S5 announced - what do you think?

[peteyt]

Samsung has shown of their latest flagship phone, the s5, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The new phone will be water and dust resistant and following apple's implementation in its flagship iphone 5s, will include a fingerprint scanner.

More details, including specs and an in depth review can be found at http://reviews.cnet.com/samsung-galaxy-s5/

I'm slightly disappointed myself. I'm really happy that the S5 will have water and dust resistant, something which Sony has included lately in some of their smartphones. A top end smartphone with this will be really handy as usually the phone's to include things like this usually are cheap rugged type phones. This may even give the S5 a bit of an advantage over the iphone which currently as far as I'm aware has no water or dust protection although with the iphone 6 being rumoured to being announced this could all change.

My main problem is that the S5 seems to take the best from every other phone but fails to add anything new and original. I have an s3 myself as the contract I have was more affordable as opposed to the s4 but I found the s4 tried to add some new features. While some might find the automatic scroll thing a gimmick, at least it was something new and showed Samsung was willing to experiment with new features hinting they wanted to be at the top of new tech and innovation.

For me the S5 however appears to have taken a step back. Maybe people had too high expectations but I was hoping for something a little fresher and this is coming from a Samsung/android fan who tends to steer well away from apple

[xxMATTGxx]

From the people I follow on twitter it seems their views at the moment are they are quite disappointed with the S5 at this moment in time.

[lucaskf390]

Band-Aid. I was expecting more design :/

[GommeInc]

Samsung reached their peak in design during the S3 years. The S4 was too similar to the S3 so it's not that surprising the S5 is being labelled as too similar. I'm amazed that they're saying it is similar to the S4 when they could easily just say the S3. Also, we're at the point with a product type when anything new isn't that surprising any more and is either expected or seen as barely pushing the boundaries of product evolution.

The only interesting thing was that it was announced on the birthday of Steve Jobs.

[peteyt]

Samsung reached their peak in design during the S3 years. The S4 was too similar to the S3 so it's not that surprising the S5 is being labelled as too similar. I'm amazed that they're saying it is similar to the S4 when they could easily just say the S3. Also, we're at the point with a product type when anything new isn't that surprising any more and is either expected or seen as barely pushing the boundaries of product evolution.

The only interesting thing was that it was announced on the birthday of Steve Jobs.

The only problem is a lot of apple fans criticise the samsung phones for being the similar each new version when if anything the iphone has looked relatively more the same each new version

[e5]

Hmm not much different. Only appealing think is the 16mp cameras. I just stick to iPhones because of the texting abilities (iMessage) and most people have an iphone so you're in contact with no signal but have wifi!

[GommeInc]

The only problem is a lot of apple fans criticise the samsung phones for being the similar each new version when if anything the iphone has looked relatively more the same each new version

That's why you ignore them or pray they drop their phones and put up with the inevitable crack along the screen

[peteyt]

Hmm not much different. Only appealing think is the 16mp cameras. I just stick to iPhones because of the texting abilities (iMessage) and most people have an iphone so you're in contact with no signal but have wifi!

Although Whatsapp covers this along with others, although it seems a few people have left Whatsapp after Facebook announced its plans to buy them. Apparently Whatsapp are also planning to add calls to so I presume you'll be able to call other whatsapp users for free in the same way Skype works. Handy to as my girlfriend has just moved outside of the city and rarely gets a signal.

[e5]

Although Whatsapp covers this along with others, although it seems a few people have left Whatsapp after Facebook announced its plans to buy them. Apparently Whatsapp are also planning to add calls to so I presume you'll be able to call other whatsapp users for free in the same way Skype works. Handy to as my girlfriend has just moved outside of the city and rarely gets a signal.

I guess but iMessage is just there and then and links in with normal texts

[xxMATTGxx]

Although Whatsapp covers this along with others, although it seems a few people have left Whatsapp after Facebook announced its plans to buy them. Apparently Whatsapp are also planning to add calls to so I presume you'll be able to call other whatsapp users for free in the same way Skype works. Handy to as my girlfriend has just moved outside of the city and rarely gets a signal.

I guess but iMessage is just there and then and links in with normal texts

I think what the beauty of iMessage is that it's built into the OS from day one of you receiving the phone. You don't need a separate app or anything like that and text messages come up in the same conversation as well so it just makes it easier.