Samsung Galaxy A5 deals and reviews

Recombu | Chris Barraclough

The Korean giant can produce a smartphone with gorgeous and solid design and resist from cramming it full of pointless features. It's a shame that the likes of the fingerprint scanner are missing in action, but for a respectable price you get a slick and dependable smartphone that's great for everyday action.

NotebookCheck | Florian Wimmer

The Galaxy A5 is not exactly cheap, but the buyer gets a round total package. The buyer overall gets a high-priced but also high-quality mid-range smartphone with Samsung's Galaxy A5, though.

Android Authority | Kevin Nether

As expected the Samsung Galaxy A5 does not disappoint and is a great mid-range offering from the company. While it looks the same as the last few generations, the change in the build material from plastic to metal finally allows for the premium feel in the hand that many have been waiting for.

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.

Pocket-lint | Cam Bunton

For a phone with that price tag, the Galaxy A5 is impressive in its design and build. Even its display and performance punch beyond that price point... It may not have the most powerful processor, the most densely packed pixels on the screen, nor tip-top cameras, but it's still a compelling device.

Alphr | Jonathan Bray

The Samsung Galaxy A5 is a tough smartphone to pigeonhole. On the one hand, it looks as good as any flagship phone, and battery life is stupendous; on the other, the hardware inside isn't quite up to snuff, falling fractionally behind rivals such as the OnePlus 3, Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P for speed and camera quality.

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The Samsung Galaxy A5 has an ultraslim, aluminium design and an excellent selfie camera. But although it costs less than the flagship S5, its mid-range spec means that it's still over-priced for what you get.

Register Hardware | Alun Taylor

The Samsung Galaxy A5 is a bit pricey for a mid-ranger, but it has the looks and build quality of a flagship.... Solid, light and visually exquisite, this new mid-price Sammy really is a thoroughly desirable device.

Wired UK | Dave Oliver

It's a sleek-looking device and a pretty good performer too, though not everyone will feel the price is justified when compared to cheaper big-screen rivals like the OnePlus One, or phone with superior camera options, like the 20-megapixel model on the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact.

The Guardian | Samuel Gibbs

The Galaxy A5 is a solid, perfectly usable and attractive mid-range smartphone, which is unusual for Samsung, which has a habit of making its lower-priced smartphones frustrating to use. The A5's biggest problem is its lower-priced competition.

TechSpot | Tim Schiesser

Even though the Samsung Galaxy A5 is actually a very good mid-range device, and the best I've used in this category from the company, the price completely lets it down.

Trusted Reviews | Max Parker

Samsung clearly doesn't have as much interest in the mid-range as the high-end, but things are improving. It's a shame that a nice, S7-inspired, design and strong screen is let down by outdated software.

Expert Reviews | Katharine Byrne

The Galaxy A5 is a beautifully designed handset with almost all the hallmarks of a great mid-range smartphone. It has a great camera, excellent battery life and high quality screen, but its sub-par performance really lets it down. We'd simply expect more of this price, especially when you can get the infinitely superior Galaxy S5 for the same money. We like the A5 very much, but compared to its more sprightly brethren, it's very much the awkward middle child of Samsung's new A series.

AndroidPit | Daniel Viejo

For many people, the Galaxy A5's look and feel will make a strong impression and it is nice and light weight too. The camera is also very good. On the down side, TouchWiz sometimes gets choked and is terribly laggy, and some heavier tasks just can't be met by the A5's internals.

Digital Versus | Romain Thuret

The A5 isn't all that bad but, considering Samsung's current ranges, the Galaxy Alpha and Galaxy S5 Mini serve more or less the same purpose. The A5 takes the middle ground and, as such, isn't a particularly thrilling product.