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I didn't mean to say cartoonish but Samsung made a big buzz about how different the UI looks but it has hardly changed at all only the settings menu which is too long actually too much scrolling. The main menu just looks the same only slightly changed in icon colours in one or two of them. The GS5 is the ugliest phone Samsung has ever made. But the screen is good.
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Posted: 2014-04-19 10:11:00
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While I think that GS4 looks better (especially the black edition) there's no way that original GS and even Gas3 (IMO) looks better. The settings menu can be changed back to tabs -me personally I prefer the list
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Posted: 2014-04-19 10:23:48
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And here is another one saying batterylife is exellent:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s5-review-1064p3.php
I guess it just depends on which review you trust. In my experience the batterylife is on pair with the Note3 and that is also what I hear from other users, that batterylife is great.
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Posted: 2014-04-19 11:02:11
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http://blog.gsmarena.com/10-things-didnt-know-galaxy-s5-maybe/ 
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Posted: 2014-04-19 11:11:33
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Another review is stating that S5 has a great battery life:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7903/samsung-galaxy-s-5-review/5
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Posted: 2014-04-19 11:18:43
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I would prefer to have a choice of say the settings menu to have a white background if you wanted to. I've often struggled to see the Samsung screens in
sunlight. As for battery life well I'm a heavy user and to save battery am not really liking Samsung's idea of a black and white screen. The S4 battery when I had it was appallingly bad I've never had a phone with a battery that dropped faster than the S4 did. I seen news yesterday of a possible rounded Note 4 coming that'll be interesting
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Posted: 2014-04-19 13:12:00
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Well the screen of GS5 is brighter than the previous amoled screens so the outdoors visibility should be improved. Personally I only struggle outdoors when the brightness is set to auto- otherwise if I manually increase the brightness I have no problems viewing the screen outdoors
[ This Message was edited by: aussieland1 on 2014-04-19 12:18 ]
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Posted: 2014-04-19 13:17:43
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^that's unusual because according to displaymate, the s5 reaches its highest possible brightness when set to auto brightness
Even more impressive is that when Automatic Brightness is turned On, the Galaxy S5 hits an incredible 698 cd/m2 in high Ambient Light, where high Screen Brightness is really needed, which is 47 percent brighter than the Galaxy S4 and 6 percent brighter than the Note 3 with Automatic Brightness turned On – it’s the brightest mobile display that we have ever tested. An impressive achievement for OLED technology! See the Brightness and Contrast section for measurements and details.
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Posted: 2014-04-19 13:25:43
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On 2014-04-19 13:25:43, miromiromi wrote:
^that's unusual because according to displaymate, the s5 reaches its highest possible brightness when set to auto brightness
Even more impressive is that when Automatic Brightness is turned On, the Galaxy S5 hits an incredible 698 cd/m2 in high Ambient Light, where high Screen Brightness is really needed, which is 47 percent brighter than the Galaxy S4 and 6 percent brighter than the Note 3 with Automatic Brightness turned On – it’s the brightest mobile display that we have ever tested. An impressive achievement for OLED technology! See the Brightness and Contrast section for measurements and details.
To be honest I don't read that at all from this link - to me it sounds like the brightness on automatic is higher compared to previous models.
Regardless I wasn't talking about S5 (because I don't own one) but of Note 3
Edit: just read the review on anandtech and it seems that you are right in regards to S5 display. All I can say is that with Note 3 outdoors especially under sun the screen is not as bright as it needs to be with automatic brightness but adjusting the brightness manually helps
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Posted: 2014-04-19 13:39:18
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I hope the call quality on this phone has been improved as compared to the S4. I sold my S4 and went with the BlackBerry Q10, the call quality on the BlackBerry is amazing. It really is miles ahead of the S4.
I also don't understand people's fascination with Android. After getting the hang of BB10 I am in a position to say that it is better than Android and this is still in its infancy.
I remember going back to my P1 while I had the S4 because the OS didn't quite cut it for me. Right now I have finally found the OS to replace UIQ3 with. BB10 is that good. The only concern I have is whether BlackBerry will still be around for me to enjoy this wonderful OS.
I am already seeing it after 4 more updates, looking (and hoping BlackBerry makes it) forward to it.
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Posted: 2014-04-19 17:31:31
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