Samsung, here is the Galaxy S5 - The Print (Blog)

A short clip reveals some features of the new smartphone, which will be presented next Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

will have to prove many things, the Galaxy S5 Samsung will launch next Monday on stage at the Mobile World Congress. Must demonstrate that the Koreans are able to innovate and not just take someone else’s ideas, for starters. And this will not be enough to have a fingerprint sensor, which will be – it is said – used in a broader sense than that adopted by Apple for the iPhone 5s. Not just that the new smartphone is more powerful and adopts a larger screen (5.2 inches, it seems, against 5 of the Galaxy S4) will mark a real change, a tangible improvement and not just add features of dubious value A software already too rich.

smartphones is happening that happened with PCs ten or fifteen years ago, the programs became more complex, to justify increasingly powerful processors. Or vice versa, was the computing power of the chip to grow, to cope with software functions that were enriched more and more refined (and almost always unused). So now it makes no sense to have a device in your pocket as a powerful computer to play in Candy Crush Saga, yet a bit ‘all the manufacturers point architectures increasingly elaborate, adding RAM memory, looking for new ways to increase the performance of processors.

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Samsung (there is already talk of a chip to eight nuclei derived from that currently used sull’S4), and probably invent some other function to impress the audience (last year it was the system that allowed you to control the scroll Pages with eyes). Maybe there will be a new revised version of the Galaxy Gear, not the exciting debut of Samsung in the field of smartwatch.

But really there is hope it gets a breath of fresh air, as it was with netbooks to the world of computing. Steve Jobs was right: not serve to anything, even if it were (male) everything he did a normal computer. Yet they have shown that some priorities could be redefined: maybe not everyone needs the plethora of features in Word, you could write a document with a simple text editor, or fail to use Outlook and webmail. For some, a computer were more important than size and weight, battery life and price.

It is time for something like that to happen again, but in the world of smartphones: more than power efficiency counts, more than the size of the screen has the handling, rather than the megapixel count the quality of the images. For this video with which Samsung anticipates the Galaxy S5 opens some hope: there is mention of a higher capacity battery (3000 mAh rumors speak of, a great value), to a chassis resistant to water and dust, to a camera optimized for selfies. None of these features alone is a revolution, but maybe this time we are on track.