Samsung has released counterparts flagships at a low price and without compromise! These phones break stereotypes! ”- authors of reviews of the new Galaxy series (A3, A5, A7) of 2016, especially close to the manufacturer, are choking with delight. Come on! We offer you an honest review of the shortcomings of the latest Korean smartphones.
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Combined slot of the second SIM card and memory card
It is difficult to say who first came up with this “brilliant” idea, but it was she who was implemented in the new Samsung devices. You have to choose: either the second sim card, or extended memory. The choice is sometimes painful, they write in a review on Hi-tech.mail.ru, since the built-in memory in A series smartphones is only 16 GB, a good third of which goes to the operating system. So if you want to be always in touch and not lose money while varying SIM cards, forget about “heavy” games and large files. So, the first compromise is already there.
Low battery capacity
In this sense, Samsung has gone to meet users: for information Hi-tech.mail.ru, in the top-end Galaxy A7 version of 2015, the battery was installed at 2600 mAh, now they have put the battery at 3300 mAh. The A3 and A5 features are more modest: 2300 and 2900 mAh, respectively. If you don’t particularly stress the Galaxy A5, you can count on a full day of work: 15–20 minutes of telephone conversations, the same amount of correspondence via SMS and instant messengers, 2.5–3 hours of surfing the Internet and sitting in social networks, shooting a couple dozen photos and two - three videos. In the PCMark runtime test, the smartphone worked for almost twelve hours. Is that enough? It's not the same for everybody. But the game "eat up" the battery quickly: for an hour at half the brightness of the screen, the battery sits at 32%.
Ambiguous ergonomics
From the point of view of design conceived a new series was very good. The metal shell was supposed to give reliability, glass - grace. It turned out in the end something not quite logical: in the review on S4galaxy.ru It is noted that after processing the surface of the device with a matte finish, the case looks made of plastic. The only advantage of this solution is that the scratches on the case remain, but it is difficult to detect them if you do not look closely. The order of spoiling the "metallic" appearance, the developers still did not achieve their goal: as stated in the test for Itc.ua, the phone is slippery and often strives to slip out of the hands, especially in the cold (we are talking about the A3, but the "older comrades" suffer the same). In this case, a fall on a hard surface, according to experts, will be fatal for a smartphone: cracks on the glass cannot be avoided. So we buy the cover immediately and do not save on it.
Galaxy A7, in turn, turned out to be cumbersome, consider Hi-tech.mail.ru. It is a millimeter thicker and immediately 30 grams heavier than its predecessor. At the same time, the volume button has become thinner, getting on it is now not so easy.
A small number of preset photo modes
Despite the fact that smartphones of the new line are positioned as a practically complete analogue of the S-series, the camera, for example, in the Galaxy A5 loses much of the one installed in the Galaxy S6. 13 megapixel versus 16, maximum resolution 1080p versus QHD, and so on - it makes no sense to list everything, there are no cameras around. But this is not so bad, because the prices of devices are completely different. It's bad that in Galaxy A there are only 6 photo modes: “Auto”, “Pro”, “Panorama”, “Continuous Shooting”, HDR, “Night”. Few? Then you have to fork out - welcome to the Galaxy Apps online store. Experts point out other problems of the camera of new Samsung devices: if during the day the smartphone takes good pictures, the pictures are clear, the automation in most cases determines the white balance exactly, then in the evening the optical stabilization begins to be missed, the frames are often blurry.You have to either keep your gadget in your hands, or use the “night” mode. On Itc.ua There are references to the difficulties of autofocus during macro photography.
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No signal for missed events
Galaxy A smartphone users of 2016 are particularly annoyed by this: “It’s really hard to insert a kopek LED into a device for 40,000?” Indeed, in order to check whether a letter has arrived or track missed calls, you have to take the phone out of sleep mode (and this is not always). and not always convenient).
Communication failures in places with weak signal
Judging by the reviews, the smartphone is not always timely switches from 4G to 3G in places of poor signal reception. To download a large file or download a “heavy” page on the Internet, sometimes you have to wait until the device stops “freezing” and changes mode.
Rough flash work
It is clear that the flash in the smartphone is not intended for some great accomplishments in the field of photography, but the LED in Galaxy A, according to the owners of gadgets, behaves very severely: it just flashes all objects within a meter radius. The flash in small rooms must be used carefully, carefully choosing the angle for shooting.
Is it all bad?
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The new line of smartphones really resembles the flagship - and the appearance, and the materials of the body, and functionality. By and large, the devices have all the same as in the "older" models, but on a somewhat limited scale. The quad-core processor in the Galaxy A3 and 8-core - in the A5 and A7, excellent performance, the ability to work in 4G LTE (and the smartphone keeps the network on the top five, there are practically no complaints about it). The A5 and A7 support fingerprint scanner. High-contrast screen with excellent color reproduction. Enumerating the advantages of Galaxy A smartphones (2016) can be a long time, but the shortcomings we described still noticeably limit the range of users. It makes sense to buy such models if you want to have something similar to the flagships. But you need to understand that these will really be “as if” flagships. Perfectionists have nothing to catch here.
