Wa­ter­proof, dust­proof, a bet­ter cam­era, brighter screen, func­tion­al Apps, en­hanced se­cu­ri­ty, faster proces­sor and in­creased down­load speed, the new Sam­sung Galaxy S5 has fo­cused on what users want.Since Sam­sung un­veiled its flag­ship smart­phone at the Mo­bile World Con­gress 2014 in Barcelona on Feb­ru­ary 24, pos­i­tive re­views have dom­i­nat­ed the tech sites as the world counts down to a mid-April glob­al launch.Word is that lo­cal provider bmo­bile will be tak­ing pre-or­ders soon in an­tic­i­pa­tion of the launch.

In what may be seen as a clas­sic pass­ing of the ba­ton from the ground­break­ing Sam­sung Galaxy S4 which reigned as one of the top smart­phones in the world, the Galaxy S5 is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue this dom­i­nance of the smart­phone mar­ket.

So what can cus­tomers look for in the Sam­sung Galaxy S5? Sam­sung pub­lished its first pro­mo video for the Galaxy S5 on March 4. It takes its DNA from its pre­de­ces­sor and im­proves on it in most ar­eas. Sam­sung is bet­ting big on the Galaxy S5's in­creased speed and per­for­mance, as well as a heart rate mon­i­tor and fin­ger­print scan­ner on the home but­ton which will let users sign in to many ser­vices with just a swipe.

Sam­sung's Galaxy S5 fea­tures a 5.1-inch Full HD Su­per AMOLED dis­play along with 2GB of RAM and 16GB in­ter­nal stor­age. The phone will be pow­ered by a 2.5GHz quad-core proces­sor, run An­droid 4.4 KitKat and car­ry a 2800mAh bat­tery. The Galaxy S5 mea­sures at 142.0�72.5�8.1 mm and weighs 145grams but the most no­tice­able change is on the back, where a dim­pled poly­car­bon­ate ex­te­ri­or takes the place of the glossy pan­el on the S4.

The Galaxy S5 boasts of cam­era func­tions and fea­tures that would make a pro out of any am­a­teur pho­tog­ra­ph­er. A 16-megapix­el cam­era which can al­so record 4k (4096 � 2160 pix­els) videos cou­pled with re­al-time HDR, Se­lec­tion Fo­cus, and Fast Au­to Fo­cus promis­es more vivid pic­tures. Shoot­ing modes such as Shot & More and Vir­tu­al Tour Shot give you more con­ve­nience and flex­i­bil­i­ty and S Stu­dio al­lows you to ed­it your pho­tos pro­fes­sion­al­ly and di­rect­ly from your smart­phone.

The Galaxy S5 is best friends with high speed da­ta and in­cor­po­rates the lat­est mo­bile high-speed da­ta tech­nol­o­gy. The fifth gen­er­a­tion Wi-Fi 802.11ac, 2X2 MI­MO tech­nol­o­gy and two in­ter­nal Wi-Fi an­ten­nas in­crease net­work per­for­mance with dou­ble the con­nec­tion, more sta­bil­i­ty and faster speed. In­ter­net speed can be fur­ther en­hanced with Down­load Boost­er, which com­bines both Wi-Fi and mo­bile net­work high-speed da­ta.

The ro­bust­ness of the de­vice is boost­ed with wa­ter­proof and dust­proof de­sign. Sam­sung says the Galaxy S5 is al­most com­plete­ly re­sis­tant to dust, rain and liq­uids. It is wa­ter­proof to a depth of 1m for 30 min­utes pro­vid­ing you with enough time to re­act and res­cue your Galaxy S5 if it falls in­to shal­low wa­ter.The Galaxy S5 holds the promise of be­ing one of the best smart de­vices to in­te­grate with ac­tive mod­ern lifestyles and looks set to fur­ther boost pub­lic in­ter­est in fea­ture-rich smart­phones.