Samsung Galaxy A5 Review

Samsung's Galaxy A5 is a New Device Under A Series. The Budget Based Samsung Smartphone Was Launched in India Sometime Back Along Side With A3 and E5 and E7. So, Does The Latest Smartphone  From Samsung Live Up to The Hype? Lets Find out.

Box Contents:

• Hand Set
• USB Adapter
• USB Cable
• Earphones
• Sim Ejector Tool
• Manuals.

Design: 

The Design of The Galaxy A5 is Quite Interesting, With Full Metal Body Construction. Apart From The Physical Look Of the Device Everything Looks Similar to Other Samsung Devices.On Top of The Device There is Nothing Present, On The Back There is 13MP Primary Camera With LED Flash and Speaker Grills,at The Bottom Of The Device We Have 3.5mm Headphone Jack Along With USB Port and Mic. And On The Right There is Power Button and Dual Sim Card Slot, On The Left Its Just Volume Rockers, and The Front 5MP Camera and Signature Home Button With Back and Recent Keys.Despite The Fact That A5 is Full Metal Body Construction It Just Weights 123 grams and 6.7mm Thick Offering a Premium Look to The Device.

Display: 

The All New Samsung Galaxy A5 Sports 5 inch Super AMOLED 720p Display With 294 PPI. The Screen Quality Which Samsung Has Put is Great and The Viewing Angles are Also Good With Good Enough Saturation Levels and Color Composition. The White's and Black's on The Device Are Clear and Accurate.But Sometimes The Device Tend To Over Saturate, But That Can Be Adjusted Manually in The Settings.

Performance:

The Device is Powered By Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 64 Bit Chipset Clocked at 1.2GHz Quad Core Processor With Adreno 306 GPU. There is 2GB Ram and 16GB Internal Memory, Though its a Dual Sim Device The Second Sim Slot Can be used As Either a Sim Card Slot or Memory Card Slot, (Complicated Construction There) Samsung Should Have Included a Separate Memory Card Slot. With Day to Day Performance Galaxy A5 Impresses With Smooth and Lag Free Performance(Touchwiz Lags-Later on That) It Can Run Anything Thrown At It, Most of The High End Games Ran Without Any Lag of Any kind. 2GB Ram Handles Multitasking With Ease,No Issues There Either.Provided 16GB Storage is Pretty Much Enough For Multimedia and Bunch of Games/Apps. But The Only Issue Which is Annoying is The Placement of Speaker Grills Which Tends to Muffle When Placed on Flat Surface and Will be Covered While Watching Videos or Games.

Camera:

The Most Important Feature of Any Android Device is The Camera,Samsung This Time Made No Mistake By Gambling With Camera Modules, Galaxy A5 Camera Excels in The Camera Department as Well, A5 Being a Mid Ranger,  Samsung Didn't Skimp on Camera, Providing a 13MP Shooter With LED Flash and 5MP Front Facing Camera. The Camera on A5 is Real Quick and Very Clean With Accurate Shots and Great Details Being Captured. With Bright Lighting Conditions The Colors are Bright and Vivid, But As The Lighting Conditions Goes Down The Images Came Out With Lot of Grain and Lack's Color, Still It Manages to be One of The Best Low Light Camera. The Front Facing Camera is 5MP Unit Which is More Than Enough for 3G Video Calling and Taking Selfies. There are Only Few Modes of Shooting While The Rest Can Be Downloaded From Samsung Store.

Battery:

The Battery On A5 is a 2300mah Non Removable Unit,The Performance of The Battery is Quite Good i'd Say, Can Live Upto Single Day With moderate to High Usage. For The Testing Purpose We Used It on Single Sim,and We are Happy With The Performance. You Can Expect 3-4 Hours of Backup With Continuous Gaming Usage. As Like the Most Snapdragon Based Devices A5 Battery Performance is also Satisfactory.There is Ultra Power Saving Mode Which can Save Decent Amount of Battery.

Software and Connectivity:

Out of The Box A5 Runs on Android 4.4.4 KitKat With TouchWiz on Top of it Ofcourse. By Sliding to Left Flipboard Can Be Accessed and Press Holding The Screen We Can Access The Menu Functions. Apart From Regular Samsung Apps The Device is Free From Any kind of Bloatware. Touchwiz Has Been Trimmed Down Since Samsung S5 The Same Applies For A5, The Device However Lags During Heavy Multitasking and Touchwiz is Lot to Take. Although There are Many Reports Suggesting That Samsung is Building a New Custom Skin Which Will be Almost Similar to Stock For its Upcoming Flagships.

Bottom Line: Galaxy A5 is Fantastic Phone From Samsung and Great Mid Range Device. The Price of The Device is Around 24,000-24,500(Depends) So if You Can Afford, its a Great Device.

Pro's:

• Aluminium Body
• Camera Performance
• Display Quality
• Performance

Con's:

• Speaker Location
• Price of The Device
• Dual Sim Implementation
• No LED Notification Light
• No OTG Support