![]() ![]() ![]() What’s likely to get fans of Samsung smar tphones of old foaming at the mouth, though, is the fact that the battery can be replaced. With light use, I found I was able to get it to last well into a third day of use. In our video rundown test, the Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo’s 2,800mAh power pack helped it last 16hrs 27mins before running out of juice, which is longer than the superb Galaxy S6 Edge and Motorola Moto X Force. More notable than this, however, is the battery life. This is not huge issue, but it is nonetheless irritating. My only gripe is that the phone seems to pause for a moment, seemingly catching its breath before launching certain apps. It’s impressive stuff, and in real world terms all these numbers translate to smooth performance in most apps. We reviewed the S5 so long ago now that we’ve changed the benchmarks, so I don’t have the usual array of gaming benchmark figures to compare here, but in the test figures I do have, you can see that the Exynos processor in the S5 Neo is significantly quicker than the original, and it isn’t all that far behind its nominally more modern competition: In the benchmarks we run on smartphones, its performance is surprisingly good. Looking at the all-round performance of the S5 Neo, you might argue that it’s all the smartphone you need. ![]() Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo review: Performance So, we have the Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo, which not only offers most of the features and a near-identical design of a 2014 flagship, but that also – at £300 SIM-free and around £22/mth on contract – is far cheaper than current flagship smartphones. We’d all love to own a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ or an iPhone 6s Plus but, practically speaking, the advances these phones offer over a good phone that may have been built two years ago are pretty small. Why would Samsung do such a thing? More importantly, why would you want to buy one? Well, it’s been an uncomfortable truth for smartphone manufacturers that, for the most part, people simply don’t need the extra power offered by their most expensive, modern models. The Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo also lacks the S5’s fingerprint reader, its infrared transceiver and its USB 3 port, but it keeps the S5’s heart rate monitor. The main departure is the CPU, which instead of the 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801, is now a Samsung Exynos 7580 Octa running at a clock speed of 1.6GHz. It’s only when you look closely that you begin to notice the differences. Quad-core, 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801, Adreno 330ġ6MP, f/2.2, phase detect autofocus, 1/2.6in sensor size ![]()
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