Got this phone after my s3 broke and repair price was high. My requirments were for 2gb ram, 4G support, 5inch( exact) screen and avoid mediatek.
PROS:
Charging: takes 1hr for almost full charge with bundled charger. This is very good plus point. It lasts for 8/10 hours on high usage. Battery drain is same as any other phone I have used including samsung/huewai/lg/nokia/sony. Quick charging is something I really like. Drain differs on wifi/3g.
Supports 4g. In bangalore I am getting 2 bars when on 4g. Guess network has to expand. On 3g I get full network strength.
2Gb ram does its job. Phone is pretty reponsive.
In comparison to my s3, this has lower cpu speeds but this had 64bit cpu, and with 2gb ram’ phone is good to handle.
UI is good. Im not big fan of samsung ui but I still prefer it over lg/xiomi/huewai interface. Provides me with good number of shortcuts. Stuff u don’t want can be disabled and hidden from your view. A5 will get andriod 5 update or u can do that manually. I prefer to wait.
Phone design is quite good. Has premium look. It’s light weight. I went with spigen ultra clear case for a5 as I did not want to hide the body under flip covers.
CONS:
Screen resolution is not that good. I knew that before buying but at 20k 350 ppi is expected. S3 4years back had same screen resolution. Phone price should be around 16-17k just for this reason.
Included in-ear headphone sucks. 3rd grade quality. I overcame crapy sound quality by installing sound equilizer app and then listened on my sennheiser-hd202 headphones. Sound later was much much better. Speaker is not that great for music.
While listening to calls( on both caller and reciver end), there is that hisss added to sound. Its clear alright but this additional ssssss is irritating. After two days I forgot about it as sound by itself is clear.
front camera gives all glossy pictures. Did not like.
Back camera is good but as soon as light reduces the camera struggles. I still prefer s3 camera. U have to be steady with shutter else very easy to get blur photos.
All things I m not talking about are pro since features are seamless. This is very responsive solid phone for a higher price. I would had gone for e7 but that does not support 4g. On high usage phone does not heat up like s3/s4 and s5. Heating issue prevented me from going for s4 and s5 .
allthough these all good features of phone still not upgradation of loli pop