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hey what's up everyone this is Todd Hazleton with TechnoBuffalo we have the brand new Samsung Galaxy s5 here in the office and with it comes a brand new heart rate monitor that works on the back with the camera and the flash we'll show you how that works how it measures your heart rate and it's B per minute in this video okay so here we are with the galaxy s5 powered on and one of the new features inside of it is called it's an app called s health and s health has been updated on the galaxy s5 to SL 3.0 and right here on the homescreen is a widget for it and I'll tap that and inside the widgets a default setting for the pedometer it shows how many steps I've walked today and the calories I've burned but now inside I can also click another option heart rate now with the heart rate sensor I can actually keep track of my beats per minute and I simply just turn over the phone like it's telling us to do and place my finger over the light here the LED light and you'll see it's turning red if you look closely and on the other side it's actually keeping track of my beats per minute will show you a different view of that working with a different angle here so now on the back I have my finger there and it's measuring my beats per minute while I'm sitting here okay so it's 76 if we have any doctors out there you can let me know how healthy I am but one of the unique things about this or say it's not so unique is that you can actually do this on a lot of phones the iPhone 5s a lot of Android phones and even the iPhone 4 or 4s because all it does is take advantage of the camera and the LED or the rather the LED flash below the camera so there's a third-party application you can find in any of the app stores under health and fitness it'll do the same thing and I tested this today and they actually do have the almost the exact same beats per minute rating depending on the phone so it's kind of cool that I can check my beats per minute here on the Samsung Galaxy s5 there's actually a lot of third-party options available for other platforms including iOS and all other Android handsets because it just takes advantage as this shows us of the LED light below the camera typically uses the flash and it works really well so on the galaxy s5 it's or just a gimmick because it's not a unique feature to this phone okay that was a quick look at the heart rate sensor on the galaxy s5 if you really liked the video give us a thumbs up we really appreciate it and let us know if you have any comments what's up everyone thank you for watching that video if you want to see more the latest and greatest tech news you can subscribe to our main TechnoBuffalo channel by clicking the button right down below my pants region or click on the buttons to your right to see more videos