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this coverage of MWC is brought to you by bitdefender mobile security hey it's Josh regard from Android 30 what's going on everybody and Here I am again with the Samsung Galaxy s5 to bring you a software feature focus there is been there has been an update to the TouchWiz on the Samsung Galaxy s5 and whether or not it was the update you were looking for is well something that's gonna be up to you but I did want to showcase all of the new features that are in here there is a new homescreen a second screen that is added on and that is the my magazine my magazine much like Google now or blink feed on HTC devices is now a second screen all the way on the left of your home screens and essentially what this is is it's a simple hub that takes the my magazine screen from the previous galaxy note 3 and puts it in the forefront allowing you to get easy access to social media highlights news highlights as far as the design goes we basically just have the tiles I go across the entire screen and the pretty much just shows you the headline along with the picture just for nice viewing now this is the thing about the my magazine is that all the sources are rather curated so you're not going to be able to add in your own sources and your own news sources in order to get that information you'll have to look through in this particular list including this list of social media like Google+ and tumblr and YouTube in order to get those pieces of news but up here they're just very specific categories and you'll get news stories based on those only one of the big changes that happened is there's a more circle centric design as you can see up here with the quick toggles in the notification drop-down if I bring down all of the new toggles you'll see that everything is pretty much a circle right here and it keeps things pretty simplistic it gives it the same motif all around and it's actually pretty nice one other place that you'll see that change is right over here in the settings the actual setting page itself has been changed quite drastically and is now just a long drop-down with menus that can be collapsed like this in order for you to easily get to the various settings that you want this is different from the side-to-side tabbed interface that was on not only the Samsung Galaxy S line but also across a lot of other devices this is a different way of taking a look at your settings and they're all categorized pretty easily so if you wanted to look at something like say your display all of the circles come up and it's pretty easy to know exactly what you're getting at but once we get to motion right here you see that there are motions and gestures and air view now air view is one that I think a lot of you probably really did enjoy from the Samsung Galaxy s4 where you can hover your finger over a gallery album or over various portions of the OS and you would get a preview of what's underneath but for a little while there I wasn't sure where the air gestures were and they are under the motions and gestures now they've consolidated everything into various sections right here and when you turn on the when you go to turn on rather those features it'll show you exactly what you're looking at so if I turn on the air browse which is essentially the air gestures from the galaxy s4 you'll be able to see exactly which parts of the phone you'll be able to use your hand in order to scroll up or down using your hand and the one that if the one that came in the samsung galaxy s4 was a smart pause in which you could look away from the phone wall playing let's say a YouTube video and you'd be able to end the phone would pause the video until you look back at it one very stark change when it comes to the general outlook of the Samsung Galaxy s5 is the doing away of a menu button and using instead a recent apps button which is right over here on the left you obviously already have the back button and there on the right but when she hit this button on the left side you will see that there is a slightly modified recent apps screen and it's just pretty simple for all intents and purposes you just swipe away in order to turn off some there's a button right here for turning off all of them and then there's actually a task manager or apps manager rather shortcut that you can go to which is familiar from previous models also as we head on over to the fingerprint scanner under the personalization area of the settings if you do the fingerprint scanner is going to ask me to register my fingerprints by swiping a bunch of time from the top of the home key and down so I'm just going to keep doing that so once you have it set up simply wake up the phone I didn't want to provide it'd prefer to have it so that I could just swipe my finger across the fingerprint scanner here and then it would wake up but you do have to wake the phone up and then it will prompt to you to unlock it which is perfectly fine I was just hoping it would be in a different way and then of course we have the heart rate monitor on the back which is very simple we are already in s health I'll just go ahead and hit the heart rate section and once it says start says ready to place it place the finger on the sensor we'll just do that right now and you can see a red light turns on an infrared light that goes that looks under my skin essentially in order to find out what my heart rate is and so there you have it for the software feature focus here on the Samsung Galaxy s5 we saw that a number of new features came in some of them based upon the hardware like the heart rate monitor but overall we have a TouchWiz that is very familiar to us but still brings back a lot of features that you may or may not have liked already from the previous Samsung Galaxy s4 stay tuned for more coverage of the Samsung Galaxy s5 here at MWC in Barcelona Spain once again this is Joshua Vergara from Android authority reporting live