The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom really is a niche device.

How niche?

Well twice I’ve phoned Samsung support and on the first call not only did they not know or even have heard of the phone, it wasn’t even listed in their computer so they had to call me back.

And that was even after I gave them the model number as well.

The second call was the same affair.

Now if you ring Samsung and have a S5 there is a dedicated extension!

However, both times Samsung support did call me back once they worked out how to resolve the problem.

Now for those that pre ordered the K Zoom with the offer of the free case which has not arrived nearly two weeks after phone arrived, I should have the answer tomorrow from Samsung as to where these free cases are.

Another day another discovery on the K Zoom.

Unlike the Samsung Galaxy S5, I kept the default Samsung keyboard as it worked really well, plus the numbers row doubled up as shortcut text when long pressed.

However, the K Zoom default Samsung keyboard is awful. I am waiting for Swiftkey to release their official version with emoji support, but it is not there yet. So I installed the official Google Keyboard. And oh my, it really works so well on the K Zoom. Swyping across the keyboard one handed is a breeze and it is so accurate. Make the user experience so much better.

That’s it for now.

More tomorrow.

Yesterday, my wife and I spent the day at the Royal Cornwall Show. I was armed with my Samsung Galaxy K Zoom and my wife with her trusty iPhone 5S. Both good phones for photography.

Apart from the photo taking side, the phones were used throughout the day for all the usual tasks.

Statistics – after 104 photos, the iPhone 5S battery was in a poor state, and to stop it dying completely was put in to flight mode. The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom was up to 500 photos and still had 44% battery. In fact the K Zoom took 700 photos at the show, and by my reckoning it was good for 1,000 shots on a full charge.

Of course, unlike the 5S, the K Zoom is necessary could have been placed into Ultra Power Saving mode to provide another 1.2 days worth of basic smartphone usage.

Photo quality – we were sitting in the grandstand taking photos of the show jumping and driving events. My K Zoom blew the iPhone 5S photos out of the water. I had 680 good shots, which I then narrowed down to the best 150. I have posted a few below.

All I can say, is the K Zoom is an amazing piece of kit. It has weaknesses. But if you always want a photographic or video memory of reasonable quality, this is the phone I would recommend was in your pocket.