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this video was brought to you by NCIX great technology selections and service hey there YouTube universe so i'm matt with hardware canucks and today we're going to be taking a look at a brand new device from Samsung well actually know what it's not that new right now it's been out for a little bit and to be completely honest it's been reviewed by everybody their mother their cousin and even you know what some of the little dogs that they keep on the side so what we're going to do today is we're going to take a look at this phone and a completely different light than what anybody else has actually done it's a super amoled 5.1 inch screen corn at a corner and does have a really good camera it's a 16 megapixel camera on the back a 2 megapixel camera on the front and like our friend Dimitri has said it produces some pretty cool video with them excellent crispness and let's take a look at it right now now one of the new and innovative settings that you can get is basically the ability to unlock your phone using your finger print this is really much well it's almost the exact same thing is what you can expect from getting the iphone 5s one thing that I dislike about it is that it doesn't work all the time you have to swipe your finger in one specific way every single time to unlock the phone and it's a great idea in theory but putting it in practice it's something that they need to work on so some of the biggest features about this phone is the look of it the design the touch in the field so what Samsung wanted us to experience when they designed this device is the metal feeling outside of the phone as well as the leather backing that actually does have some positive feedback a lot of people that have seen this phone and have you reviewed this phone before us I've taken a look at the backing and said that it does have some tactile it does feel a little bit like leather there are other people that said that it doesn't feel like leather and it's kind of cheap but I personally like it and it looks pretty good if you get in and white maybe not so much in the band-aid edition now if you're used to touch with you're not really going to have that much of a different experience is what you've experienced on let's say the galaxy s3 or the s4 the s5 really hasn't changed all that much and regards to UI design but what has changed in the past little while is really the settings menu so if you navigate to settings they've added a whole lot of different options you have a lot of flexibility and what you want to choose through the icons but one of the key features that not many people are focused on and it's one of the big differentiators that Samsung really hasn't been hitting on since it launched a little while to go on the s4 that feature is samsung s health so with this incredibly powerful device and when I'm currently wearing on my wrist which is the galaxy 2 neo the gear and Samsung s5 worked together to really make s health one of the most important applications at San son has ever released so in order to go into a little bit more in depth into exactly what s health is does and what it means to you is the consumer I got to go inside and get changed so let's go now let's test so some of the most important features of the s5 is built into the application that they called s help what this application does is that it tracks how many steps you've taken the quality of sleep the calories you've burned and also provides you applications that help track your sleep a little bit better and plan your workouts but the biggest feature is that if you can join it with the gear 2 neo this entire ecosystem becomes the actual and physical motivation that you need to improve your life and your overall fitness so the watch itself has the ability that it can track exactly how many steps you're taking how far you're running as well as your heart rate at any given moment using built-in accelerometers and sensors one of the things that I have noticed about the heart rate monitor however is I don't replace this again if you push it the watch itself at least up to the middle of your arm or if you're talking or moving at all whatsoever or even if you've built up a decent amount of sweat on your arm the watch is going to have a really hard time picking up exactly what your heart rate is the reasoning for that at least for the sweat part is that the liquid molecules actually interfere with the sensor reading the heart rate in the pulse of your blood so right now it's saying that I have a heart rate of zero if that was the case I'd be dead but that is one of the downfalls to this watch it's not quite there yet but the application of it is quite good for what you get now it also has a sleep monitoring feature the accelerometer is the key part to this entire equation as it enables the watch to track exactly how you sleep so whenever you move or you're active during sleep it'll recognize the fact that you're up and moving in a wake and it will count that as not restless or restless sleep so you're moving around a lot but if you stay stable that counts as REM sleep and the watch will realize that this is quality sleep so in other words it'll have the ability to track whether you move or not and sleep and ultimately that will tell you exactly how your fitness profile is and your sleep profile so you can change habits so not eating is late at night or maybe drinking more water who knows there could be different options and lifestyle changes that you could make to help make your sleep better it's not only a fitness specific device when I talk about the gear 2 neo it's actually a really integrated device as well because it connects directly to your phone via bluetooth allowing you to control multiple different features you can control the music when you play you can skip back and forth between tracks you can change the volume it's actually got a built-in mp3 player as well too so you can store some of that it also lets you send and receive text messages and phone calls so I'm actually gonna answer this hello hey how's you want i met you in the middle of shooting a video ok yet no problem talk to you later one of the features of tyson that everybody's been raving about is s voice which a lot of people have experienced with the bull samsung galaxy s4 and beyond so you can dictate commands specific to the phone now with s voice it allows you to do quite a few different features I can dictate text messages I can dictate will ask bass voice what the weather is going to be like so let's actually test it out what's the weather like in Toronto right now sometimes how other s voice doesn't always get your command correct so there is a really easy way to sync up your data without actually having it automatically sync for you every three hours of the intervals that you set this is an integral part of the s health application as it allows you to sync up your data in real time the easiest way to do it is well let's take a look at the watch first I've done it seven tour 6700 steps and so far the s health application says that I've done 6680 for now as you see down here at the bottom quick and easy sync it connects to the gear 2 neo and syncs up my steps so so far I've traveled 5.33 kilometers but you kind of saw when I was running walking quite a bother a few things and I've burnt almost 300 calories so there also is a dashboard that you can access if you go to the menu main screen and it will give you all the necessary information that you need as well as the applications that you have access to so steps calories and calories eaten you can actually track how many calories you've intake but that's through a diary modes you have to enter everything into the system track your sleep workout you have all the different exercises heart rate monitors and the ability you can add more apps so depending on what's available through the samsung apps store not the android app store but the samsung apps or you can download new and more amazing apps for the phone if you go to your own personalized screen you can take a look at what metals you've achieved and these metals are based on achieving your own set goals whether it's fifty percent of goal or full 100% of goal and it will give you today's achievements your last measurements and weight as well as your heart rate at some in conclusion the s5 and the gear 2 neo together make a pretty potent package when it comes to using the application s health basically the positives of the application then really the two devices put together are the fact that it gives you trackable and accessible information based on your health it's an affordable option in comparison to other fitness trackers that are basically just pedometers and it gives you up to date information including heart rate and steps that you've taken it also gives you distance and a few other things but that's not really that a positive as it is you know just something you would expect but if we take a look at the negatives the heart rate monitor isn't exactly what we'd expect it to be it doesn't give accurate readings if you have a little bit of a sweat also if it's a little bit too tight to the skin the heart rate monitor doesn't deliver the type of results that you would expect from well a heart rate monitor as well sometimes the step counter can be a little bit slow with tracking your steps but it ends up catching up to itself voice input legs but that's to be expected considering the fact that's using Tizen and we're not really going to put a high-end phone into the watch quite yet Samsung has plans to do otherwise but all in all it's a really good device and when you pair it with the s5 and use the s health application which is really what this video is all about you're getting a pretty great series of applications and a really great group of devices that can help you live a better healthier life and really that's exactly what Samsung had in mind I do recommend it specifically for those who want to have that health benefit now but if you're looking for something that's a little bit more stylish or something that has a little more sensors I'd recommend waiting until the next iteration or the newest devices come out from Samsung or what's going to be coming from Motorola with the 360 or LG in the G watch alright guys so I'm Matt for hardware canucks and this has been our quick take on s health the gear 2 neo and the s5 which is now in my pocket and if you like more content like this make sure you like the video and subscribe to us on our youtube channel and guys stay classy universe will see in the next one