What I am annoyed when S5:
1) If you have the phone using pattern or fingerprint locked, you can not see which calls you missed. It is then only "missed call" (with time, but with no name). "Locks" to the phone with a swipe gesture, you can see at least a photo of the contact next.
2) What'sApp messages appear on the lockscreen also not (known in iOS style). One can choose to be notified via "pop-up" in WhatsApp though. Then the whole screen is taken up and the phone unlocked - not the best idea if you sit on the bike and during which receives a message!
3) The camera can not be opened without the phone to unlock it. Bearable, but annoying, because even the German units are affected and this can not be handle without much effort.
The view 4) to write a text and want to insert a special character (such as a comma), so changes to selection of the special character is not automatically returned to the letter mode (makes the iPhone, as well as the Sony Z1, etc.). How often would you put more than 1 special characters ?!
5) With S-Voice can indeed write SMS - and unlike Googels speech recognition also dictate special characters - but no email. How can that be ?!
What I like the S5:
1) Has the best calendar view, I have seen on a phone. eg appointments are for two days also displays as a continuous beam (s. screenshot attached)
2) You do not see fingerprints on the back
3) The camera is really great
4) The screen is really great
5) The handwriting recognition impressed me because it works so well - I use them in everyday life but still not as other input methods are faster.
What S5 and Z1 Compact differs in the operation:
- The Z1 does not change after inserting a special character automatically return to letter mode, the S5.
- The S5 remembers the last view in the App Drawer and the phone app, not the Z1. Specifically, this means: you always want to directly see his favorites at the click of the phone / contact icon works only when S5. The Z1 will open the App Drawer, ie an overview of all apps always with "A", or the first page of the personal view, the S5 to the point where you last left the App Drawer.
- When S5 can browse the App Drawer: reach the last app-side and wipe again to the left, so page 1 is displayed automatically - when Sony would have to for scroll back through all the pages.
- At S5, the panorama feature of the camera also panoramas together in portrait mode - the Z1 can do so only in landscape mode.
- One should not underestimate the advantage of a soft "Home" -Keys at ease - especially since Sony reduced pleasant and beautiful icons in video and camera applications in order to create more space.
- The aluminum frame and the visually stunning keyboard it enrolls the Z1 in landscape orientation better than the Samsung, which by its Tatstatur optics 1990s (all the rank and file) less clearly comes.
- Fingerprints can be seen on the Z1 much more pronounced than on the S5, especially on the back. After long use, the Z1 is almost "slippery".
- The positioning of the speaker buttons on the Z1 below the On / Off button is more ergonomic (particularly due to the size) than the S5 (on the other side at the top) as you touch the phone in the lower range.
- The Z1 can be without fumbling the battery cover charge with a charging station for 10, the S5 by induction for 50 (Case + charger).
CONCLUSION
All particularly advertised features of the S5 includes fingerprint recognition, heart rate monitor or MyMagazine etc will hardly be used in everyday life due to their poor implementation, but things that everyone, absolutely everyone every day uses a dozen times are, surprisingly reacted worse than the competition. While the S5 does it all and therefore wins all tests - but other devices are more comfortable because of liquid to use. Criticism of the shell I can not understand again. I also find the S5 as compared to other models ugly, but it is relatively easy and not so slippery - that's me all more important than the appearance in the game "my house, my boat, my car".
In summary: impressive hardware, software upgradeable.
