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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by audible what's up everyone welcome back to their pursuit of retinas riffs to show her I can talk about anything going on in my mind from the world of technology up this week it is all about Samsung I don't know when you're going to watch this video but Samsung Galaxy s5 event just wrapped up at time of filming and I want to talk about it you know and I think about it when I think about the mobile marketplace whether or not Samsung is going to be super vulnerable in 2014 and surrenders refs let's start riffing so in case you've been living under a tech rock the past couple days let me recap the specs of the galaxy s5 before I get into my riffy rant style thing about it 5.1 inch screen coincidentally it's got a lower ppi in the galaxy s4 it's for 32 vs 441 although in all fairness the s4 is only a 5-inch screen it's a little more powerful to 2.5 gigahertz quad-core processor 2 gigs of ram available in 16 or 32 no more 64 camera got pretty awesome camera upgrades 16 megapixel camera but it's obviously not all about the megapixels to you HD at 30 frames per second it's got HDR video pretty awesome image stabilization got a fingerprint sensor built right into the home button it's got a heart rate monitor on the back it's got all kinds of other awesome is crammed into that little package okay speaking of that little package so Samsung is now kind of falling victim to same thing Apple had fallen victim to if they don't absolutely wow you and knocked it out the park it's perceived as kind of a failure the galaxy s5 could probably be miraculous scribed as a galaxy s4 s very incremental upgrades if you're the one that has a galaxy s4 your poison pretty right now look on your phone being like and no need to upgrade wait for what comes next and that I think is a really really big problem Samsung has been growing like crazy the fastest growing smartphone manufacturer out there they got phones and crazy sizes tablets and crazy sighs and cameras and crazy sizes and their galaxy s line of phones have really been that anchor it sort of been the halo car car dealership it's your audi r8 and go to a dealership you might not be there to get the guy right but you might want to go dealership to see it and water there may be getting a four or maybe again out ATT whatever it might be it sort of been the same role that the galaxy s line of phones have had I'm not sure it's going on the same effect with the galaxy s5 first to get said X of it it's not a very good looking phones available in four colors I really do like the bright blue those are the dimples back I don't think it's going necessarily Wow consumers like folks were expecting certainly looks on par with other Samsung devices the galaxy s4 and galaxy s3 before that and the Galaxy Note 3 you guys got that same look and feel to it up there's nothing crazy knew about it if you look at it might just think it's another samsung galaxy phone that's not what Samsung wants you to think so they sold a crazy amount of galaxy s4 is even the galaxy s3 quidsi only was your best selling phone most US carriers now have yearly upgrade options so folks that purchase at galaxy s4 samsung i assume is going to want them to upgrade to a galaxy s5 but if you're sitting on a galaxy s4 not much different so i get that same 1080 screen you have a little slower spec froster you get the same amount of ram maybe even have more internal storage built into it maybe you don't want that little extra camera or maybe that's not worth signing another year to your contract for you you're going to look at other devices coming out in the next few months you're going to look at the next HTC One your look at LG's pretty awesome offerings with the LG yeah you know that g2 maybe a g3 the g pro two if you want to look at switching over to Apple the iphone 6 what that might be there's very little compelling reason I think to upgrade to the galaxy s5 much like I thought there's little compelling reason to upgrade from an iphone 5 2 and iPhone 5s I think that really falls in the same category so I think that Samsung really has potential to lose some of their significant market share this year I think folks are going to jump to LG gonna look at those and say I really like that knock feature and I really like what HTC is doing I like that aluminum build alike to where the phone feels I like their screens i like the zoe software wherever it might be I think they're going to be looking elsewhere maybe they would have stayed inside of Samsung's ecosystem so it's going to be a tough year for samsung I do think they'll return and sort of bring the thunder of the next generation phone which now we're talking about rumors of the galaxy s6 but I think Samsung now is more vulnerable than they've been in many many many years so we exhale for a minute thank our friends sponsors and good buddies at audible calm it's like books you should like books you probably 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