Thursday, April 3, 2014

Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone and three new Gear watches coming April 11

WITH THE LATEST version of its Galaxy S smartphone, Samsung has tried to focus less on the technical marvels, and more on the everyday user. The Galaxy S5 becomes available on April 11, and in a press briefing on Tuesday (April 1), Ken Price explained that Samsung wants to “become more about what people are doing with the phone”.

Which is why many of the features he highlighted during his presentation in a suite at the Fairmont Pacific Rim are upgrades to basic mobile traits: better networking and greater resistance to the elements, in particular.
Price, the vice president of sales and marketing for Samsung Canada’s mobile division, explained that “people are using these outside, they’re dropping them”, so the new GS5 has been constructed to withstand a metre of water for 30 minutes and is better at keeping out dirt and dust. But he warned that the GS5 is not a “ruggedized” device. “It is not an underwater camera,” he half-joked. 

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