Expert Reviews | Nathan Spendelow

The camera on the Galaxy J5 is really the phone's only issue, though, as the rest of it is great value. Its excellent screen and amazing battery life exceed anything else in this price range, and it's certainly got enough speed to get you through most of your daily smartphone tasks.

TechAeris | Jason Bouwmeester

If you're looking for a mid-range smartphone with a decent camera and premium looking design, the Samsung Galaxy A5 is definitely worth considering.

Pocket-lint | Cam Bunton

Galaxy A5 is impressive in its design and build. Even its display and performance punch beyond that price point.

Trusted Reviews | Max Parker

A real mid-range champ – it will tick almost all of the boxes for the majority of people.

NotebookCheck | Daniel Schmidt

Samsung has improved the most important points in its new Galaxy A5 and primarily convinces with its outstanding battery life.... The Galaxy A5 (2017) does not exhibit any major shortcomings, but small details, such as the slow storage, the lack of OTG and dual-SIM, might certainly be the decisive features for some buyers.

Australian PC World | Nick Ross

At full price there's not much to recommend the jack of all trades, A5. However, it's already available at $150 discount and that makes it great value. But the fingerprint reader can prove annoying.

T3

Don't pay full price: this Galaxy is good and well specified, but it's a mid-range device with a premium price.

AndroidPit | Jessica Murgia

This Galaxy A5 2017 is a successful mid-range device, capable of meeting the expectations of users better than many others in this range.

TechRadar | Andrew Williams

The new Samsung Galaxy A5 looks like a flagship, performs like a mid-ranger and is priced somewhere in-between. It's a great phone, but a middling camera and CPU ensure it doesn't fully rise above rivals.

IT PRO | Adam Shepherd

If you want all the style and panache of the latest Samsung flagship without the premium price, the Galaxy A5 delivers it in spades. What's more, the screen, battery and performance are all excellent.

What Hi-Fi?

Neatly balancing performance and price, the A5 plenty to like - but there are strong rivals nipping at its heels.

Know Your Mobile | Paul Briden

A really fantastic phone for the price, with excellent design and build, and has some of the best battery life on the market... It is a cohesive and well-thought-out package, and again, a big part of the appeal is getting premium aesthetics and build on the outside as much as the inside... It's also well worth considering if you're simply one of many consumers desperately looking for a smartphone with tons of battery life.

phoneArena | Daniel P.

Well, apart from the much larger display, the A7 will last you almost twice as much on a single charge, which is important if you are out and about, and can't babysit a charger. All in all, if you are in need of a long-lasting big screen phone to consume media, browse or game on the go, the A7 will fit your mid-range budget, and then some.

Stuff | Tom Morgan

The Galaxy A5 is a great-looking, great-performing mid-ranger, with plenty of features you'd normally have to pay the big bucks for. Water resistance and USB Type-C really do make the difference, even if camera quality might not be quite up to scratch for the cash.

V3 | Holly Brockwell

The Galaxy A5 is that rare not-a-flagship phone that doesn't feel like a compromise, with many of the design touches of its more expensive brethren and a satisfying feature set.

Recombu | Alex Todd

It's not a perfect mid-range phone, but it consistently hits all the key notes you'd want a device in its class to, and it does so very well. The 2017 revision of the A5 certainly delivers.

The Inquirer | Holly Brockwell

The Galaxy A5 is that rare not-a-flagship phone that doesn't feel like a compromise, with many of the design touches of its more expensive brethren and a satisfying feature set. The display, cameras and hardware tick the right boxes and while there are some weaker points - battery life and software niggles - extras like fast charging and waterproofing make this feel like a smart choice in its price range.

Firstpost | Anirudh Regidi

I'm in two minds about the Samsung Galaxy A5. On the one hand, Samsung Pay and IP68 certification are really nice. On the other hand, the OnePlus 3T offers dramatically more performance for the same price.

NDTV Gadgets | Roydon Cerejo

Samsung's latest A-series offerings hit the right notes when it comes to build quality and design. The Galaxy A7 (2017) and Galaxy A5 (2017) look and feel incredibly premium, just like their predecessors. We're not big fans of the look of the backs, but then that's just us nitpicking.

GadgetSpeak | paul_smart

This is a rather fine phone, not like some that are almost too large to hold, this fits easily in the adult hand.

Alphr | Jonathan Bray

The one fly in the ointment is that the phone doesn't come with Android 7 Nougat out of the box, which is mildly disappointing, but that doesn't detract from the fact that the Samsung Galaxy A5 is a great mid-range smartphone.