Luckily, the silhouette guide makes this obvious. What it does not deal with at all is angles-your finger has to swipe straight down. We have a near 100 percent acceptance rate from the reader, and it deals with different swipe speeds just fine. By contrast, Samsung's reader requires two empty hands and a swipe motion. That whole wake/scan/unlock process takes only a second or two. Pressing the home button on the iPhone would wake the screen, and leaving your finger on the button would read your fingerprint and unlock the device. One of the things the iPhone sensor really got right was how quickly and easily it could be used. The mandatory two-hand-usage makes the fingerprint reader a real drag to use as a screen lock. Samsung keeps up with Apple on paper here, but its implementation is far inferior to what's on the iPhone. The iPhone sensor works with only a press of a fingertip from any angle, making it easy to use with one hand. This phone can be used as a close-range flashlight. We still feel like it could go darker though-in a totally dark room, it still gives off enough light to disturb the person next to you. This makes using the device in a dark room much more pleasant. In a dark room, the S5 dims more than any other phone we've seen. You have to set the GS5 to "auto" and put it in sunlight to get to the highest setting.īesides being brighter, the display can also get dimmer. (No phone can really stand up to the power of the sun, though, as the above picture shows.) One weird quirk of Samsung's brightness implementation is that "max brightness" on the slider isn't really max brightness. We'd say it's currently "moderately useable" in direct sunlight. Samsung boosted the brightness output quite a bit, to the point where it's now up to the level of a good LCD. One of AMOLED's weaknesses has always been brightness, which meant the display had trouble standing up to direct sunlight. Samsung is doing its best to improve the shortcomings of AMOLED. The GS5 can hit 500 nits in sunlight, which, compared to the sun's 1,600,000,000 nits, doesn't do much. AdvertisementĮnlarge / From left to right: the iPhone 5s, Nexus 5, Galaxy S5, S4, and S3 at their highest brightness on a sunny day. The only downside is that the button layout is backward when compared to everything else-usually the positions of "Recent" and "Back" are swapped. Being able to quickly hit Recent Apps is a big improvement over the increasingly useless dedicated menu button, which was deprecated in stock Android all the way back in version 3.0. Though it's worth noting the button layout has changed-Samsung finally killed the menu button and now uses the trio of "Recent," "Home," and "Back," with home being a physical button and the other two being capacitive. The fronts of Samsung's entire product line seem to vary only in screen size and corner roundness. The corners are a little less round, so along with the bigger size, the device creeps slightly closer in appearance to the Note 3. Other than the bloated bezels, the design is very similar to the Galaxy S4. Specs at a glance: Samsung Galaxy S5ĭual Band 802.11b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0, GPSġ6MP rear camera with Phase Detection AF, 2MP front camera, Enlarge / The Galaxy S5 (left) versus the Galaxy S4 (right).
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