World's number one smartphone maker Samsung on Monday unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

 

Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with a 5.1 inch touchscreen with full HD display at 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution. This Super AMOLED display has Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The handset comes in 16 and 32 GB internal storage variants. But the best thing about it is that one can even use a micro SD card of up to 128 GB capacity in its expandable storage slot.

 

The smartphone has many unique features than all other Samsung handsets including water and dust proof capability. It also comes with a huge expandable storage slot and fingerprint sensor.

 

The Samsung Galaxy S5 has powerful hardware including 2.5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad core processor and 2 GB RAM. It is based on Android 4.4.2 KitKat version.

 

The Samsung Galaxy S5 has a 16 megapixel rear camera with autofocus speed of 0.3 seconds and an advanced High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode. Besides, it can shoot 4K videos. There is a 2 megapixel front camera in Galaxy S5 as well.

 

The Samsung Galaxy S5 also comes with fingerprint sensor. According to Samsung, it can recognise three fingerprints and it takes eight swipes to register the same instead of holding your finger on a certain place. Besides, the nano SIM based Galaxy S5 comes with 4G compatibility; it is compatible with 1800 and 2100 MHz band of LTE - the same band the Indian operators has opted to roll out 4G services in the country.

 

The phone has fifth generation 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, infrared port, micro USB 3.0, USB on the go, DLNA, and WiFi Direct features. It has a 2800 mAh removable battery.

 

Samsung Galaxy S5 will be available from April across the globe.