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
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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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