I love my Samsung Galaxy K / S5 Zoom, the only trouble I am having is that it freezes some times when I am scrolling on photos or openning camera or sometimes it just freezes when looking at Facebook, the first 3 times it did it I only wait for about 1 minute and pull out the batery to reset it...

Are you ready to ditch your point and shoot for just a cameraphone? Samsung's betting on you carrying around only one gizmo that does it all with its lens-heavy, camera-orientated Galaxy K Zoom, the successor to last year's Galaxy S4 Zoom.

Most contemporary flagship smartphones contain solid cameras. High-end  handsets such as the and all have powerful snappers with solid image editing features. All of them, however, offer limited zoom functions. None of them matching a compact digital camera.

10x optical zoom; Packed with camera features; Processor handles general tasks well

Hideous design; Large dimensions restrict mobility

Is this smartphone camera hybrid a killer combo, or clunky compromise? Find out in our Samsung Galaxy K Zoom review Can Samsung's new smartphone with an optical zoom camera win us over where the Galaxy S4 Zoom failed?

Powerful 10x zoom lens; Comprehensive camera app; Dazzling xenon flash; Powerful 10x zoom lens; Comprehensive camera app; Dazzling xenon flash

Heavy and bulky; Soft 720p display; Jerky video; Heavy and bulky; Soft 720p display; Jerky video

The basics Are you ready to ditch your point and shoot for just a cameraphone? Samsung's betting on you carrying around only one gizmo that does it all with its lens-heavy, camera-orientated Galaxy K Zoom, the successor to last year's Galaxy S4 Zoom.

Last year's Galaxy S4 Zoom had plenty of things right with it, mostly in the camera department, but it was simply far too big to really fit in your pocket; This time around, Samsung's slimmed things down with the K Zoom, all thanks to a handy retractable lens, making it much more capable of fitting...

Samsung's slimmed down last year's model with the K Zoom, but it's still very bulky; It measures up a hefty 20mm at its thickest point, more than double than LG's flagship G3, and it also weighs up at 200g, making it not the easiest blower to cart around.

Smartphone cameras are ever improving, but they lack one crucial feature: a zoom. Not so with the Galaxy K Zoom. This Android smartphone has a built-in 10x zoom lens. Find out if this unusual marriage is successful in our Samsung Galaxy K Zoom review.

By no means the perfect combination of a smartphone and zoom lens, the K Zoom isn’t half bad. It’s capable of great photos and videos in the right conditions. This isn’t a device for everyone, but if the “zoom camera with a built-in smartphone” concept appeals to you and you don’t mind the size and weight, it’s currently your best option.

The cameras on our smartphones have come a long way over the past several years, and have undoubtedly contributed to making point and shoot cameras obsolete . An important feature from these cameras that aren't easily found with smartphone camera tech though is optical zoom.

10x optical zoom; Solid build quality; Optical image stabilization

Heavy and bulky; Awkward to hold; Bad battery life

The phone-camera hybrid that is the Galaxy K Zoom may seem like the photography enthusiast's dream device, but it's far from perfect. Its bulky size means it's impractical for everyday use, and its images, while far from poor, don't match the Galaxy S5's.

The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom's impressive 10x optical zoom gets you up close with your subject without losing image quality; It has plenty of power for most tasks and it has the latest Android software too

It's bulky and heavy; making it awkward for everyday use; while its overall image quality doesn't particularly impress and it has a disappointingly low resolution display

Samsung makes plenty of quality electronics products and we've been taken by many of its smartphones and cameras over the years. Now it's condensed much of that expertise into one phone-camera (or should that camera-phone?): the Galaxy K Zoom.

4G connectivity for fast and direct sharing; Android is a great operating system; full phone with all the apps you'll need; more slender than S4 Zoom; image quality about on par with equivalent compact

Camera components still make it feel horrible as a phone; mere 8GB internal storage; zoom button placement feels off; some image processing and lens sharpness issues; no aperture/shutter priority modes