Samsung Galaxy S5 Active User Reviews Back

ChiefCass posted on Nov 27, 2015, 9:30 AM
Posts: 0; Member since: Nov 27, 2015

Best So Far

ChiefCass has owned it for more than one year before publishing this review

Best phone I've used so far... Does everything better than my last phone which was pretty good for nearly 3 years (Nexus 4). This phone fits my specific needs very well. I drive a truck and do delivery work. This phone is my Audiobook entertainment, Google Maps navigator, Link to my home office texting machine, Customer contact phone (Bluetooth : LG T-One) and I'm not afraid of dropping it or pulling it out in the rain. A touchscreen that works when wet is a big big boon as is a camera that shoots excellent documentation pictures in nearly any light condition.
My complaints are very minor:
-Power-on with home button. I carry phone in cargo pocket in my uniform pants and flexing my leg pushes the Home button sometimes. Without a pattern lock enabled I wind up "butt dialing" all sorts of stuff. I've yet to find a way to disable this without rooting. (This is the first phone I have NOT rooted: I don't own it, yet...)
-Bloatware: Samsung has a few useful enhancements - maybe 5% of the Gig they add to the OS. AT&T has NONE that I would ever use since EVERYTHING they offer is done better by applications on the Play store. That's the bad. The good is that you can "Disable" most of this crap and let the phone run a bit faster and longer on a charge. The bad is that you can't remove them without rooting (see above).
This has been a GREAT phone for me over the last 13 months and I consider myself a "power user" fairly savvy about Android and the millions of things we can do with these...  

Best phone I've used so far... Does everything better than my last phone which was pretty good for nearly 3 years (Nexus 4). This phone fits my specific needs very well. I drive a truck and do delivery work. This phone is my Audiobook entertainment, Google Maps navigator, Link to my home office texting machine, Customer contact phone (Bluetooth : LG T-One) and I'm not afraid of dropping it or pulling it out in the rain. A touchscreen that works when wet is a big big boon as is a camera that shoots excellent documentation pictures in nearly any light condition.
My complaints are very minor:
-Power-on with home button. I carry phone in cargo pocket in my uniform pants and flexing my leg pushes the Home button sometimes. Without a pattern lock enabled I wind up "butt dialing" all sorts of stuff. I've yet to find a way to disable this without rooting. (This is the first phone I have NOT rooted: I don't own it, yet...)
-Bloatware: Samsung has a few useful enhancements - maybe 5% of the Gig they add to the OS. AT&T has NONE that I would ever use since EVERYTHING they offer is done better by applications on the Play store. That's the bad. The good is that you can "Disable" most of this crap and let the phone run a bit faster and longer on a charge. The bad is that you can't remove them without rooting (see above).
This has been a GREAT phone for me over the last 13 months and I consider myself a "power user" fairly savvy about Android and the millions of things we can do with these devices. I -highly- recommend this phone if it meets your use case.

pjluvssj posted on Jun 10, 2015, 9:36 AM
Posts: 0; Member since: Jun 10, 2015

Favorite Andriod to date

pjluvssj has owned it for less than year before publishing this review

Great Phone. The camera is amazing. We have been on multiple trips, and my wife is a photographer. She has gotten frustrated because sometimes my shots are as good as her DLSR. Can't wait for the S6 active later this week with the bigger battery.

denny34 posted on Jan 09, 2015, 10:36 PM
Posts: 0; Member since: Jan 09, 2015

samsung galaxy s5 active

denny34 has owned it for less than 3 months before publishing this review

glass broke after the slippery design slid out of my lap and broke the supposedly more durable glass. I think I was sold a line of bull. it only fell two feet and landed on a corner. when I called AT&T to complain. they told me it would be a $200 deductible to fix. I am military and was sold on the durability and it didn't even last a month.