Possible Galaxy S5 leaked (lots of pics)

[Oofa]

For me, one of the nice things about the S4 was the rounded corners that made the phone comfortable to hold and gave it a sleek yet soft design. I can't stand holding phones that have those hard corners and the S5 seems to be one of them.

 

[Raptor007]

Well there are disadvantages to offering MicroSD support, actually. It is a source of errors; just visit the Galaxy S3 or S4 forums and search for the number of threads involving issues with SD cards not working, or issues related to the SD slot. It's also a security loophole for any phone. As a medium they're outdated; slow, and unreliable. It's easy to lose all your data if you lose the card or it becomes corrupted. It's not officially supported by Android either, and I was less than happy with Samsung's "hacking in" of them on the S4 - many things about their implementation wasn't ideal.

I'm not getting another phone with one again for the above reasons. I also don't like that they could be used as an excuse to pack less internal memory in (which is faster, more reliable, safter, etc). It was a big problem on the S4 when it came to app storage. 32gb really needs to be the standard these days.

And the reason Samsung is dominating in sales is advertising, not because they offer SD cards. That's a very minute feature in the grand scheme of things.

While I understand what you are saying I disagree. Until we see internal storage reach 64GB or higher consistently, data plans become reasonable (never going to happen) then SD cards have value and I have never had a card fail on my phones, as a standalone card in a card reader yes, but that is a Windows device issue. Google isn't the smartest kid in the room just because they dropped SD card support, they did it based on users being too dumb to manage them and then FAILED to actually implement anything reasonable with internal storage. Google has stumbled far more in Androids development and has a lot they should be asking forgiveness over including dropping SD cards.

 

[Raptor007]

For me, one of the nice things about the S4 was the rounded corners that made the phone comfortable to hold and gave it a sleek yet soft design. I can't stand holding phones that have those hard corners and the S5 seems to be one of them.

That is why I am looking at the GS4 instead of a GS5, the size the design and the processor will simply eat the extra battery they added.

 

[monsieurms]

While I understand what you are saying I disagree. Until we see internal storage reach 64GB or higher consistently, data plans become reasonable (never going to happen) then SD cards have value and I have never had a card fail on my phones, as a standalone card in a card reader yes, but that is a Windows device issue. Google isn't the smartest kid in the room just because they dropped SD card support, they did it based on users being too dumb to manage them and then FAILED to actually implement anything reasonable with internal storage. Google has stumbled far more in Androids development and has a lot they should be asking forgiveness over including dropping SD cards.

Never had a card fail.
Never had a significant problem. I had to reformat the card in my tablet when I got a new tablet. Yawn.

Cards are incredibly useful, not only for storage but backup. As I sat here yesterday trying to play with Seagate's new mobile backup app, realizing it was trying backup 50+ gigs of MP3s over wi-fi, I just canceled it. I have the card manually copied to the desktop. Changes are incremental now and can be addressed as such.

I get a new phone, just pop the card in. The most time-consuming part of my setup is done.
The card fails, copy the data to a new one. I'm ready to go.

Internal storage isn't going to fix all those things. Plus, the way apps are going these days, I have other uses for internal storage. Big media files are better on a card.

 

[howie782]

I agree. not sure what the design team was thinking with dimpled back fake leather look. It does not look appealing. Maybe these are just initial test units though.

 

[AmazingAura01]

How can people say it looks like S4? The back cover of the S5 looks like toilet paper

 

[monsieurms]

I agree. not sure what the design team was thinking with dimpled back fake leather look. It does not look appealing. Maybe these are just initial test units though.

Just curious..do you use your phone "naked" or do you put a protective case on it? If the latter (and almost everyone i see when walking around has some sort of protective case on their high end devices), i'm wondering why we always get so many Samsung-related comments on what the soon-to-be-hidden exterior looks like. I think we've established that design aesthetics are not the strongest point with this mfg. But no one will ever see mine anyway. The lighter and cheaper, the better therefore.

 

[howie782]

Really depends. Sometimes I go without a case. Cases can add bulk but generally I have a case. But just because I put a case on the phone does not mean I wouldn't like to have the option of not having one. I think the back looks unattractive but then again it could provide a great non-slip function. Either way not everyone had cases...I use my N5 without case at times and saw a note 3 in the wild last weekend with no case. Just different preferences..if phones where made to ha