I bought this mobile in mid-may and still I m using this mobile as my primary phone. After the latest update it is running on lollipop 5.1.1 vid touchwiz ui. It is now available of rs17000 easily even u can get at rs16000 or less too. I m gonna discuss about it in detail with its different department.
Display(4stars)- is its biggest feature super amoled(type which are used in note and s- series) 5.5inch 720p display not seem to be less than 1080p IPS in any matter. It is very bright and vibrant. It has feature called outdoor by which screen is at most of its brightness.however it dont have automatic brightness. so u have to adjust on ur own.
Battery(4stars)- is something u really gonna boast about. it has 2950 mAh battery and it is just superb easily last a day on heavy usage including 2hrs of gaming 2-3 hrs of surfing watching vidoes about 1hour. However no quick charging. it takes 2hrs 15min to charge the device fully.
Build&Design(4stars)- of this device makes it premium to hold. Samsung has moved from its low quality plastic and chrome finish to more texture back.
Camera(4stars)- of this device is awesome comes vid 13mp rear and 5mpfront many options like animated pic, sound with pic, night mode, hdr, wide selfie etc. It is undoubtedly best camera after mi4.
Performance(3stars)- Here is the weakest pt. of samsung but now samsung has improved. It comes with snapdragon 410 vid 2 gigs of ram. I wud say it is running asphalt8 smoothly however earlier it was on high graphics but now after 8months I run it on medium graphics. But if we leave heavy games everything else is smooth, no UI lags. Touchwiz Ui has improved alot, almost all bloat-wares are removed but still a little more to improve.
Storage(4stars)- u get 16gb of internal memory and ext card slot.
Connectivity(2.8 stars)- here the cost is cut off u get second slot as hybrid( a sim card or micro sd card), it doesnt support 4g and no nfc. But rest all options are there.
Audio(3.5 stars)- it does a fair job in audio quality
After sale service(4.5 stars)- This is what samsung offers you. best in market.
in my opinion if u have to buy a mobile offline(not online) and it is in ur budget then go for it nothing is better not even galaxy j7. However if u want compact device go with galaxy e5 but it has 1.5gb of ram and 5inch of display rests are same.