Our quick take

Samsung Galaxy S5 - 4.5 / 5

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Design

Control and navigation

Fingerprint finesse?

Dizzying display

Power user

All day battery, power saving modes

Sound and call quality

Lighter Samsung software

A nod to phabletness

A focus on health

Cameras

To recap

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is a great handset, but if you’re not not sold on the health or fingerprint scanners, this becomes little more than an incremental step.