First things first, This phone is a fabulous piece of gadget,with no issues what so ever.
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* Little heating issue(during benchmarks and also during charging)
* Very Light
* "NO" DOWNLOAD BOOSTER IN THE OCTA CORE VERSION(THIS ONE).
* Finger Print Reader works fabulously(watch youtube videos related to optimize finger print on S5 perfectly)
* Heart Rate Monitor is a cool addition,rather than an essential one,Optical Image Stabilization in an alternate would have been better.
* Camera in one word would be " "
(speechless)
BETTER than the Xperia Z2 too,due to various modes and mainly due to,on S5 we view them on the super HD Amoled display provided,
Might differ when compared on a HD Monitor/Display Device for both devices.
* Headphones are flat cable decent quality pieces.
* The full golden side bumper panels are awesome.
* Those who wanting to go for the gold variant*
The Bezels are not the same black as the black and blue versions of S5 as shown on many youtube videos,
Instead,it has a Golden Tint superimposed within the black which looks fab!
But the only flaw or rather over hyped downfall that seem prominent is,it being a GREAT PIECE OF HARDWARE yet is being criticized due to the harsh retail outlets and jealous freaks.
Yes you read that right, the ever so downfall of the phone is not because its bad,which its not at all, but only because of the aggressive pricing its facing all over India. 34909-35888 at Flipkart whereas 44000-51000 at retail outlets.
Having that been said, their are certain category of people who are the main criticizers of this phone :
* People who cannot afford the awesome phone are mostly the ones criticizing this beast having it in their dreams,out of jealousy.
*Then the next category are the people who speaks about hardware and plastic,searching all over internet for the flaws of the phone and then being phony about the same here, they too are types of people who either cannot afford the phone or has other brands of phones. (Just check on the peoples names bragging about HTC One 8 or Xperia Z2 on the reviews of the respective phones,mostly are not a certified buyers over their too! :-D Look for their names on Nokia Asha/Micromax ,etc, you will be able to find their names there, rating such phones 5stars because they own it :-P ).
* The third category of people are the physical store owners or workers ,mainly because at their store the phone is priced at 40k+ and since they cannot beat flipkart's price, they reject the phone's stocks and rate it bad on flipkart, to doom flipkart's sale, while increasing the sale of z2 ,m8,etc. This category also has one of the largest base of criticizers.
* Last but not the least, the Certified Buyers criticizing the phone knowing all the hardware specs before, are generally the ones who had bought the phone at its premium price tag of 45k-51k and now asking flipkart for refunds,but are not getting any, are taking out their frustration of the review segment.
So therefore, I hereby conclude, stop being misguided by false/frustrated reviews, go and try this piece of beast at your nearby store and order the same from flipkart. Trust me, The phone is a piece of wonder,I being a parallel user of iPhone 5s too would say that with ease. I know this review might get a lots of dislikes (by the above category of peoples) and hence might never show on top, but people, click on "this review was helpful - yes" to keep it on top upon the faces of the above categorized people :-). Coming to the phone, the gold one looks the best, I know benchmarks are not everything, still till date, all the benchmark apps are showing this device above the Quad Core variant, since it runs all the 8 cores simultaneously. People complaining about their personal app developing not being fast on the device,is generally a fault of their programming team, who are unable to optimize their app into this brilliant display. And to answer some, yes the side metallic bezels are metallic golden too,in the gold variant of the phone.
Hope this review helps all the people daily searching for a decent review only to get demoralized by the criticisms.
Always be confident of the 30days replacement guarantee too!
If you don't like it,I bet you would,
Just change it for a refund :-)
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CLARIFICATIONS :
*NO DOWNLOAD BOOSTER
*SPEAKERS ARE BELOW AVERAGE(DUE TO IP RATINGS)
* GOLD coloured VARIANT HAS GOLDEN TINT ON THE BEZELS OF THE DEVICE WHEN LOOKED FROM THE WIDE ANGLES ADDING A MUCH MORE PREMIUM TOUCH TO IT!
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- Sayan Mitra17 Jul, 2014
