The smartphone industry these days is marked with ruthless competition amongst different manufacturers with which Samsung and BlackBerry are no exception—there’s Blackberry Z30 and Samsung Galaxy S5 that are aiming to win over the other. Samsung released its flagship S5 with a unique approach regarding its design and features but Blackberry doesn’t seem like it will give up too soon. Let’s get to know more about these two phones in this article and find out what they have to offer to their prospective users as far as the user interface and functionality areas are concerned.
Samsung Galaxy S5
This smartphone is the product for the people, aiming to offer its potential user a pleasant experience with its incredible features and specifications. The Samsung Galaxy S5 is running on Android v4.4.2 (KitKat) with TouchWiz user interface. This handset received some visual enhancements like the built-in widgets now looking flat and simple offering the user with solid color. The User Interface was been improved overall in order to provide a simpler, cleaner and a more polished-looking handset. The availability of the new tap effect as well as the effective response timings are contributing a lot to the greater UI experience of the phone’s user.
Messaging. Flattened visuals and useful set of options are what the messaging application of the S5 offers. It’s the pre-installed QWERTY keyword that suits the elderly best because it has big letter keys and is known to work best in the landscape mode.
Heart Rate Monitor. This feature of the Samsung Galaxy S5 is designed in order to help the phone’s user keep track of various parameters that are related to his/ her health. It’s the finger positioned on the LED flash, right at the back panel that will get data and compute the users’ heart rate.
Blackberry Z30
The BlackBerry 10 OS is fluid, elegant and snappy which is kind of the same to the latest operating systems. The new interface of this handset offers smooth functioning of for the user with new neat features aiming to make any user’s life way easier than before. You see, it seems like the company really exerted a lot of effort to give its users easy access to notifications.
Messaging. The company is well known for its messaging dexterity and the new Z30 handset comes even better than its predecessors. It offers a touchscreen keyboard which doesn’t fail to impress Blackberry fanatics. Also, the phone’s bigger display comes equipped with responsive, large buttons to use.
Software. In the Blackberry World, there are lots of applications that a user can choose from and as matter of fact there are more or less 70,000 of them already. Of course, you cannot expect them to be complete when it comes to features unlike the same apps on other platforms.