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My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:00:40 GMT

Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

What's in the box

Samsung Galaxy A5 phone
USB charger cable
Headphones
Battery

Specifications

Weight 123g
6.7mm thickness
2GB Ram
Super AMOLED 5 inch screen
13mp camera
16GB Storage with Micro SD slot

My Review

The phone is very thin & light weighing in at a nice 123g. The thinness of the phone is 6.7mm which I at first thought might be bad but I actually quite like it. It's light compared to the iPhone 6 which looks thin & light but is actually a lot heavier.

The screen size is 5 inches, I was after a bigger phone as I was bored of the smaller phones & I was deciding whether to choose the A3 or A5, the A5 won me round on the screen size & thinness. Also I wanted a new Samsung because I like their cameras & the quality is superb.

Inside the phone is a very good long lasting battery. I can use it a lot heavier than an iPhone as the battery life on heavy usage every day & still have at least 30-35% left before back on charge. A normal charge will last me a day but sometimes it will stretch to 2 days.

Camera quality is superb, very clear photos, no blurriness, stays in focus, zooms in on faces in the picture, this phone is actually built to do selfies which is the latest craze. The rear camera is 13mp front camera is 5mp which is to be expected as you only really use the front camera for selfies or video calling.

Talk time is excellent, you can talk for ages without using excessive amount of battery, call quality is pretty good but not if you have people being loud around you.

Now to the Android OS

The phone comes pre installed with KitKat 4.4.4 but once the phone is set up it will download & update to Lollipop 5.0.2. Has the standard features that anyone expects in settings though 3G is known as H on android. You have all the pre installed Samsung & Google apps which I have found useful such as Samsung Smartswitch, I used that to download all my contacts to my A5 from my iCloud account.

Customisation

With Android you have a lot more freedom to customise & personalise the phone to the way you like, you can get many launchers on Google play to download then you open the apps to find new themes to put on your phone or icons, keyboards etc

The phone runs very fast & smoothly. It has 2GB of ram running on Snapdragon 410 Without any issues. I strongly recommend this phone. Much better than previous phones I have used. I will never go back to iOS. I love the freedom of android too much.

Pros

Excellent battery
Superb camera
Freedom to customise

Cons

Call quality is great but not if someone is near you being loud

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

MI5 — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:11:12 GMT

Nice tea spoon
But seriously, nicely done and looks good

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Cleoriff — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:15:46 GMT

Excellent review @Anonymous. In your own words and made very personal for that reason. Lovely pictures...

Something for everyone there. Well done...I really enjoyed reading it

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:17:24 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
Nice tea spoon
But seriously, nicely done and looks good

Thanks very much

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:18:14 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
Excellent review @Anonymous. In your own words and made very personal for that reason. Lovely pictures...
Something for everyone there. Well done...I really enjoyed reading it

Thanks very much, I enjoy walks & views so I take lots of landscape photos

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

viridis — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 23:46:15 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
Nice tea spoon
But seriously, nicely done and looks good

I think all my review shots are done on kitchen worktop too lol.

Excellent review @Anonymous and love how your move to android has been a positive one.

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:43:32 GMT

@viridis wrote:
@MI5 wrote:
Nice tea spoon
But seriously, nicely done and looks good
I think all my review shots are done on kitchen worktop too lol.
Excellent review @Anonymous and love how your move to android has been a positive one.

Thanks @viridis its a lot better than I thought it would be

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

jonsie — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 07:06:14 GMT

Great personal review @Anonymous, enjoyed it ☺

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Toby — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 07:07:37 GMT

Very nice job @Anonymous.

I like how you use pictures at the right moments

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 07:08:02 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
Great personal review @Anonymous, enjoyed it ☺

Thank you very much @jonsie

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 07:08:51 GMT

@Toby wrote:
Very nice job @Anonymous.

I like how you use pictures at the right moments

Thanks @Toby i just seem to pick the right shots at the right moments

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:51:42 GMT

Lovely review @Anonymous,

Personal, clear and to the point! Just how I like it

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:36:21 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Lovely review @Anonymous,

Personal, clear and to the point! Just how I like it

Thanks very much @Anonymous

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

blissgirl — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:19:42 GMT

Nice review @Anonymous

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:41:08 GMT

@blissgirl wrote:
Nice review @Anonymous

Thanks @blissgirl

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

mieinhull1969 — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:35:43 GMT

Great review lovemyphone and what a lovely rainbow, let me guess where you live, The Lake District, Yorkshire Dales erm.......Scotland or even Wales! Somewhere in the UK anyway, am I right?

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Cleoriff — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:45:38 GMT

Well you missed Midlands/Warwickshire...We get very nice rainbows here as well....

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Toby — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:56:00 GMT

@mieinhull1969 wrote:

Great review lovemyphone and what a lovely rainbow, let me guess where you live, The Lake District, Yorkshire Dales erm.......Scotland or even Wales! Somewhere in the UK anyway, am I right?

All lovely places @mieinhull1969 :). Do you live in one of those areas?

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Cairdeas — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:05:03 GMT

Very nice review @Anonymous ..and welcome to the joys of android x

Re: My Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Cleoriff — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:14:24 GMT

@Cairdeas wrote:
Very nice review @Anonymous ..and welcome to the joys of android x

@Cairdeas I think the A5 has been relegated to 'back up' phone now?

The review was actually written in September and from his signature @Anonymous appears to have reverted back to the 'dark side'