see 47 mag is on the SD card so some of the apps can be moved but not all I would say hardly about 25% of the apps can be moved to the SD card for example let's try to move and22 also that's not movable so yes some of the apps can be moved but the functionality is kind of pretty Limited in my opinion and uh I noticed that very heavy apps simply cannot be moved for example uh let's say this I have this Asphalt 8 and it is uh just notice that that currently it is using 8 .1 GB of internal storage is used and let's try to move this asphal 8 I noticed that the entire app cannot be moved but only a part of the app can be moved to the SD card and as you can see out of that 1.4 gigs only 55 MB or so was movable I had better luck with dead trigger for example epex uh almost half the size of the app could be moved to the SD card as you can see almost 58 megx so moving of apps to the SD card is kind of a hit or a miss and I'm sadden to see that uh though the Samsung Galaxy S5 in India is priced pretty high it's priced almost at around 51,000 we are just getting the 16 GB variant for that price now coming to the headphones uh the supplied earphones that Samsung has supplied are actually pretty good in terms of audio quality and also the quality is pretty decent it has this flat type cable and also uh I also tested it with third party headphones and the music quality that you can get from this earphone is actually pretty good and now to give you an idea about this new touch uh Vis interface as you can see the animations are a little bit different and this is the app tray you don't get this guesture in the app tray now but you do have options over here and actually not a lot of all the Samsung's extra apps are installed by default uh only a few of them are installed and you can go to this Galaxy Essentials and download the extra apps if you would like also it has built IR Blaster and that also works actually very well and uh for example as you can see we have the smart remote and I have configured it for my television and the satellite provider that I'm using is T Sky uh when you set it up it asks us and right now it is showing us what is going on in t sky for example if you go here we have categories and if you just hit the movies it kind of shows you currently the movies that are running uh for example in action it says we have this one and others it does not show all the listings but it does show some of the listings and if you tap on this and if you just hit this watch on now and if you are in front of your TV it'll switch on to that channel so that functionality is there but if you want to just go to the traditional remote you can always hit this option and this way you can control your uh television or the satellite receiver Etc so that functionality actually works very well now as we are connected to my Wi-Fi network and regarding the Wi-Fi network it supports both the two 2.4 GHz as well as the 5 GHz band and in terms of raw Wi-Fi transfer speeds uh on the AC band I could get some very good Wi-Fi transfer speeds um now let's fire up the browser we have two browser this one is the stock uh one that is customized by Samsung and we also get the stock Google uh browser also Pages this is the Samsung stock browser and uh Samsung has customized this one uh for example let me just end this and we can switch between tabs like this and as you can see we have some extra settings over here but let's look at the Chrome browser uh and here let's go to tech.com and this is not the stock keyboard I'm using the Swift keys but even the stock keyboard is pretty good and it works as expected and as you can see it loads the website pretty quickly again it's a very powerful phone class leading specs again so in terms of web browsing I did not have any issues with this device uh let's just try to open one of the stories uh we have a YouTube video in this uh page and as you can see the orientation change was also pretty quick and let's try to play back this video I'll keep the volume at Max hi there this is ranit from tas.com and in this video we're going to do the unboxing and I have a first VI angles are also very good as you can see and as you can see in India they are including 16 GB SD card so regarding the speaker the volume output is okay but at max volume like this this entire back panel kind of vibrates so I don't like that let me get out but in terms of web browsing you'll have no issues with this device now coming to one more thing where Sam has hugely improved this S5 is the rear facing camera the rear facing camera supports Samsung's own ISO cell and it's a 16 megap sensor and I have to say the camera performance on this device is excellent it takes the photographs very fast for example if you just tap in it focuses and Samsung says that it has one of the fastest autof focusing uh and there are a lot of modes available here and also this phone even the exos version can record video in 4k if required and another thing is that it has uh this HDR mode which is kind of live if you switch it on it gives you a realtime preview how the pictures will look in HDR so I think so that's a big Improvement I won't get into detail about the camera because I've already made a 12-minute video regarding the camera sample shots Etc so in terms of camera performance I'm very happy if you want to check out the sample shots and videos that I've taken with the Galaxy S5 you can check out the camera review that I did link for that video video will be in the YouTube show notes but overall I would say in terms of camera the performance is very good but in very low lighting conditions yes the camera still shows some weaknesses but if we compare it with the Galaxy S4 the camera on this Galaxy S5 is definitely much much better compared to the camera that we found on the Galaxy S4 and I will say that uh among Android phones uh it has to be one of the best camera phones that I have tested so if you take a lot of photographs you won't be disappointed with the camera on this Galaxy S 5 now if you notice we also have this sensor over here and this is the heart uh rate sensor and you can access it while the S heal app you just need to keep your finger here as if you can see it's firing a LED it won't get a correct measurement right now because I was moving the phone and actually if you are walking around and talking around it does not take as you can see it is showing 122 that's totally wrong if uh my BPM was so high uh I would have to be in the hospital or something like that uh to get the accurate measurement for example let me show you this but it gives you actually more accurate figures for example my normal BPM uh was around between 75 to 85 and to get the correct figure the issue is that for example when you place it over here you should not move or you should not even talk then only it gives you the correct figure for example let's try that and I won't talk this time and as you can see now we got a figure of 83 so yes we have that functionality but it's up to you how useful that is or not instead of this heart trate sensor I would have uh felt that if Samsung would have provided us Optical image stabilization that would have been a better option now in terms of gaming also I had some very good experience and in terms of gaming I played uh some casual games to even some high-end games with this galaxy S5 and it could play all of them without any issues I've already made a dedicated video regarding the gaming performance of this Galaxy S5 so if you are interested in those features you can check out that video also in terms of sensors uh Samsung did not skimp on any sensors and even while using it on GPS it works actually pretty well um and it loged to the GPS very quickly and let me now show you this tool box option and as you can see see we get this small icon over here and if you click here it shows you some recent tabs you can customize it obviously and it is easier to jump between apps this way obviously we have the multi- window support Etc but we also have this feature like this as you can see you can easily disable this if you don't want it here from the tool boox obviously it's a Samsung phone we also have the multi- Windows support and you just press this back key for a while and you get access to this multi- window and you can have two apps running at the same time without any issues and this also works pretty well also some of you have asked me if this Galaxy S5 supports usb OTG yes it does uh support usb OTG and I had no problems regarding that so what do I feel about the Samsung Galaxy S5 let's talk about the pros and cons and let me start with the pros first and the first huge Improvement I would say is that ISO cell 16 megapix camera that Samsung has introduced on this Samsung Galaxy S5 it is a fabulous camera as I mentioned earlier and the pictures that it can take are very good and also the biggest thing is that even in HDR mode the pictures that it can take are very good another thing that I like is the waterproofing features that's the IP67 certification though this is a water resistant phone uh it's not very bulky phone so I think so many people will appreciate that it's a water resistant device now coming to the overall performance the overall performance of this Galaxy S5 was very Snappy and I have to say it has to be one of the most Snappy uh Samsung based Android phones that I have tested now coming to touch whz and I would say the Touchwiz on this is the new TouchWiz and it's a lot less heavy another thing that I was happy with the Galaxy S5 is that though it Sports octacore processor the model that we are testing has the octacore processor I was worried about the heating issues and I have to say yes the phone gets a little bit warm when you're using it normally but it doesn't does not get uh very hot like some other Android phones for example the Samsung Galaxy S4 the Octo version had heating issues but I did not face any major heating issues with the Galaxy S5 during my testing I was also happy with the battery life that I was getting on the S5 and I would say in terms of battery life it's slightly better than the Galaxy S4 but this Galaxy S5 even has that ultra power saving mode and if you enable that you can easily e out a couple of more hours of battery life so definitely that ultra power syn mode is beneficial now coming to the cons of this device uh and the first thing is the design many people might not like the design of this phone and yes the back is now that dimpled back and in terms of functionality I would say it provides a lot better grip compared to the Galaxy S4 but it's a mixed opinion that some people might like the backing or not also in terms of design uh the Samsung has increased the size of the Galaxy S5 a little bit now it sports that 5. 1 in screen and the phone is a little bit wider and I would say the Galaxy S4 was pretty comfortable holding in one hand but this Galaxy S5 is on the border line uncomfortable so if you're planning to get this device I would suggest that go to a local store and handle the device for a few minutes to see if it's comfortable for you or not another minor con is the fingerprint scanner now the S5 has that fingerprint scanner but I would say in my testing uh the fingerprint scanner works around 50% of the time I hope that Samsung can improve that functionality also Samsung has introduced this hard trate sensor it might be beneficial for some people but Samsung ored the optical image stabilization they should have included because the camera on this is very good in normal lighting but in very low lighting conditions the camera is a little bit weak and if Samsung would have included the optical image stabilization uh it would have been great but sadly there's no Optical image stabilization on the Galaxy S5 another con that I have with the Galaxy S5 is the speaker uh though it just has a single speaker and it's adequately loud but I've noticed that when you keep the speaker at max level uh the back actually the complete back kind of vibrates so I don't get it uh and it gives you that cheap feeling so I'm not very impressed with the speaker quality that is provided on the uh S5 and it actually at max volume though it's adequately loud the entire back panel vibrates so these are some of the cons of this Galaxy S5 now coming to the price yes I feel that the pricing of this Galaxy S5 especially in India is pretty high around the 50,000 Mark that's almost us $850 so end of the day it comes to you in terms of overall performance I would say the performance of this Galaxy S5 was very good in around 2 weeks of my testing I hardly faced any issues of lagginess or sluggishness on the phone and now ultimately it comes down to you uh considering the price point of this Galaxy S5 is it for you or not it's ultimately for you to decide I hope that you found this uh video review helpful if you found it helpful I'll appreciate if you can click the like button and also share this video with your friends and if you aren't subscribed to my YouTube channel hit the Subscribe link thank you for watching this video this is ranit and I hope to see you in my next video\n"