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If you want a phone that shows as few technological seams as possible, you want an iPhone or a Windows Phone. Or maybe an Android phone in a Google Play edition, offering Google’s operating system in unvarnished form. (No word yet on whether there will be a Google Play Galaxy S5.)
All in all, though, the Galaxy S5’s emphasis on everyday benefits and its streamlined software shows that Samsung has been listening to its critics, and learning. Until now, it’s always been a safe assumption that next year’s Galaxy S phone would be bigger and more bloated than the one before it. But judging from all that’s pleasing about the Galaxy S5, it doesn’t seem irrational to hope that the Galaxy S6 might follow this phone’s example of self-control. Better still if it fixes that clunky fingerprint reader.