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That entails a rubber gasket-sealed door for the microUSB port in the bottom of the phone, and one within the back cover. Taking a leaf out of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active’s book and Sony's Xperia range, the S5 is waterproof with an "IP67" rating - meaning it can be immersed in up to 1m of water for 30 minutes.
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The buttons are also very easily activated by your palm when holding the phone, making accidental presses a frequent, annoying occurrence. This can be very irritating if switching from another phone manufacturer.
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Unlike pretty much every other Android manufacturer (including Google's Nexus models), Samsung chooses to put the menu button on the left and the back button on the right.
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The home button acts as a fingerprint scanner (more on that later). Unlike most other Android smartphones, beneath the display the Galaxy S5 has capacitive sensor buttons for Back and Menu, flanking a physical home button. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardianįor the winter months, users can also adjust the screen’s touch sensitivity so that it can be used through some gloves. Samsung Galaxy S5 review - right on the limit of one-handed use. The power and volume buttons are easily reachable on the side, while Samsung has also included a "one-handed" menu option to help by moving things like the keyboard over to one side of the screen. The size of the screen is at the absolute limit for one-handed use for me, but some will certainly struggle to reach all corners of the screen without dropping the phone. The screen is particularly good for an AMOLED display, with very wide viewing angles, and is sharp and vibrant and very close in quality to that of the high-end LCD screens like those found on the iPhone 5S and HTC One M8. The Galaxy S5 has a larger display than its predecessor at 5.1in, but you would be hard-pressed to tell by looking at it. The S5 is light at 145g compared to the 160g HTC One M8, but heavier than both the 130g Google Nexus 5 and the smaller 112g iPhone 5S. It is available in white, black, blue and gold, but the white colour looks particularly cheap with the chromed plastic edging.ĭespite being plastic, Samsung’s build-quality shines in the Galaxy S5 with almost no flex in the body and a very solid feel in the hand. The Galaxy Note 3 released in October last year had a similar textured back.Īttractiveness is certainly subjective, but in my opinion some of the Galaxy S5 colours look much better than others. It also looks almost identical to the Galaxy S4, but with a dimpled plastic back that feels a bit like the vinyl seats you get in airports. Samsung has steadfastly stuck to its guns with the Galaxy S5, keeping the plastic construction and body from the previous generation and only altering the back from shiny plastic to a vinyl-like back cover.Īs a consequence, the Galaxy S5 looks cheap compared with some of its metal- and glass-clad competitors, particularly the HTC One M8 and the iPhone 5S. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian Samsung Galaxy S5 review - Samsung has stuck with its plastic smartphone body, but given the S5 a dimpled back.