The Samsung Galaxy S5 arrives with a 16MP rear-facing camera, with features such as super-fast auto focus meaning you can take a photo in 0.3 seconds, according to Samsung. A selective focus mode allows you to choose from three different focal points after you've taken a photo – near, far and pan. It's also capable of shooting video at 4K resolution, whereas the iPhone 5S can only manage HD 1080p video recording.
The iPhone 5S 8MP camera offers an improvement over the one on the iPhone 5. The smartphone has an 8Mp rear-facing camera that offers a 'True Tone' flash and backside illumination (BSI) sensor. It shoots video at 1080p. Around the front is the iPhone 5S' 1.2Mp camera which is limited to 720p video.
At the same time, Apple has increased the sensor's pixel size, which means that more light gets into images. Another good feature of iPhone 5S camera is the ability to record slow-motion video.
Performance
The Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with a quad-core 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 32-bit processor, which is far ahead of the Apple's A7 chip. Moreover, the Galaxy S5 has 2GB of RAM, as compared to 1GB in the iPhone 5S.
One the inside, the iPhone 5S has a new System on a Chip (SoC), the Apple A7. As Apple announced, this is the first 64-bit consumer-based smartphone SoC. 64-bit chips can address more memory than 32-bit chips. Moreover, the Apple can use a newer ARM architecture. The ARMv8 core now has double the number of general-purpose registers, compared to the ARMv7 used in the A6, with 31 64-bit wide registers. With a new architecture, Apple can use more optimisations to improve the speed of its applications and OS; as developers move to 64-bit, too, we should see these improvements everywhere.
