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.