Euhm, so basically you say 10 different ways that you don't like the looks of this phone, and that's about it. Otherwise you ironically point out how good a phone it was for its time : removable battery, great screen, great processor, great camera, ...
probably the dumbest video ive seen on this channel. it also had a enhanced screen sensitivity feature that allowed you to use the phone with a pencil.
I agree with you , if S5 had a better construction and it had better quality in terms of materials it would've been one of the most decent Samsung flagships
This phone was sick, removable battery, water resistant, headphone jack, amazing display, everything about this phone was amazing, but TH-camrs loved to hate this phone, why because it was mainly plastic that you didn't need a case 24\7, thanks to this phone failing is that we have the stupid many aiphones wanna be that every Android is nowadays
Horrifing that samsung made one of their last good phones that was super repairable and expandable i know right they should have just put as much glue in it as possible
Repairable? This phone was a pain in the butt to repair, all screws are under the display, to replace the camera you have to tear apart the entire motherboard, the fingerprint sensor apart from horrible was attached to the display, you had almost zero chances of disassembling it and have it 100% working, you may break the menu/back button ribbon which was embedded into the charging port and glued to the display (because of the splash resistance, it is a tough glue) best phone I ever had, worst phone I've worked into
That is the best phone samsung ever made!!! Removable battery with water resistance.... this is why reviewers are a part of the fault for the unfixable garbage we have today
It's the reviewers that ruined the image of samsung. S5 was truly a generational phone. It just needed a better software. I blame MKBHD and all the other suck ups at the time praising Closed battery phones.
I had s5 for 5+ years The CPU (snapdragon version) is great but the bottleneck was the 2gb RAM which always filled up quickly and made the phone chug However, custom roms (aosp based) were very stable and gave it whole new lives to live, with considerable speed boost while losing some of samsung features (especially the camera being worse in aosp-base roms... like most phones with unofficial camera apps)
Sure it looks a bit crap by todays standards, but i loved my S5. In 2014 and coming from an S3, I was made up to have a 1080p display, 4k video recording, finger print scanner (as clunky as the operation was), oh and lets not forget the IR blaster 👌 Not a TV was safe, from doctors waiting rooms, receptions, museums 😂
I loved my Galaxy S5. I wouldn't have replaced it in 2019 if it didn't fall screen down directly on a concrete corner and tear a hole in the display. The battery was swapped in 2017 for an extended battery and a corresponding larger case, which is something you can't do with today's phones. Instead now you buy the phone with the longest possible battery life you can and hope that you get good luck on the battery lottery before it does goofy stuff like shut off at 30% and only last through 4 hours of screen on time which causes you to need to deal with a difficult and expensive battery replacement which usually leads to a phone swap.
The Galaxy S5 era was great! The GS5 was great. I loved the age of phones with every possible feature. I miss IR blasters, replaceable batteries, and SD card support on premium devices. Yes, Touchwiz was gross. Yes, the plastic build was too practical, but the "band-aid" back plate was easily replaceable. The camera was the first ISO cell tech camera, I believe. It is a solid snapper. The low resolution selfie camera even takes solid day time pics. I did a picture walk with one recently. The snaps are overly saturated, but they shine in spite of (or b/c) of that!
@amany5383 actually this channel is design for most google phone,c they don't really like Samsung that much, even the latest Samsung phone reviews I had to wonder y are they lying
Mate you have no idea how wrong you are. The build quality, aesthetics, and a few clunky features worked against it, but the S5 overall is by far probably the last best phone Samsung ever made. It had a lot going for it too. And just to clarify, I'm not a Samsung fanboy, I currently own a Huawei. I just go with whats best for the money at the time.
I'm still using S5 LTE as main phone on LineageOS 18.1 (Android 11). Everything still works: 3.5mm jack, microphone, USB port, SD-card reader, screen without scratches (never used screen protector). USB flap cover was lost during 1st year. Shining silver paint flew off mid life. Plastic back cover chipped on some contact points, but still hooks strong. 3 times changed the battery. The main downside is only 550MB of 2GB memory are available for apps (the rest is being used by OS and swap). Watching how the same apps grew in requirements over the years, it's hard to multitask without ram swap to eMMC penalties. Everything else is solvable. Low internal storage can be extended with microSD. Replaceable batteries are hard to find - Chinese knock offs don't last as long as original cells made in Korea. Phone cameras got huge leap over the years (but I don't care about photography on smartphones). Finally it's probably the time to upgrade after faithful 10 years of service. Can't decide for new compact phone between: Samsung Galaxy S24 (hard to get Snapdragon variant with eSIM), Google Pixel 9 Pro (weak power efficiency due to Samsung's fabrication of Tensor 4 SoC), upcoming Sony Xperia 5 VI (uncomfortable 21:9 aspect ratio and only 3 years of software updates. but heck this phone still has headphone jack and card reader), Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 (afraid of nail scratching screens feature :) I bet my new phone wouldn't last for next 10 years. They don't build with longevity in mind these days. Thanks team XDA for honest review of my beloved phone. Signing on every word, except click-bate title "Samsung's Worst Flagship💀" XD
I have the best memories with this phone. I had the black version and it looked way better than the white version, it made the front sensors disappear to the eye and the back had a more premium texture feel as well. The screen was amazing, and I remember being blown away by the difference HDR made in the camera. I was disappointed I didn’t get the S6 TouchWiz, though :(
I remember when I got this phone for my 18th birthday as a gift from my dad, still the best phone I ever had (until I totaled it), ahead of it's time and ahead of some popular phones now. The smart screen (sensor tracking your eye movement while reading so you don't have to use hands or just swiping your hand to left/right across the screen to take a screenshot) as well as S Voice (where I would yell "Volume Up" while I'm showering so my music would blast more xd). I also loved little customizable light indicators for each app (blue for facebook, red for instagram and so on), not to mention that sensor at the back for tracking my pulse, and that mighty tv scanner... Titan of the phone! I often think about this phone, after that I had other phones but nothing satisfied me more than that one. Currently on Honor 200 Pro after using Samsung phones my whole life (nothing wrong with them, just wanted to try different brand! And Huawei "HONOR" series have Google Play so it doesn't feel like some major change, except that it costed less and I got 12/512GB) *I love how everyone who actually had S5 can confirm how great the phone was and how much we all loved it.
I had imported the LTE-A version of the Galaxy S5 from South Korea back in the day and lemme tell you, it was a great phone. It had an updated processor and 3 GB of RAM instead of the 2 GB of the international version. The only thing that was a bit of a hassle was having a few apps that used different and less accurate positioning services like the weather widget. I don't get the hate for plastic phones tbh, they're way more durable than the glass thingies we have today.
I guarantee you the avg person that bought phones in a carrier store could care less about the design and "premium" materials and more that it just works.
I had it and loved it, very snappy good battery camera perfect for shots in pool underwater was a novelty , had s3 before and s6 after, definitely s5 was overall better then both ,s3 laggy, s6 poor battery, overheating, apps crushing more often
I had an S5 and the only thing i hated was that crap front camera which was alot worse than the S4 tf. But the video from the back camera was very satisfying with the hdr on. Using an app called Snap Camera HDR allowed the phone to take 4K video with hdr on it was amazing.
I still have an old Galaxy S2 running Android 7 (Resurrection Remix) and its still in use because without gapps and in GSM mode only its standby time is around 14 fucking days. My 90 year old mom is using it as a kind of emergency phone and is charging it once ia week.
@@wytreeey3645 Really? Android 13..? I lost my interest in flashing custom roms since Google started with the A-/ B-partitions and there was no decent custom recovery for many months and a PC was needed for everything. Maybe I should start doing that again...?
Alex, the usb 3.0 weirdness you talked about is the same port that external SATA drives usually uses, so you can literally use any of the sata USB cable you have and charge it - but also you can use the old micro USB cable as well!
The Sony Xperia Z2, which came out around the same time, featured a glass back. It was arguably the most premium phone of that era, yet very few people remember it.
That plastic back made the phone feel more rugged and durable compared to glass backs on other phones. The only thing I hate about any Samsung phone in 2024 is that it's no longer a purchase option if one wants to use a custom OS due to the requirement of needing Voice over LTE compatibility.
HTC was the all rounder with the M7 and M8 but the HTC M9 was trashed by the Samsung S6.If the HTC 10 would've been instead of the M9 I don't think that HTC would've fall in the void.S6 and S7 were great devices but HTc U11 was better than S8 and HTC u 12 plus was in the same spot with S10 plus, devices that in my opinion were top of the art in their time.
HTC phones where pretty looking , as far as the galaxy 8 series go , I had an S8+ , and that was a killer phone imo , it was the first galaxy to use dex , and back around the same release date time my PC shit itself , I was already going to get the S8+ so I bought it and the official Dex dock and a usb dock , and my S8 became my PC of a night and carry around during the day , and it was awesome ! Any data or photos or video you picked up on the phone during the day , you come home insert the phone into the fan cooled dock that also charged the phone and 15 or 20 seconds later you had everything on your big monitor ready to go , dex software was fairly new then and had some issues that required the odd work around as on certain functions, but it was easy , and having your phone as your pc and daily has distinct benefits. The S8 series had a good camera too with the only gripe for me which was on a bright sunny day with the sun in shot , nearly always there would be an orange tennis ball in the pic/lens flare anomaly 😂, other than that it was pretty cool. And I might add to this day if you have a gorgeous black S8+ give it’s shiny body a wash with soap and water and admire the magnificent almost cohesive river rock like case design with no ugly protrusions and shimmery black phone body , it was a serious work of art by Samsung , 2K screen, headphone jack, SD card , iris scanner , rear finger print sensor , heart rate sensor, SPO2 , bixby button , 15 watt wired charging , QC2 wireless charging, USB type C 3.1 ( are you jealous Apple😊) . For an S model the only thing it was missing was dual speakers , but the single speaker was quite decent. It was a truly beautiful work of art phone , and I have it on charge right next to me and it’s on the original 2017 battery that still works ok that I absolutely used to death as my daily and my pc for 1.5 years . Sorry mate , the htc was not even in the race.
@@My_Old_YT_Account You are right that the HTC U12 didn't have a jack but Samsung never excelled in that area where HTC and LG were the best.Even HTC desire HD was well ahead of it's time when it came to music quality including a good software with SRS and Dolby that were usable.Then in time LG and HTC not only did they had good hardware for a smartphone but they had more quality earphones and better software.U12 didn't had a jack witch was bad trend that is still on but they gave a quality dongle witch is still better than any dongle made by any phone manufacturers even today.Even Sony made a great mistake by adding a jack that is not complimented by a quad DAC because the software seems potent for a phone.I ve owned the S10 Plus and I liked it much more than my s20 Plus and S21 Plus.Music aside Huawei Mate 20 Pro was a fantastic device also.In the last year's without a powerful competition Samsung went soft with the S20 witch was just a good phone with an inconsistent screen quality and a very average camera for a flagship and it continued with the S21 witch i still own but it is a good reliable phone and nothing more(the night mode still bring back memories from 2016😀).
@@mikldude9376 Samsung had a powerful device with the S8 of course but if we're to compare they are in the same league in general use.Htc had more ram and storage where Samsung had a better screen tech.Samsung had still a jack but average quality compared to HTC and LG and the dongle that came with U11 and u12 are still better than any smartphone manufacturer even today.The camera was very good with S9 but HTC had a better one not only with the dinamic range but the more natural colors that are a standard even today.The interface was in incipient era for Samsung where the HTC Sense was matured and it can be seen in the Pixel that it is still a part of sense if you had a HTC since 2016.Samsung did a great job with their devices since S7 in a more real way than advertising as apple did with their products witch started to be real competitive in the real world with apple x in my opinion.The Note is not in the discussion witch was and still is a pocket computer.S20 and S21 was a bad phone in many areas but they were durable devices since the S21 witch i still own is working very well with a camera that is reminding me of 2017 mostly on the night photos(S10 was much better than both of them).In the end, for the time S8 and u12 were very competitive devices but for most general purposes I still believe U11 was more balanced with a very good camera and a audio that was only beaten by the mighty LG V where Samsung had a slightly better battery life and a better screen technology.What an era of powerful smartphones we had in 2015-2019.
S5 was fine; replaceable battery, water resistant, nice screen, okay battery life, sd expansion, it really wasn't that bad. The S6 looked lovely but the battery was absolutely terrrible. HTC One M7 was king (but also had an appalling battery).
I would like to say that the J3 Emerge was the worst, but realistically, the worst Samsung phone didn't even bear their stamp. It was the last TMobile Sidekick. Samsung was the last company to take a crack at that line, and they are the one's who killed it off for good.
The white version made the bezels look wider but the black version with either blue or gold back covers looked great. The water resistance, swappable batteries, bright amoled screen sold me on the phone. I have 2 of them right now. Blue and Gold with black bezels
Amazing phone. I used it from 2024-2018. It has everything a phone needs. Lightweight, gaming system, heartrate monitor, decent camera, removable storage and battery. Design flaws are minimal when factoring its capabilities at the time.
I liked the old Samsung phones, my first ever was a galaxy note 2 , and that was an expensive phone back in the day, removable back with swappable battery, and it had provision to use wireless charging which I actually used, not bad for 2012 . Back in those days I used to customise the hell out of my phones , I do remember ( vaguely) software of those days being somewhat buggy , but that was par for the course. I actually liked the big bezels which made it extremely easy to handle , and the plastic case with the big almost bumper bar like thick rounded plastic sides took an absolute beating, bouncing off the cement many a time without even a scratch on the phone. I used that phone for two years until the note 4 came out and the note 4 edge , and I gave the note 2 to my little brother who used it for another year or two . One of the things I liked about the old Samsung phones, Samsung just threw everything but the kitchen sink in them. I always thought that the S5 was pretty cool having the removable battery and IP67 water and dust resistance, , the note was a bit more specced up though as you would expect , even the note 4 was higher specced in most ways . I’d like to see a review of the note 4 and note 4 edge , I had the note 4 , and it was a good phone after a bit of tweaking and getting rid of that lagging flip board 😂. Living in Australia with a lot of sun , I used to use the UV sensor on the note4 , Sammy had an app to rate how nasty the UV’s were which was handy.
the white plastic S5 looked and felt like shit, the black/blue rubberized S5 felt pretty good in the hand. Ofc now they’ve all depolymerized and are sticky & gross.
the only reason i switched over to Apple permanently was the bloatware issue which made android phones laggy and slow- especially having had the S3 and S5 with similar issues. Thankfully in an iphone now without these silly problems
On the Samsung S7edge had a extra volume button when you phoned someone. it would come up on the screen which is something you don't see on Samsung phones in 2024
@@DavidNgo86I have an Samsung a55 and I don't have that option witch is why I said it should be standard basic on all Samsung 2024 handsets regardless of price
lol Comparing one of the best phones of Samsung to HTC... ask a Gen-Z if they know what HTC is -.- and then tell them you could actually swap the battery of the phone in less than 1 minute and it was still waterproof. Now we got phones that clock down CPU's because batteries will die too soon. I rather have my good old S5 with plastik cover and a 8Gen3 than any aluminium bullcrap phone
So glad the comment section echoes my own thoughts. So many people picked this phone over iPhone back then. It was not “painfully obvious” back then that the iPhone looked so much better. People loved this phone and still do.
Hey Guys, I've a HTC One M7 Dual (cdwg) and I'm Searching for a Custom rom. I searched everywhere and I found noone made a rom. Do u know any other ways to install a rom In my phone
I still have one in brand new condition with it's box and accessories. It had the worst Touchwiz rom especially the Lollipop one,but i used Resurrection Remix on it and it was running great
It is my first flagship phone and i love it, used it in 4 years before switching the Galaxy Note 8 in 2017, still have it since 2014 just have a broken screen and broken battery, i might use it again as backup phone after fixing it and flashing the firmware, dual usb port might be a pain in the ass to find but temu might have it😅
@@princenemesis I have many Samsung phones still running Touchwiz. S5, Note 4, S6 edge, Note 5, S7 edge and Tab S. Zero lag on my end partly because the S5 and Note 4 I have are international models running stock Samsung firmware with no carrier bloatware. Partly because I root and remove some of the old Samsung dead junk like Voice and old Google ones as well like Play Music.
"This was a horrible phone" *Continues to list several modern features phones advertise today* "Haha ugly phone" Just... what? is this meant to be ironic?
That was a phone straight from hell for me, made me go into Apple. NOW, Apple has become a pain.Will be switching to pixel 9pro, hopefully Google treats me well lolol
It was not an age of cheap looking phones. It was just Samsung being Samsung. You had HTC, Sony, Motorola and Apple making aluminum and glass phones, and even with wood, as well as aluminum Nokia Lumias. All them a couple of years before the S5. This was only a Samsung thing. Samsung (and LG too) phones were just bad taste and cheap looking. The S6 stop being plastic, but the bad taste continued till the S8. Before that phone, they had really unhappy color combinations, like a lot of chrome, mustard looking "gold", saturated light blue, and all with a pattern texture printed behind the glass. They have a lot of branding too, and the bad taste continued with the software. With the S8 they start cleaning up the mess, removing the front Samsung Logo, the chrome on the earpiece and the body frame, using black screen frames, and lowering the tone with the software (a little bit).
@@DavidNgo86 Nokia had much better perceived quality in their plastic. They didn't use chromed plastic, or brushed metal like plastic (thinks Samsung still do on their TVs for example). If it was plastic, it looked like plastic, with much better design too. However, by the time the galaxy S5 was launched, the Lumia 925 with an aluminum frame had a year on the market. And plastic has nothing to do with repairability or a need of a case. There are repairable metal phones, and plastic wears out faster than metal. In fact, most Samsung phones from that era had the chrome ripped off in the corners.
Euhm, so basically you say 10 different ways that you don't like the looks of this phone, and that's about it. Otherwise you ironically point out how good a phone it was for its time : removable battery, great screen, great processor, great camera, ...
probably the dumbest video ive seen on this channel. it also had a enhanced screen sensitivity feature that allowed you to use the phone with a pencil.
I agree with you , if S5 had a better construction and it had better quality in terms of materials it would've been one of the most decent Samsung flagships
Yup
@@Matthewperry279 well the Note 4 improved on that
@@Matthewperry279 still better construction then the S4
This phone was sick, removable battery, water resistant, headphone jack, amazing display, everything about this phone was amazing, but TH-camrs loved to hate this phone, why because it was mainly plastic that you didn't need a case 24\7, thanks to this phone failing is that we have the stupid many aiphones wanna be that every Android is nowadays
Yup. And they used mostly the US models.
So true especially looking at one ui 7 now. It's very sad to see I think I may either buy an s7 edge or s9+ to use as my main phone again
@@darksoul7675 I just bought a S9 Plus running Oreo
Horrifing that samsung made one of their last good phones that was super repairable and expandable i know right they should have just put as much glue in it as possible
Repairable? This phone was a pain in the butt to repair, all screws are under the display, to replace the camera you have to tear apart the entire motherboard, the fingerprint sensor apart from horrible was attached to the display, you had almost zero chances of disassembling it and have it 100% working, you may break the menu/back button ribbon which was embedded into the charging port and glued to the display (because of the splash resistance, it is a tough glue) best phone I ever had, worst phone I've worked into
I loved the plastic phone that had REMOVABLE BATTERIES!!!!
IR blaster 😎
That is the best phone samsung ever made!!! Removable battery with water resistance.... this is why reviewers are a part of the fault for the unfixable garbage we have today
This is not the best Samsung ever made especially with that terrible touchwiz user interface it sluggish.
@@pp3k3jamail you are terrible
i hate reviewers
@@pp3k3jamail You can replace touchwiz no problem... I used to run stock android on these
@@Galaxy.Windows Yet here you are
It's crazy how I still don't record in 4k today or know anyone who does
It's the reviewers that ruined the image of samsung. S5 was truly a generational phone. It just needed a better software. I blame MKBHD and all the other suck ups at the time praising Closed battery phones.
Yup
I had s5 for 5+ years
The CPU (snapdragon version) is great but the bottleneck was the 2gb RAM which always filled up quickly and made the phone chug
However, custom roms (aosp based) were very stable and gave it whole new lives to live, with considerable speed boost while losing some of samsung features (especially the camera being worse in aosp-base roms... like most phones with unofficial camera apps)
The worst is US carriers cramming bloatware into the phones and takes up valuable storage space
Sure it looks a bit crap by todays standards, but i loved my S5.
In 2014 and coming from an S3, I was made up to have a 1080p display, 4k video recording, finger print scanner (as clunky as the operation was), oh and lets not forget the IR blaster 👌 Not a TV was safe, from doctors waiting rooms, receptions, museums 😂
It's stupid tech bloggers like Alex that led to this obsession over metal and glass and "premium".
I loved my S5, saw nothing wrong with it and STILL better than the iPhone at the time...
Hear hear! 🙌 😆
Touchwiz 👀😅
I loved my Galaxy S5. I wouldn't have replaced it in 2019 if it didn't fall screen down directly on a concrete corner and tear a hole in the display. The battery was swapped in 2017 for an extended battery and a corresponding larger case, which is something you can't do with today's phones. Instead now you buy the phone with the longest possible battery life you can and hope that you get good luck on the battery lottery before it does goofy stuff like shut off at 30% and only last through 4 hours of screen on time which causes you to need to deal with a difficult and expensive battery replacement which usually leads to a phone swap.
If only the s5 had more storage, then my mom would have used it for much longer
@@corey7219 it has an msd card slot
The Galaxy S5 era was great! The GS5 was great. I loved the age of phones with every possible feature. I miss IR blasters, replaceable batteries, and SD card support on premium devices. Yes, Touchwiz was gross. Yes, the plastic build was too practical, but the "band-aid" back plate was easily replaceable. The camera was the first ISO cell tech camera, I believe. It is a solid snapper. The low resolution selfie camera even takes solid day time pics. I did a picture walk with one recently. The snaps are overly saturated, but they shine in spite of (or b/c) of that!
Touchwiz was great if you used the international model and not the bloatware ridden US models.
Why you lie to get views 😠
Exactly well said, i think 😊😅 he has no content to make😅
@amany5383 actually this channel is design for most google phone,c they don't really like Samsung that much, even the latest Samsung phone reviews I had to wonder y are they lying
Yup
I loved my s5
Mate you have no idea how wrong you are. The build quality, aesthetics, and a few clunky features worked against it, but the S5 overall is by far probably the last best phone Samsung ever made. It had a lot going for it too.
And just to clarify, I'm not a Samsung fanboy, I currently own a Huawei. I just go with whats best for the money at the time.
I loved the S5
I had blue s5 then traded for iphone 5s ---> sony z2 ---> s5 black good old times
I'm still using S5 LTE as main phone on LineageOS 18.1 (Android 11). Everything still works: 3.5mm jack, microphone, USB port, SD-card reader, screen without scratches (never used screen protector). USB flap cover was lost during 1st year. Shining silver paint flew off mid life. Plastic back cover chipped on some contact points, but still hooks strong. 3 times changed the battery.
The main downside is only 550MB of 2GB memory are available for apps (the rest is being used by OS and swap). Watching how the same apps grew in requirements over the years, it's hard to multitask without ram swap to eMMC penalties. Everything else is solvable. Low internal storage can be extended with microSD. Replaceable batteries are hard to find - Chinese knock offs don't last as long as original cells made in Korea. Phone cameras got huge leap over the years (but I don't care about photography on smartphones).
Finally it's probably the time to upgrade after faithful 10 years of service. Can't decide for new compact phone between: Samsung Galaxy S24 (hard to get Snapdragon variant with eSIM), Google Pixel 9 Pro (weak power efficiency due to Samsung's fabrication of Tensor 4 SoC), upcoming Sony Xperia 5 VI (uncomfortable 21:9 aspect ratio and only 3 years of software updates. but heck this phone still has headphone jack and card reader), Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 (afraid of nail scratching screens feature :)
I bet my new phone wouldn't last for next 10 years. They don't build with longevity in mind these days.
Thanks team XDA for honest review of my beloved phone. Signing on every word, except click-bate title "Samsung's Worst Flagship💀" XD
I have the best memories with this phone. I had the black version and it looked way better than the white version, it made the front sensors disappear to the eye and the back had a more premium texture feel as well. The screen was amazing, and I remember being blown away by the difference HDR made in the camera. I was disappointed I didn’t get the S6 TouchWiz, though :(
You would be more disappointed to not receive the Touchwiz from the Note 4 as the Touchwiz from the S6 parred back features.
S5 got the Note 5 icons with the Marshmallow
I thought the Note 7 was their worst phone, must have cost them a billion or two in recall costs after the exploding batteries
@@parshakamarsh not considering the exploding batteries, the note 7 was a bit earlier than it's time
I remember when I got this phone for my 18th birthday as a gift from my dad, still the best phone I ever had (until I totaled it), ahead of it's time and ahead of some popular phones now. The smart screen (sensor tracking your eye movement while reading so you don't have to use hands or just swiping your hand to left/right across the screen to take a screenshot) as well as S Voice (where I would yell "Volume Up" while I'm showering so my music would blast more xd). I also loved little customizable light indicators for each app (blue for facebook, red for instagram and so on), not to mention that sensor at the back for tracking my pulse, and that mighty tv scanner... Titan of the phone!
I often think about this phone, after that I had other phones but nothing satisfied me more than that one. Currently on Honor 200 Pro after using Samsung phones my whole life (nothing wrong with them, just wanted to try different brand! And Huawei "HONOR" series have Google Play so it doesn't feel like some major change, except that it costed less and I got 12/512GB)
*I love how everyone who actually had S5 can confirm how great the phone was and how much we all loved it.
You mean the s6?
I just found my S5 Active trying to get it to run. I would like review some of the older Nokia phones with Symbian
I had imported the LTE-A version of the Galaxy S5 from South Korea back in the day and lemme tell you, it was a great phone. It had an updated processor and 3 GB of RAM instead of the 2 GB of the international version. The only thing that was a bit of a hassle was having a few apps that used different and less accurate positioning services like the weather widget. I don't get the hate for plastic phones tbh, they're way more durable than the glass thingies we have today.
Snapdragon 805
QHD screen
I guarantee you the avg person that bought phones in a carrier store could care less about the design and "premium" materials and more that it just works.
The camera is better than my current phone
That was the best phone I ever had
I had it and loved it, very snappy good battery camera perfect for shots in pool underwater was a novelty , had s3 before and s6 after, definitely s5 was overall better then both ,s3 laggy, s6 poor battery, overheating, apps crushing more often
I had an S5 and the only thing i hated was that crap front camera which was alot worse than the S4 tf. But the video from the back camera was very satisfying with the hdr on. Using an app called Snap Camera HDR allowed the phone to take 4K video with hdr on it was amazing.
I still have an old Galaxy S2 running Android 7 (Resurrection Remix) and its still in use because without gapps and in GSM mode only its standby time is around 14 fucking days. My 90 year old mom is using it as a kind of emergency phone and is charging it once ia week.
The i9100 S2 runs solid on LineageOS17.1 Android 10 as well. There are alpha builds of Android 13 available as well. What a legend of a phone.
@@wytreeey3645 Really? Android 13..? I lost my interest in flashing custom roms since Google started with the A-/ B-partitions and there was no decent custom recovery for many months and a PC was needed for everything. Maybe I should start doing that again...?
@@o.m.2188 Custom ROMs without Google Play Services are becoming more popular
Alex, the usb 3.0 weirdness you talked about is the same port that external SATA drives usually uses, so you can literally use any of the sata USB cable you have and charge it - but also you can use the old micro USB cable as well!
The Note 7 would've been one of Samsung's most successful phones of all time, that thing was beautiful, one of the best designs ever
The Sony Xperia Z2, which came out around the same time, featured a glass back. It was arguably the most premium phone of that era, yet very few people remember it.
That plastic back made the phone feel more rugged and durable compared to glass backs on other phones. The only thing I hate about any Samsung phone in 2024 is that it's no longer a purchase option if one wants to use a custom OS due to the requirement of needing Voice over LTE compatibility.
i don't hate S5
But hated my Galaxy S5 3G model (G900H) with least custom roms and customizability
HTC was the all rounder with the M7 and M8 but the HTC M9 was trashed by the Samsung S6.If the HTC 10 would've been instead of the M9 I don't think that HTC would've fall in the void.S6 and S7 were great devices but HTc U11 was better than S8 and HTC u 12 plus was in the same spot with S10 plus, devices that in my opinion were top of the art in their time.
Nah, the S10 has a headphone jack, the u12+ didn't
HTC phones where pretty looking , as far as the galaxy 8 series go , I had an S8+ , and that was a killer phone imo , it was the first galaxy to use dex , and back around the same release date time my PC shit itself , I was already going to get the S8+ so I bought it and the official Dex dock and a usb dock , and my S8 became my PC of a night and carry around during the day , and it was awesome !
Any data or photos or video you picked up on the phone during the day , you come home insert the phone into the fan cooled dock that also charged the phone and 15 or 20 seconds later you had everything on your big monitor ready to go , dex software was fairly new then and had some issues that required the odd work around as on certain functions, but it was easy , and having your phone as your pc and daily has distinct benefits.
The S8 series had a good camera too with the only gripe for me which was on a bright sunny day with the sun in shot , nearly always there would be an orange tennis ball in the pic/lens flare anomaly 😂, other than that it was pretty cool.
And I might add to this day if you have a gorgeous black S8+ give it’s shiny body a wash with soap and water and admire the magnificent almost cohesive river rock like case design with no ugly protrusions and shimmery black phone body , it was a serious work of art by Samsung , 2K screen, headphone jack, SD card , iris scanner , rear finger print sensor , heart rate sensor, SPO2 , bixby button , 15 watt wired charging , QC2 wireless charging, USB type C 3.1 ( are you jealous Apple😊) .
For an S model the only thing it was missing was dual speakers , but the single speaker was quite decent.
It was a truly beautiful work of art phone , and I have it on charge right next to me and it’s on the original 2017 battery that still works ok that I absolutely used to death as my daily and my pc for 1.5 years .
Sorry mate , the htc was not even in the race.
@@My_Old_YT_Account You are right that the HTC U12 didn't have a jack but Samsung never excelled in that area where HTC and LG were the best.Even HTC desire HD was well ahead of it's time when it came to music quality including a good software with SRS and Dolby that were usable.Then in time LG and HTC not only did they had good hardware for a smartphone but they had more quality earphones and better software.U12 didn't had a jack witch was bad trend that is still on but they gave a quality dongle witch is still better than any dongle made by any phone manufacturers even today.Even Sony made a great mistake by adding a jack that is not complimented by a quad DAC because the software seems potent for a phone.I ve owned the S10 Plus and I liked it much more than my s20 Plus and S21 Plus.Music aside Huawei Mate 20 Pro was a fantastic device also.In the last year's without a powerful competition Samsung went soft with the S20 witch was just a good phone with an inconsistent screen quality and a very average camera for a flagship and it continued with the S21 witch i still own but it is a good reliable phone and nothing more(the night mode still bring back memories from 2016😀).
@@mikldude9376 Samsung had a powerful device with the S8 of course but if we're to compare they are in the same league in general use.Htc had more ram and storage where Samsung had a better screen tech.Samsung had still a jack but average quality compared to HTC and LG and the dongle that came with U11 and u12 are still better than any smartphone manufacturer even today.The camera was very good with S9 but HTC had a better one not only with the dinamic range but the more natural colors that are a standard even today.The interface was in incipient era for Samsung where the HTC Sense was matured and it can be seen in the Pixel that it is still a part of sense if you had a HTC since 2016.Samsung did a great job with their devices since S7 in a more real way than advertising as apple did with their products witch started to be real competitive in the real world with apple x in my opinion.The Note is not in the discussion witch was and still is a pocket computer.S20 and S21 was a bad phone in many areas but they were durable devices since the S21 witch i still own is working very well with a camera that is reminding me of 2017 mostly on the night photos(S10 was much better than both of them).In the end, for the time S8 and u12 were very competitive devices but for most general purposes I still believe U11 was more balanced with a very good camera and a audio that was only beaten by the mighty LG V where Samsung had a slightly better battery life and a better screen technology.What an era of powerful smartphones we had in 2015-2019.
@@cristisun184 Samsung was the best all rounder
Still have the 3 and 5 sitting over on my amp case. They still hold a charge.
Bad? It’s damn beautiful especially in the electric blue color. Saying all that when the crap base Note 20 exists is such bad joke.
Meanwhile the S6: No Card slot, no water resistance and an extremely thin side frame to hold it from.
Yup
S5 was fine; replaceable battery, water resistant, nice screen, okay battery life, sd expansion, it really wasn't that bad. The S6 looked lovely but the battery was absolutely terrrible. HTC One M7 was king (but also had an appalling battery).
Yup
My first galaxy phone 😅🥺
I would like to say that the J3 Emerge was the worst, but realistically, the worst Samsung phone didn't even bear their stamp. It was the last TMobile Sidekick. Samsung was the last company to take a crack at that line, and they are the one's who killed it off for good.
Samsung wasn't the best option up until S10. When S5 Samsung had to be compared with Sony Xperia Z3, HTC one M8, LG G3 and other better phones.
Samsung was the best before imo
Maybe it's not the best but it's hard to be any worse than phones that literally explode.
The white version made the bezels look wider but the black version with either blue or gold back covers looked great. The water resistance, swappable batteries, bright amoled screen sold me on the phone. I have 2 of them right now. Blue and Gold with black bezels
Request Blackberry Passport
You've obviously forgotten about the Samsung Galaxy Nexus!
That was an abomination!
Amazing phone. I used it from 2024-2018. It has everything a phone needs. Lightweight, gaming system, heartrate monitor, decent camera, removable storage and battery. Design flaws are minimal when factoring its capabilities at the time.
I liked the old Samsung phones, my first ever was a galaxy note 2 , and that was an expensive phone back in the day, removable back with swappable battery, and it had provision to use wireless charging which I actually used, not bad for 2012 .
Back in those days I used to customise the hell out of my phones , I do remember ( vaguely) software of those days being somewhat buggy , but that was par for the course.
I actually liked the big bezels which made it extremely easy to handle , and the plastic case with the big almost bumper bar like thick rounded plastic sides took an absolute beating, bouncing off the cement many a time without even a scratch on the phone.
I used that phone for two years until the note 4 came out and the note 4 edge , and I gave the note 2 to my little brother who used it for another year or two .
One of the things I liked about the old Samsung phones, Samsung just threw everything but the kitchen sink in them.
I always thought that the S5 was pretty cool having the removable battery and IP67 water and dust resistance, , the note was a bit more specced up though as you would expect , even the note 4 was higher specced in most ways .
I’d like to see a review of the note 4 and note 4 edge , I had the note 4 , and it was a good phone after a bit of tweaking and getting rid of that lagging flip board 😂.
Living in Australia with a lot of sun , I used to use the UV sensor on the note4 , Sammy had an app to rate how nasty the UV’s were which was handy.
There was a LTE-A model
If I’m not mistaken, those photos was taken around Manchester and Liverpool. Maybe Media city, River Irwell
Waterproof thing.
Sony since Xperia V (LT25i) (I guess): Hello
Galaxy S5’s screen is 5.1 inch NOT 5.2.
Yup
Nostalgic 😊 Thanks for bringing it
The s5 was still a legendary phone still, that was my first samsung phone, I love it the only about it was it just too lagging at time
US model I assume
@DavidNgo86 yes I both Sprint and AT&T and AT&T was the worst, I couldn't even get any update on it
@@oatsyentertainment the international model is much better as there is zero carrier bloatware.
@DavidNgo86 yeah your right, alot of feature started with the s5
Still using it just becasue of the IR blaster its my second remote controlfor everything
the white plastic S5 looked and felt like shit, the black/blue rubberized S5 felt pretty good in the hand. Ofc now they’ve all depolymerized and are sticky & gross.
Not all of them have. My 2 S5 back covers are still like brand new.
the only reason i switched over to Apple permanently was the bloatware issue which made android phones laggy and slow- especially having had the S3 and S5 with similar issues. Thankfully in an iphone now without these silly problems
On the Samsung S7edge had a extra volume button when you phoned someone. it would come up on the screen which is something you don't see on Samsung phones in 2024
My Note 9 has that and the S5 and the Note 4 have it as well I believe
@@DavidNgo86 it should be a basic standard thing to have on all Samsung phones in 2024 regardless of price of handset
@@krazytravtrav is it located where the three dots are? That's where it is on my Note 9 instead of a button like on the S7 and older.
@@DavidNgo86I have an Samsung a55 and I don't have that option witch is why I said it should be standard basic on all Samsung 2024 handsets regardless of price
@@krazytravtrav oh
lol Comparing one of the best phones of Samsung to HTC... ask a Gen-Z if they know what HTC is -.- and then tell them you could actually swap the battery of the phone in less than 1 minute and it was still waterproof. Now we got phones that clock down CPU's because batteries will die too soon. I rather have my good old S5 with plastik cover and a 8Gen3 than any aluminium bullcrap phone
Yup
Xcover line by samsung. Hard to get hold of though
So glad the comment section echoes my own thoughts. So many people picked this phone over iPhone back then. It was not “painfully obvious” back then that the iPhone looked so much better. People loved this phone and still do.
Hey Guys, I've a HTC One M7 Dual (cdwg) and I'm Searching for a Custom rom. I searched everywhere and I found noone made a rom. Do u know any other ways to install a rom In my phone
do "Galaxy Note 7 10 years later" in 2026
Really s5 is not worst u r worst
How can u say s5 is the worst flagship
Yup
You get a similar warning on modern Samsung phones as well if you record in 4k
I still have one in brand new condition with it's box and accessories. It had the worst Touchwiz rom especially the Lollipop one,but i used Resurrection Remix on it and it was running great
Don't lie😂😂 I had those phone they are best old phones.
They are durable
@@DavidNgo86 exactly 💯
next do the Galaxy Note 5 in 2025
This was my first smart phone. I didnt know how good i had it then
It is my first flagship phone and i love it, used it in 4 years before switching the Galaxy Note 8 in 2017, still have it since 2014 just have a broken screen and broken battery, i might use it again as backup phone after fixing it and flashing the firmware, dual usb port might be a pain in the ass to find but temu might have it😅
I put the official 3500mah battery in the S5, used custom roms and I was pretty happy with it :)
Nice video.
love this series, would love to see more
No samsung worst flagship is s6 no whater resistant no microsd no removable battery
Big love Alex, kindest regards, Richard U.K
So not even the orginal icons
So much form over function , my s5 survived the ocean
I was thinking of buying it but after trying the S5 from my girlfriend, but I hated it, and kept using the great Moto X.
I loved it. US models definitely terrible international model much better
S5 the first not easy to fix Samsung.
The s4 could be repaired easy as
iFixit never gave a repair score to the Note 4
Those icons are from the Note 5.
I would say the s4 was the worst. The S5 might have been the worst design, but not software-wise.
Can we have a video on Samsung Galaxy Note 9 please.
yes in four years ⏳
Watching this video on Samsung Galaxy S5
That phone was awful. Completely full of lag, in comparison to the ultra slick HTC it was up against
What lag? Zero on my international model
@@DavidNgo86 Touch Wiz lag was very real my friend.
@@princenemesis I have many Samsung phones still running Touchwiz. S5, Note 4, S6 edge, Note 5, S7 edge and Tab S. Zero lag on my end partly because the S5 and Note 4 I have are international models running stock Samsung firmware with no carrier bloatware. Partly because I root and remove some of the old Samsung dead junk like Voice and old Google ones as well like Play Music.
Lol! My 2 international s5 versions didnt lag. I also used go launcher. Davidngo is saying the truth. My s5s still look new
@@buisnessclass9520 ahh you used a launcher, thats a different matter entirely
Nah
Its so good that we got 2 of them
This was the phone that started everything and dude says worst flagship lol
Yeah, I skipped this one while I was using Samsung.
Galaxy Alpha would be the worst.
HTC just disappeared.....☹️
"This was a horrible phone"
*Continues to list several modern features phones advertise today*
"Haha ugly phone"
Just... what? is this meant to be ironic?
That was a phone straight from hell for me, made me go into Apple. NOW, Apple has become a pain.Will be switching to pixel 9pro, hopefully Google treats me well lolol
If you used the US models of course it was due to the cramming in of bloatware by the carriers
@@DavidNgo86 agree
no support to get at least android 7 official stock
S5 had a better camera than S10 Plus mate.
Galaxy S5: I'm Samsung's worst phone ever
Galaxy Note 4: hold my beer 🤣
wyta Note 4 was a banger 😬
@@XDAVideo had 2 units that all had motherboards dying..guess I was just unlucky with 2 defective units 😒
@@solomonjjingo904 Emmc caused by Marshmallow
@@solomonjjingo904 Exynos no issues with Emmc
@@DavidNgo86 it was always Snapdragon, Always had replacement batteries because they were just trash with power management
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It was not an age of cheap looking phones. It was just Samsung being Samsung. You had HTC, Sony, Motorola and Apple making aluminum and glass phones, and even with wood, as well as aluminum Nokia Lumias. All them a couple of years before the S5.
This was only a Samsung thing. Samsung (and LG too) phones were just bad taste and cheap looking. The S6 stop being plastic, but the bad taste continued till the S8. Before that phone, they had really unhappy color combinations, like a lot of chrome, mustard looking "gold", saturated light blue, and all with a pattern texture printed behind the glass. They have a lot of branding too, and the bad taste continued with the software.
With the S8 they start cleaning up the mess, removing the front Samsung Logo, the chrome on the earpiece and the body frame, using black screen frames, and lowering the tone with the software (a little bit).
Nokia's had plastic as well. The benefit was no need for a bulky case and no need to go to a repair shop to replace the battery
@@DavidNgo86 Nokia had much better perceived quality in their plastic. They didn't use chromed plastic, or brushed metal like plastic (thinks Samsung still do on their TVs for example).
If it was plastic, it looked like plastic, with much better design too. However, by the time the galaxy S5 was launched, the Lumia 925 with an aluminum frame had a year on the market.
And plastic has nothing to do with repairability or a need of a case. There are repairable metal phones, and plastic wears out faster than metal. In fact, most Samsung phones from that era had the chrome ripped off in the corners.
@@emigzzok the percieved quality thing is by tech bloggers only as your avg consumer will just buy a phone that's recommended by a carrier rep.
review the galaxy s4!
Its not worst bro i loved my black s5
How can u compare it with s24 ??
U gone mad?😅😅😅😅
Yup
The band-aid phone🤮
Grippy
Nothing wrong with S5