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Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport Review

(SM-G860) Score: 77.8 / 100

Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport is an extremely powerful cellphone released in June 2014, provisioned with a quite big 5.1" multi-touch screen, a very fast 2500 megahertz Quad-Core CPU, and 2 cameras, a 16 mega-pixels back-facing camera and a 2 megapixels front facing camera.

Samsung did a really good design job making this phone weight just 5.57 ounces. This cellphone is offerred in 2 color options, blue and red. While this phone is only 5.67" long and 2.91 inches wide, it is able to fit a a 5.1" screen. This device is extremely thin and stilized, with a thickness of just 0.35".

This cellphone includes a great 5.1-inches display with a 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) resolution, which makes everything look amazing. Its display uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and is multi-touch enabled.

Samsung decided to sell this cellphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974-AC system chip, which holds a very fast Quad-Core CPU ticking at 2500 MHz and a huge 2 GB of RAM memory. Collaborating with graphic rendering, this cellphone also counts with an Adreno 330 graphic processing unit ticking at 450 MHz. A nice point of this phone is its quite large 16 GB internal storage memory and an SD memory slot, allowing you to install hundreds of applications and games without running out of space.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport features two cameras, a 16 megapixels back-facing camera and a 2 mega-pixels front side camera. this device's back-facing camera lens has a maximum 2.2 aperture so it can take detailed photos even in poor lighting environments. It can also capture videos up to 3840x2160 (4K) at 30 fps. This cellphone also has a couple of good characteristics like flash, digital image stabilization, auto-focus, HDR mode and geo tagging.

This cellphone features an awesome 2800 mAh Li-Ion replaceable battery providing this phone an extremely long battery duration. Samsung afirms this cellphone has a talk time of 21 hs and a stand by time of 390 hours.

This phone provides wifi connectivity (and it can provide it to other devices around, acting as a wireless modem or router), 4G (LTE) high performance internet connection and also HSPA+ connectivity, that is a lower speed 4G variation and the fastest 3G internet connection, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This device uses a SIM card to connect to GSM networks.

This device also comes with a wide range of useful characteristics such as Fingerprint ID, NFC, Infrared Port, Bluetooth (4.0, EDR) and GPS, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass.

Samsung offers this phone for $ 299, which is quite a high price for this type of cellphone. No matter if you you love taking pictures, need a cellphone to play tons of games, are looking for a cellphone for work or are looking for a phone to mainly use social networks and internet browsing, you will probably love this phone.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Samsung
Operating System (OS):Android 4.4.2
Product code:SM-G860
Dimensions:5.67 x 2.91 x 0.35 inchesMetric14.4 x 7.39 x 0.89 cmImperial
Weight:5.57 ouncesMetric157.91 gImperial
Colors:Blue and Red
Scratch Resistant Glass:Yes
Release date:2014-06-23
Price:$ 299.00

Display

Screen Type:Super AMOLED (16M colors)
Size:5.1 inchesMetric13 cmImperial
Resolution:1080 x 1920 pixels (Full HD)
Pixel density:432 pixels per inchMetric170.08 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974-AC
Processor:Krait 400 (Quad-Core 2500 MHz)
RAM Memory:2 GB (800 MHz)
Graphics Processor:Adreno 330 (450 MHz)
Internal Memory:16 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 128 GB)

Battery

Battery type:Li-Ion
Removable:Yes
Capacity:2800 mAh
Stand-by Time:390 hours
Talk Time:21 hours

Camera

Back camera:16 megapixels
    Aperture:f/2.20
    Sensor size:0.38 inches (1/2.6")
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:2 megapixels
Max video resolution:3840 x 2160 (30 fps) (4K)
Camera features:Auto-Focus, Digital Image Stabilization, Geo Tagging and HDR Mode

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
    Mobile Hotspot:Yes
SIM Card Type:SIM
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
Technologies:LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS and GSM

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.0, EDR
GPS:Yes
NFC (Near Field Communication):Yes
Infra-red:Yes
Fingerprint ID:Yes
Sensors:Accelerometer, Barometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor