Samsung flagship smartphone goes on sale worldwide

The latest version of Samsung's flagship Galaxy smartphone series went on sale worldwide weekday, days once the natural philosophy large declared it had been facing a second consecutive quarter of profit decline.

The Galaxy S5 contains a ton riding thereon to steer the South Korean firm's profit-making machine back heading in the right direction as growth in smartphone sales slows, with mature markets like North America and Europe close to saturation.

Reviews of the S5 have principally terminated that it's one among the simplest high-end smartphones on the market, however there's additionally a general accord that it lacks the "wow" issue to differentiate it from its predecessors and competitors.

"It will swim, however it will not build any waves," was the decision of the Wall Street Journal, touching on one innovation within the S5's waterproof covering.

Samsung's mobile unit has been the propulsion behind the record profits of recent years, ANd it wants the S5 to perform well as a retort to the doom-mongers United Nations agency say the corporate lacks a transparent strategy to flourish in an progressively competitive, saturated market.

Samsung created quite thirty p.c of all smartphones sold-out within the world last year, nearly double the share of its arch-rival Apple.

But on Tues, the corporate calculable its half-moon operative profit at 8.4 trillion won ($7.96 billion), marking a second straight year-on-year decline.

In a sign of the challenge the corporate faces, the S5 was priced lower at its business launch weekday than the previous S4 model.

Research firm IDC calculable the common terms of smartphones can fall to $265 globally by 2017 from $337 in 2013 and $387 in 2012.

Samsung is believed to own reduced its promoting pay on the S5 and is additionally harassed to line aside more money for legal bills as years-long patent battles against Apple continue.

The two have fastened horns in patent suits in many nations involving style and technologies on their smartphones and pill computers.

A recent patent trial opened within the us last week, with Apple vowing to prove that Samsung flagrantly traced iPhone options and will pay quite $2 billion in damages.