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as is the case with every new Samsung release there are quite a few new features introduced in each new iteration so depending on who you are you may or may not find these useful but let's take a look at some of the ones found in the Samsung Galaxy s5 hey it's Josh regard from Android 30 what's going on everybody and this is a feature focused look at five new features found in the updated version of TouchWiz in the Samsung Galaxy s5 alright and here we are taking a look at some new features in the software of the Samsung Galaxy s5 in this future focus however before I get to the shortlist that I have of the new software additions I did want to show you some new enhancements to the overall experience that more or less may have been there before but now I've been given a bit of a different look or some different functionality the first one is in the lock screen now this lock screen is already pretty nice with all of the bright colors and whatnot on this camera button down here that you slide up in order to go straight to the camera but this widget up here is dynamic in that it will show something different depending on what application is playing in the background and in this case I have the watch on or the smart remote app depending on what model you have displaying some buttons that I can use to control my TV now from the lock screen it is really nice to be able to do this and in my case I have my TV already playing some JK news so you'll hear it in the background as I turn the volume up and from there we'll move right along into the first item on my list of new software additions than my magazine now you can see here in the video already that well I was a little bit disappointed with the my magazine offering primarily because even if it piggy backs off of Flipboard and actually doesn't do so to the extent that I would like you can see that it's a curated list of categories there and primarily the subscriptions that you have in Flipboard already set up it won't really filter through here as you have to pick from this particular list now that's a bit of a bummer but my magazine does help you get your social media feeds to the my magazine application itself so it does allow you to sort of see a quick glance at what your friends are up to if that's your thing but when it comes to the news it might be a bit of a hodgepodge of different outlets and different sources that won't really allow you to delve into what you really want to see that said though Flipboard is still a very powerful news aggregating application unfortunately when it comes to the my magazine it uses Flipboard to sort of to sort of show you a very particular list of things and ultimately when you click on an item you might be going into an area of Flipboard that you pretty much don't really use anyway the next piece of software on our list is one that technically was there already but has been given new life primarily because of a new button layout in the past you had to hold to the home button in order to get to the recent apps screen but now we have a recent apps button as menu is not quite as needed especially in these new versions of Android so if we hit the recent apps button we go straight to the recent apps screen and we have a few options at our disposal not only do we have the list of applications that are right here that are shown in a pretty samsung quintessential way we also have a couple of options down here for clearing the entire list or going into a task manager which is actually quite nice because it shows you how much memory is being used up at once so if we head back to the recent apps screen it is a nice way of getting between all of your applications nicely much more like a stock like experience in which you just have that for multitasking so if you're not a big multi window user or even let's say a couple of other multitasking abilities that are in TouchWiz and this is a little bit more your style because it's something that you're more used to well it's now available to you instead of having to wait for the recent apps screen by holding down the home button and this is definitely something that I enjoy doing because I'm used to this form of multitasking speaking of multitasking there is one nice tool in the notification drop-down that you'll find called the toolbox now essentially toolbox is just a chat head as you can see me dragging it around here that gives you access to up to five applications that you can use for shortcuts in an easy way that little chat head as I keep calling it a little toolbox as it is called will keep floating around no matter what application you're in except for places like maybe games and the camera but it is available for you to be able to jump between applications quite easily it's almost like a somewhat different way of looking at your recent apps if you keep using the same five applications over and over again and you can see here that in the settings you are able to the five applications from the long list that might be installed in your phone now here's one that I really enjoyed and it's called the download booster it pretty much sets out to do what it says and that is make your downloads even faster for any files that are over 30 megabytes in this case I was doing three hundred and sixty-five megabytes of a download of plants vs. zombies - and the download booster then uses Wi-Fi and your high speed mobile data connection in tandem in order to download it as fast as possible let me tell you it really works this particular install happened and just this record amount of time you can see in the notification drop-down how fast you're going and which connection is providing that speed and ultimately it's a great way of just downloading large large files from a number of different applications including the Play Store as you see here with this game but also one thing you have to remember is a fraction maybe even half of this download was done using my mobile data so I probably used up quite a bit of it so don't get those overage charges just be careful when using the download booster and in the final item on this list we take a look at the ultra power saving mode now this is a really nice feature that allows you to stay connected even when you have a little battery life left and by turning off the mobile data when the screen is off by making everything monochrome and also by turning off other features such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth the s5 software TouchWiz is trying to give you as much as you need without really taking away all of your connectivity and in this case we're looking at the phone and messages and even the internet browser of course that will be in black and whites unfortunately in the list of applications that you can use it is a very limited list but in a way it kind of makes sense because all of this is in the interest of saving as much battery as possible but at the very least you will still be able to receive calls you will be able to send messages using the messaging app and you can actually do some web browsing if you really need it to so it's just a mode that is available for those of you who really need to get the most out of your battery life and so there you have it for this feature focus look at some software additions put into the new version of TouchWiz in the Samsung Galaxy s5 some of the enhancements that were put in like for example the new power widget with all the circles and also all the circles that comprise the settings menu we're already covered in the full review so you can check it out on the full review but in this feature focus I wanted to give a little bit more information on the five that I felt were most significant and actually outside of that list of five there aren't too many other enhancements and addition so you're pretty much looking at what is new and the software experience this time around stick around and drop us some likes in our videos because we love to see those thumbs 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