Using the Samsung Galaxy S5 in 2025 - Review!

Often considered the greatest Galaxy of all time, the Samsung Galaxy S5 is an iconic smartphone - from the plastic build to the beautiful AMOLED screen & abundance of features, let's see how the Galaxy S5 holds up over 10 years later!

Timestamps:
0:00 - The Greatest Galaxy?
2:37 - The Next Big Thing
3:37 - AMOLED Perfection
5:27 - Plastic, it's Fantastic
6:59 - So many features
8:05 - TouchWiz, Hardware, Photography
10:07 - Ultimate 2014 Phablet

Music:

[Nickcaged]

Headphone jack, micro sdcard, swappable battery, IR blaster, first Samsung phone with water resistance! Such a gem of a phone.

[readybear]

My mom had an S4 for the longest time, I have so many memories playing games on it.

[Khloya]

I don’t remember ever seeing an S5 ad back in the day, actually MARKETING removable battery as a feature is insane.

[freeflyer]

I’m glad we retired the term “phablet” 😂 I would’ve never thought to call my my 6.7 inch iPhone 13 PM a phablet until this video reminded me of the term

[Tristin]

The S5 will always be my favorite phone. If they released it, but with updated internals, I'd be the first preorder!

[Luke-qscg]

S4 and note 4 are the unsung heros. My first smartphone was the s4 and i soon after got a note 4. Nearly a decade and a half later, they still work and are currently doing duty as my childrens phones. New backs, fresh batteries, and screen protectors always, they still are perfectly usable for a child on lineageos 15

[loganr]

Had this phone for many years, accidentally left YouTube open overnight one time and forever had the YouTube interface burnt into the screen

[gordophunkin]

Crazy how this is the 'older phones' and I remember this being the peak of smart phones. Now I get it when older folks come in talkin about how flip phones were everywhere. Cuz Samsung and iPhone were hella different once upon a time

[Duck_]

i had an S5 for the longest time, I have so many memories playing games on it.

[wade_county]

You could see it coming with the Galaxy Alpha and Note 4 that Samsung started to add aluminum rails to their phones while keeping the removable battery. I wish they stayed on that track instead of going full premium with glass sandwiches.

[emmajohnson]

This was my first new smartphone. One feature I really wish we still had was the ir blaster. The universal remote feature was amazing, also fun to mess around with

[davemk]

I remember switching from S3 to S5 and even though I saw minimal changes, I thought it was a solid phone. The screen quality was great and one of the best photos I have to this day were done with this S5. Compared to my S3, this phone worked pretty smoothly and I loved the LED notification light and the physical buttons. At that time I hated all the phones that had touch buttons on the screen. I remember my mom having the same phone as well until she upgraded, and because of that, I was able to switch batteries. I held on to this phone until I couldn't anymore and upgraded to S8.

[DaXande]

The S5 was my mothers phone from 2014-2019 and did quite well. Afterwards I kept it as a backup phone and did some testing with Android 9 Lineage OS on it.
When my current daily driver died in 2020, I used the S5 with Android 9 as my daily driver for about 3 months and it did that quite well, too...

Afterwards I still used it till about a month ago for watching YouTube and TV shows, because my new daily driver didn't come with an OLED screen but the S5s AMOLED still performed quite well with indoor lighting conditions...

Although it collected several burnt in icons in the years that my mother used it, not knowing about this issue of course.

[JDZ]

I still remember my Purple Galaxy s4 from 2015. Still the best phone i used even though it has overheating issues.

[TheOliveOli]

Interesting how Samsung expected all Samsung users to just have spare batteries just lying around 😂
That ultra energy saving mode is really good tho from what I‘ve seen (at least on the Galaxy S7)

[mmbeno]

This was my first phone i remember the camera being insanely good in 2015

[That-Internet-Dino]

I have this phone still and I occasionally still turn it on and use it 😁

[Jurtaani]

Sure this comes WAY too late, but my tip as ex Galaxy S5 user, is to register say your thumb or any other finger multiple times as separate fingers. just by altering the angle slightly.
that way the swipe unlock works way better in my opinion.

[Catalanskrr]

This was my First Samsung Smartphone. I Loved it so much. Until 2 years later when the s7 Edge came Out. This was probably my Favorite Samsung Phone ever.

[DankBlank]

My mom used the s5 from 2015-2020 lol.

She only switched to the Note 9 because T-mobile needed her and my dad (who got tmobiles cheapest Samsung 5g phone) to switch out of Sprint's network.