Samsung Galaxy XCover 5
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- Anonymous
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- 16 Dec 2024
Anonymous, 08 Dec 2024Thinkphone. Agree thinkphone, much better design than s24 or my iphone looks cheap oldies design.
You can try motorola defy or defy2, but bulkier than thinkphone
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- Anonymous
- pqq
- 08 Dec 2024
Anonymous, 08 Dec 2024I'd like to hear better options, if they are not bigge... moreThinkphone.
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- Anonymous
- 0r7
- 08 Dec 2024
Anonymous, 19 Oct 2023worst smartphone i've ever owned. by far.I'd like to hear better options, if they are not bigger and have aux and sd slot
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- Anonymous
- 0r7
- 08 Dec 2024
To answer everyones problem with the side button:
Get the Spigen phone case and the side button will become your best friend. No accidental presses anymore and very useful for immidate flashlight/camera. Also the phone will be nice and grippy.
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- Anonymous
- 0r7
- 08 Dec 2024
veryangrynerd, 09 Oct 2023I don't understand what you are expecting here, a phon... moreIt didn't even survive two years. It was a hassle to bring and retrieve it to the service point, my data was wiped and I had to do a week without a phone (not being able to contact my customers for my work). I don't understand how it is needy to be disappointed by that.
Especially when you are getting a new phone every year or something. Personally I like to keep mine as long as it will run. Since this phone was 300eur and it eventually only lasted about 1,5yr I am better off buying some refurbished old shit for 100eur every year.
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- skinnie
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- 17 Nov 2024
kapqa, 20 Oct 2024phone is again fluid with oneUi6.1, very nice, thanks.This update to 6.1 is awesome. Before the phone was very slow, much better now!
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- Masher
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- 13 Nov 2024
Papio Sphinx, 29 Aug 202313 Months since I bought the phone and it served me well up... moreMy Xcover 4s also tells me I have water in the charge port. Only when battery is low.. Only with some cables. Try another cable. Works for me.
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- Mrbraderz
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- 02 Nov 2024
maui, 24 Apr 2024Hello you can download Radio app from Samsung Store or try ... moreI use simple radio app or tune in app from playstore
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- Anonymous
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- 02 Oct 2024
exp1orer, 21 Sep 2024I found a trick to make my XCover 5 faster... activate the ... moreGreat tip, thanks
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- exp1orer
- iGN
- 25 Sep 2024
My XCover 5 UK version is currently downloading the UI6.1 😎 update... hopefully this won't cause any problem like what happened to the camera focusing when it upgraded feom A13/UI5.0 to A14/UI6.0.
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- exp1orer
- iGN
- 21 Sep 2024
Ajay-Pi, 01 Jul 2024Perhaps my case is unique, I barely encountered any lags me... moreI found a trick to make my XCover 5 faster... activate the developer options... then look for the 3 animation scales there and change them from 1x to OFF... and you'll have a snappy phone. I did this to all my Samsung devices and it's incredible how they became faster.
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- exp1orer
- iGN
- 21 Sep 2024
SamMobile published yesterday that XCover 5 in South Korea is already getting UI 6.1 upgrade from 6.0... that is really nice.
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- Ajay-Pi
- ybx
- 10 Sep 2024
Found a solution to the over sensitive XCover key by installing an app called Button Mapper (there seems to be an equivalent app in Fdroid, but need to confirm). With that app installed, customize the button so that it only responds to double click or only very long click (a paid feature). Once done, there you have your programmable physical key working again!
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- Minu
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- 27 Jul 2024
exp1orer, 24 Jun 2024That's my biggest complain about this phone when I fir... moreThis has been the case with my Nokia 8 as well, because the audio quality with the 3.5mm jack sounds better than the flagships without the jack that I've tested.
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- pd2
- 06 Jul 2024
I don't have much to complain. It has worked couple of years pretty well. Only bigger downside is the main camera – zooming is pretty useless, the photo quality drops rapidly; without zooming I approve the quality. Battery lasts long enough for me but I don't much use the phone for watching videos or so. Camera doesn't seem to be battery hungry. And the phone should withstand water and dropping – haven't had chances to approve these qualities yet – but I trust it withstand!
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- Ajay-Pi
- ybx
- 01 Jul 2024
exp1orer, 24 Jun 2024That's my biggest complain about this phone when I fir... morePerhaps my case is unique, I barely encountered any lags mentioned here in my daily use. Majority of the apps I used were installed from F-droid, probably that helps.
Another unpopular opinion is that the screen of this phone looks quite sharp to me, despite its low resolution.
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- Catani84
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- 26 Jun 2024
Anonymous, 28 Mar 2024Think it's going to stop at 13 .. XCover6 and 7 will h... moreYeah no...It's got Android 14 and OneUI 6.0 so you're wrong.
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- exp1orer
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- 24 Jun 2024
Ajay-Pi, 24 Jun 2024A nice little phone packed with many beloved features from ... moreThat's my biggest complain about this phone when I first bought one 2 years ago. Another issue is very slippery grip... but after having bought the XCover Pro then XCOver6 Pro, I went back to this phone as my main phone because of its size... I found this phone to be very slow specially that I have now a S24 also... but I use this XCover 5 as the main phone because of work-related feature (use camera while wearing 2 layers of gloves)...
there is something unique in this phone that I find it incredible... it's audio quality with 3.5mm jack using the cheap Samsung earphone is top notch... for some reason I find it better than my XCover 6 pro and even S24 with TypeC to 3.5mm adapter (would you believe that?!). also when I plugged my wired Sony headphone to this it produces an exceptional sound quality compared with even my PC.
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- Ajay-Pi
- ybx
- 24 Jun 2024
A nice little phone packed with many beloved features from the early days of smartphone. Not hard these days to replace some of the built-in apps with open source equivalents to achieve a smoother experience. Even the camera can capture sharp photos with the right camera app. Only thing that I found to be a missed opportunity from Samsung is the XCover key on the side. It can be so easily triggered when the phone is placed in pocket that it has to be disabled.