Top 5 Reasons Not To Buy the Samsung Galaxy S5
Samsung has showcased its flagship smartphone Galaxy S5 in India. The smartphone will go on pre-order from March 29, 2014 and will be available in stores starting April 11. As of now, Samsung has refrained from sharing the exact price of the Samsung Galaxy S5 in India. Enthusiastic consumers who want to get the smartphone first, will have to shell out Rs 1,500 to pre-book it. Samsung did indicate that it will cost between Rs 51,000 and Rs 53,000.
But does it really make sense to shell out over Rs 50,000 on the Samsung Galaxy S5? Here are five reasons why you are better of without it.
1) Pricey Little Thing
We were expecting the Samsung Galaxy S5 to be priced somewhere around Rs 45,000 and so we feel at the current price, this smartphone is way too expensive. You might want to wait for the price drop.
2) Shiny ain't glamorous anymore
It was expected that Samsung would be adopting a metal case for the Samsung Galaxy S5. In fact, there were a lot of rumours suggesting a metal-clad Samsung Galaxy S5 in the works. However, what we got was the boring old plastic body.
If that is not enough, the design of Samsung Galaxy S5 is quite a departure from last year's flagship. Samsung likes to call it shiny, perforated back that looks like leather, but is actually polycarbonate in a "modern glam look," it actually borders on grubby.
3) Battery
In the world where we are seeing smartphones that have battery just shy of 4,000mAh, Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with 2,800mAh battery. Though the Ultra Power Saving Mode is a nice add-on, but in a 50K phone we were expecting little more than that.
4) No LTE
The Samsung Galaxy S5 launched in India just supports 3G and there is no support for LTE. Samsung has mentioned that they will evaluate the situation and afterwards might come with the LTE variant. However, has given no clear signals about the same.
5) Processor
Samsung Galaxy S5 launched in India comes with a 1.9GHz Exynos Octa-core processor. While in the European and North American markets, Galaxy S5 variants packs in a 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor.
Samsung had adopted a similar strategy for the launch of Samsung Galaxy S4. We are a bit disappointed at the news as the Octa-core Exynos processor has a tendency to heat up.
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