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Samsung SM-A500 Galaxy A5
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Reviews

Samsung A5 Smartphone Review (SM-A500F) from mobile-review
Overview of the Samsung Galaxy A5 smartphone from iXBT
Samsung Galaxy A5 review fromsavagemessiahzine.com: aluminum is worth its weight in gold
Overview of the Samsung Galaxy A5 in a metal case from ITCua
Samsung Galaxy A3 and Samsung Galaxy A5 review and tests from the mega review
Video review of Samsung GALAXY A5 from Vladimir Tishevsky
Overview of the Samsung Galaxy A5 smartphone from Allo
Review fromgraf-mzbased on experience with

Specifications

Screen:5 ", Super AMOLED,CorningВ® GorillaВ® Glass 4
Screen resolution:1280x720, 294 ppi
CPU:Qualcomm MSM8916 Snapdragon 410 (4 core Cortex-A53) @ 1.2 GHz
Video accelerator:Qualcomm Adreno 306
Random Access Memory (RAM):2 GB
Permanent Memory (ROM):16 GB (13.5 GB available to the user)
Memory Card Support:microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC up to 64 GB (In Duos, the slot is combined with the slot for the 2nd sim card)
Main camera:13 megapixels (4128x3096), LED flash. Geotegng, Tap autofocus, Face detection, Panorama mode, Autofocus
Video:Full HD (1920x1080), 30 frames per second, Video calls
Front-camera:5 MP
Mobile connection:2G, 3G, 4G (LTE) (4G is not in all models. See comparison of A5 models)
Wireless technology:Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / n 5GHz, Dual-band Wi-Fi Direct, access point, Bluetooth - Wv4.0, A2DP, EDR, LE, NFC (LTE models only), GPS, GLONASS

Battery: 2300 mAh (Non-removable)

Duration of work on the Internet 3G / LTE:up to 8 hours
The duration of work on the Internet Wi-Fi:till 11 o'clock
Duration of talktime 3G WCDMA:up to 15 hours
Video playback duration:till 12 o'clock
Duration of work when playing audio:up to 68 hours

Dimensions (L x W x T):69.7x139.3x6.7 mm
Weight:123 grams
Case color options:white, light blue, black, silver, pink, golden

Useful information

A5 FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
If the phone is frozen and does not respond to the power button
How to take pictures in low light conditions a little better
Instructions for increasing the volume of the external speaker
Instructions for combining a sim card and a memory card in one slot, another option, Video instruction + Continuation - at one's own risk
How to remove the tray, which is simultaneously inserted sim-card and memory card
20+ tips and tricks for Samsung Galaxy A5 - video (in English)
Samsung SM A500 Galaxy A5 performance and games (video)
Samsung SM A500 Galaxy A5 sound, screen, autonomy (video)
Samsung Galaxy A5 disassembly (video)
How to disassemble the Samsung Galaxy A5 (video)
Samsung Galaxy A5 A500F How to Disassemble (video)
Samsung Galaxy A5 Display Replacement
Samsung Galaxy A5 (SAMSUNG SM-A500F) display and sensor replacement (video)
A5 model comparison
List of service codes
Programs that can be safely turned off
How to distinguish a fake from the original:Option 1 Option 2
Detailed information about the camera module
Solving problems with the search for satellites gps -GPS Status & Toolbox
Formatting a flash drive to increase internal memory
How to remove photos from the Gallery application?

Photo from A5 and comparison with photos from other devices

Pictures from the front and main cameras and comparison with pictures of the Samsung S3
Comparison of standard camera and Open Camera, in poor lighting conditions
Comparison of pictures Samsung Note 4, Samsung A5 (Snap Camera), Acer Liquid Z330 Duo
Comparison of images from the main and front cameras
Snapshot comparisonSamsung A5 13MPandLGg3S 8Mp
Snapshot comparisonSamsung A5andSamsung Note 3
Snapshots before and after changing camera settings
Normal shots and macro mode
Normal shots and macro mode
Pictures from the main camera
Self-portrait from the front
Camera API Test
Samsung SM A500 Galaxy A5 photo and video test (video)
Advanced Camera Modes

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Post has been editedMgalex - 16.10.17, 11:46

Reason for editing: How to remove photos from the Gallery application?

[Djek-vrn]

Review from MobileReview ->tyts<-

[Ualik123]

According to the characteristics of the device as the Galaxy Alpha. The main difference is the processor. If the alpha is almost top-end Exynos 5 Octa 5430, then here is the "budget" Snapdragon 410, albeit 64-bit. I like this phone more: the screen is larger, the battery is larger, the slot for SD cards.
The price in Russia is not yet known, but they promised 24 thousand rubles, that is, as alpha.
Stupid question, but why is it worth so much? This is not the top of the line and not the top principle. Price him no more than 20 thousand.

[ELEKTPOKOT]

Ualik123 @ 12/04/2014, 17:57

Stupid question, but why is it worth so much? This is not the top of the line and not the top principle. Price him no more than 20 thousand.

The people wanted the metal from Samsung - get, and at the same time a new price tag.

Yes, according to the opening hours of the A5 and Alpha, there will be no difference. 20nm process technology works wonders with the Alpha battery.

With Alpha, I still would not compare.

And the Alpha fictional will be richer

Post has been editedelektrokot777 - 04.12.14, 23:15

[ELEKTPOKOT]

Review from mobile-review.
http: //www.mobile-revi…eview/samsung-a5.shtml

[gesuto10]

its price in a coherent 23 990
I felt, looked, normal, I feel weight, unlike Alpha, but to whom it is +, and to whom -. The camera is a bit better than Alpha a little bit, and that I didn’t like the SIM card slots and the SD card should be opened with a clip (key) and the battery is not removable. Just slipped infa in the Alpha branch, that the official battery for Alpha is planned for 2500 miles amperes of hours with a cap in the kit and it will probably appear just before the end of December. And then the A5 problem with the battery turns out ...
Saw today in the Samsung brand store, sorry the price did not look.
In general, go see.

[Ualik123]

elektrokot777 @ 12/04/2014, 18:47

With Alpha, I still would not compare.

The official price tag in Russia they have only a thousand difference. How can you not compare?
The version of AnTuTu on the screenshot is different for you. Something that means yes. Although with such a margin, and so everything is clear.
The extra charge for the one-piece metal case is 5 thousand. Horror.

[F-light]

[email protected], 00:50

...
The official price tag in Russia they have only a thousand difference. How can you not compare?
The version of AnTuTu on the screenshot is different for you. Something that means yes. Although with such a margin, and so everything is clear.
The extra charge for the one-piece metal case is 5 thousand. Horror.

Do not forget, there are two sims here, but one is in alpha, and the screen is bigger here!

[ELEKTPOKOT]

F-light @ 12.05.2014, 05:13

...
there are two sims here, and one in alpha, and the screen is bigger here!

Memory in 16GB is now completely niochem. And only 10-11 will be available. Polyubasu need to insert a memory card, which means you can forget about the second sim. Alpha has 32GB of it all right. Plus rescues OTG. In the A5 OTG it seems no.
The screen is bigger, but Alpha has more density. Yes, and take Alpha for its compactness. A5 Already stepped into a row of shovels.
It looks like the fingerprint sensor was removed. Sorry got used to it already.

Post has been editedelektrokot777 - 05.12.14, 08:20

[koloboid]

elektrokot777 @ 05.12.2014, 05:20

you need to insert a memory card, which means you can forget about the second sim

why?
in the pancake, really combined slots. mde

Post has been editedkoloboid - 05.12.14, 20:25

[A78]

Koloboid @ 12/05/2014, 20:21

really combined slots

There, can I insert a sim card or a memory card? I did not understand the commercials.
Is it really so: either a second sim card or a memory card?

Maybe, nevertheless, you can shove both the SIM card and the memory card into the slot? At the same time?

[velzmei]

So if I understood correctly - INCORRECT. either simka or flash drive

[A78]

[email protected], 22:35

DEFECTIVE. either simka or flash drive

Yes ... strange engineering solution .... Insert the second sim card and programs using a memory card will stop working. Strange ...: scratch_one-s_head:

[F-light]

Went a week ago to yellow, looked at this unit. I did not like the fact that the nano sim and non-removable battery.

[Roofus]

segreich
Absolutely agree.
What are these characteristics for ??? The performance of Nokia 5800 is enough to launch a spacecraft into space ... "There is no felt-tip pen for the taste and color" interface. In it, they somehow left from their standard launcher, it is possible to change themes, and it looks visually more pleasant. As for the metal case ... I honestly, I would say behind the plastic cover, the wife shouts that metal. AntoTu showed 20,511 parrots. Mega performance is not needed, the wife wanted a beautiful two-shot phone, which is pleasant to hold in hand. We reviewed everything and Nokia and the Chinese, in short everything that is possible, the Chinese are holding in your hand and you understand that you are holding some kind of Chinese piece of shit. Nokii have disappeared because of the closed system, because His wife often needs to transfer files to the phone via cable from the computer and send by mail, and from the experience of communicating with the last lumi such things could not be done there.
And so holding in both hands s5 and a5 we took a5. LTE holds, there is enough memory for the eyes, for games there is a tablet and a console. Mostfattyminus, this is a very quiet call speaker, for s5, by the way, not much louder.
This is where I came to look for possible ways out of this situation, but as far as I understood it was too early)))
The wife will never feel the difference in performance of the compared devices, so they took one that is aesthetically pleasing.
Another of the downsides is weak signal reception.
If you are looking for a phone with mega-inspired characteristics that will handle 3d graphics at the speed of the last gifors, then this phone is clearly NOT for you!
Very expensive original accessories, ali help us)))
Well, in general, and all, the phone is only the second day so I can’t say more, with time I can add something else. Yes, for the day of average use by the evening 70% of the charge.

[Sergey_Ace]

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The topic has been moved to subsection “Samsung�.

[F-light]

[email protected], 09:56

Why do you need a powerful percent?

I would not say that in A5 it is not powerful!

[Gentlman]

[email protected], 09:56

Bought for myself. A man in full dawn forces. :)
...... See your options for real men.

Plus, can you explain to me why you need a high-performance computer in your pocket?

Do not worry about the couple of statements from the environment "guards, who work for days and movies at work look at smart," apparently, this is their main need.
It is a male phone. The device for those who move with the phone from office to office, to meetings, etc. and to whom it is disgusting when a brick delays and spreads out the pockets of a jacket. Not everyone goes in jeans - trousers and three sweaters are not work.
Alpha and A-series are created as an alternative to iPhone. Mobile - from the word "easy to carry" :)
Although I took my wife.
Great phone! With one drawback - quiet, I confirm.
The processor was released this year, its "budgetary" characteristic refers to its price, and not to performance, which is on par with last year's flagships.

Someone here blurted out about the fact that the pier with the alpha did not see any advantages. Apparently, either a person cannot read a har-ki or ... a doctor.
These are two different phones, as a choice for approximately one audience!
At A5:
1. Two Sims!
2. Battery!
3. The screen is larger, with dimensions of only 4 mm differing in two dimensions.
4. Memory card !!! (albeit instead of one sim card), but with a hot plug.
5. Processor. Yes, A5 percent weaker Alphs, but more economical!
6. The hull coating implies some wear resistance (according to rumors). My son's alpha without a cover is already in the Maitsa's Kock.

The disadvantage is sound. I join the question of who will fight and how?

I’ll add about the screenshot: after the first charge, talking for a little half an hour, a lot of photos, settings and enjoying my wife :), two SIM cards, power saving did not turn on, the brightness on the car (by the way, the brightness is excellent, although there is no way to check in the sun - smog), Internet is on, downloading was ...

Post has been editedMgalex - 29.04.15, 15:04

Reason for editing: Image hidden under spoiler

[ELEKTPOKOT]

[email protected], 09:56

... why do you need a high-performance computer in your pocket? What are you doing to him?

Yes, nothing to do with performance. Flagships do not buy because of the parrots in benches.
I went to the store to buy A5, and eventually bought S5duos. In the A5, I did not have enough fingerprint sensor (I used it on past models, very good thing). Also IR sensor. I control all the equipment, at home, in the car, at work, with friends at home from a smart. (in Alpha Pts lacked him). I bought a battery for s5 for 3500, on the road (train, someone else's car, bus) I use smart without restrictions. I will say straight away - there is no desire to carry a suitcase of external batteries. Memory is a separate conversation. I have two backups from the cvm and obin from the titanium and everything, on the A5 everything is packed to capacity. And while on the road or at work I want to see a movie, maybe not one.
And a lot more small things.
So, I took s5, not A5, not because of the performance, but because of the rich functionality. It is the absence of the above that pushed me away from the A5.

[Art lee]

How does the A5 catch the network signal?
The review says that it is worse by 20% than S5.
https: //hi-tech.mail.r...y_a3_a5_no_signal.html

[ELEKTPOKOT]

Art Lee @ 12/15/2014, 12:10

How does the A5 catch the network signal?
The review says that it is worse by 20% than S5.
https: //hi-tech.mail.r...y_a3_a5_no_signal.html

There they have some sort of demo showcase. They wrote that in the working apparatuses with the reception everything is fine.
Although due to the metal there may be slight deterioration. My Alpha, for example, catches worse than S5.