Private mode secures photos and other files with your fingerprint (any of the three prints set up, with the password as a failsafe). The step counter is also visible on the homescreen, so this mode is meant for when you're out on a run and aiming for tiny icons is too hard. It shows only a handful of large shortcuts on the screen. Since this is a smaller-screened Galaxy there's no Multi Window on board.Īside from the standard TouchWiz home there is another homescreen mode - Easy mode. This is a quick way to get to some of the most commonly used apps.
There are no floating apps here, but there's something called Toolbox - a floating icon that shows a list of shortcuts once tapped. As usual, you can go into the task manager for more advanced controls. The Galaxy S5 mini has an App Switcher button that calls up a custom switcher UI. You can also hide icons to keep the drawer from getting cluttered. You can also disable some of the pre-installed apps so they won't take any RAM or appear in the app drawer. In the app drawer, icons are presented as a customizable or alphabetized grid and you can also view only the ones you've downloaded yourself. There's a new feature called Recommended apps, which adds relevant shortcuts when an accessory is plugged, like the headphones. The toggles work as usual and below them are two buttons (S Finder and Quick connect) and below that is the brightness slider, which can be hidden to save space, but you're stuck with the two buttons. The notification area is similar to what we've seen on Galaxy S5 with its flat design and circular icons. If you want just those, My Magazine can be disabled completely. There are regular homescreens too, with shortcuts, widgets and folders. Once inside an article, you can browse more articles in that category with the familiar Flipboard effect. News, Business, Facebook) are displayed as tiles, each displaying its top article. This is powered by Flipboard and you can enjoy your reads in a clean interface and send links to your friends or post social updates straight from the app.Ĭategories (e.g.
The homescreen features the My Magazine that displays both news articles and social networking updates. wet fingers), the phone will ask for a password so you'll never get locked out. More importantly, you can now fingerprint-secure it - the Galaxy S5 mini can be set to recognize up to three fingerprints.
Samsung has added multiple features that increase productivity and enhance security. The Samsung Galaxy S5 mini runs on the latest available Android 4.4.2 KitKat customized by the most recent incarnation of TouchWiz for smartphones, which we saw premiere on the Galaxy S5.
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