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Samsung Electronics, Sri Lanka’s leading smartphone manufacturer, yesterday launched in Sri Lanka its fifth generation GALAXY S5, a state-of-the-art smartphone that focuses on what matters most to consumers.
The new GALAXY S5 offers consumers a refined experience with innovation of essential features for easy day-to-day use.
“The GALAXY S5 is yet another great proof point of people-inspired innovation developed by Samsung. Designed to be both effortlessly smart and intuitively simple, the GALAXY S5 has been created to maximize consumer benefits by integrating superior hardware with enhanced smartphone usability and an iconic design,” said H.K. Chang, Managing Director, Samsung India Electronics Ltd.
Sri Lanka branch. “This sleek and innovative smartphone provides an effortless user experience and is designed to empower consumers and help them in their everyday lives.”
The GALAXY S5 combines an advanced camera with fast network connectivity, dedicated fitness tools and enhanced device protection features that enable consumers to stay fit and connected in style.
Express a modern, glam look
The GALAXY S5 blends iconic Samsung design with modern trends to appeal to a range of consumer tastes and interests. The GALAXY S5 features a perforated pattern on the back cover creating a modern glam look. Its new, sleek and contoured design comes in an array of vivid colours, including charcoal black, shimmery white, electric blue and copper gold.
Capture the moments that matter
Capturing and saving precious memories is one of the most important smartphone features today. The new GALAXY S5 offers superior camera functionality, featuring a 16 megapixel camera with an enhanced menu and user interface that allows consumers to effortlessly take, edit and share photos.
The GALAXY S5 camera offers the world’s fastest autofocus speed up to 0.3 seconds and the advanced High Dynamic Range (HDR) reproduces natural light and colour with striking intensity at any occasion. Also, the new Selective Focus feature allows users to focus on a specific area of an object while simultaneously blurring out the background. With this capability, consumers no longer need a special lens kit to create a shallow depth of field (DOF) effect.
Tap into the fastest connections
The GALAXY S5 offers the fastest Wi-Fi performance available today, ensuring blazing fast data speeds for unrivalled media consumption and productivity.
The GALAXY S5 supports fast LTE cat 4 (150 / 50 Mbps) and it comes with a powerful Octa-core processor, capable of operating all 8 cores at the same time, to deliver a seamless experience on the GALAXY S5.
Be more fit and active
With the enhanced S Health 3.0, the new GALAXY S5 offers more tools to help people stay fit and well. It provides a comprehensive personal fitness tracker to help users monitor and manage their behaviour, along with additional tools including a pedometer, diet and exercise records, and a new, built-in heart rate sensor. GALAXY S5 users can further customise their experience with an enriched third party app ecosystem and the ability to pair with next generation Gear products for real-time fitness coaching.
Essential device protection
The GALAXY S5 is IP67 dust and water resistant. It also offers a Finger Scanner, providing a secure, biometric screen locking feature. The Ultra Power Saving Mode turns the display to black and white, and shuts down all unnecessary features to minimise battery consumption.
The next generation of mobile freedom
Expanding its industry-leading wearable line, Samsung has launched three incredible devices – Gear Fit, Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo that blend style, fitness and convenience to provide ultimate connectivity for the active mobile consumer. Samsung Gear Fit, the industry’s first curved Super AMOLED wearable device, empowers consumers to stay physically active without sacrificing personal style or mobile connectivity. Whether used as a standalone or companion device, the Samsung Gear Fit puts people in charge of their personal and active lives while staying connected so they never miss a moment. The Samsung Gear Fit is designed to comfortably contour to consumers’ wrists while offering a vivid Super AMOLED display. Much more than an everyday fitness band, Samsung Gear Fit keeps consumers up to date with instant notifications from GALAXY smartphones such as incoming calls, emails, SMS, alarm, S-planner, 3rd party apps while consumers are on the move.
The Samsung Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo are designed to take the freedom, convenience and style of wearable technology to the next level. The Samsung Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo offer consumers enhanced connectivity and a completely integrated approach for the most personal wearable experience. Both devices offer a lightweight design with a premium finish that reflects modern trends.
A camera is equipped to the main body instead of the strap, making the Samsung Gear 2 a sleek and sharp smart companion. The Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo are essential companion devices, allowing users to accept or ignore incoming calls and messages, and providing instant notification options based on a user’s activity and habits. Both devices act as an extension of a consumer’s daily life, offering users more control of their lives with standalone features, such as controlling electronic products like TV, set-top box through WatchON Remote application in their own home with an embedded IrLED sensor. The addition of a standalone music player with Bluetooth headset means people can leave their smartphone at home and still enjoy their music on the go.
All three devices - Gear Fit, Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo allows users to express their mood or coordinate with their outfit with modern and sophisticated strap colour options including charcoal black, gold brown and wild orange for Gear 2 and charcoal black, mocha grey and wild orange for Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit. The home screen background, clock face and font are also customisable to reflect their personal taste. The devices also offer personal fitness coaching in real time, allowing users to develop a customisable fitness routine and monitor their heart rate in order to improve their overall well-being.
The Samsung Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo lets users connect to a wide variety of Samsung devices and access an enriched application ecosystem as the first wearables powered by Tizen based wearable platform.
The Samsung GALAXY S5 is priced at Rs. 111,490, the Gear 2 is priced at Rs. 44,999 and both the Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit are priced at Rs. 29,999. These devices will be available across Sri Lanka at select Samsung distributors island-wide.
