Galaxy S5 Active: Samsung’s new outdoor smartphone goes on sale – Golem.de

With the Galaxy S5 Active Samsung presents an outdoor version of his current top smartphones. Like its predecessor, the technical specifications are so nearly identical, added a military standard of protection and an outdoor knob.

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Active is the first dealer in the sale <- - content!>: Customers of the U.S. mobile operator AT & T can order the outdoor smartphone from now on. Samsung reserves in the new model the specifications of the current top device Galaxy S5 in: The Galaxy S5 Active also has a Snapdragon 801 processor at 2.5 GHz, a 5.1-inch AMOLED display with 1080p resolution and a 16 megapixel camera

The new Galaxy S 5 Active by Samsung. (Picture: AT & T)

 
 
 Also, the pulse rate meter is installed at the Galaxy S5 Active, the fingerprint sensor, Samsung has however omitted. This could be due to the design of the Navigation keys: As with the Galaxy S4 Active Samsung omitted completely on sensor keys, and also builds on the Back and Menu button real keys that have a non-slip surface. Thus, they should make it operate much better than the Galaxy S5 with wet fingers.

Additional shock protection

addition to the Galaxy S5 anyway implemented protection against water and dust, the Galaxy S5 Active after protected the military standard MIL-STD-810G from shocks. This standard is implemented, inter alia, with regard to outdoor equipment from Panasonic. Externally similar to the Galaxy S5 Active its predecessor Galaxy S4 Active, but Samsung has apparently strengthened again here the edges. With 145.3 x 73.4 x 8.9 mm, the smartphone is only slightly larger and thicker than the Galaxy S5

Another addition, Samsung has done with the side-mounted outdoor button. This starts click of a button your own home screen page that displays all the apps associated with outdoor activities. A similar principle used Samsung for some time with music apps: Infected users a set of headphones into the jack, a dedicated music page is called with matching apps

In addition to the processor, the display and the camera with 4K. video mode and fast autofocus divides the Galaxy S5 Active with Samsung’s current top model, the amount of RAM: 2 GB. The internal memory is 16 GB in size, a slot for micro-SD cards up to a size of 128 GB is installed. The Galaxy S5 Active supports quad-band GSM, UMTS and LTE and WLAN in accordance with 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth ac runs in version 4.0 LE, a GPS receiver and an NFC chip installed.

715 U.S. dollars without a contract

The Galaxy S5 Active costs at AT & T without contract 715 U.S. dollars, whereupon still taxes and optionally an activation fee come. The smartphone is offered gray, red and camouflage colors. On demand, Samsung has Allaboutsamsung.com the website explains that the Galaxy S5 Active will probably not come to Germany.