If you don’t mind the premium price, the Galaxy cảnh báo 5 is the best work phone there is. With a roomy 5.7-inch display, long battery life, blazing-fast multitasking, và Samsung’s trademark S Pen stylus, the note 5 is a điện thoại cảm ứng thông minh that really can make you more productive. So is there any reason for workers to consider a different phablet?
Design
The lưu ý 5 is a stunning smartphone, but it’s worth noting that Samsung had lớn remove some of the functionality of last year’s model to make this mã sản phẩm so sleek. While earlier iterations let you remove the back và swap out the battery, the new chú ý 5 has a sealed back. Most users won’t miss the phone’s removable battery, though, considering that it already offers excellent battery life.
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And while good looks won’t necessarily help workers do their job, they should still appreciate the cảnh báo 5’s striking design. The phone’s metal frame makes it very sturdy, & although the new glass back looks fragile, Samsung says it’s made from tough, scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass. Still, some accident-prone workers might want to check out a more durable model, like the Galaxy S6 Active.
The lưu ý 5 has a noticeably smaller footprint compared to lớn the cảnh báo 4, thanks lớn a thinner bezel around the display. & at 6 ounces, it’s also lighter than its 6.2-ounce predecessor. It still feels pretty hefty compared khổng lồ smaller smartphones, though; the 5.1-inch Galaxy S6, for instance, weighs 4.9 ounces.
The lưu ý 5 comes in three colors: sapphire black, white, và gold. The black mã sản phẩm actually has a dark-bluish tint when it catches the light, while the gold mã sản phẩm has a more subdued màu sắc than what you get with the gold iPhone 6s Plus.
If I have one major complaint about the note 5’s design, it’s the placement of the speaker on the phone’s bottom edge. That’s right where I tend lớn rest my pinky finger while I’m cradling the device, making it easy lớn accidentally block the speaker. That can be pretty annoying if you want khổng lồ carry your device around while talking on speakerphone, or simply listening khổng lồ audio.
Display
Smartphone screens vày get a little bit bigger than this, but not much. The Galaxy cảnh báo 5 sports a huge 5.7-inch display that gives you tons of room to work. Everyday work tasks, lượt thích managing your email inbox, are more comfortable on such a big display, và screen-intensive tasks, like viewing large documents & spreadsheets, feel even better.
The trade-off, of course, is that the 5.7-inch display can feel a bit unwieldy. When I cradled the chú ý 5 in one hand, it was a real stretch to lớn try lớn reach the đứng đầu of the display with my thumb. That could be a problem for users with small hands, but the utility of the big screen outweighs those relatively small usability concerns.
In comparison, the iPhone 6s Plus has a smaller 5.5-inch display, but it also has a larger bezel around the screen, making one-handed use similarly difficult. Likewise, the Google Nexus 6P is larger than the lưu ý 5, và it has a 5.7-inch display.
Samsung did include a handy feature that makes one-handed navigation on the cảnh báo 5 easier. Triple-pressing the trang chủ button causes the active portion of the display to shrink down, letting you easily reach the vị trí cao nhất of the screen with your thumb. From there, you can easily revert the screen lớn its normal dimensions with one tap.
Size aside, the lưu ý 5’s screen is absolutely gorgeous. The super-high-res panel has a resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels, so the text looks extremely crisp. You also get richer, more vibrant colors than you’ll find on competing phones.
Stylus support
The lưu ý 5’s signature feature is the S Pen stylus, which turns your phone into a digital notepad. Though it’s possible khổng lồ buy a simple capacitive stylus that will work with any smartphone, the lưu ý line is still the only one that includes a digitizer stylus with pressure sensitivity. Phones lượt thích the iPhone 6s Plus & the Google Nexus 6P lack active-stylus support altogether.
Pressure sensitivity is extremely important for making writing on a digital screen feel natural, letting you vary the weight of your line & feather your strokes, just as you would with a normal pen. Samsung says the latest iteration of the S Pen can detect about twice as many levels of pressure, và I believe it; jotting down notes on the cảnh báo 5’s display felt buttery smooth.
The stylus is now spring-loaded inside its slot on the phone’s bottom edge, so it pops out easily after you press on it. As usual, pulling out the stylus launches the Air Command menu, which provides handy shortcuts lớn a variety of useful note-taking apps. You can also summon the Air Command options by pressing the button on the side of the pen.
You don’t even have to lớn power your lưu ý 5’s screen on to start writing; you can jot down a quick chú ý on your phone’s blank, black screen (the text shows up in white) & then seamlessly send it to your notes app with one tap.
The stylus can come in handy even if you’re not interested in writing out anything by hand. For example, I liked using it during light document editing, since it gave me more precision for selecting text than I would have had with my finger.
Multitasking
What good is a big display if you don’t have the tools to really take advantage of it? The chú ý 5 comes with multiwindow support, so you can view two apps at once in a split-screen view — a feature that’s glaringly absent from many other phablets.
Launching side-by-side apps is easy; just tap và hold the multitasking button (located khổng lồ the left of the trang chủ button); then select two apps from the menu. From there, you can resize the apps and turn your phone lớn view them stacked in portrait mode, or side-by-side in landscape mode. Split-screen multitasking isn’t as useful on a điện thoại as it would be on a large tablet, but I still think it’s really useful for specific tasks, like referencing a website page or using the calculator while drafting an email.
By contrast, the Nexus 6P and iPhone 6s Plus vì chưng not have multiwindow support.
The note 5 also lets you multitask on your desktop computer while keeping up with alerts & messages on your phone, by installing Samsung’s SideSync app on both devices. The phầm mềm pulls phone calls, alerts và messages from your phone, & lets you take them right on your desktop. It works very well when both devices are connected to the same network, or linked via USB, and it’s available for both PCs & Mac computers.
Performance
The chú ý 5 is blazing fast, outperforming just about all challengers. Apps xuất hiện and close in the blink of an eye, & multitasking felt really snappy as I flipped between my website browser, spreadsheet editor and various social truyền thông media apps. The device gets its tốc độ from Samsung’s octa-core Exynos processor & 4GB of RAM.
That hardware helped the chú ý 5 crank out a killer score of 5,053 on the Geekbench 3 test, which measures overall performance. That beats the iPhone 6s Plus (4,385), the Nexus 6P (4,289) và the LG G4 (3,493).
Battery life
With battery life this long, who needs a replaceable battery? The lưu ý 5 ran for 9 hours & 35 minutes on our battery test, which simulates continuous web browsing over Wi-Fi. That’s nearly an hour longer than the chú ý 4 (8:42). The iPhone 6s Plus ran even longer, though, enduring for nearly 10 hours. Still, workers can rest assured that the chú ý 5 will easily last through the over of the workday.
And if you vị need to recharge your battery before leaving the office, the cảnh báo 5’s fast charging capabilities will come in handy. The phone can get up to 30 percent extra juice in just 15 minutes, which is nice if you need to đứng đầu it off during a short layover at the airport.
Software
The chú ý 5 runs on TouchWiz, a tweaked version of the android operating system developed by Samsung. While TouchWiz used lớn be bloated and packed with useless extras, Samsung has streamlined the software khổng lồ make it more user-friendly while retaining its best features. For example, I really lượt thích the customizable quick-settings menu that sits at the vị trí cao nhất of the notifications drawer, as well as the S Finder utility that lets you tìm kiếm through your phone’s setting using keywords. Other standout features, like multiwindow multitasking & stylus integration, have already been touched on in this review.
Samsung had a light touch when selecting preloaded productivity apps for the cảnh báo 5. You get a handful of note-taking applications, and both Google Drive & OneDrive to keep your files và documents backed up to lớn the cloud, but not much else.
Security
The lưu ý 5 is one of the most secure smartphones on the market. The device comes with a fingerprint scanner embedded in the trang chủ button, which is quite reliable but not perfect; the sensor often failed to register my thumbprint on the first attempt, though that was usually due lớn the way I was holding my thumb. After re-registering my print, I saw some improvement. You can register up to four fingers in the note 5’s Options menu.
The other big security feature comes in the form of Samsung’s My Knox software, which can be activated when you phối up your chú ý 5 the first time. The Knox suite is more often implemented in an enterprise environment, but individual workers can use My Knox to lớn keep their work files & data securely separated from their personal apps.
Configurations
Samsung sells the note 5 in a couple of different configurations, depending on how much internal storage you want. The baseline model comes with 32GB of storage for $696, while the pricier 64GB model starts at $792. Of course, most major carriers will also let you pay off the phone in monthly installments or will sell it khổng lồ you at a lower, subsidized price, with a more expensive monthly data plan attached.
You’ll want to choose your mã sản phẩm carefully, as the chú ý 5 lacks an SD card slot. In other words, the storage space you start out with is all you’re going to lớn get.
Bottom line
Business phones don’t really get much better than this. The note 5 has it all, including zippy multitasking, long battery life, & a huge display that gives you tons of room lớn work. And the stylus implementation is top-notch, making it easier than ever khổng lồ jot down a few quick notes và then get back to work.
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That’s not khổng lồ say there aren’t some other excellent options for workers who want a big-screen smartphone. Apple’s iPhone 6s Plus is a great phablet with fast performance and even longer battery life than the lưu ý 5, and Google’s Nexus 6P is better if you want lớn be sure you always have the latest updates to the game android operating system. But workers who want the best overall business companion on the market should opt for the note 5.