Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) review

there's always been a lot of cheaper alternatives to the Galaxy S six things

to Samsung's a series but here with the . inch Galaxy a five we might have the

best and most similar option

hello everybody it's Chris Solara and this is our review of the Samsung Galaxy

a five I believe this could be the best option for people who love to pick up a

Galaxy S six but can't justify the price is due to the size of a  sports only

a . inch display which makes us feel very similar to that has six is quite a

small package thanks to a small vessels and can really easily be mistaken for a

normal galaxy s sex although we have this nice gold color here and of course

we have a beautiful Gorilla Glass for back panel here creating a beautiful

look and also feel in the hand the whole idea of Samsung's a series lineup give

users a beautiful premium design phone at a lower cost as we'll see when we get

to the specs the phone has been bumped up in thickness from the s you can

definitely tell even though it's still very thin the camera bump sinks in the

housing a bit more on the phone has a good amount of weight to it when it

comes to but in speaker and charging port placement is exactly the same as

you would expect the author and some phones as of late now if you think the

guys cs is a nice looking phone will feel the exact same way with a five now

we know simpson is known for displaying their great Super AMOLED technology and

the  definitely lives up to its name with this very vibrant colors here we

have a Super AMOLED . inch display at p with the PPI of  and no it's

not quite tasty like that s sex but of course this is a more budget friendly

phone with such a small screen creating a PPI of  it's more than enough this

complex resize helps one-handed use and the resolution here makes text appear

very sharp of course the most AMOLED panels whites may tend to lean towards

pink issues but here on a  off and another downside with Emily panels is

our lack of greatness with a five there are no issues at all

easily making for a great viewing experience even under direct sunlight

overall p on a . inch Super AMOLED display is fantastic and there is

nothing to complain about here when it comes to the hardware you'll find

exactly what you're familiar with on any sampling phone as of late

nothing has been taken away and there's only one new addition although it's a

big one

microSD card expansion on the right side we have a large dual SIM tray this

brings out allowing for either to nano SIM cards or  sim and democracy card

for up to  gigs of storage the speaker still place on the bottom right

and it's also pretty decent but is facing away from the viewer and is easy

to cover up we have a physical home button and surrounded by the back and

recent a capacitive buttons but they are reversal on all Samsung phones as

expected the physical home button also doubles as a fingerprint scanner and is

very reliable and fast although it may take a little bit longer than the s

thanks to the  slaughter processing power and speaking of processing power

insider a five we have a problem Snapdragon  although some regions may

have the exodus  get the RAM and once again depending on your region you

may have their drina  GPU or the Maliti  you do only get  gigs of

internal storage so you probably need to take advantage of the microSD card slot

and due to the bump up in thickness we also have a bump up in battery capacity

at two thousand nine hundred million dollars the s has some pretty bad

battery life thinks it's tiny battery and power sucking display but here we

have a decently sized battery and more energy-efficient a sh t display so I was

able to get some good battery life out of the  four and a half hours of

screen on time will probably your average when using the phone moderately

and does just enough juice for me to last all day usually being under %

when it's time to sleep now as real performance when using the phone it's

what you would expect for more mid-range processing package normal task like

opening up absence I've been in and out to the recent apps screen is fast enough

to create a good workflow there's not really any performance issues here

except that pesky touch was briefing screen which really isn't a processing

power issue just a software issue he clenched and into to give the Galaxy a

fivesome lower scores at 

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gaming holds up pretty nicely here with not many dropped frames creating a very

pleasurable experience the Galaxy  is running enter lollipop five-point .

which is a little disappointing for recently-released phone especially with

injured and being announced soon but Sampson clearly is saving the

marshmallow version of TouchWiz for the new Galaxy S seven line up the version

of Tetris here is pretty much identical to what we've been used to on the Galaxy

phones of  is very customizable without too many sleep features falling

down on a blank area of the home screen will bring up options to customize

wallpapers you can add widgets apply theme and even change the screen credit

it's a pretty smooth experience overall with animations only stuttering once in

a while the notification pulldown isn't very well with a button sticking up too

much room and if you're not a fan of this car scheme you can easily change

with a new theme the recent at screen has been altered from stock however we

do have an option to triggered a window mode which is a great feature to have

even if it's a small . inch screen it only works for startups but still is

very useful oh and remember that briefing speed I mentioned before it's

pretty laggy but it does this by news articles in a very appealing way but

that lag may be too much for some people and thankfully you can disable it

another area where simpson save some money for consumers is with the camera

which is a little unfortunate as pictures taken with a five are very far

off from the Galaxy S six quality we have a  megapixel rear-facing sensor

with an average of . and optical image stabilization pictures don't look too

bad with some extra shopping going on to help create sharper images but a big

problem with the camera is it a test overexposed a lot and East Dr doesn't

really help too much making just an overall operator image but when a photo

isn't overexposed the image actually comes up pretty nice with good colors

also  is going to be the aspect ratio that you're shooting if you want to take

advantage of the full  megapixels local areas will create buried all

images with college disappearing and lots of noise showing up

up the front facing  megapixel camera create some very soft looking images

sharpness but as long as you are as bright as the background will end up

with an OK shot however most of the time this is hard to do and magnifies the

rear facing cameras problem of over exposing even more do is definitely

better smartphone cameras out there for this price range but still they 's

camera isn't about  just need to do some work when trying to snap a photo of

a scene with high contrast for the most part the Galaxy a five star sticker

Galaxy S six with mid-range specs better battery life and a lower resolution

screen some of these things are improvements and some are definitely a

step down although they won't cause any major issues the Galaxy  is a great

phone for users who enjoyed the Galaxy S six but aren't a fan of its two major

problems high price and mediocre battery life the galaxy  these problems with

an extra twenty or thirty percent of life throughout the day and is about

half the price of the a-six I just release the  will only set you back

about $ for galaxy phone has some really great deal until you factor in

the biggest anger and disappointment of the phone its poor camera it's nowhere

near the quality of its flagship brother and that may be a big deal breaker for

some people around $ there are better options out there for sure but if you

invested in the staffing ecosystem and love the Galaxy design the a five won't

disappoint first price and that concludes our review of the galaxy a 

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