Best Deal On Note 5 (2025 Updated)

I purchased the Samsung galaxy note 5 and even though it is a few years old now it is a very good phone to have it is running Android 7 can’t upgrade to a newer version but it works perfectly just 2 things to mention I had to get Amazon marketplace as a APK because the play store version was not compatible so the APK file was for an older version and it works perfectly.

The other thing is that it doesn’t cope well if you try doing to many things at the same time. I have not tried playing games on it and I am sure it will struggle with that. I use a colour by numbers app and that works perfectly.

In short if you are looking for a smartphone with large screen clear display and are not bothered to much about gaming then the Samsung galaxy note 5 is a great choice even in 2023. I am more than happy with mine.

Do I recommend it. Absolutely.

I have to say hands down my all time favorite phone. I have had the honor to of owned. I wish everyday, I still had this phone. I shop for it everyday. Hoping to come across a deal, a sale, a discount.

So far luck is not on my side. But it well not slow me, or stop me from continuing my hunt for the phone that made my life so much more easier, happy, and fun. It has everything I ever could want in a phone and then a lot extra I never thought to imagine.

And no joke been on the hunt now for 3 years, and tons of hours my search has not been easy. I have yet to find one I can afford. It turns out to be one of those phones that the price is still in the hundreds.

And with my health and situation I have not had the ability to be able to come across another one. Even with that being said. Giving up is not something I do. I don’t fail. I well keep the hint alive until the perfect phone in my eyes is once again with me.

So thank you Samsung for making a phone that in my Opinion. Perfect in every way but one. Mine hit the ground with a case that even cover the front, and opened it up and to my dismay my screen was done.

I had it fixed but it was not the same. And it once again it the ground because of a careless person. And my screen was gone again. And it was to much and it didnt have a good chance of working great again.

But never the less. I well still keep look out to have this one of a kind phone of my dreams so one day I can owen it once again.

i love the included pen that has its own place where i can always find it! i loved everything about this samsung galaxy note smartphone! i could do whatever i needed to do as well as had options in which i could do them! it was very easy to navigate and learn.

it came with all the information i needed. i absolutely love the camera and i love the speed that it performed at, very fast! i have since upgraded and it seems to get better and better!.

This was purchased to replace a Galaxy Note 5 that was unfortunately damaged beyond repair. I do NOT expect this phone to be as durable as the 5, due to the curved “screen edge” design, that replaced a very solid metal chassis rim with fragile glass, but it has expandable memory, which the Note 5 lacks.

I am only 2 days into learning my way through the new interface, and I still find it very irritating, but I assume I will get used to it. I am not ready to droip this in the toilet, to see if the standard of waterproofing is up to the Note 5’s which survived that test.

I may buy a second one just to have a spare on hand, if this one shatters the first time it hits the floor. The camera is not up to modern phone standards, but the battery was adeuate to video a 2 1/2 hour concert this evening.

I bought it for features the new phones have eliminated: expandable memory, headphone jack, heart rate sensor and pulse oxymeter. I bought this instead of another Note 5 cuz I wanted expandable memory and USB-C.

I got this when I turned 30 and that was 5 years ago. Most efficient and reliable phone I ever owned. I never needed to lug around a laptop whenever I have to do light office work remotely. I can read documents, edit documents, read/review/reply to emails as if working on a computer.

With the help of compatible apps, even print docs and pictures like I would in my office set-up. The big display screen, multi window capability and the S-Pen are the best! Made working remotely very easy.

If my budget just permitted back then, I would’ve gotten the one with the higher memory. I took a lot of photos and videos of my first born with this phone and saved a lot of documents for work. In terms of battery, as expected it worn out a little over time but still not a wall hugger even after 5 years.

This phone and other new Samsung phones are a terrible value for the average user in my opinion. The only upgrade from the Note 5 for me that was substantially better was the slightly increased accuracy of the pen, but thats for drawing and unless you’re an artist, i don’t think its worth it.

(pen pressure is similar) In my opinion the PIE update, which you cannot revert from is very ugly and requires a lot of work to change significantly, having to opt in to Samsung’s tracking and ad systems to access their store just to change icons and wallpaper, or use an app from google play which may have a similar problem.

I also think the phone is a bit ugly and the way it wrap around on the edges changes the look of video and images, ruining the “im looking through the screen” feeling for me a bit. You can get perfectly good used phones on Craigslist for $50 to $150 dollars that do everything the average user would need.

I saw an LG G4 (my G3 was great) for $20 and in great shape. With deals like that around, i can’t recommend this. Worse than that though, is that both Google and Samsung barrage the user to kind of an incredible degree with notifications and pop up messages pester you about this or that feature, trying to get you to use other services, not because they are useful necessarily, but to sell you stuff, sell you’re data/location/advertising-ID/ and lock you into their systems.

It so bad that i would definitely not give a device like this to my parents or other less tech savvy basic users for fear they would throw the phone out of the window. Its just a mess of features with hidden little “gotcha” that they aren’t always up front about.

Its almost stereotypical used car salesman level of deception here that i don’t think many would be happy to have their loved ones deal with. For advanced users, I think the worst thing is the lack of customization.

The shear number of little nagging “why can’t i do this like i used to” issues and deficiencies make the phone a headache to use sometimes. Its like they decided to attempt to make the phone for the 51% of users to save money on development, throwing out useful features for the 49%.

Furthermore, the logic behind where settings are makes little sense much of the time. Try to find the setting for making the brightness slider appear on notifications “swipe down” menu (first swipe).

Good luck. Try to find the toggle for data on/off. Oops, they removed it entirely to make it harder to turn off, its buried deep in the main options still. Its almost as if we customers were actually enemies they were forced to sell to instead of their fellow human beings.

Its not behavior i want in my society or my phone, or other people’s phones. So 1 star. What bothers me the most is that these are very likely wealthy people at the very top making these decisions in the name of gaining more money.

These hair pulling issues could easily be solved with a little more cash spent on dev and support, requiring the heads of the company to be satisfied with a little less spending cash. But again, by far the biggest issue and why i recommend older phones is that unless you are a heavy phone user, use intense apps like games or need the latest and greatest just for fun, older phones are fantastic value and deserve appreciated IMO.

They look better too IMO and don’t try to control your behavior as much.

I’m a longtime Samsung Note buyer/user, because I use the note features a lot, almost every day, I enjoy a large screen, vivid HD clarity, powerful processor for multitasking, and so forth. And I’m still using this model after roughly 2 years.

I bought it used, for a bargain, with a small defect in the top of the screen – separation of screen from digitizer, which was noted by some users as a common defect in the Note 5s for some reason or another.

It didnt/doesn’t bother me really. I’m satiafied with this iteration of the Note, and might only comment on the less than a full day of battery life is disappointing. I do have to charge it up once about mid day or evening.

That’s a low-moderate annoyance I’ve learned to live with, and try to just charge it a little here and there between uses. As it’s aged, the battery has seemed to drain quicker than it used to, and that’s to be expexted.

The sound could be improved too. It just has this tiny speaker at the bottom and doesn’t sound great, but good enough for Youtube videos. Using it with stereo 3. 5mm or Bluetooth headphones works well, especially with Dolby Atmos feature turned on for simulated surround sound.

You basically have no other option but a Samsung Note if you want to draw/scribble or take notes on your phone, there’s still no real competition. The fine lines and sensitivities you get with this device/pen is very good.

Other phones claiming a note taking ability or included pen are not nearly as good. The pens aren’t integrated into the device, like they are in the Note 5 (and all Notes), and the stylus is round and nubby in competitor models, incapable of fine lines and details.

Others have stated the volume and power buttons are opposite each other on the device, so that the user may inadvertently put the phone in sleep or volume up/down. Ive had that problem occasionally, but it’s not been a great annoyance.

The phone is a little too wide for my hand though, so I use both hands often especially for swipes to the far edge or another. Its not very heavy, I dont think, but the newer Note phones feel noticeably lighter and more sleek.

Some of that has to do with the screen protector glass I use, which doesn’t go completely to the edge of the screen. It’s the price you pay for screen protection. I don’t know of any screen protector that’s perfect – and I’ve tried to find the best.

I use Spigen brand glass and case, after much trial and error with others including Otterbox, and am happiest with Spigen products. I wish I could get a Samsung phone without all the bloatware, but at least they have made it easier to disable and hide apps you don’t want.

It’s a quality phone, a flagship Samsung phone, and I’ve been a satisfied customer. The price is very good right now, in Dec 2018, for this model and it still operates very well. I do recommend it. The final system update was back in late April I think.

No more updates for this phone, as I understand it. If you need customer support/troubleshooting your best bet is to take it to a Samsung support kiosk at a Best Buy store as they’ve proved adequately trained, patient, friendly and helpful.

Ok I didn’t get this one I got a lilac s9. I like the open box compared to refurbished because I would like to be the one that puts the first scratches on 🙂 and the parts they didn’t replace in refurbished cells can wear out.

That’s my way of thinking is it should last longer 🙂 You can only judge a company by how well they look after you when something does go wrong. I couldn’t get any reception the bars were at 1 and 2 when my other phone was high.

Gadget Source got back to me right away and I mailed it back at their expense. Mailed it on a Friday and got it Tuesday the week after next. 11 days total to get a new one back. This one works great.

I was so impressed that I decided to buy one for my hubby. It was time for a upgrade too :).

Great phone it looks brand new! i couldn’t believe on how nice it was. I was expecting a phone with some scratches but there was none. For a refurbished phone this is amazing and a great price. At first i thought it wasn’t charging but i had to leave in plugged in a while.

i even contacted them and the company responded right away. Everything works great. i got the T Mobile unlocked to use the Sim that i I already have. No problems at all calling or texting. i know t mobile sometimes the phones won’t work good unless its from t mobile unlocked.

The samsung note 10 i bought was for a gift so I’m glad its a good phone with no problems. I will probably be buying more phones in the future from Re-CeLL.

The Note 10 is the best phone Ive ever had. Finally after like 4 years the pen is starting to act up. Im getting one of the rebuilt ones just to have another one. Instead of recreating 30 year old technology with a new flip phone, Samsung should make these new again.

4g only. Ill never own a 5g cancer maker until I HAVE ro own. one. I work in construction and have a 2 year old. This thing is dropped everyday and thrown buy a future pitcher when I get home. I have the a Samsung case on it with no screen protector.

Its never broke. Yeah, buying another one as a spare is a no brainer.

I use my stylus for basically everything on my phone. I’ve had my note 5 for 18 months and just now need to replace it because the end fell off. I’m unconcerned because things used regularly get worn and the main problem with it now is it can’t click out of my phone anymore.

I lost the spring when the end fell off. I love the comfortable weight and shape. The only problem I sometimes have is when I have clients sign a receipt and they continuously click the button with their finger.

Maybe the button could be in a different spot on the pen? Otherwise I love it.

I had my phone for less than a week and the S-pen snapped when I was trying to take it out of the phone. It is not very well made at all. I used a Note 4 for quite some time prior to getting this Note5 and never had a problem with the stylus.

I am using the Note5 now as a replacement for the Note7 that was recalled. I am so disappointed. After reading some of the other reviews, I see that I shouldn’t be surprised if I find myself here again.

Given that the pens are so flimsy, they should give spare pens to customers when they purchase the phone, or at least make them available for less that what it will cost me to purchase the replacement pen now.

I bought this stylus as a replacement for the factory included stylus that came with my Note 5. On the plus side, it looks almost identical to the real thing. The “Air Command” button also functions perfectly.

However, it is noticeably lighter. It feels cheap. My biggest complaint is with the tip, though. You have to tap the screen much harder for it to register, and you can’t replace it with a spare. If you need a new stylus, I recommend spending a little more to get an official Samsung one.

Great when it works but I am sure I got a lemon. Seven months after I received the phone the entire display died. Was in for a service for a week before it was fixed. About six weeks ago when I used the speaker during a call, the other person kept hearing a dreadful screeching noise.

Received a code from Samsung to get feedback from speaker and the noise was dreadful! Followed Samsung’s advice to wipe phone before going on for service and as a result fault could not be identified.

Put in “voice of concern ” to Samsung who said phone was working fine and to consult other Samsung owners for help. Phone put in for third service due to screeching noise. Tech not sure of cause but ordered lots of parts.

Get phone back and yup still making screeching noise. In for fourth service and finally seems OK. Very very disappointed that phone has had to be serviced four times in 15 months and Samsung could not give a flying whoopee!! Extremely bad customer service from Samsung and will think twice before buying another Samsung phone.

Surely after four services a new phone is warranted???.

Almost crashed my car while trying to use Google maps. While I was navigating, I got a phone call. I answered it immediately because my iphone would automatically switch back to my gps after I answered the call (y’know, to prevent the driver from swerving off the road).

TURNS OUT my samsung phone isn’t as smart as my iphone was, so when I answered the call, the map disappeared. “No big deal” i thought, “i’ll just tap the gps and it’ll keep the call in the background.

” NOPE. When you try to go back to the gps, you get a message that says “transferring to call mode” then before you know it your call is back on the screen and the gps is gone. No matter how many times you switch to the gps, it switches back to the call.

While I was trying to prevent missing my turn, I almost crashed. Oh yeah, and if the phone dies and you’re trying to restart it, you might accidentally install some sketchy software just by pressing a button for a second too long.

This phone is god-awful. It is an abomination. Never thought I’d say it, but i miss my iphone.

I’ve had this phone for over a year now. Couple of issues with it. 1. The back camera glass being weak is not okay2. the wifi connection issues that are literally never solved but for some reason is marked solved on every forum even though it requires people regularly having to fix their phone just so they can connect to the internet? like what? that’s not fixed or solved 3.

the fact that there was no official site to review the note 20 until I stayed on the phone for hours tryna tell them it was illegal to not one 4. the fact that all of samsungs customer service will transfer you like its a game of hot potato, except everyone is droppin the ball 😒 i understand having glitches cause tech isn’t perfect.

but the wifi issues that come often and unexpectedly are beyond irritating since most devices before this had no trouble at all with being connected to wifi.

Outstanding battery option – 7 days of use until recharge required. No glitches – so far, for daily operation.

Excellent to use, fast processer, good features

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I had a SAMSUNG-SM-G935A Galaxy 7 edge with a cracked screen. I finally decided to upgrade my phone to Samsung SM-G975U1 Galaxy 10+. It was planned to transfer all apps, data and contact information from the old phone to the new via our home network PRIOR to putting in the new micro sim purchased from Net10.

It was thought if it did not copy. the new phone could be “factory reset” and attempt a second “Switch” to the new phone. The first attempt went as planned. I then followed the guide online for the porting of my number to the new Galaxy 10+ phone.

The port switch to the 10+ phone was easily within 15 minutes. I called our house phone to see if calling worked. -It did. I then sent a text to my children. -That worked, too. Then I checked if a picture from the new phone would send to a group of people.

(my family) and. -it worked. Lastly I had to set up email settings for the new phone and port over user names and passwords from the old phone to my new phone. Finally, after everything was good. I uploaded my old phone data to the cloud and sd storage and factory reset the old phone to remove all my personal data.

Easy but it took some time and thought to complete with no known loss of data.

I bought the case about a year ago. Always has faithfully protected my phone from drops and bumps at home and at work. Took a massive blunt hit that could have destroyed my phone but ended up just needing the screen replaced.

These things are built like tanks. However, it did fail me. Cracked the screen when it hit the ground at an odd angle. Despite being a literal tank, the case isn’t perfect and can fail if the right amount of force hits it at the right angle.

For everyday use, it will not disappoint. If you work in a more haphazard environment, you should probably be careful and not let the seemingly invincible nature of this case make you careless. I would say it is hard to find a more protective case that can be used long after you are done with the device it is protecting, regardless of when you choose to upgrade.

My husband and I were visiting my mother in law and we stopped to pick up food to go. I placed my phone on the roof of the car and neglected to grab it once food and people were loaded into car. We left restaurant and my phone flew off the top of the car as we passed over a small bridge in Amelia Island, FL.

The phone hit the road, bounced off the cement wall protecting the walkway on bridge and remained on the side of the road until we realized I had left it on the roof. We returned to the bridge approximately 30minutes later to find my phone lying on the road, in total working order! Only a minor scratch on the left side.

I am a firm believer in OtterBox and have had one on my iPhone since the early 2000’s. Thank you for providing such an amazing product, I reccommend you to all my friends and colleagues. graciously, pj hicks.

I have had Otterbox Defender cases since the days of my iPhone 4 and now in the days of iPhone 12, I’m still hanging in there with my iPhone 7. I am now retired, from years of Over the Road trucking.

I have never damaged any of my phones due to moisture, weather or dropping etc, and we are talking some 6 to 7ft drops climbing in and out of tractors. My only criticism is in regards to the holster clip.

The one on my old iPhone 4 is still in good shape, but everyone of the clips for my plus phones over the years have had to be replaced multiple times. I began ordering replacement clips several at a time.

I would like to see Otterbox use a less brittle plastic for their clips. As I read the comments in the reviews, I realized that I had forgotten about the Otterbox guarantees. Not sure if the holster clips are covered but holsters are relatively cheap to replace where as phones are not, and Otterbox Defenders have kept my phones safe since 2010.

Now in retirement I know longer fear for my phones the hardships of trucking life. But reading reviews of the Commuter and Symmetry cases and some comments regarding the feel of them as a bit slippery, my current Defender’s rubber encasement has a secure feel and grips surfaces well.

I think the Defender will be my Otterbox of choice for a long time to come.

This is hands down one of the best phones I’ve ever owned! I love that Samsung added the screen record finally! I love the single take camera update as well as the link to windows with your phone companion.

I can save files on my phone and when I go to my laptop it’s so easy to pull up those files without having to bother with your phone. I haven’t been able to try out the music share just yet. The phone also charges up other wireless charging devices which could be improved because it’s a little slow at charging but the simple fact that it can do that at all is a blessing I can’t tell you how many times I forgot the charger to my watch and had to use my phone to charge it.

I wish they would add more features to messaging that’s one thing I do like about my iPhone but I cannot have an iPhone without an Android because I always feel like I’m missing something. Now if they would only bring back the multiplayer game section they use to have where you can play with other users (never understood why they took it off) but will do it for me! Also I’m thank for the AR emoji update and my phone charges quick and it last long so I don’t really have battery issues.

screen protector is not warrantied so i spent an hour this morning getting set up with your local repair center to replace my scratched factory installed screen protector before the warranty ran out.

so now the repair center called and said they don’t replace those, and basically i am out of luck because samsung does not replace those. why put a screen protector on that you don’t stand by? all my previous phones i used a high end phone case with built in screen protector to protect my phone.

i am so disappointed that i will just have to live with scratched screen instead of having the ability to replace it myself. samsung really fell short on a great phone by claiming you had a screen protector, but not standing behind it.

I have had this phone for about a week or two now, and I LOVE IT. For the most part. I give it four stars because the battery was going down fast for being brand new, so I had to fix my phone’s settings.

If you purchase this phone, I definitely recommend putting it on medium power saving mode and turning on the adaptive power saving mode. It seems to have fixed the power drain! One less important problem with this phone is the sound.

When I turn the volume onto the highest setting, it shakes the back of the phone pretty bad. It’s kind of funny feeling the vibrations of music in the palm of my hand. Besides the battery and the volume problem, it is overall a wonderful phone.

It is very large, and has a beautiful screen. It does not drop my calls and the calls are crystal clear! The S pen is also a nice feature. Making hand-written notes and having the ability to translate another language’s word on the spot gets a 10/10! Worth the price.

Design: Galaxy S22 very much looks and feels like a high-end device. The outside of the phone features Samsung’s Armor Aluminum alloy that’s been polished to a near-mirror finish, with the S22 also being one of the first phones equipped with Corning’s Gorilla Glass Victus+ to protect the phone from drops and scratches — both in front and in back.

To add a little spice to the mixture, the S22’s backside sports a lovely matte texture – which does a surprisingly good job of resisting fingerprints. And for 2022, Samsung also spruced up the S22’s color options with new shades of green, pink and white, along with good ole black.

Like previous Galaxy S phones, the S22 comes with an ultrasonic in-screen fingerprint reader, and after years of tweaking its algorithm and improving the tech, this time it feels seriously fast. In my experience, unlocking the phone was practically instant, and I never really ran into recognition issues unless my fingers were legit wet or greasy.

(Keep your grubby hands away from my phone if you’re eating pizza, k thnx. ) The one thing avid movie watchers should be aware of though is the color-matched frames on the pink and white models. If you’re the kind of person that might be bothered by a glint or sparkle around the edge of the phone while watching videos, you may want to go with one of the darker color options.

And while it’s not really a surprise at this point, the S22 doesn’t feature a microSD card slot or a headphone jack. With the Galaxy S line now being three generations removed from the last device to include both of those features, it’s pretty clear they’re not coming back.

Display: Samsung has had a lock on the crown when it comes to making the best mobile displays in the business for a while now. But on the S22, the company has outdone itself once again with displays that can hit a peak brightness of 1,300 nits on the S22, or an astounding 1,750 nits on the S22+.

Suffice to say any fears of the S22’s screen being hard to read even in direct sunlight are unfounded. Then, to make things look even better, Samsung created a new feature called Vision Booster designed to amp up things like contrast and color saturation in very bright or dim conditions.

While there’s no indicator or pop-up that lets you know it’s working, I found the effect most pronounced when I used the phone outdoors, with more subtle changes in the dark when compared to phones like the Pixel 6 Pro.

I found Vision Booster made dark scenes easier to parse, but even when viewed side-by-side, I basically had to press my face up against the phones to really see the differences. But regardless of where you are, the end result is a display that lives in technicolor, pumping out vivid shades and hues, along with the perfectly dark inky blacks that make OLED screens so enthralling.

Plus, thanks to a 2,340 x 1,080 resolution and a variable 120Hz refresh rate, everything from photos to gifs look sharp and crisp. Preformance: The Galaxy S22 line is one of the first phones to feature Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, which when combined with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage (or 256GB if you opt for the upgrade) results in a phone that feels blisteringly fast.

In my experience, there isn’t really anything you can throw at the S22 that makes it even sweat, aside from stuff like hardcore multitasking when connected to an external monitor via Samsung Dex (which is still very much a thing).

And while some reports claim that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Gen 8 Gen 1 has a proclivity for running hot, S22’s built-in vapor chamber cooling system seems effective at keeping throttling to a minimum. Compared to the S21 FE, which features an older Snapdragon 888 chip, our S22+ posted scores in Geekbench 5’s Compute test around 25 percent higher (4,708 vs 5,999).

And while the gap wasn’t quite as large in Geekbench 5’s CPU test, the S22+ still posted a significantly higher single-core score of 1,213 compared to 1,061 for the S21 FE. As for wireless connectivity, all versions of the S22 and S22+ support all the important flavors of 5G, including Verizon and AT&T’s new C-band spectrum.

Cameras: After recent advancements from competitors like the iPhone 13 and Pixel 6, Samsung is now playing catchup to Apple and Google in the camera department. And while Samsung is touting a bunch of new camera features for the S22 and S22+ like Adaptive Pixel and various “Nightography” improvements, the real upgrades are the S22’s new sensors — particularly the one for its 50MP main cam.

Thanks to that significantly higher resolution (up from 12MP on the S21), photos from the S22’s main wide-angle camera are just flat-out sharper than before. But more importantly, the S22’s primary camera offers wider dynamic range and big improvements for low-light photos.

In darker scenes, the S22 uses a four-to-one pixel binning technique that combines four adjacent pixels into one big pixel, which allows for improved light sensitivity. The result is brighter photos with richer colors, especially at night.

And even though Google’s Night Sight still has a slight advantage over Samsung’s Night Mode, the S22 has seriously narrowed the gap. Elsewhere, you also get a solid 12MP ultra-wide camera with a 120-degree field of view, and a 10MP telephoto camera with a 3x optical zoom, the latter of which is important because neither the standard iPhone 13 or Pixel 6 comes with a dedicated zoom lens.

So once again, the base S22 is the most well-rounded camera phone for the money. And in front, the 10MP selfie camera captured crisp pictures of my face including my many pores and blemishes, though you can always play around with Samsung’s beauty settings if you want to put on a smoother face for social media.

Battery life: Featuring 3,700 and 4,500 mAh batteries respectively, both the S22 and S22+ have respectable longevity. But if lasting a long time between charges is really important for you, the S22+ is definitely the better pick as it lasted 17 hours and 33 minutes on our local video rundown test, compared to just 14 hours and 47 minutes for the standard S22.

And thanks to its 45W wired charging (up from 25W charging on the S22), the S22+ juices up way faster too. In both cases though, you’ll need to make sure you have the proper power brick, as neither phone comes with a charging adapter in the box.

I purchased this with the intent to trade in my cracked N20 Ultra 5G. The phone seems solid, but there is not much of a noticeable performance difference from my N20U. The camera has improved, but the N20U no longer suffers from the autofocus issues it had upon release.

The 10X optical zoom is pretty good, but just like the 5X on my N20U, it does not appear to function like a regular camera with optical zoom—the photos taken at maximum optical zoom look nearly as grainy and pixelated as they are on the N20U.

They are similar to, but a little better than, taking a high resolution photo with the standard rear camera (not 108MP) and blowing it up on my computer. I have never had any luck with the 108MP over the standard maximum on either phone.

The screen is visibly better in appearance generally (both at highest resolution). It is also a lot brighter and can easily be viewed at the beach with the sun shining directly down on it. That being said, the N20U is bright enough to see it under those conditions.

Also, when the S22U turns on its super brightness function (I don’t recall the proper name of the feature), it washes out the screen a lot. All blacks become medium gray and the average color range is reduced significantly.

I suppose it’s better to see it this way than to not see it at all, but, as stated, I can see my N20U well enough for me. Sneaking a mere 8GB into the 128GB model was a little lame and clearly just for marketing purposes.

Memory isn’t that expensive, particularly for Samsung, this is a flagship either way. If anything, they should have stepped up the 512 and 1TB to 16, instead of reducing RAM 1. 5 generations later (N20U 128GB has 12GB).

Also, I do not think they make it clear on the website that the 128GB has less. Fortunately, I purchased the 256GB during the upgrade, so I didn’t have to contend with that. For all intents and purposes, this is just an upgraded N20U.

The professional reviews talk about latency of the pen, generally pep, camera details, night pics, etc. , etc. , but average consumers will ever notice this. The individuals reviewing in those really highlight the differences and improvements, but at a level of detail that the average consumer will never really notice.

For instances, everyone talks about the improvements with the latency of the S-Pen. I tried drawing side-by-side and couldn’t tell what was different. The night pictures are slightly better all around with the S22U, but both are sufficient, and both get the color wrong (i.

e. , if you’re going for really good pics under those conditions, post-processing is necessary). The lack of an SD card was the pivotal reason why I returned the S22U and had my N20U repaired at BB for nearly as much.

Well, and because of my final insight, below. The improvements are not noticeable enough for me to make me want to switch to a new phone and lose access to my SD Cards, which have been passed up from generation and generation and increased in capacity along the way.

Perhaps if someone intends to a lot of gaming on this phone, the processor and screen upgrades make sense, but for most people, they will not. I will upgrade if they ever add this back, otherwise, I will eventually seek out a new mfc (unless, someday, I can reasonably afford to fork over $1500 for the galaxy Fold future generation, and it includes a camera on par or better with all other flagship models.

I really lvoe the convenience of popping one SD Card out and another in, even though an SD Card is somewhat slower than internal memory. I have been a Samsung user since the 3rd generation S series (and have several other products) and am starting to notice diminishing returns year after year.

I can wait a couple generations happily with my N20U until these are improved upon (and hopefully, an SD card option comes back). I also want to see a phone with an optical zoom that works a bit better—I realize this isn’t my DSLR, but if it’s optical then it shouldn’t be limited by the sensor (I assume this is the issue, but do not know for sure.

If it’s a software issue then it needs to be corrected all around). No matter what I do to adjust it, which mode I use, or even using a different camera app, the i-phone always takes better pictures (and I do not use one regularly and am not a fan of that brand overall).

Also note, the N20U’s screen is 0. 1 inches larger than the S22U, which is no big deal, but still a downgrade in my opinion. A lot of the photo and editing features are 100% software issues and can be ported back to the N20U one way or another.

Conclusion: Not really worth the upgrade from N20U, but perhaps from other lesser models (i. e. , S20U and earlier, because of the screen and the pen for my particular uses). Oh, and “Red” = “Coral” or “Salmon”.

Definitely not red or any variation thereof (technically).