It isn’t the sharpest screen around, packing a 720p resolution rather than Full HD, but it hardly matters as high-def movies look absolutely gorgeous. Given Samsung’s obvious interest in mobile payment, the lack of a scanner might prove a serious miss in the future.įollowing on from the premium design, Samsung has bolted a seriously good 5-inch display onto the Galaxy A5. That’s more of a shame as I actually really liked the scanner on the Note 4, which was pleasingly accurate and could be used to authorise online payments as well as secure the handset. There’s no fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy A5 either, just a sticky-out home button. Besides, pulse monitoring is a feature found on pretty much every wearable these days, if you’re that keen to track your ticker.
There’s no heart rate scanner unlike the Galaxy S5 – indeed, S Health is entirely missing in action – but I didn’t find that I missed it at all. However, I still found that I could lay the phone flat on a desk and use it one-handed, without the thing wobbling all over the place. Instead, you need a pokey pin thing to get into the two drawers housed on the right edge, just beneath the power button.įlip the Galaxy A5 over and you’ll find the camera lens jutting from the surface, square in the middle of the back panel. Unlike the Note 4, however, you can’t prise off the back to access the SIM and memory card slots and battery. From the identical front panel to those brushed metal edges, these phones could pretty much be siblings, and considering the huge drop in cost, the Galaxy A5 feels more premium than it has any right to. The Galaxy A5 is essentially another Note 4, but slimmed down and without the stylus lodged in its behind.
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It’s also pleasingly light at a shade over 120g, making it effortless to handle.Īnd as you may have guessed from the intro, Samsung has once again produced an attractive portable pal. I found I could just about use it one-handed in most cases, with only the far upper corner proving an impossible reach for my thumb. The Galaxy A5 is the piggy in the middle, in terms of size as well as specs, and here’s what we think after using it as our full-time handset… Design: Another solid heroĪt precisely 5-inches, the Galaxy A5 hits a sweet spot for the average hand thanks to its slender build and narrow bezels. Then came the Galaxy Note 4, one of our favourite phablets of all time which again sported a sleek metal finish.Īnd now we have the Galaxy A range, a trio of handsets ( Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A7) which look, feel and act to all intents and purposes like premium handsets, but with a neat little twist – they all sport a deliciously mid-range price tag. Maybe it was a tear in the space-time continuum, or maybe it was a crossing of streams, but for whatever reason, Samsung suddenly started to get really good at smartphone design.įirst came the Galaxy Alpha, the first Samsung phone packing a metal body, which looked and felt a hell of a lot more premium than the disappointing plasticky Galaxy S5. We review the Samsung Galaxy A5, a 5-inch mid-range phone boasting premium design and performance.Īt the end of 2014, something bizarre happened.
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