I feel a little sad almost after having my S5 for 4 years exactly but I have pulled the trigger and pre ordered a Note 9. My plan was to get the Note 10, but my much admired S5 has been running slow and laggy for a while now and always critically low on storage and especially RAM.
A 4000 mah battery, 512 GB storage and 8 GB RAM was too good for me to pass up. The storage I wasn't too fussed about as 64 GB would be enough for me. But a large battery and huge RAM to ensure long lasting multitasking performance really appealed to me. Oh yeah, and that new water carbon fibre cooling system so I can play some demanding games with minimal heat loading on the processor.
And here in Australia, I get a free Galaxy Tab A to boot. I feel like I am moving house and saying goodbye to a friend I won't see again. But the S5 was an awesome phone that served me really well.
The galaxy S5 was my first high end phone, before that I had a Nokia Lumia. I knew nothing about phones then and Apple had their iPhone 5 which my wife had. I looked at that phone and thought it was WAY BELOW PAR with the S5. It was a small, chunky phone with a poor resolution screen and took horrible photos and videos.
The S5 was a nice size screen in comparison, it was slim, the screen resolution and colours blew the iPhone 5 out of the water by a long shot. Ditto for photos and videos. And the fingerprint sensor sealed the deal for me. Which by the way worked almost flawlessly all this time despite a lot of popular put downs. My only real gripe with the S5 was the poor volume, low quality speaker which the Note 9 fixes by a mile with much higher quality stereo speakers.
So like saying goodbye to a friend I say, "Fare thee well" and thank you for 4 years of faithful and satisfying service.
A 4000 mah battery, 512 GB storage and 8 GB RAM was too good for me to pass up. The storage I wasn't too fussed about as 64 GB would be enough for me. But a large battery and huge RAM to ensure long lasting multitasking performance really appealed to me. Oh yeah, and that new water carbon fibre cooling system so I can play some demanding games with minimal heat loading on the processor.
And here in Australia, I get a free Galaxy Tab A to boot. I feel like I am moving house and saying goodbye to a friend I won't see again. But the S5 was an awesome phone that served me really well.
The galaxy S5 was my first high end phone, before that I had a Nokia Lumia. I knew nothing about phones then and Apple had their iPhone 5 which my wife had. I looked at that phone and thought it was WAY BELOW PAR with the S5. It was a small, chunky phone with a poor resolution screen and took horrible photos and videos.
The S5 was a nice size screen in comparison, it was slim, the screen resolution and colours blew the iPhone 5 out of the water by a long shot. Ditto for photos and videos. And the fingerprint sensor sealed the deal for me. Which by the way worked almost flawlessly all this time despite a lot of popular put downs. My only real gripe with the S5 was the poor volume, low quality speaker which the Note 9 fixes by a mile with much higher quality stereo speakers.
So like saying goodbye to a friend I say, "Fare thee well" and thank you for 4 years of faithful and satisfying service.
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