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Seriously?? Samsung really messed up this one.......I dont like Samsung but really I did expect more from them. S5 is a very underwhelming device.
Are they playing some joke lol?
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Posted: 2014-02-24 20:52:31
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On 2014-02-24 20:51:32, etaab wrote:
On 2014-02-24 20:43:40, Bonovox wrote:
2,800mAh battery
Yeah, I was expecting 3,000mAh minimum. I presume their ultra power saving feature makes up for the lower battery capacity than we were expecting.
I must admit I take back my previous comment, now ive seen the blue version I like how it looks. But it did need a refresh of how it looks, which they simply haven't. I know they banged on about it being palm friendly with its silly designed for humans slogan with the S3, but they could have kept that theory with a bit more effort in the design.
2014 appears to be the year of lazy development. This looks the same as the S4 & S3, HTC's phone looks the same, Sony's Z2 looks the same as the Z1..
They don't seem to be putting the effort into the hardware at all. I wanted OIS minimum but ive not heard it mentioned once.
Design boring,battery too small still,nothing amazingly new & has anyone noticed the muted applause at the event??
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Posted: 2014-02-24 20:53:48
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XperiaJunkie Posts: > 500
Great to see Samsung using their high quality plastic again in a £600 flagship device. So the star of MWC is the Sony Xperia Z2. Could Samsung finally be on a downward spiral now Sony, Nokia and maybe even HTC are coming for them they have become static just like Apple have done with the iPhone until iOS7. Samsung you only have yourselves to blame.
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Posted: 2014-02-24 20:57:24
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Guess they used all their "innovations" on s4 already and now there are no new gimmicks for s5
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Posted: 2014-02-24 20:57:36
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On 2014-02-24 20:57:24, XperiaJunkie wrote:
Great to see Samsung using their high quality plastic again in a £600 flagship device. So the star of MWC is the Sony Xperia Z2. Could Samsung finally be on a downward spiral now Sony, Nokia and maybe even HTC are coming for them they have become static just like Apple have done with the iPhone until iOS7. Samsung you only have yourselves to blame.
Me thinks they are running out of ideas
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Posted: 2014-02-24 21:00:26
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XperiaJunkie Posts: > 500
Samsung could of done anything they wanted with the S5 but instead decided to give it specs from 2013 and correct me if i'm wrong don't Samsung already have a S800 GS4 in certain regions around the world. It really puzzles me as to why they have held back the have known for a while now that the competition is catching them up and soon may even surpass them, maybe not in sales but as a new innovator and leader in mobile tech.
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Posted: 2014-02-24 21:06:14
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I think they all are. Theres literally nothing new about the phones announced from their 2013 counterparts.
Samsung are going more down the lifestyle route than raw specs, which is ok, but usually its nothing but gimmicks that people will never use.
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Posted: 2014-02-24 21:07:08
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Maybe they are waiting for snapdragon 805 and will release an upgraded s5 later in the year like they did with snapdragon 600.
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Posted: 2014-02-24 21:12:20
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Probably, that was the rumour a few days ago.
We seem to entering an age of very small incremental updates to these phones. Theres very little progress going on where the hardware is concerned.
Samsung, HTC, Sony and the rest are all guilty of the same problem. The problem being, they're all too busy competing with each other that they're releasing new phones without there being any time for new hardware to be released.
I'm sure im not the only one here on Esato who would have liked to have seen the S5 and other phones like the Z2 released a little later in the year with more updated specs.
If I were to choose, I think I'd buy a Lumia 1020 at this point in time.
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Posted: 2014-02-24 21:17:21
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by that time though the Qualcomm S615 64BIT octacore CPU with the adreno 405 GPU which will walk all over the S805 and I would probably expect that chip to go into the Xperia Z2 Ultra or the Z3 and Galaxy Note 4 which will probably be announced at IFA this August.
[ This Message was edited by: XperiaJunkie on 2014-02-24 20:22 ]
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Posted: 2014-02-24 21:18:12
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