Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) A520F 32GB LTE Blue

The phone is powered by the 14nm Exynos 7 Octa 7880 chipset with a Mali-T830 GPU. Coupled with the 3000mAh battery, this power efficient processor should provide stellar battery life.

The phone comes with a Super AMOLED display with a 5.2 diagonal and Full HD resolution.

The Galaxy A5 (2017) has two 16 MP cameras - one on the back and one at the front. Both shoot video in 1080p and on first glance the output from the cameras is equally sharp but well have to test that further.

The Galaxy A5 (2017) comes with Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. A nice surprise is Samsung ditched the Touch Wiz user interface for Grace UX, which was introduced by the now obsolete Note7. The new UI has a cleaner style and looks more modern. The device also got the Always-On Display mode from the higher-end Galaxy S7 and Galaxy Note7.

The Galaxy A5 (2017) has IP68 certification which makes it water- and dustproof. Spilling water over it shouldn't cause any issues but you can do even better than that as the phone should easily withstand going underwater.

An interesting quirk is the positioning of the speaker - it is located on the right side over the power button. We would certainly have to test how that affects the user experience.