While it looks like the On5 is a good value for the money, the slower performance, very limited storage, and poor
Galaxy On5 smartphone batterylife of the Galaxy On5 makes it not worth buying. Every cheap phone has some form of compromise. And for the $129 Galaxy On5 (which you can get unlocked or for as low as $29 at MetroPCS), there are so many compromises that it’s not worth spending so little on a phone running Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
Design: Retro Basic The Galaxy On5 looks and feels like a retro phone, complete with a physical home button below the display, a plastic back, and a microUSB port for charging.The bezels around the screen are also pretty thick, though that’s to be expected in this price range.It’s nice to see a user-replaceable Galaxy On5 battery on a phone in 2018. You just slide your fingertip under the cutout on the back left side and pop off the cover.The On5 only has 8GB of storage, 4.1GB of which is taken up by the system before you even take the phone out of the box.From there you can swap out the Galaxy On5 battery, as well as access the SIM card slot and microSD card slot, both of which sit above the battery compartment.Another plus: The On5 has a slightly gritty texture on the back, which keeps the phone from slipping out of your hands.
There’s a headphone jack next to the microUSB on the bottom edge of the phone.Storage: 8GB isn’t enoughI ran into trouble early in my Galaxy On5 experience. After downloading a few benchmarking apps to test the device, the On5 wouldn’t download Rules of Survival, one of the most popular games on the Google Play Store. Only after deleting the benchmarks was I was able to play the game on the device, but even then it wouldn’t fully download all the latest updates to allow me to start playing.More: The cheapest unlocked smartphonesThe reason? The On5 has only 8GB of storage, and the system took up 4.1GB before I even took it out of the box. I scaled back and instead downloaded the smaller, more casual Sausage Run (155 MB).The number one reason not to buy the Samsung On5, besides the lack of storage, is its slow performance.The good news is that the On5 supports microSD cards up to 128GB, and you can buy one for $41. Or you can get a 64GB card for $19.99. But for a little more money, you can get a better all-around phone, like the Moto G5 Plus ($184 for Prime members) or the Honor 7X ($199 for 32GB), which both have 64GB of built-in storage.Display: Colorful but not sharpThe On5’s 5-inch display has a lower resolution of 1,280 by 720 pixels, while other phones get full HD screens for just a little more money. While watching the Black Panther trailer, Angela Bassett’s white dress with yellow trim looked smudgy on the screen, and Chadwick Boseman’s costume was hard to see and completely submerged in shadow.At least the panel is fairly colorful, with 106.9 percent color gamut coverage. Brightness wasn’t very high, though, at just 357 nits. The ZTE Blade Z Max, available for $119 through MetroPCS, has a brighter 510-nit screen and a 1,920-by-1,080 resolution.Performance: Severe lagThe No. 1 reason not to buy the Samsung On5, besides the lack of storage, is its slow performance.After restarting the phone, I tried to launch the camera, and the app took six seconds to fully load. Incredibly, I closed the app and launched it again.
This time it took 2.5 seconds, which is an improvement, but still terrible.The On5 has lags all over the place. I noticed noticeable lags when launching the keyboard to enter a URL, as well as when closing the app.Powered by a 1.3-GHz Exynos 3475 processor and 1.5GB of RAM, the On5 performed well on the Geekbench 4 benchmark, which measures overall performance. The Samsung phone scored 1,237, less than half as well as the ZTE Blade Z Max and its Snapdragon 435 processor and 2GB of RAM.CameraThe phone has a 5-megapixel camera on the back with an LED flash and a 2-megapixel camera on the front, so you shouldn’t expect much from the On5 in terms of imaging prowess.Galaxy On5 BatteryLifeBattery life isn’t great on the Galaxy On5. In the Tom’s Guide Battery Test, which involves continuous web surfing over LTE, the phone lasted just 7 hours and 51 minutes. That’s nearly 2 hours less than the smartphone average and well behind the ZTE Blade Z Max (11:23) and the Moto G5 Plus (11:43). Neither of those phones is expensive, so smartphone battery life isn’t an area where you need to compromise for budget-conscious shoppers.ConclusionDon’t be tempted by the Galaxy On5’s low price. MetroPCS sells much better budget phones, like the ZTE Blade Z Max, which has a sharper, larger display, a nicer metal design, more powerful performance, and longer
Galaxy phone battery life than the Galaxy phones. Plus, it runs newer Android 7.1, while the On5 runs older Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, and comes with 32GB of storage.If you go the unlocked route, take a close look at the Moto G5 Plus, which offers many of the same benefits as the Blade Z Max and works on all major carriers. It doesn’t seem fair to compare the old Galaxy On5 to these newer phones, but Samsung still sells it. It should probably stop selling it now.
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