Nah it s not like you say it bro so If other brand make people complain about something and you still have it why not promote it Remember before instead buying new phone people just buy new battery
I remember in one of their ads, the characters were at the airport and almost everyone was tied to the wall charging their phone. Meanwhile, the Samsung Galaxy user just swapped out the battery on his phone and carried on and one of the guys asked him "Is that the new Samsung?" and the guys says "Yep. Have a good one." 😂
S4 and note 4 are the unsung heros. My first smartphone was the s4 and i soon after got a note 4. Nearly a decade and a half later, they still work and are currently doing duty as my childrens phones. New backs, fresh batteries, and screen protectors always, they still are perfectly usable for a child on lineageos 15
maybe i should look into doing this too!! im very unhappy with my current (newer) phone and still have my s5, my second phone ever, laying around at my house
I’m glad we retired the term “phablet” 😂 I would’ve never thought to call my my 6.7 inch iPhone 13 PM a phablet until this video reminded me of the term
@@pinroshan020the technology has matured a decade. Burn in isn’t really a concern these days, and both iPhone and galaxy phones use Samsung displays. Apple just waited until amoled displays were less prone to burn in to ship them in iPhones so they look “better” in comparison.
You could see it coming with the Galaxy Alpha and Note 4 that Samsung started to add aluminum rails to their phones while keeping the removable battery. I wish they stayed on that track instead of going full premium with glass sandwiches.
This was my first new smartphone. One feature I really wish we still had was the ir blaster. The universal remote feature was amazing, also fun to mess around with
I use it at work to control the TV in the nurse's lounge... and in patient's rooms. I refuse to replace my S5 until a company makes a better phone like the S5. If anything, I hope Linux phones improve so I can ditch big tech's planned obsolescence crap.
The S5 was my mothers phone from 2014-2019 and did quite well. Afterwards I kept it as a backup phone and did some testing with Android 9 Lineage OS on it. When my current daily driver died in 2020, I used the S5 with Android 9 as my daily driver for about 3 months and it did that quite well, too... Afterwards I still used it till about a month ago for watching RUclips and TV shows, because my new daily driver didn't come with an OLED screen but the S5s AMOLED still performed quite well with indoor lighting conditions... Although it collected several burnt in icons in the years that my mother used it, not knowing about this issue of course.
I remember switching from S3 to S5 and even though I saw minimal changes, I thought it was a solid phone. The screen quality was great and one of the best photos I have to this day were done with this S5. Compared to my S3, this phone worked pretty smoothly and I loved the LED notification light and the physical buttons. At that time I hated all the phones that had touch buttons on the screen. I remember my mom having the same phone as well until she upgraded, and because of that, I was able to switch batteries. I held on to this phone until I couldn't anymore and upgraded to S8.
I still use my S5 as my daily driver. I like the removable battery, headphone jack, microSD card slot, IR blaster (remote functionality), water resistance, etc. The AMOLED screen kinda sucks though, mine has burn-in and flickering at low brightness.
That's why I got Lineage OS installed in 2020 and used a) dark mode and b) switching keyboard designs every now and then, so that nothing can burn in. Although mine already has several burn ins visible sadly...
This was my First Samsung Smartphone. I Loved it so much. Until 2 years later when the s7 Edge came Out. This was probably my Favorite Samsung Phone ever.
Interesting how Samsung expected all Samsung users to just have spare batteries just lying around 😂 That ultra energy saving mode is really good tho from what I‘ve seen (at least on the Galaxy S7)
I still occasionally use this phone and one thing I can tell you is that it overheats like crazy,but it can still be used as long as you give it some time. But I have a lot of respect for the S5 because it is the last flagship phone from Samsung to prioritize function over form. Although I definitely wouldn't recommend anyone to buy it, I think it's pretty fun to look back at such devices😅
This is when I didn't know any better and wondered why people love galaxy so much! Oh but times have changed my first android phone was the s 20 and haven't looked back..
The Super AMOLED panel on these aged well. I have 2 of these and am often impressed when I turn them on occasionally. Even though they were pretty quick to burn in, the color vibrancy was so ahead of the competition.
I had the Note 5 and loved it. I got to work on a S5 to replace the headphone jack, that removable back was the best. I wish Apple never made the move to remove the headphone jack. No matter how old it is, it is far superior to having to use a USB-C adapter.
The Blackberry Priv you have on the desk around the 1:25 mark is to this day still my all time favorite phone of all time!! P.S. Thank you for another great video!!
this my first Galaxy phone i can remeber that i was super special boy when i got Galaxy S5 everyone in my family and friends feels that i am so special even all of them using apple phones
Switched to the S4 after the iPhone 5 and from there it was android all the way, I do remember using the S5 for few years then a note 5 and then a note 8. Tried using a Xiaomi after the note 8 before ultimately switching back to sammy with the S24U this year
I had the Electric Blue variant for a while in school, it was epic. Annoying swipe fingerprint reader was muscle memory in the end. Sold it too soon to get an HTC 10, which was also top tier but the non removable battery on that killed it, which is ironic considering that S5 is still probably living on if it hasn't been smashed.
Still have an S5 in a cupboard. While not much point in using it as a daily driver, I still have it because from time to time I stumble upon an app old enough to not be supported by newer Android versions.
I loved the Galaxy S5. In my opinion I thought this phone was underrated. I had the white one and enjoyed using it as my everyday phone. Although it needed a warranty replacement when the screen started to mess up but besides that the replacement from my provider was fine for another 2 years before I upgraded to the s7. Sometimes I miss my S5. It definitely brought back memories and was a fun phone to use.
I had about 5 S5 at separated times personally, i love the S5. I remember the last time i saw one, it was a costumer i delivered to, i told her ther was the best phone ever made while I use a Note 5 at thw time. This was about three years after these phone came out. Why its the best phone ever? Samsung still uses features this had. Like water resistant, fingerprint reader, heart rate monitor and alot of software features. The white to me was the best color. The S5 was my first s model. My first android was a Note2 after moving on from Blackberry. I currently have a S10+
I was using one of these up until 2023. I lost the battery at one point (i guess that's one downside of a removable one) and just got a OnePlus 8 pro to replace it. Was running it with Android 13 and after some performance mods you could actually use it to watch youtube with the latest app, browse some websites, and play a handful of games (subway surfers ran much better on it than yours. So, it was actually perfectly usable, assuming you didn't mind a hiccup here and there. If you want to get into the guts of a phone, this is the one to do it on as the rewards are great. Much more usable today than say 2014's iPhone for example.
I love the 5 inch phones. They fit in your pocket a lot better than the larger recent phones. I picked up a 2019 Xcover 4s. IP67 Micro SD swapable battery. Android 11.
Due to the user replaceable batteries on the S5, I didn't upgrade until the S10e came out. Longest I ever kept a smartphone. I still have it but the back has suffered from rubber reversion now.
I still love the design and feel of the S5 series. I have repurposed an S5 Neo as a music player with Spotify for normal streaming, Samsung Music for normal MP3 files, VLC for FLAC and AIFF files and it even has a built in FM tuner. Sure it's a little slow but once music starts playing it does not stutter or hiccup with playback. Still want to try and flash a newer version of Android on one and see how it performs without TouchWiz.
My dad's phone! he only changed it this year coz he wanted a flipy phone. I had a cheeky iphone 5C during this era, then swapped to a S7Edge that also kept for more years than most people feel comfortable with....
My first samsung phone from 2017-2018 after that I upgraded to the S7, currently using the S21 and I don't see myself upgrading for at least another year
S6 was when I took notice of how good Sansung phones were. I now got an s24 ultra as my first one and couldn't be happier. I used various android phones before it.
The S6 was the 2nd smartphone I owned. And I loved it! Thin, light, blazing fast and the screen was gorgeous, especially compared to iPhone at the time. The lack of SD Card Slot and removable battery didn’t bother me.
To have a waterproofed phone with IP68 is a really good safety thing to have on a phone. When you have it, you don't have to worry about your phone breaking because someone accidentally spills water or someone forgets to put the phone away before the heavy rain. What happned with one of my old phones that wasn't waterproofed from 2015 was that it littrly stopped working properly after I had to walk a dog I had at the time in heavy rain and it accidentally fell off on to the grass.
The S5 had such an amazing camera. On top of that I remember I had an iPhone 5s at the time and my brother had the S5. We often stayed at our grandparents house and for whatever reason, I had like no signal there and he had 2 bars of 4g and was able to use his phone for calls, texts and internet. On top of his camera being better I wonder why Apple was ever so popular
I remember my mom bought Samsung K Zoom for my dad during its year of release. He was using all the way until 2021 where I had to buy him a Redmi 10 for him as storage wasnt enough and worse of all the camera was broken.
In the months before this phone was released, I remember the rumors going absolutely wild. 1440p display, 4 gigs of RAM, Snapdragon 805, retinal scanner, even an under display fingerprint reader that opened specific apps depending on what direction you swiped on the lock screen. Back then, phones (especially the galaxy series) were still known for making huge leaps every year. Being an optimistic 15 year old who was just starting to get into tech & futurism at the time, I thought that was something that would continue forever. Let’s just say the galaxy s5 announcement was the start of that exciting optimistic illusion completely shattering. Of course in hindsight I view it a bit differently-bleeding edge specs definitely don’t matter as much anymore-but back then I feel like it was more common to always expect a spectacle, when the gs5 announcement was anything but 🤣.
The oldest Samsung I have is an S6 Edge. If I needed to I could use it as a daily driver. Sure it isn't going to be the quickest for modern apps but there's plenty of older ones and games that still work perfectly fine. I wouldn't want to use it for longer because I love emulation too much but I could use it, as I said, if I needed to.
I had an S5, but eventually recycled it because it had issues for me, like: status bar OLED burn in, cracked plastic back, and luckily I unlocked it from T-Mobile. Before I recycled it, I messed with ROMs, and root. Great phone.
I really love this phone. I bought the S5 back in 2015, and it's the only Samsung flagship phone I've ever owned until now. S5 is still an absolute performer for me. With only 2 gigs of RAM and 16 gigs of internal storage, it's still handle some of the popular games. Although, playing those games in this ol' guy kinda feels torturous. The camera? The results are far better than phones at the same price. Don't ask me about the screen, it's way more better than any IPS or PLS panels in the same price range (A used S5 in Indonesia is now priced at around 500k IDR, or, around 30 USD). My S5 is still very capable of doing everyday tasks. The S5 is my secondary phone, asides from my LG V60. Because S5 have an IR Blaster, I used it as a remote for my AC and TV.🤣
Great video man! I could see this phone being semi-usable with LineageOS, considering that my Nexus 5 from a year earlier is surprisingly usable on LineageOS 15 (Android 8).
I still use mine as my daily driver with Lineage OS 14 (Android 7). People act as if older OSes are completely unusable... but that's not the case as long as you avoid shady sites, apps, etc. If anything, my phone is probably more secure than a lot of people running newer versions of Android on newer phones... since I at least have a system-level "root" firewall app (meaning apps need my permission to access the internet at all)... so apps that don't need internet, I can just block internet for. I've never got a virus on my phone in the decade of owning it lol
@@Nurse_Xochitli think the reason most people say it's unusable is because most apps have dropped support for those OSs, or are very close to doing so
@@sofiamn_05 They were still saying that a long time ago before support was dropped. They've bought into the fear that big tech pushes on them about malware, privacy, etc. If anything Google has actually made Android's privacy worse by integrating Google deeper and deeper into the OS.
I remember having the S3 while my buddy got the S5. The fingerprint swipe was so gimmicky. It was so bad that he had to completely reset the phone because the fingerprint scanner locked him out of his phone. Fun times. So what do you do with all the retro tech once you put out a video for it? I would imagine you have a storage unit full of tech.
There is a shop in my country that still sells a supply of NEW S5's as well as refurbished ones. 149 euro, just ordered it to replace my present blower S4.
They did the same thing with headphone jack. Only Apple has the clout to define the direction of the market. The only thing that didn't catch on was their pressure screen.
I was cleaning out a rental house before I moved out. Final walkthrough I dropped my S5 down an air vent. Sound ed like it dropped 6 feet down. Always wonder if someone will find it 100 years down the road.
I had AND HAVE S4 i also have 7500mah battery for it from zerolemon. I installed lineage os with android 11, and it's really not usable nowadays. Samsung Galaxy s7 thought with also lineages os with android 11 I still use for watching RUclips using Revanced extended. It can play RUclips in 1080p 60 fps at 2x speed without dropping frames to this day. The screen is just sooo good.
I'd love to see your opinion on the samsung galaxy j3 orbit, i still use mine even nowadays, it's far from the fastest, but it's good for scrolling insta and doing video and audio calls, (that's what i use mine for) and it surprisingly outlived my a21 as my main phone (the mic died in my a21 so the j3 is my main phone bc i have to do a lot of calls), and i've had my j3 since 2018, and it's still hanging in there like a tank despite being heavily cracked on the screen, vs having my a21 since 2021 and it's mic dying last year
My Galaxy A10s (Entry Level from 2019), basically has identical Specs with this S5, except mine using Helio P22 SoC which maybe more powerful than SoC inside S5. RAM/Storage just the same
Now I miss the swappable battery so you can have an extra rather than waiting for a full-charge again. I am surprised how Honor is so slim nowadays yet have a really big battery.
The peak of Samsung phones! I would love to have a water resistant removable back with a replaceable battery it was just too early of an adopter for water resistance hence the charging port flap. It had the best of Samsung at the time before Samsung became the Korean Apple
My mom had an S4 for the longest time, I have so many memories playing games on it.
I also had the s4 Samsung phone. I had the white one too I really enjoyed it a lot till I went back to apple with the 6s plus.
my dad's s3 had an entire folder full of games, thats the reason it got slow lol
Omg same, after using galaxy s4 i upgrade it to iPhone 6s plus too
The white s4 was my first "legit" smart phone
My mom had the note 4! I'd use it for drawings so much as a child
I don’t remember ever seeing an S5 ad back in the day, actually MARKETING removable battery as a feature is insane.
Nah it s not like you say it bro so
If other brand make people complain about something and you still have it why not promote it
Remember before instead buying new phone people just buy new battery
@ but that was just how phones were on the android side back then, and iPhone users were never gonna see that as a selling point.
Consumerism consumes😢
I remember in one of their ads, the characters were at the airport and almost everyone was tied to the wall charging their phone. Meanwhile, the Samsung Galaxy user just swapped out the battery on his phone and carried on and one of the guys asked him "Is that the new Samsung?" and the guys says "Yep. Have a good one." 😂
I remember an ad for the gold S5 and it had iggy and charli xcx fancy for the theme
S4 and note 4 are the unsung heros. My first smartphone was the s4 and i soon after got a note 4. Nearly a decade and a half later, they still work and are currently doing duty as my childrens phones. New backs, fresh batteries, and screen protectors always, they still are perfectly usable for a child on lineageos 15
I think there's LineageOS 18.1 builds for those phones, might be worth upgrading to eek more life out of those devices.
@CoolCrescent186 I just looked into this today, may just do that!
maybe i should look into doing this too!! im very unhappy with my current (newer) phone and still have my s5, my second phone ever, laying around at my house
I’m glad we retired the term “phablet” 😂 I would’ve never thought to call my my 6.7 inch iPhone 13 PM a phablet until this video reminded me of the term
i still say phablet lol
That was a thing back in the day. It's kinda like the term smartphone. Every phone is a smartphone now.
The S5 will always be my favorite phone. If they released it, but with updated internals, I'd be the first preorder!
Had this phone for many years, accidentally left RUclips open overnight one time and forever had the RUclips interface burnt into the screen
Sad! This is why samsung smartphones sucks especially amoled display
@@pinroshan020iPhones have oled displays too so theyre also susceptible to the damage
This is why I now prefer the PLS/IPS display-midrange phones. I once had S20 FE but the screen burn in after 3 years of usage.
@@pinroshan020the technology has matured a decade. Burn in isn’t really a concern these days, and both iPhone and galaxy phones use Samsung displays. Apple just waited until amoled displays were less prone to burn in to ship them in iPhones so they look “better” in comparison.
@@pinroshan020tbf I think the s5 was the only phone I have had that had burn in
You could see it coming with the Galaxy Alpha and Note 4 that Samsung started to add aluminum rails to their phones while keeping the removable battery. I wish they stayed on that track instead of going full premium with glass sandwiches.
This was my first new smartphone. One feature I really wish we still had was the ir blaster. The universal remote feature was amazing, also fun to mess around with
I use it at work to control the TV in the nurse's lounge... and in patient's rooms.
I refuse to replace my S5 until a company makes a better phone like the S5. If anything, I hope Linux phones improve so I can ditch big tech's planned obsolescence crap.
The S5 was my mothers phone from 2014-2019 and did quite well. Afterwards I kept it as a backup phone and did some testing with Android 9 Lineage OS on it.
When my current daily driver died in 2020, I used the S5 with Android 9 as my daily driver for about 3 months and it did that quite well, too...
Afterwards I still used it till about a month ago for watching RUclips and TV shows, because my new daily driver didn't come with an OLED screen but the S5s AMOLED still performed quite well with indoor lighting conditions...
Although it collected several burnt in icons in the years that my mother used it, not knowing about this issue of course.
I remember getting my Note 4 and thinking that phones couldn't possibly advance beyond that. Wild.
I still remember my Purple Galaxy s4 from 2015. Still the best phone i used even though it has overheating issues.
3:29 the irony in this ad lol
And i almost thought it was an actual youtube advertisement, oh, dear
I remember switching from S3 to S5 and even though I saw minimal changes, I thought it was a solid phone. The screen quality was great and one of the best photos I have to this day were done with this S5. Compared to my S3, this phone worked pretty smoothly and I loved the LED notification light and the physical buttons. At that time I hated all the phones that had touch buttons on the screen. I remember my mom having the same phone as well until she upgraded, and because of that, I was able to switch batteries. I held on to this phone until I couldn't anymore and upgraded to S8.
That was my dream in 2014, i was 8yo. Bought my first Samsung in 2017, A5 2017. Now using S24 Ultra, couldn't have made a better choice
I still use my S5 as my daily driver.
I like the removable battery, headphone jack, microSD card slot, IR blaster (remote functionality), water resistance, etc.
The AMOLED screen kinda sucks though, mine has burn-in and flickering at low brightness.
Mine had they keyboard burned in lmao
That's why I got Lineage OS installed in 2020 and used a) dark mode and b) switching keyboard designs every now and then, so that nothing can burn in.
Although mine already has several burn ins visible sadly...
Yo nice thumbnail bro
thanks bro
Definitely got my click.
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This was my First Samsung Smartphone. I Loved it so much. Until 2 years later when the s7 Edge came Out. This was probably my Favorite Samsung Phone ever.
This was my first phone i remember the camera being insanely good in 2015
Interesting how Samsung expected all Samsung users to just have spare batteries just lying around 😂
That ultra energy saving mode is really good tho from what I‘ve seen (at least on the Galaxy S7)
i did that for the note 4. i had 3 batteries. on average ive only had to switch it once
For me the ultra power saving mode only got good after OneUI, before then it really didn't help that much in my experience.
the Samsung Galaxy S5 was the first phone I ever got, my mom gave it to me in 2016 when I was 10 years old and I loved it, such fond memories
Lol at 10 your best memories are with a phone. What a bad mom.
I still occasionally use this phone and one thing I can tell you is that it overheats like crazy,but it can still be used as long as you give it some time. But I have a lot of respect for the S5 because it is the last flagship phone from Samsung to prioritize function over form. Although I definitely wouldn't recommend anyone to buy it, I think it's pretty fun to look back at such devices😅
I had an s5 mini and that screen was SO gorgeous. I remember loving that phone.
Ah, the band-aid phone.
This is when I didn't know any better and wondered why people love galaxy so much! Oh but times have changed my first android phone was the s 20 and haven't looked back..
I have no idea why you're using NES games to display the phone, but I love it
I still use it as my Dashcam and second phone. It runs Android 14 and works like a charm!
s3 was the first smartphone i fell in love with..
my friend had an s5 throughout like the whole time we were in middle school i think. good memories
The Super AMOLED panel on these aged well. I have 2 of these and am often impressed when I turn them on occasionally. Even though they were pretty quick to burn in, the color vibrancy was so ahead of the competition.
True. Used the S5 to watch videos till October this year when I finally got another oled that I can actually use as a full daily driver again...
I feel like the s5 can still be used today. Easily replaceable battery and custom ROM support is crazy.
Tho the limited RAM and CPU power is definitely an issue that I experienced...
7:36 now I’m really curious what happened to the s6. Did you manage to save it / how bad was the water damage ?
Loved my s4... Still too this day it's one of my favorite to mod. I'm on the fold 5 now.
I had a s4 lte version until now I didn't feel that great sensation that I had when I use it , it was a revolutionary smartphones
My first ever high end smartphone 😍😍 I loved it and made it last for over 6 years. I miss those times
I remember the tan colored variant looking like a band-aid.😂
I had the Note 5 and loved it. I got to work on a S5 to replace the headphone jack, that removable back was the best. I wish Apple never made the move to remove the headphone jack. No matter how old it is, it is far superior to having to use a USB-C adapter.
I remember that commercial! I can't believe that was the s5.
Loved the S5!
The Blackberry Priv you have on the desk around the 1:25 mark is to this day still my all time favorite phone of all time!!
P.S. Thank you for another great video!!
Love ur re-looks of vintage phones
this my first Galaxy phone i can remeber that i was super special boy when i got Galaxy S5 everyone in my family and friends feels that i am so special even all of them using apple phones
Can’t forget about the Galaxy S5 Wireless Charging SView Flip Cover either . It was neat
Switched to the S4 after the iPhone 5 and from there it was android all the way, I do remember using the S5 for few years then a note 5 and then a note 8. Tried using a Xiaomi after the note 8 before ultimately switching back to sammy with the S24U this year
1:10 this hurts my soul. RiP screen lol
My mom used a Galaxy S3 for a long time and I remember the Samsung Note 5 being such a popular phone.
The S5 was my first smartphone and I loved it.
I had the Electric Blue variant for a while in school, it was epic. Annoying swipe fingerprint reader was muscle memory in the end. Sold it too soon to get an HTC 10, which was also top tier but the non removable battery on that killed it, which is ironic considering that S5 is still probably living on if it hasn't been smashed.
Still have an S5 in a cupboard. While not much point in using it as a daily driver, I still have it because from time to time I stumble upon an app old enough to not be supported by newer Android versions.
More like these please!
This is also the last S series to being "affordable"
I loved the Galaxy S5. In my opinion I thought this phone was underrated. I had the white one and enjoyed using it as my everyday phone. Although it needed a warranty replacement when the screen started to mess up but besides that the replacement from my provider was fine for another 2 years before I upgraded to the s7. Sometimes I miss my S5. It definitely brought back memories and was a fun phone to use.
I loved it cause I could use it as a remote for my old crt with no remote 😂 used it for years for that
I had about 5 S5 at separated times personally, i love the S5. I remember the last time i saw one, it was a costumer i delivered to, i told her ther was the best phone ever made while I use a Note 5 at thw time. This was about three years after these phone came out. Why its the best phone ever? Samsung still uses features this had. Like water resistant, fingerprint reader, heart rate monitor and alot of software features. The white to me was the best color. The S5 was my first s model. My first android was a Note2 after moving on from Blackberry. I currently have a S10+
I was using one of these up until 2023. I lost the battery at one point (i guess that's one downside of a removable one) and just got a OnePlus 8 pro to replace it. Was running it with Android 13 and after some performance mods you could actually use it to watch youtube with the latest app, browse some websites, and play a handful of games (subway surfers ran much better on it than yours. So, it was actually perfectly usable, assuming you didn't mind a hiccup here and there. If you want to get into the guts of a phone, this is the one to do it on as the rewards are great. Much more usable today than say 2014's iPhone for example.
We desperately need to start salvaging smartphones as their base components are more than capable still today!
I love the 5 inch phones. They fit in your pocket a lot better than the larger recent phones. I picked up a 2019 Xcover 4s. IP67 Micro SD swapable battery. Android 11.
Changing out the battery was my favorite
Due to the user replaceable batteries on the S5, I didn't upgrade until the S10e came out. Longest I ever kept a smartphone. I still have it but the back has suffered from rubber reversion now.
I still love the design and feel of the S5 series. I have repurposed an S5 Neo as a music player with Spotify for normal streaming, Samsung Music for normal MP3 files, VLC for FLAC and AIFF files and it even has a built in FM tuner. Sure it's a little slow but once music starts playing it does not stutter or hiccup with playback. Still want to try and flash a newer version of Android on one and see how it performs without TouchWiz.
My dad's phone! he only changed it this year coz he wanted a flipy phone. I had a cheeky iphone 5C during this era, then swapped to a S7Edge that also kept for more years than most people feel comfortable with....
This phone had it all, removable battery aaand a water dust protection, gestures, ir blaster, heard rate monitor and a fingerprint....
My first samsung phone from 2017-2018 after that I upgraded to the S7, currently using the S21 and I don't see myself upgrading for at least another year
S6 was when I took notice of how good Sansung phones were. I now got an s24 ultra as my first one and couldn't be happier. I used various android phones before it.
The S6 was the 2nd smartphone I owned. And I loved it! Thin, light, blazing fast and the screen was gorgeous, especially compared to iPhone at the time. The lack of SD Card Slot and removable battery didn’t bother me.
To have a waterproofed phone with IP68 is a really good safety thing to have on a phone. When you have it, you don't have to worry about your phone breaking because someone accidentally spills water or someone forgets to put the phone away before the heavy rain.
What happned with one of my old phones that wasn't waterproofed from 2015 was that it littrly stopped working properly after I had to walk a dog I had at the time in heavy rain and it accidentally fell off on to the grass.
16:9 aspesct ratio... I Iiked it...
Was my best phone ever. !
The S5 had such an amazing camera.
On top of that I remember I had an iPhone 5s at the time and my brother had the S5. We often stayed at our grandparents house and for whatever reason, I had like no signal there and he had 2 bars of 4g and was able to use his phone for calls, texts and internet. On top of his camera being better I wonder why Apple was ever so popular
I remember my mom bought Samsung K Zoom for my dad during its year of release. He was using all the way until 2021 where I had to buy him a Redmi 10 for him as storage wasnt enough and worse of all the camera was broken.
In the months before this phone was released, I remember the rumors going absolutely wild. 1440p display, 4 gigs of RAM, Snapdragon 805, retinal scanner, even an under display fingerprint reader that opened specific apps depending on what direction you swiped on the lock screen. Back then, phones (especially the galaxy series) were still known for making huge leaps every year. Being an optimistic 15 year old who was just starting to get into tech & futurism at the time, I thought that was something that would continue forever. Let’s just say the galaxy s5 announcement was the start of that exciting optimistic illusion completely shattering. Of course in hindsight I view it a bit differently-bleeding edge specs definitely don’t matter as much anymore-but back then I feel like it was more common to always expect a spectacle, when the gs5 announcement was anything but 🤣.
The oldest Samsung I have is an S6 Edge. If I needed to I could use it as a daily driver. Sure it isn't going to be the quickest for modern apps but there's plenty of older ones and games that still work perfectly fine. I wouldn't want to use it for longer because I love emulation too much but I could use it, as I said, if I needed to.
I had an S5, but eventually recycled it because it had issues for me, like: status bar OLED burn in, cracked plastic back, and luckily I unlocked it from T-Mobile.
Before I recycled it, I messed with ROMs, and root.
Great phone.
I really love this phone. I bought the S5 back in 2015, and it's the only Samsung flagship phone I've ever owned until now.
S5 is still an absolute performer for me. With only 2 gigs of RAM and 16 gigs of internal storage, it's still handle some of the popular games. Although, playing those games in this ol' guy kinda feels torturous. The camera? The results are far better than phones at the same price. Don't ask me about the screen, it's way more better than any IPS or PLS panels in the same price range (A used S5 in Indonesia is now priced at around 500k IDR, or, around 30 USD). My S5 is still very capable of doing everyday tasks. The S5 is my secondary phone, asides from my LG V60. Because S5 have an IR Blaster, I used it as a remote for my AC and TV.🤣
Ir blaster and ip rating with removable back was great
Loved my S6 but the S5 was something else... I would never forget the heart rate sensor! 😂
Great video man! I could see this phone being semi-usable with LineageOS, considering that my Nexus 5 from a year earlier is surprisingly usable on LineageOS 15 (Android 8).
I still use mine as my daily driver with Lineage OS 14 (Android 7).
People act as if older OSes are completely unusable... but that's not the case as long as you avoid shady sites, apps, etc.
If anything, my phone is probably more secure than a lot of people running newer versions of Android on newer phones... since I at least have a system-level "root" firewall app (meaning apps need my permission to access the internet at all)... so apps that don't need internet, I can just block internet for.
I've never got a virus on my phone in the decade of owning it lol
@@Nurse_Xochitli think the reason most people say it's unusable is because most apps have dropped support for those OSs, or are very close to doing so
@@sofiamn_05 They were still saying that a long time ago before support was dropped.
They've bought into the fear that big tech pushes on them about malware, privacy, etc.
If anything Google has actually made Android's privacy worse by integrating Google deeper and deeper into the OS.
I remember having the S3 while my buddy got the S5. The fingerprint swipe was so gimmicky. It was so bad that he had to completely reset the phone because the fingerprint scanner locked him out of his phone. Fun times.
So what do you do with all the retro tech once you put out a video for it? I would imagine you have a storage unit full of tech.
Great review, brought back memories 😃
I leave my Note 10 home and use my old S6 out and about. It's still awesome
I could just imagine 91tech doing galaxy note fan edition in 2024
There is a shop in my country that still sells a supply of NEW S5's as well as refurbished ones. 149 euro, just ordered it to replace my present blower S4.
is it an online store? i see you mentioned euro, so it might be easier for me to get on there too
@waynerazorblade they keep removing the link I want to post. Did you get a chance to see it?
great review
Funny how Samsung really emphasized the removable battery in the S5's marketing only for the feature to be removed a year later.
They did the same thing with headphone jack. Only Apple has the clout to define the direction of the market. The only thing that didn't catch on was their pressure screen.
I was cleaning out a rental house before I moved out. Final walkthrough I dropped my S5 down an air vent. Sound ed like it dropped 6 feet down. Always wonder if someone will find it 100 years down the road.
I think the Note4 is even more of icon when it comes to the last of an era, but the S5 is also noteable!
Bro make a video using an Xperia z3 compact in 2024
Any xperia z or x would be nice really
I had AND HAVE S4 i also have 7500mah battery for it from zerolemon. I installed lineage os with android 11, and it's really not usable nowadays. Samsung Galaxy s7 thought with also lineages os with android 11 I still use for watching RUclips using Revanced extended. It can play RUclips in 1080p 60 fps at 2x speed without dropping frames to this day. The screen is just sooo good.
please make a video on moto z (w/ the modular system), i think it deserve a revisit in 2024!
I'd love to see your opinion on the samsung galaxy j3 orbit, i still use mine even nowadays, it's far from the fastest, but it's good for scrolling insta and doing video and audio calls, (that's what i use mine for) and it surprisingly outlived my a21 as my main phone (the mic died in my a21 so the j3 is my main phone bc i have to do a lot of calls), and i've had my j3 since 2018, and it's still hanging in there like a tank despite being heavily cracked on the screen, vs having my a21 since 2021 and it's mic dying last year
This was one of the first phones I got
Hold on did Neal Brennan narrate that S5 commercial?! Lol
I loved my s5 active
I currently have the Galaxy S5 and Note 3 with LineageOS Android 12 and they work very well, even better than with TouchWiz
I feel like I'm being watched. You made this video not even two and a half weeks after I got my own S5
I too use s5 now also
I had an S5 for some time, i liked it but i had to give it up bc battety was bad
My Galaxy A10s (Entry Level from 2019), basically has identical Specs with this S5, except mine using Helio P22 SoC which maybe more powerful than SoC inside S5. RAM/Storage just the same
Now I miss the swappable battery so you can have an extra rather than waiting for a full-charge again. I am surprised how Honor is so slim nowadays yet have a really big battery.
Still have my S5😊
my first phone 🎉🎉🎉
The peak of Samsung phones! I would love to have a water resistant removable back with a replaceable battery it was just too early of an adopter for water resistance hence the charging port flap. It had the best of Samsung at the time before Samsung became the Korean Apple