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For most benchmarks, we compared the Galaxy S5's performance to a small group of relevant handsets: Advertisement

The quad-core Krait 400 CPUs are up to 2.5GHz from 2.3GHz, the Adreno 330 GPU now runs at 578MHz instead of 450MHz, and the memory bus speed can now hit 933MHz (up from 800MHz). The CPUs, GPU, and memory bus have all received clock speed boosts. We've covered the Snapdragon 801 before (and again in the HTC One M8 review), but the basic gist of it is that the architecture is the same as the Snapdragon 800. During actual usage, you're unlikely to notice the 8.7 percent speed boost over HTC's latest flagship, but every little bit helps. The extra MHz pay off in the benchmarks, though, making the Galaxy S5 our new spreadsheet champion. So while the extra 200MHz will help for "bursty" usage like loading an app (which, granted, is common), for gaming or any other heavy usage it won't matter much. While Samsung's extra 200MHz looks great on a spec sheet, in the real world almost every phone is heat-limited after a short period of sustained use. The M8 uses a Snapdragon 801 clocked at 2.3GHz, and Samsung has gone with an even faster version running at 2.5GHz. But Samsung has scored a paper victory over the HTC One M8. Everything gets very samey, very quickly. It seems like every new phone just uses the latest go-faster Qualcomm parts at the highest clock speed.

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The Galaxy S5 uses the new Snapdragon 801 SoC, which first hit the market in the S5's high-end Android rival, the HTC One M8. Now options are on the screen, and the user doesn't have to think to hit the menu button in every screen just to see what commands are available. Now that Samsung can't rely on the menu button as a dumping ground for controls, many of the TouchWiz apps have moved over to a navigation panel, just like what the Google Play apps use. Samsung's apps used to be almost entirely driven by the menu button, which made it difficult to assess the primary functions of an app without digging through the menu. With the removal of the hardware menu button, Recent Apps has been given a top-tier spot on the bottom of the phone. For instance, tapping on a headline and pressing back doesn't go back to the My Magazine page you came from it goes to the main screen of Flipboard. My Magazine isn't really much of an app it mostly serves as a launcher for the main Flipboard app, and the two aren't integrated very well. You can pick your favorite news topics and see pictures and headlines. To the left of the main home screen is "My Magazine" a picture-based news reader built by Flipboard. We really don't understand how smartphone newbies deal with this. By default, there are so many apps in the app drawer, we're starting to wish there was a search function.Įnlarge / My Magazine, the main home screen, and the Recent Apps screen. As a result, the device ships with two browsers, two voice assistant apps, two galleries, two app stores, three music players, and four texting apps. Samsung wants to push its own software, but the company has a contractual obligation to include all of the Google apps. The notification panel uses blue and green circle icons.īesides the three clashing design styles, the Galaxy S5 app selection includes multiples of everything. The app drawer apps use normal Android icons with unique shapes, but the settings screen (which is six screens long!) uses Tizen's colored circles with white icons. Samsung couldn't even decide on a single icon style. Who would guess that the three screenshots above were from the same device?

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So some apps use a white card design (Google), others use Samsung's usual blue/green design (Touchwiz), and the rest use a Windows 8-esque white icon silhouette on a primary color (Tizen).

The third design style is Google's apps, which Samsung must include but isn't allowed to skin.

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About half of Samsung's software still looks like old-style Touchwiz, and the other half is more in tune with the company's still-in-development Tizen OS. At any given time, you'll be jumping between apps with three different design styles. A lot of people give it a pass because they are used to it by now, but compared to a stock Android device or iOS, the Galaxy S5 software is a mess. It's amazing Samsung is as successful as it is with software like this. Enlarge / Touchwiz, Tizen, and Google's Android, all in the same OS.