Amazon is jumping into the smartphone game with the Fire Phone. It's a natural chain from the Kindle Fire and the Fire television media ribbon, and Amazon is taking target squarely by the side of other companies' flagship smartphones. Samsung's own flagship, the Galaxy S5$99.99 by the side of Amazon, stands by the side of the top of the smartphone heap meant for nearly everyone carriers. Let's get the drift how they compare.
Skin texture
Both are machine phones, but Samsung adds its own tricks and unique hardware aspects to a fair and square standard version of machine 4.4.2 KitKat, while the Fire Phone uses Amazon's highly modified version of machine, Fire OS. By the side of a glance, Fire OS 3.5's huge, friendly tiles and icons look closer to iOS than machine, which is appropriate allowing for how much the Fire Phone resembles the iPhone 5s.
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The Galaxy S5 skin texture an Ultra Power Saving Mode with the aim of disables many skin texture and switches to a monochrome show to dramatically upsurge battery life and keep the phone running whilst its battery is just about drained. It skin texture Samsung's S vigor fitness tracking software, functioning in the same way as a pedometer and a central part rate television, and it can do with Samsung's Gear Fit and Gear 2 fitness strip and smartwatch. It in addition boasts a fingerprint bookworm like the iPhone 5s. At length, it's water- and dirt-resistant with IP67 certification, making it a remarkably supple smartphone.
The Fire Phone, on the other tender, uses Fire OS and a only some hardware tweaks of its own to urge its own congealed of unique skin texture. It sports a button on the margin meant for Firefly, which can recognize movies and television shows, songs, phone records, websites, and email addresses a moment ago by looking by the side of or else trial them. It in addition has Dynamic Perspective, a unique multi-camera-based gesture and motion-recognition regularity with the aim of allows unique menu navigation. Like the Kindle Fire HDX, the Fire Phone has a Mayday button with the aim of can routinely communication technical support with a capture on tape chat. It even comes with a time of Amazon Prime, which is very near gratitude to the generous media libraries membership comes with.
Hardware
The Fire Phone skin texture a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU with an Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM, comparable to the Galaxy S5's 2.5Ghz quad-core CPU. Its 2,400mAh battery is to some extent less significant than the Galaxy S5's 2,800mAh battery, though Amazon claims it can provide up to 22 hours of discussion measure, 65 hours of audio playback, or else 11 hours of capture on tape playback. We'll get the drift how the phones stack up in the sphere of absolute performance with our complete re-evaluation and suite of tests.
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Samsung Galaxy S5 (Verizon Wireless)
On the capture on tape margin, the Fire Phone seems to some extent feeble next to the Galaxy S5, with a 4.7-inch, 720p screen compared to the Galaxy S5's 5.1-inch, 1080p Super AMOLED show. The Fire Phone can lone best ever 1080p capture on tape by the side of 30fps with its 13-megapixel camera, while the Galaxy S5 can best ever 4K capture on tape or else 1080p by the side of 60fps with its 16MP camera. The Fire Phone seems to some extent added ambitious with sound, with Dolby Digital Plus audio handing out and dual stereo speakers.
We'll urge a complete discern of how Amazon's elementary smartphone fares whilst we test it in the sphere of the lab, but so far it seems a smidgen a lesser amount of technically impressive than the Galaxy S5. With just about identical prices, Amazon willpower allow to offer selected very appealing skin texture on Fire OS to standstill next to Samsung's huge phone.
