Samsung Galaxy S5

1.Samsung
Samsung Electronics Co is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Suwon,
South Korea.[3] It is the flagship subsidiary of the Samsung Group, amounting to 70% of the group's
revenue in 2012,[4] and has been the world's largest information technology company by revenues
since 2009.[5] Samsung Electronics has assembly plants and sales networks in 80 countries and employs
around 370,000 people.[6] Since 2012, the CEO is Kwon Oh-Hyun.
Samsung has long been a major manufacturer of electronic components such as lithium-ion batteries,
semiconductors, chips, flash memory and hard drive devices for clients such as Apple, Sony, HTC and
Nokia.
In recent years, the company has diversified into consumer electronics.not in citation given] It is the
world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones and smartphones fueled by the popularity of its Samsung
Galaxy line of devices.[11] The company is also a major vendor of tablet computers, particularly its
Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Tab collection, and is generally regarded as pioneering the phablet
market through the Samsung Galaxy Note family of devices.
Samsung has been the world's largest manufacturer of LCD panels since 2002, the world's largest
television manufacturer since 2006 and world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones since
2011.Samsung Electronics displaced Apple Inc. as the world's largest technology company in 2011 and is
a major part of the South Korean economy. In June 2014 Samsung published the Tizen OS with the new
Samsung Z.
Design
n the early 1990s, the firm began emphasizing the importance of design in its products. Located in the
company's high-rise headquarters in Gangnam (south of Seoul) the corporate design center includes
more than 900 full-time designers. In 1971 there were only two designers[117] in the whole company,
whose number rose to 510 in 2005.[citation needed]

The company overhauls its design over a two-year cycle. For the first year, it scrutinizes design trends of
the world, followed by product strategies. It then maps out new design plans during the second year.
Since 2006, it has won as many as 210 awards from international design institutions.[citation needed] It
received the iF (International Forum) and IDEA design awards. Samsung was the winner in eight
categories in the 2009 IDEA awards, the company that received the most awards.In the 2010 iF Material

Awards, the company won the Gold Award for five of its products including the external hard disk drive.
The iF Material Awards are given by the International Forum Design GmbH of Hannover, a design award
for design materials and process technologies. In 2010, the German company selected a total of 42
products in the areas of home appliance, furniture, and industrial design. Samsung won the awards in
five categories including external hard disk, full-touch screen phone, "side-by-side" refrigerator,
compact digital camera, and laser printer toner.
Samsung Galaxy S5
Samsung Galaxy S5 is an Android smartphone produced by Samsung Electronics. The phone was
released on 11 April 2014 in 150 countries as the immediate successor to the Galaxy S4. As with the S4,
the S5 is an evolution of the prior year's model, placing a particular emphasis on an improved build with
a textured rear cover and IP67 certification for dust and water resistance, a more refined user
experience, new security features such as a fingerprint reader and private mode, expanded health
features (such as a built-in heart rate monitor), and an updated camera.

The Galaxy S5 received mostly positive reviews; while praised for the improvements to its design,
display, software, and camera, the S5 was criticized for its fingerprint scanner and hardware
improvements over its predecessor.[2][4][5