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Samsung Galaxy S5 In 2022! (Still Worth It?) (Review)
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welcome back everyone let's go ahead and
take a look at the samsung galaxy s5 and
see how this specific phone holds up in
2022 now i will definitely tell you to a
lot of people out there this was
probably one of the last samsung phones
where samsung held nothing back they
just threw everything they could in a
phone like this and i think they did a
tremendous job with the galaxy s5 and
for many generations after this they
were kind of stuck in a weird situation
i would say not until the galaxy s8
where they really started improving and
then the galaxy s10 was almost perfect i
think that was probably one of the best
phones that came out in the last three
years but the galaxy s5 to a lot of
people was that last signified away of
samsung giving us everything not holding
anything back because when they released
the galaxy s6 so many people were
disappointed and i will go through that
this whole entire video but i will leave
links in the description to some phones
i would recommend this year so you can
pick them up from there and you can help
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starting off with the front and the body
of the samsung galaxy s5 it definitely
is a little bit of a data design for
sure compared to phones now in 2022.
this phone on the front had a 5.1 inch
super amoled display and it's a 1080p
panel so it's definitely not like the
1440p 120hz panels that we have nowadays
it's a full hd 60 hertz and i will
definitely tell you the panel isn't bad
but it just gave me a little bit of a
different experience i feel like with at
least the galaxy s5 that i've owned i've
owned a few of them there kind of seemed
to be like this plastic film over it
although it was glass it just didn't
really scream to me that it was a super
premium display i feel like the galaxy
s4 almost had a better looking display
than this thing and then once the galaxy
s6 came out we were spoiled with that
display but the everything else about
the galaxy s5 was really good the
display of the s6 was better but it
wasn't a better phone for a lot of
people out there we did have the home
button on the front that had a
fingerprint sensor built in which was
really nice we had capacitive keys on
the side we also had a front facing
camera as well as i get earpiece up
there with the samsung logo right center
so you always remember it was a samsung
phone on the bottom we had a micro usb
port we can go ahead and charge up this
phone and everything was ahead a
headphone jack and a micro sd card slot
on this phone so those are three things
right there micro usb port i don't
really like anymore but the headphone
jack and you know micro sd card slot we
really don't have too many phones that
are going down that direction and the
fact that this phone had that type of
capability was actually really cool and
i'm honestly super happy that samsung
went down this route because that was a
really cool thing that they did now on
the back this is probably one of the
more exciting things this phone actually
had a plastic back on this device now
samsung doesn't really make phones
anymore with plastic backs for the most
part their s series is now transitioned
i think there is 21 fe has a plastic bag
and some other phones but for the most
part this was a time where we actually
preferred plastic bags because they gave
us a little bit more functionality it
was a removable bag so we can go ahead
and remove that back from this phone and
we can go ahead and exchange that
battery out for another battery if we
wanted to so we could pull that battery
out from the back of that phone and we
can go ahead and replace it with a
bigger battery another battery and
without having to take apart the whole
entire phone and use screwdrivers and
all that stuff we could just take out
this battery and go on from there so
this was something that i wish a lot
more manufacturers would do is i
understand why they don't want to do it
so then then we can go and like you know
upgrade our phones and you know faster
and we stop using our phone so much and
we just keep upgrading over and over
again instead of fixing our device so i
think this is one area where you know
samsung kind of did a really good job
into giving us that type of capability
here and we were spoiled and then later
on they kind of we've never gotten this
capability back for the s series but
this was the last one to have it and i
was really really happy about it so in
terms of the body we did have ip
certification we did have some models
with wireless charging as far as i
understand i think just like with the
galaxy s4 there was like you know a
certain back you had to have on your
device so some had wireless charging
something as far as i can understand but
still a really good looking phone
definitely not the most premium feeling
thing anymore it's primarily plastic but
it's still a really good looking phone
and i'm really happy samsung went down
this route now this device also had a
very interesting camera setup so on the
back we had a 16 megapixel standard
camera and on the front we had a 2
megapixel camera now i will definitely
tell you compared to phones nowadays i
mean this is a 2014 flagship eight years
later this camera it's hit or miss you
know the front camera really isn't that
good and i'm not going to spend 50
minutes talking about it and even
honestly in 2014 we had phones like the
iphone 6 that that camera still actually
holds up fairly well this camera though
doesn't really hold up that well for the
front camera but that back camera if you
get it right in the right condition in
the right settings it's not bad you know
it's really not that bad anymore you had
the ability of doing 4k at 30 but let
alone those things one thing that i've
you know said for many many years now
with samsung phones is that they just
throw in so many different features
within these cameras that it's funny
that like nowadays i feel like phones
have less camera features than these
ones had samsung pretty much do
everything they had into a camera at
this moment and i was really happy about
that with this type of phone you were
getting you know a lot of different
features built in and the whole entire
you know samsung touchwiz experience at
this time had a lot of features built in
as well but what i will tell you is the
camera quality isn't that great compared
to phones nowadays if you're able to
edit your photos maybe things will look
kind of good but the you know whole
entire ui is very choppy it looks very
dated but also it's a single camera
nowadays we have phones with triple
cameras even the base s series has
triple cameras now so i will definitely
tell you this camera hit or miss but i'm
still surprised that it you know is
decent this decent in 2022. now another
big thing is actually with the software
so stock software it's completely
outdated and this is probably the number
one reason well there's a couple other
reasons but this is the number one
reason why i would recommend not buying
this phone anymore from what i
understand it stopped at android 6.0 and
i'm surprised it even got up to there
you know so this thing completely
outdated for the most part and it makes
no sense to buy this phone in terms of
software in that standpoint however
there's something very interesting about
the galaxy s5 and you're actually able
to root it in custom rom it for some
models i was actually able to go ahead
and custom rom my samsung galaxy s5 that
i owned and it was like a very random
model i don't even think it was like the
att or verizon i think it was like some
canadian you know manufacturer developer
and that was actually very crazy that i
was able to go ahead and customize this
phone because depending on the market if
your phone you know provider didn't you
know sell a lot of models there may not
be a lot of development for that
specific model in this case i was
actually able to go ahead and customize
it stock android 10 i think at the time
and it was actually a pretty good rom
you know stock software and it was a
much better experience than you know
what i was getting on you know touch
with at the time so that's another
pretty big thing about the s5 but even
on that rom you still have to wait for
the developers to go and support that
ram and push out updates and that's
probably another reason why i would not
recommend buying this phone just because
there's not that big of a development
community i was surprised i was able to
get android 10 like two years ago
nowadays maybe you can get android 11 or
12 but i still wouldn't recommend it to
be honest so that covers it up there in
terms of performance this device i've
been talking about the performance so
much already but specs wise it had that
qualcomm snapdragon 801 chipset adreno
330 gpu and two gigabytes of ram on
their base models you know two models
both had two gigabytes of ram and just
like how i mentioned before this phone's
performance i mean on touchwiz it really
isn't that great anymore it's very
bogged down and i think like we are like
i said before we are spoiled with how
great performing phones are nowadays and
even the cheapest budget phone from the
a series nowadays i think does a much
better the job than the galaxy s5 which
is totally understandable and that's
actually cool to see because you know
phones are getting so much better now
the ram on this thing is and there's
just not that much ram i mean the galaxy
810 from 2019 which was like the
cheapest a series had two gigabytes of
ram and this one has two gigabytes of
ram you know for flagship of 2014 so
again we're seeing so many developments
but i will say on the android rom that i
put on it it was actually a pretty
decent experience you know i was giving
a much better experience overall but
that doesn't mean that you should just
go ahead and just pick up that device i
wouldn't even want to go ahead and you
know recommend people custom romming it
because again depending on the model it
can be a little bit of a you know
experience and all that so what i will
definitely tell you is the performance
wise i'm glad this thing is what it is
but i probably wouldn't recommend buying
it in my opinion and that kind of sums
up this whole entire video although the
galaxy s5 i think is still a really
interesting phone and i think it was a
pretty important phone from samsung if
you're trying to buy this phone and you
know like use it as a main device and
all that it really makes a little to no
sense to actually do that i don't think
the galaxy s5 is worth it anymore in
terms of using it as a main device and i
don't think that's a bold statement i
think everyone would kind of agree but i
do think something like the galaxy s5 if
you're wanting to have a side phone and
just custom rom it here and there i
think that's actually pretty interesting
but beyond that i wouldn't recommend
buying this phone and that is pretty
much where i would kind of leave this
specific device at in my opinion so in
terms of that that kind of covers it up
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