+/- Good phone, but thanks to Android 4.4.2 total unusable

+/- Good phone, but thanks to Android 4.4.2 total unusable

Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone (5-inch display, 16GB of memory, Android 4.4) shimmery-white (Wireless Phone Accessory)

Customer Review

After I switched from iOS to Android years ago and was excited about the flexibility, I have long been waiting for the S5, and it gained me right after the show.
After a month of use I am, however, so disappointed that I can only advise everyone.
Although one must note that this is not so much the fault of the (technically otherwise quite good) phones, but once again the policy of Samsung and Google is owed - especially the operating system Android 4.4.2.
Since you the S5 but can not downgrade (eg 4.3), these deficiencies are, unfortunately, inextricably linked with the S5.

The first surprise: under 4.4.2, an SD card is no longer used (at least not seriously).
Applications do not have write permissions more, except in one, each folder. Say, large amounts of data such as music, videos, audiobooks, Navi-cards, offline Wikipedia usw.können there no longer be saved. The possibility of adding SD card - one of the biggest advantages over IOS - is thus de facto no longer exists.

The second surprise: on the lockscreen can no widgets are placed - so no preview pane, Reminder, analog clock, flashlight, etc. Only one (yes, one) camera widget can be integrated, but the stores in turn the data only on the "(!) Internal SD Card "from. Fun for a limited time.

Bravo, Google + Samsung! So Android is finally so inflexible and unternehmensdiktiert as IOS.

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