SAMSUNG GALAXY J5 PRIME REVIEW



Samsung launched its the successor to its J5 2016 android smartphone namely Galaxy J5 Prime which is priced at 14,790/-. It is available is Black & Gold shades. The online links are given below so check them out to keep track of current price & availability or to pick one of them.

SPECS OVERVIEW

5 inch 720p IPS Display

8.1mm Slim & weighs 143gms

16GB Storage with MicroSD

13MP Rear & 5MP Front Cameras

Exynos 7 (Octa-Core CPU)

Mali-T720 MP1 GPU with 2GB RAM

Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow

Fingerprint sensor

USB OTG

2400 mah Battery 


Lets Dive Into The Review!

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is very good. It has 2.5D curved corning gorilla glass 4 on front and unibody metallic build which feels quite great in hands. It is slim at 8.1mm and weighs 143gms. It has 5 inch HD LCD display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 294ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is great. It runs on Touch Wiz User Interface. The display supports 5 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 16GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 128GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a movie player for playing movies respectively which are quite good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi b/g/n, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, GPS & GLONASS, USB OTG, NFC as well as Bluetooth 4.1 come standard but lacks gyroscope sensor & dual band wifi. It also has fingerprint scanner support which is great. It also misses out on NFC.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP (COMS Sensor, F/1.9 Aperture, 28mm field of view) rear camera with autofocus and LED flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc and other modes as well. The camera clarity is great overall. Daytime the images are great and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is pretty good. It does Full HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound but lacks HDR having bit-rate of 18mbps respectively and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is great overall. Daytime the video clarity is great and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is pretty good. It also has a 5MP (F/2.2 Aperture) front camera for selfe's with 1080p video recording and clarity is very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 6.0.1 Marshmallow out of the box. It has an Exynos 7 Octa (7580) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running an Octa-Core processor clocked at 1.4 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 architecture) with 2GB RAM and a Mali-T720 MP1 (700MHZ Single-Core) GPU. The performance is Quite great overall which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run quite well and there is no major lag at most cases apart from high intensive gaming which could have been slightly better.
QUADRANT : 21589.
ANTUTU : 39546.
NENAMARK 2 : 57fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Non-Removable Li-Ion 2400 mah battery with power saving options. The battery life is great which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 8:30H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 8:30H.
TALKTIME : upto 22H(2G) / upto18H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 480H(2G) / upto 450H(3G).

PROS
*Great build quality.
*Great display and viewing angle.
*Quite Great overall Performance.
*Great camera and video recording clarity.
*USB OTG & Fingerprint Scanner support
*Pretty good loudspeaker.
*Great battery life.

CONS
*Lacks basic (Light & compass) sensors. 
*No gyroscope sensor & dual band wifi support.
*High end performance could have been slightly better.
*No NFC support.
*No dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.3/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

To Know The Current Price And To Buy This Phone Now! Click The Links Below.
FLIPKART : http://fkrt.it/5MvD4TuuuN
AMAZON : http://amzn.to/2gzX1hK
SNAPDEAL : http://sndl/j5prime

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