Samsung Galaxy Note5 Smartphones

This is a steal.

Since the note 7 fiasco i have been looking at what to get to replace my older growing note 3 i wanted to stick with the not series because they check all the boxes for my needs. So far this phone is great aside from two things ill get that in a minute. When i first got the phone it arrived as they describe the box is open but the phone is brand new all they did to it was add a screen protector to it i couldn't tell if it was glass or a hard plastic but I didn't really care either as i took it off immediately not that it wasn't nice to receive one but i normally just dont use them on my phones as they feel funny to my fingers. The phone as i said before is literally brand new as far as I can tell not dings no scratches and the device didnt have any sneaky scratches on the plastic pit at the charger. Now for the two small or one problem since i did fix the other one. The first being that at first the bluetooth did not work at all nothing wanted to connect nothing wanted to find my device. I fixed this with a soft reset. The second problem is that Samsung pay does not want to work due to it saying that there have been unauthorized changes to the device. I then had sprint even reimage the phone as they called it by putting the new version of android on there. it didnt work. but over all i am not to upset about it as most of the stores around me dont support samsung pay or even apple pay and whatever else there is we are just now getting chip support. A small issue to mention is that my s pen was a tiny pit broken at first by not activating the screen off memo thing but then again i didnt use it. my pen did break after like a weak but i think it was more due to me playing with the clicking mechanism which just pushed that peice away from the pen body but i was able to fix it only the super glue dried to fast and the end cap didnt get all the way down so i just ordered a new one. Overall i am happy with this purchase it saved me 400 dollars even with buying the pen and activation was free. I would definitely recommend this to friends. When i called the customer service they even offered to take the phone back and switch it one for another one which took me by surprise but it was definitely good.

Verified purchase:Yes

Powerhouse

Owning a Lg G Flex for the past year, I couldn't wait to go back to my Samsung. I couldn't decide whether to get the Note 4 or Note 5. I finally settled on the Note 5 and let me tell you, I couldn't be more pleased with my purchase. This phone is a powerhouse with it's octa-core cpu. Being a Note you would expect it to be very large in your hand. But it's form factor is slimmer than it's predecessors so it feels much like other phones in your hand. The gold titanium looks very "upper-class" on this phone and the all glass and medal construction gives the phone a very pleasing weight and feel in your hand. The screen is beautiful and the graphics are fantastic. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because of the storage and the software. This phone comes in 2 storage options, 32 and 64gb. I don't play allot of games or have massive amounts of music or photos so I figured the 32gb variant would be fine. And for the most part it is, but I wasn't expecting the system to be using up so much space and with all my apps installed, I only have about 20gb's usable storage. As for the software, Android 6 is good but it does have one,known, flaw: battery drain issues. Idle drain is horrible. Before I searched out battery saving options, my battery would drain 50% over the course of the day just sitting there doing nothing. By morning, if I didn't plug it in, It would be down to about 4%. The fast charging works great, just wish i didn't need to utilize it so much. This battery issue is something Samsung is aware of and was supposed to be working on. But they are getting ready to release Android 7 for this phone so i think they are skipping fixing 6.

Verified purchase:Yes

Love the stylus - rest is, well an android phone

All these android phones are still a bit balky to me. They still have times when I have to say OK Google 4 times before it actually responds, and similarly I can hit the on-screen buttons over and over and .... then it decides to respond. But this phone is better than my Moto-G which was about the same as my Nexus-S. The other problem is that the display is so close to the sides of the phone, and the phone is so thin that I get false presses just from my left hand wrapping around the phone while I try to work it with my right. This S-pen stylus helps immensely both with just working with the phone more easily, as well as I did spend some time drawing things back-and-forth in a restaurant recently, so it replaced the "back of an envelope/napkin" quite nicely.

Verified purchase:Yes

Phone doesn't hole a charge...Sometimes the speaker doesn't work.

The exterior of the phone is in very good condition and I like the phone very much. But sometimes the speaker doesn't work and the battery doesn't hole a charge. I have to charge the phone every night, and charge the phone again before leaving work every day. I'm not using the phone doing the day while at work, just answer texts sometimes, maybe talk on the phone about once or twice doing the day.

Verified purchase:Yes