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andrew authority what is going on my name is Kevin the tech ninja and today we're going to do a full review of the galaxy s5 sport meet Samsung's Galaxy s5 sport available only on Sprint bulky rubbery and colorful are just a few adjectives that comes to mind when using the s5 sport for the first time sure it's a Galaxy s5 and all the things that made the s5 vs 5 you can pretty much find here it's around 10 grams heavier and it's rugged design style makes it look a lot bulkier than it truly is the power button is located on the right hand side and on the opposite side as you'd expect you find the volume rocker albeit the buttons are a bit click here it's still in the same location the rubbery feeling of the sport does not give it a sense of a premium device not seeing the s5 did but the aesthetics on the sport takes it down a notch further the sport comes in a few different colors the red version that I have is more of a metallic and burnt red color which looks pretty good navigation buttons are one major change that you'll find on the s5 sport no longer you'll find the tactile buttons but rather physical buttons slightly raised and a carbon fiber type of design the sport has the same 5.1 ml LED screen that was found on the s5 which isn't a bad thing at all it still has a high pixel density at 432 PPI and the bright and vivid screen brings in clean and detailed images texts pop and also video playing looks great the blacks are deep and the whites are a pure white it's not that yellowish color that you sometimes see on other handsets Samsung really crafted a fantastic screen that is actually underrated doesn't get enough credit sometimes on the back of the device you'll find a 16 megapixel camera with LED flash the aperture is at F 2.2 which allows it to be pretty decent at low-light and it gives you a really nice depth of field just like the vanilla s5 the camera and good lighting is fantastic although in low lighting and lacks color but still grabs a better image than most phones when it comes to video recording you can record at 4k resolution at 30 frames per second the screen isn't for cane but you can watch it on a 4k display and trust me on this it looks really really good on the hardware side of the things you'll find a decently spec device at this time this isn't exactly cutting edge as these specs were announced about six months ago you'll find the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor which gives you good performance with excellent battery life the adrenal 330 GPU which is beefy enough to run all current Android mobile games that are out there today and you'll find two gigabytes of RAM on board which is pretty much a bare minimum now to be considered a flagship phone onboard storage you'll find sixteen gigabytes but after it's all said and done after Android TouchWiz and Sprint takes their share it leaves you with a measly 10 gigabytes thankfully you can expand the onboard storage up to an additional 128 gigabytes with a micro SD card on the back you'll find a camera and also a heartrate monitor now one small change from the s5 to the sport is that it's using a standard USB port and not Samsung's newer USB port design not sure what the true reason is for this change with any device running a Snapdragon 801 with 2 gigabytes of RAM you'd expect the following good battery life silky smooth performance and fast multitasking the s5 Sport is no exception the bare specs of this device allows it to be a true screamer and handles most tasks with little issues even when gaming that utilizes the adrenal 330 GPU it runs fast the battery life is what you'd expect from the s5 up to 21 hours of constant talktime and after sixteen point two days of full standby time I received around 18 hours of moderate use with 2 hours and 30 minutes of screen on time now where the performance takes a hit it's sadly at fault of the software the s5 sport is running android kitkat as expected the latest version of TouchWiz is in tow as well touch with is Samsung skin right on top of Android it adds tons of new features like window and window application s health and power saving mode Sprint has a huge influence on the software on the phone and it's evident the first moment you boot it up the home screen is cluttered with applications that provides free trials or links to the Play Store downloads and you'll find even more once going into the app drawer here you'll find about four pages littered with applications promotions and other stuff you frankly wouldn't use even beyond the extra apps there are a few things that consistently run on the homescreen Sprint has a floating button that lets you get into the health portion of the phone and also a page turn animation that sits in the top corner and if you go into this you'll find additional fitness applications and other goodies that they provide since sport is in its name that it's only proper to mentioning its sporting features right sure you have the s health suite that's found on the standard s5 which is a pedometer it even lets you track your heart rate with a monitor that's located on the back what else does it provide you to help you with sports stuff within the sports suite there is little use for most of the applications and links in there a lot of these applications are normal applications you can find the App Store and a lot of them have some overlapping features with each other if you're unsure if this phone is for you then answer these few questions you want Samsung's newest phone do you mind that is thicker than the s5 and does not provide any additional protection if you think a phone that's geared to activity with cool inspiration sayings on the wallpaper motivate you to workout then go for but if I need to sum up the s5 sport in one line that is this the s5 sport is a great idea but that was ruined by carrier with a bad design here's a few notes that I wanted to add after the review I don't want to underestimate the amount of bloatware was on this device this is the most bloatware heavy device I ran into in my whole life now I've used phones from Verizon from Sprint from 18 CNC mobile now this sprint version of the galaxy s5 sport has so many applications it's it dumbfounded me the amount of applications that it comes with that are trial applications and other applications that expire in 30 days or anything like that so I want to say that first and also I don't want to underplay the fact that it's still a galaxy s5 which is still a flagship device so it does run very well it's a quick phone it looks good and it's actually not that heavy but when you compare it to the galaxy s5 the normal one I just don't see the big benefit to the two and plus the s5s four right now is $100 more than the galaxy s5 as always guys my name is Kevin the tech ninja make sure you drop me a like down below if you like this video and subscribe to my channel for more great videos and content as always guys my name is Kevin tech ninja you have yourself a 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