Samsung's flagship Galaxy line has created a niche of its own and undoubtedly, this is the only line from any cellphone manufacturer in market right now that is giving a direct competition to Apple's iPhones. The Galaxy line has seen one of the best smartphones of the market, most noticeably the Samsung Galaxy S II, the original eye-turner and ever since Samsung has been continually giving us a reason to switch to the latest model every year. The Samsung Galaxy S5 is no different. The phone does not only offers general hardware upgrades  like the camera and cpu but is one of the pioneers to announce an integrated heart-rate sensor and a finger print scanner, which is also PayPal certified, by the way!

The heart-rate sensor makes more sense when we talk about Samsung Gear - an android wear line by Samsung which along with the Galaxy S5 promises to keep track of your health and help you achieve your health related goals of all sorts and the catch is, you'd have no excuse for the rainy days! Yup, the Galaxy S5 is also water-resistant!

This all is added with a little different back-cover, which would satisfy the superficial crowd and quite honestly not only the superficial crowd.

samsung-galaxy-s5-specs

Screen

5.1" Super AMOLED

1080 x 1920, 432ppi

Camera

16MP Rear - 2MP Front

Rear: 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@120fps | Front: 1080p@30fps

PowerSnapdragon 801, Adreno 3302GB RAM

full-battery-512

Battery

2800mAh

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Launch

Released

Android Version

Skin

April 2014

Android 4.4.2 upto 5.0

TouchWiz

Camera

Aperture

Photo Resolution

Optical Image Stabilization?

Video Capture

Front

N/A

5312 x 2988 pixels (16MP)

No

2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@120fps

2MP

Performance

CPU

Cores

Speed

RAM

ROM

GPU

Snapdragon 801

4

2.5 GHz

2GB

16/32GB

Adreno 330

Communications

WiFi

Bluetooth

LTE

NFC

Infrared

SIM Type

Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

v4.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Micro-SIM

Battery

Capacity

Talk Time

Fast-Charging

Wireless Charging

Removable

2800mAh

 Up to 21 h

No

No

Yes

Dimensions

Weight

Height

Width

Thickness

5.11 oz (145 grams)

5.95" (142 mm)

2.85" (75.2mm)

0.32" (8.1mm)

Updated: April, 2014