The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 a active brings a huge redesign to the Note series: it adopts the glass and metal styling of the Galaxy S6, but in a larger, 5.7″ form factor, and it features the signature S Pen stylus. The Note 5 sports the 14nm Exynos 7420 octa-core system chip with a whopping 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM. In terms of photography, it sports a 16-megapixel rear cam with OIS, while up front there is a 5-megapixel selfie shooter, and both cameras sport wide, f/1.9 lenses. The battery on the Note 5 is smaller than on the Note 4: it’s a 4100mAh Li-ion battery (non removable). The base model of the phone ships with 32GB of internal storage, and there is a costlier, 64GB version, with no expandable storage.
Galaxy Note 5 Active Specification
| General Information | |
| 2G | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
| 3G | HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 |
| 4G | |
| SIM | Nano SIM |
| Status | 08 Jun 2015 |
| Body | |
| Dimensions | 5.78 x 2.89 x 0.34 inches (146.8 x 73.4 x 8.6 mm), 5.29 oz (150 g) |
| Keyboard | Touchscreen |
| Colors | Gray, Blue, White |
| Cover | Plastic |
| Display | |
| Type | Super AMOLED, Corning Gorilla Glass 4, multitouch capacitive touchscreen with 16,000,000 colors |
| Size | 5.7 inches, 1440 x 2560 pixels, 515 pixels per inch (PPI) |
| Memory | |
| Card Slot | No |
| Internal | 32GB and 64GB models |
| OS | Android 5.1.1 Lollipop |
| Processors | 1.5GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 and 2.1GHz quad-core Cortex-A57 CPU, Exynos 7420 Chipset, Mali-T760MP8 GPU |
| RAM | 4GB |
| Audio | |
| Alert types | Vibration, MP3 ringtones |
| Loudspeakers | Yes |
| Audio port | Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic |
| Connectivity | |
| 2G | GPRS – up to 85.6 kbps; EDGE – up to 236.8 kbps |
| 3G | Up to 42.2 mbps downlink; Up to 5.76 mbps uplink |
| 4G | Up to 225 mbps downlink; Up to 100 mbps uplink |
| WI-FI | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/ac/b/g/n, WIFI hotspot, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct |
| Bluetooth | Version 4.2, A2DP, EDR, LE |
| GPS | A-GPS, GLONASS |
| NFC | Yes |
| USB | MicroUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go, USB Host |
| Camera | |
| Primary | 16MP, up to 3456 x 4608-pixel pictures, optical image stabilization, dual shot, Simultaneous HD video and image recording, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, Auto HDR camera with dual LED flash |
| Video | 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps |
| Secondary | 5MP, up to 2592 x 1944-pixel pictures |
| Battery | |
| Capacity | 4100mAh Li-ion battery (non removable) |
| Stand-by | 14.0 days (336 hours), (3G) 19.0 days (456 hours), (4G) 21.0 days (504 hours) |
| Talk time | 24.00 hours |
| Music play | 61.00 hours |
| Other Features | |
| Sensors | Accelerometer, Proximity, Compass, Barometer, Temperature, Humidity, Gesture, Light sensor, Heart rate, Fingerprint |
| Messaging | SMS, MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM |
| Browser | HTML5 |
| Java | Yes |
| – Stereo FM radio with RDS – MP4/MPEG4/H.263/H.264 player – MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player – Infrared port – Image viewer/editor – Voice memo/dial/command – Predictive text input via SWYPE – Wireless charging (market dependent) – S-Voice natural language commands and dictation – Smart stay, Smart pause, Smart scroll – Air gestures – Document viewer – Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic | |
| Price | About N255,000 |
| Where to buy | |
| Konga | Konga |
| Jumia | Jumia |