Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Samsung S5 Mini Review

Samsung S5 Mini 

After unveiling the same in , Samsung has finally launched Galaxy S5 mini- a compact version of its flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone- in the Indian market. The device is outfitted with a smaller 4.5 inch display (in comparison to the 5.1 display of S5), allowing for easy operation with only one hand. It has been priced at Rs 20,499, and is available for purchase exclusively on Indian e-commerce major Flipkart.com.Running Android 4.4 Kit Kat OS and Samsung’s TouchWiz UX, the Galaxy S5 Mini come with a built-in heart rate monitor and full compatibility with Samsung’s wearable devices.
The soft texture coating on the back cover comes with a special gloss that gives the Galaxy S5 Mini the look and feel of metallic leather and has anti-slip properties.Getting to our review.

Our Review

The device is water and dust resistance. Samsung has addressed the increasing demands of customers for extended battery life by using Samsung’s low-power, Super AMOLED display technology that requires very little power, but still keeps images bright and sharp at HD resolution. While the India version of Galaxy S5 comes with an eight-core Exynos processor, the new Galaxy S5 Mini is powered by a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor. Th phone comes with 1.5GB RAM. Despite the downgrades, Samsung has retained the fingerprint sensor and heart rate monitor, which debuted with Galaxy S5, in Galaxy S5 Mini. The smartphone is IP67 certified, meaning that it is water and dust resistant to an extent, and has Galaxy S5s Ultra Power Saving mode. Other key hardware specifications of the new Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini are 16GB internal storage, 64GB microSD card support, LED flash on the back, 2.1MP front camera and 2,100mAh battery. Connectivity features of the smartphone include 2G, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB 2.0 and NFC. This smartphone runs Android 4.4 (KitKat) and comes with Samsungs proprietary TouchWiz UI on top.Being a leader in smartphones, Samsung has again succeeded with this beautiful yet powerful Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini by trimming down the features a bit of its successful higher end flagship.

Specifications

Network-Technology-GSM / HSPA / LTE
Launch-Announced-2014, June
Status-Available. Released 2014, July
Body-Dimensions-131.1 x 64.8 x 9.1 mm (5.16 x 2.55 x 0.36 in)
Weight-120 g (4.23 oz)
SIM-Micro-SIM
  - Fingerprint sensor (PayPal certified)
- IP67 certified - dust and water resistant
- Water resistant up to 1 meter and 30 minutes
Display-Type-Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size-4.5 inches (~65.7% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution-720 x 1280 pixels (~326 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch-Yes
  - TouchWiz UI
Platform-OS-Android OS, v4.4.2 (KitKat), planned upgrade to v5.0 (Lollipop)
Chipset-Exynos 3 Quad 3470
CPU-Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A7
GPU-Mali-400MP4
Memory-Card slot-microSD, up to 64 GB
Internal-16 GB, 1.5 GB RAM
Camera-Primary 8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality
Features-Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama
Video-1080p@30fps, check quality
Secondary-2.1 MP, 1080p@30fps
Sound-Alert types-Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker-Yes
3.5mm jack-Yes
Comms-WLAN-Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
Bluetooth-v4.0, A2DP, EDR, LE, apt-X
GPS-Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
NFC-Yes (LTE model only)
Infrared port Yes
Radio-No
USB-microUSB v2.0
Features-Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, heart rate
Messaging-SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser-HTML5
Java-Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
- Dropbox (50 GB cloud storage)
- MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA/FLAC player
- Photo/video editor
- Document viewer
Battery -Li-Ion 2100 mAh battery
Talk time-Up to 10 h (3G)
Music play-Up to 47 h

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