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if you look at the advertising it's the phone the world is telling you you need to want but is it worth wanting we'll find out in our full review but for now I'm Michael Fisher this is PocketNow and this is one of the biggest phones of the year it's the Galaxy s5 let's unbox it so one of the things some people are saying about the galaxy s5 these days is that it is an iterative improvement a small step over its predecessor the s4 and that's something people said about the s4 with relation to the s3 as well well when you look at the packaging of the s5 it's tough to deny some potent similarities in terms of at least the messaging the branding the initial impression that Samsung is trying to make but there is one very important difference here particularly if you live in the United States this is not just same old Samsung packaging this is a carrier box that's right AT&T in this case and AT&T is known for kind of foisting these not necessarily attractive packages on us but Samsung has won the day here apparently an agreement has been reached between the carrier and the manufacturer not to change the packaging which we think is terrific this box feels great let's look at the specs here LTE that 5.1 inch AMOLED display 2.5 gigahertz quad-core processor that's a Snapdragon 801 16 megapixel camera with full HD recording and of course the stranger stuff that heart rate monitor the s health suite and so on having gotten the top sleeve out of the way we can now pull the top panel off of this this box which a little tease this box still has the little bisection in the middle just like the s4 box did last year I think it's just nice it's just one of those nice little touches that's like oh yes this is not only a premium product but somebody actually thought about you know getting a finger in there this makes it easier it's nice attention to detail folks do not underestimate it pull the box top off there is our white Samsung Galaxy s5 so the first thing I notice here the first impression of the box is that this device is well I don't I think it's because it's white but yeah I don't remember the bezel being that pronounced certainly it's not a very thick bezel it's just more pronounced than I remember but this is the s5 looks very similar to last year's s4 we will have an in-depth comparison there there's of course the back which we will talk about more in a second let's put this aside see what comes with the AT&T version we take this out that is empty we know from past experience a QuickStart guide showing us exactly what to expect on the phone you guys don't generally like it when I go through the literature but I'm going to leave that for later easy way to transfer content to your new device if you're coming from another smartphone which you probably are a warranty guide ooh fun stuff hey let's see what's in here so I got a little more excited than maybe I needed to I saw this QR code down here really yeah QR code on the USB cable and I thought it might be a micro SD card that comes with the device it is not phone is micro SD compatible but it does not come with a micro SD card it does however come with the Samsung earbuds we like these a lot they are the kind of linguini version that I like to call them with the extra gels yes of course with the cord just a little thicker a little more resistant to tangling there's our power charger probably 2 amps and if I am not mistaken and yes indeed there's that 2 amp output that I like for quick charging my Samsung Galaxy devices get all the stuff out of the way and we're back to the device itself no screen protector on this one folks sorry no peel we were second way of press on this one but nonetheless we thank Samsung for sending this along as quickly as they did here's the back panel with that dimpled appearance we'll get a closer shot here just to show you what that looks like you're very familiar with it at this point and the white one doesn't look too bad I think it looks pronouncedly horrible on the gold one but on the blue one the white one and the black one you know you're not going to notice that quite as much as as certainly everyone has been talking about it but we'll have more impressions on that once we've spent more than five minutes with the thing that's a heart rate sensor that camera 16 megapixels once again go ahead and power the unit on once where while we're talking about it come back to a wider shot little buzz vibration there's that powered by Android call out that we have been talking about recently part of Google's new arrangement with its OEMs we're seeing that on HTC and Motorola devices as well nice new Samsung animation there's the ATT splash screen with the distinctive thing yes we remember now the multitasking button down below the back button on the right and there is the stock wallpaper so not going to bore you with initial setup but I will close out this brief unboxing with a size comparison for you and we'll try to have most of the major platforms represented in our democratic representation of the smartphone landscape here that is the Samsung Galaxy s5 the one we just unboxed let's kick things off with iOS there is the iPhone 5c obviously notably smaller the Moto X another Android device the HTC One m8 we will also be comparing the galaxy s5 to that device and not really enough room for it but the nokia lumia icon I screwed up the spacing but what you're going to do five devices in a row galaxy s5 on the left going all the way through to the Lumia icon folks were later than we like to be on this coverage but we're going to bring it all to you that said if you have specific comments you can help us out you want specific things covered with regard to this device leave them in the comments down below subscribe to our channel on YouTube if you haven't already and follow us on social media and we'll be back as soon as possible quicker if you provide those details with our continuing coverage on the Samsung Galaxy s5 from pocket now Michael Fisher thank you for watching we'll see you real soon you