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Hello everyone. Michael here from the Daily Note II/3. So as you may have heard the Samsung
Galaxy S5 was announced about a day or two ago. The reason I pay close attention is that
in the past, when the new model of GALAXY S comes out, it usually offers some insight
on what the next version of the Galaxy Note will be like. So here are my first impressions
of the Galaxy S5. My first thought when I saw it was, why is
it so much bigger? For example, the Galaxy Note 3 is smaller and lighter than the note
2, yet has a bigger screen size and battery than the Note 2. The S5 however is thicker,
wider, heavier, and taller. Some of those dimensions grew rather significantly. Yet
it has very little gains to show for it. I also thought it is missing a touch of elegance.
I thought the S3 was the best looking Galaxy S so far, the second being the S4, but the
S5 looks a little muted. Sure, the Galaxy Note 3 is actually just as minimalistic in
design as the S5 is when it comes to the shape of the device, but it has a brushed metal
look on the frame, and in such a minimalistic setting, it makes a big difference.
With that said, the CPU and GPU is absolutely top notch. And the early benchmarks show it
is unquestionably the fastest android to date, although it's still only slightly faster than
the Galaxy Note 3. The Note 3 having 3 gigs of memory, everyone expected the S5 to of
course come with 3GB of memory. But the S5 will only have 2, which is the same amount
of ram we even saw on the LTE versions of the S3. But if you understand how memory works
on Android, it really isn't too big of a deal. Unlike a PC where an application has access
to all the free memory on your computer, an Android app is limited to a small fraction
of the memory available on an average smartphone today. The only times where it may be of some
convenience is when you are actively switching between many apps while multitasking. Considering
that the S5 has a smaller battery, it will probably be a good thing having less applications
in memory for battery life of the S5 since Android still doesn't have a complete handle
on a runaway background processes that on occasion may drain your battery unexpectedly.
As for internal storage, I was surprised that 16GB is still even an option being offered
for manufacturing. You should know by now that when a smartphone says it's a 16GB phone,
you have to factor in that you only really start off with 90% of that. Load all the system
software which is around 6GB now on Android 4.4. And you're left with somewhere around
8 GB of usable storage for the apps that "you" want to install. That's significantly less
than what you probably envisioned when you decided to buy a 16GB device. So unless you
consider yourself to be a very light user of a smartphone and don't treat the Google
Play store as a source for entertainment, you should really invest in a 32GB device
to avoid having to always tightly manage the storage and the apps your have installed on
your smartphone. How about the 64GB option. Well, having been the owner of one of the
rare 64GB Korean Galaxy models, I could say the extra space was mostly wasted. I ended
up installing 30GB of 3D games that I rarely ever had time for. If it wasn't for games,
I would fill it up with days worth of TV shows that never got watched. I still played games
and watched videos regularly on my device, but it could have been just as easily handled
with a 32GB device with a 64GB external SD card which is on my Note 3 now.
For the Galaxy S5, it is obvious that Samsung has invested heavily into their photo and
video features of the device. It has gotten the 4K video that we first saw on the Galaxy
Note 3. But what's really interesting in my opinion is the HDR video. High resolution
video is great, but when it feels like it was shot with a smartphone, you know that
look... black shadows and white skies, it really is difficult if not impossible to work
with. However, having the option to shoot HDR video may prove to be incredibly useful
because it gives you a lot more flexibility for the video to be adjusted. And hopefully
the video will be good enough for even semi-professional applications.
So anyway, those are my first impressions of the Samsung Galaxy S5. It seems as though
the general consensus is that people are underwhelmed by it. I think everyone expects to be wow'd
by something that they never expected at these launch events and maybe the S5's launch didn't
offer that. But it seems as though the trend has shifted and now Samsung likes saving their
best new features when they unveil the next Galaxy Note. Well, we can only hope.
So that's it for today's video. What are your thoughts on the Samsung Galaxy S5? Is there
a killer feature that you would like to see on the next version of the Samsung Galaxy
Note? Please feel free to share those thoughts in the comments below. And make sure you hit
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as always thank you for watching.