Samsung Galaxy A5 Smartphone Review

Overall Look

The Samsung Galaxy A5 uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) processor, which has four Cortex-A53 cores running at 1.2 GHz. It has 2 GiB of RAM and 16 GiB of internal storage in the version we tested.

The five-inch Super AMOLED screen has a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, with an excellent image quality.

Figure 4 shows the back side of the device, which has a full aluminum body. The back cover is not removable. Here you will find the main camera surrounded by a LED flash and the speaker.

Figure 4: back side

Figure 5 unveils the bottom of the Galaxy A5, where you will find a microphone opening, the MicroUSB/charger connector and the earphone connector.

Figure 5: bottom

At the left side of the smartphone you will find the volume adjustment buttons.

Figure 6: left side

At the top of the phone there is only another microphone hole.

Figure 7: top

At the right side of the phone is the power button and the card compartments.

Figure 8: right side

In Figure 9, you see the drawers for Nano-SIM cards. Actually, the compartment at the left-hand side holds the first Nano-SIM chip, while the drawer on the right-hand side holds the second Nano-SIM card or a microSD memory card. You cannot use two SIM chips and a memory card at the same time.

Figure 9: drawers for Nano-SIM and memory cards