Samsung Galaxy Mini S5 in the short test – HardwareLuxx

Small, but big. With the Galaxy Mini S5 Samsung again offers a more compact flagship branch and thus follows the competitors HTC and Sony. While in the past, but only the name recalled the great prototype, the new mini-model of the South Koreans actually provides some functions of the great idol.

First of all, Samsung has to put up with criticism but . Because of a “Mini” smartphone can now no longer be spoken, compared to its predecessor, the Galaxy Mini S5 has again increased and is now on a display diagonal of 4.5 inches. Accordingly, the housing defines at 131.1 x 64.8 x 9.1 mm, the weight climbs from 107 to 120 g.

After all, one does not only simply enlarges the screen within a year, but also a sharper panel installed. This again is based on the Super AMOLED technology and now offers 1,280 x 720 pixels, resulting in 326 ppi (S4 Galaxy Mini: 256 ppi). In some other respects the differences are however of much less. So omitted in this year’s HSPA variant, only a LTE model is available. At the same time, the cellular modem has been upgraded and now supports high-speed data radio to Cat 4 with up to 150 Mbps downstream.

In addition, installed Samsung now 16 instead of 8 GB internal memory and increase the battery from 1,900 to 2,100 mAh. On Proven relying on the other hand the memory of 1.5 GB fails again, and at the interfaces – dual-band wireless n standard, Bluetooth 4.0, Micro USB 2.0 – and the main camera. The latter dissolves again with 8 megapixels and can rely on auto focus and LED flash. However, was revised minimum the front sensor, which now comes to 1.9 megapixels – the trend towards selfie-friendly cameras on the front makes the Samsung Galaxy Mini S5 not

Completely new is the SoC.. Left you in the last year even on a 1.7 GHz Snapdragon 400 with two cores, now the in-house development Exynos 3470 comes with four cores and a maximum clock speed of 1.4 GHz.

Also new, but not surprising is the design of the smartphone. After all, the Galaxy Mini S5 Samsung uses the basic look of the donor names, similar to its predecessor. This means for the front clear lines with the known rounded corners for the pages a distinctly profiled frame and a back in the “band-aid” design.

important not to forget the aforementioned functions and features it had taken from the Galaxy S5. So also the mini-cuttings according to IP67 is protected against water and dust, which gives the device a certain degree of robustness. In addition, sitting on the back of the known pulse sensor which, although it does not provide a precise, but useful results. On the front is finally the fingerprint sensor of the Galaxy S5 available on the not only the smart phones can be unlocked – among others can with the help also PayPal transactions are authenticated

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