Two years ago, Samsung has adopted a new strategy for the development of smart phones. This resulted in the flagship Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, as well as the A-Series models (A3, A5 and A7) average price segment. After confirming the correctness of the chosen direction, as evidenced sales growth, Samsung took up the line of relatively affordable smartphone, presenting Galaxy J5 and J7 the Galaxy in 2016. Thus, the news got new body materials, more powerful platform, an improved camera and more capacious battery. Let’s see how all this works in practice
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The design and construction!
Traditionally, Samsung, Galaxy J5 design and Galaxy J7 similar to the older model of the company, there are easily recognized shape and style A-series in 2016. This, in contrast to last year’s version, the new smart phones look much nicer, their design has become more severe and longer seems “toy».
This also applies to the use of the senses. Materials in the J5 and J7 the Galaxy are not only plastic. In addition to the front panel, covered with glass, frames the smartphone are made of metal.
The housing design Galaxy J5 and J7 the Galaxy originates more from the Galaxy Alpha. Their covers the back of the thin plastic cover, which is very tight to the body. Due to the fact that the flexible plastic is applied to the rigid base, the design seems not folding. Although in reality by detaching the housing lid, you can access to the battery, two slots for micro SIM and one for microSD.
By the way, can not praise the developers for a separate memory card slot, which is often combined from SIM, forcing the user to make a choice or in favor of an extension, or a memory.
Control keys in the Galaxy J5 and J7 are the same as in other Samsung models. On the right side is a power button on the left – the volume adjustment. Below the display, you can find a mechanical button “Home”, as well as touch-sensitive keys. The latter, unfortunately, do not have a backlight.
in general, Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 look good at the same time from the older models, they received not only the design, but also the metal casing and good build quality.
display
The Galaxy J5 mounted 5.2-inch touchscreen Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280×720 pixels (282 ppi). The Galaxy J7 uses the same matrix, but with a diagonal of 5.5 inches (267 ppi)
Despite the HD resolution on-screen information is read properly, the fonts do not appear grainy, unless you bring smartphones very close to his eyes, then becomes visible PenTile. The quality of the displays for the traditional Super AMOLED, they have excellent viewing angles and good color reproduction, which in this case can be adjusted. The “Adaptive Display” mode, image rich and colorful, but more cold (7500K) and with a pronounced bias in blue color.
Galaxy J5 (2016)
Galaxy J7 (2016)
However, if you switch to the “Photos AMOLED» mode, the picture on both displays will be closer to natural.
The minimum brightness of the screen Galaxy J5 and J7 is 4 cd / m2 and a maximum – 353 cd / m2
But in the notifications panel next to the brightness control is a button activate the “outside”, which increases the brightness of the J5 display to 400 cd / m2, and J7 to 434 cd / m2. This allows the screen to be readable even in bright sunlight.
Hardware and software platform
The platform plan, Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) repeats the Galaxy A5 last year, there is a 4-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor with a frequency of 1.2 GHz, 2 GB RAM and 16 GB of internal memory, which can be increased due to the microSD card. The performance of this platform is more than enough to work with applications and arcade games. But if you plan to play games on Android ported to the PC, such as Star Wars KOTOR or Banner Saga, Galaxy J5 not pull them. In the same World of Tanks on your smartphone, you can only play on minimum settings. In synthetic tests J5 shows the following results:
Galaxy J7 (2016) runs on Samsung’s own platform – an 8-core chip Exynos 7 Octa (7870) with a frequency of 1.6 GHz, and graphics Mali- T830 MP. Complementing its 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory, which can also be extended microSD cards. Performance Galaxy J7 higher than that of the J5, it is even higher than three years ago flagship smartphones. This allows you to easily work with applications, and even play demanding games are not on the highest setting.
Both smartphones running operating system Android 6.0.1 with shell TouchWiz.
This standard interface for Samsung smartphones, similar to what is used in all the latest smartphones.
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| Type | Smartphone | Smartphone |
| SIM-card type | Micro-SIM | Micro- SIM |
| Standard | GSM 900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/2100 | GSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100, FDD LTE in 2100 (the B1) / 1800 (the B3) / 850 (B5) / 2600 (B7) / 900 (B8) / 800 (B20) |
| High speed data transfer | EDGE / GPRS, HSPA + | EDGE / GPRS, HSPA +, LTE |
| The number of SIM-cards | 2 | 2 |
| Operating system | Android 5.1 (Lollipop) | Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) |
| RAM, GB | 2 | 2 |
| Built-in memory, GB | 16 | 16 |
| The expansion slot | microSD / SDHC (up to 128GB) | microSD (up to 128GB) |
| Dimensions mm | 145,8h72,3h8,1 | 151,7x76x7,8 |
| Weight, g | 159 | 169 |
| from dust and moisture protection | – | – |
| battery | 3100 mAh (removable) | 3300 mAh (removable) |
| Hours (manufacturer’s data) | talk time: up to 21 h (3G), audio playback: up to 71 hours | talk time: up to 23 h (3G), video playback: up to 21 hours of audio playback: 96 hours |
| diagonal inches | 5,2 | 5,5 |
| Resolution | 720h1280 | 720h1280 |
| matrix type | Super AMOLED | Super AMOLED |
| PPI | 282 | 267 |
| sensor adjust brightness | + | – |
| Touch screen (type) | + (capacitive) | + (capacitive) |
| processor | Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 MSM8916 + GPU Adreno 306 | Samsung Exynos 7 Octa (7870) + GPU Mali-T830 MP |
| kernel type | Cortex-A53 | Cortex-A53 |
| Number of cores | 4 | 8 |
| frequency, GHz | 1,2 | 1,6 |
| The main camera, MP | 13 | 13 |
| Movie | 1080, 30 f / s | 1080, 30 f / s |
| flash | LED | LED |
| The front camera, MP | 5 | 5 |
| Other | LED flash front camera | – |
| Wi-Fi | b / g / n, Wi-Fi Direct | 802.11 b / g / n, Wi-Fi Direct, ANT + |
| Bluetooth | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| GPS | + (A-GPS, GLONASS) | + (GLONASS, Beidou) |
| IrDA | – | – |
| NFC | + | + |
| interface connector | USB 2.0 (micro-USB) | USB 2.0 (micro-USB) |
| In Audio | 3 5mm | 3,5 mm |
| MP3 player | + | + |
| FM-radio | + | + |
| body type | monoblock (collapsible) | monoblock (collapsible) |
| body Material | metal, plastic | metal, plastic |
| keyboard Type | input screen | input screen |
| More | proximity sensors and light, accelerometer, gyroscope | proximity sensor, accelerometer sensor Hall |
Camera
The most interesting thing in the Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 (2016) – a 13-megapixel camera with autofocus and aperture f / 1.9. The Samsung has not previously installed PV modules in these entry-level smartphones.
In practice it is, of course, it was not so clear. Despite the seemingly identical camera, Galaxy J7 shoots better, the J5 bit lacking detail with sufficient amount of light, but for this price is still quite good pictures. Aperture allows both models to pull more detail with the deterioration of lighting, but there is much more detailed images J7. Apparently, the effect of a more powerful processor. In addition, Galaxy J5, for some reason, there is no HDR mode.
It is important to note that the Galaxy J5 and J7 got the quick launch camera by double-clicking “Home” button, which first appeared in the flagship smartphone Galaxy S6 and S6 edge. This software and the camera starts up faster software itself, than expected from the models in this price range.
Sample pictures with Galaxy J5 (2016)
In good light :
When lighting is poor:
With flash:
Macro:
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Sample pictures with Galaxy J7 (2016)
In good light:
In good light HDR :
When lighting is poor:
With flash:
Macro:
Other images:
Hours
The Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) set the battery with 3100 mAh, which will enough for 1.5 days of work a smartphone with an average load. In the PCMark benchmark autonomy it lasted 8 hours 8 minutes.
Galaxy J7 Battery (2016) has a capacity of 3300 mAh, which is enough for 1.5-2 days of work. In the PCMark benchmark autonomy smartphone worked for 12 hours and 34 minutes.
Competitors
In the comments to our surveys readers often recall Chinese smartphones Xiaomi and Meizu, so we decided to compare them with the news from Samsung on the main characteristics.
Samsung Galaxy J5 vs Xiaomi redmi 3
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