THE GOOD The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 has an eye-catching design, high-end hardware and takes great outdoor photos. Using the stylus has never felt better, and battery life is terrific.
THE BAD With a nonremovable battery and no external storage option, the Note 5 strips away some of last year's features. It's pricey compared to large-screen competitors like Motorola's Moto X Pure.
THE BOTTOM LINE Samsung's Galaxy Note 5 is excellent overall, and the only phone to buy if you want to write by hand. However, you'll pay a huge premium for a modest upgrade from last year's model, and less pricey competitors will satisfy many.
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CNET EDITORS' RATING
THE GOOD The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 has an eye-catching design, high-end hardware and takes great outdoor photos. Using the stylus has never felt better, and battery life is terrific.
THE BAD With a nonremovable battery and no external storage option, the Note 5 strips away some of last year's features. It's pricey compared to large-screen competitors like Motorola's Moto X Pure.
THE BOTTOM LINE Samsung's Galaxy Note 5 is excellent overall, and the only phone to buy if you want to write by hand. However, you'll pay a huge premium for a modest upgrade from last year's model, and less pricey competitors will satisfy many.
DESIGN9.0
FEATURES9.0
PERFORMANCE9.0
CAMERA8.0
BATTERY9.0
Editors' note: This review has been updated to include information about Samsung's newest Galaxy models, the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, which were introduced at Mobile World Congressin March 2016.
Samsung's Galaxy Note 5 is the smoothest, sleekest stylus-equipped jumbo-screen smartphone that the company has ever made. On the plus side: a slim, shiny, large-screened luster; strong camera; retooled stylus; and killer battery life. But these assets are subverted by two key omissions; the Note 5's battery is not swappable and there is no expandable storage slot (though there is free cloud storage).
The Note 5 is the least distinctive of the Note line. It's Samsung's only 2015 model to come equipped with a stylus -- and a good one at that -- but it otherwise looks pretty much the same as the
Galaxy S6 Edge+, featuring the same dual curved-edge screen and nearly identical specs. And the Note 5 and S6 Edge+ are basically supersized versions of the
Galaxy S6 and
S6 Edge models thatSamsung debuted in March 2015.
In fact, the stylus (Samsung calls it the "S Pen") is about the only thing that makes the Note 5 truly distinctive. As such, it's a bit underwhelming compared with 2014's Note 4, which leap-frogged its peer, the
Galaxy S5, in the hardware department, even without its S Pen. Nevertheless, the Note 5's flaws are few and far between, and its stylus gives it a functional edge over all other large-screen devices.
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