Samsung launched its mini flagship android smartphone namely Galaxy S5 mini which is priced @ 36,499/-. It is available is Black, White, Blue & Gold shades.
DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is good. It has corning glass 3 on front and a dimpled finish plastic back and feels quite good in hands. It is slim at 9.1mm and weighs 120gms. It has 4.5 inch HD Super AMOLED display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 326 ppi. The viewing angles are pretty good and sunlight legibility of the display is average. It runs on Touch Wiz User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.
STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 16GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 64GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a movie player for playing movies respectively which are quite good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n, Wifi dual-band, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) & NFC. But also has IR blaster and lacks USB OTG.
CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 8MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is very good overall. Daytime the images are very good and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is pretty fine. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound but lacks HDR having bit-rate of 17mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is Very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is very good and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is pretty fine. It also has a 2.1MP front camera for selfe's with 1080p video recording and clarity is pretty good.
SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.4.2 Kitkat out of the box upgradable to 4.4.4 kitkat. It has a Samsung's Exynos 3 Quad (3470) processor running a quad core 1.4 GHZ (Cortex-A7) with 1.5GB RAM and Mali 400 MP4 GPU (quad core) GPU. The performance is great which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all. But UI lag is expected at rare occations.
QUADRANT : 12060.
ANTUTU : 21256.
NENAMARK 2 : 58.5fps.
BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a removable Li-Ion 2100 mah battery. The battery life is Great which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 12:30H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 11H.
TALKTIME : upto 18H(2G) / upto 13H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 420 H(2G) / upto 400 H(3G).
PROS
*Good build quality.
*Great Performance.
*Very good camera and video recording clarity.
*NFC & IR blaster.
*Fingerprint sensor with Paypal certified & an heart rate sensor.
*Fingerprint sensor with Paypal certified & an heart rate sensor.
*Good loudspeaker.
*Removable battery.
*Removable battery.
CONS
*No dedicated camerera key.
*No USB OTG support.
*No USB OTG support.
*Pricy at launch & good amount of downgrade in terms of the specs.
OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.8/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.
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