Editors Liked
- New premium design
- Amazing screen
- Skinnier and lighter than ever
- Cool new S-Pen features
- Captures amazing photos and videos with its camera
- Longer lasting battery, despite the lower battery cell
- One of the fastest charging phones around
- Updated fingerprint sensor
Editors Didn't Like
- No more removable battery, microSD card slot, & IR blaster
- Phone feels slippery
- Glass back picks up fingerprints
- No commenting interaction with the YouTube Livestream broadcasting service
- Sharp sounding internal speaker
The Galaxy Note 5 is Samsung’s latest iteration of their stylus-equipped smartphone, sitting alongside the Galaxy S6 Edge+ in the large-screened market. The Note 5 features an all new body that continues the design language Samsung established in the Galaxy S6, with several other features – including the 16-megapixel camera and Exynos 7420 SoC – also transitioning from the S6 to the Note 5.