Phone #4 - Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016)

Specifications:

Android version: 7.1.1

Headphone jack: Yes <3

SD Card slot: Oh yes!! <3

Removable battery: Yes?!?! Stop it, you're getting me all flustered!!!

Phone size: A tad too big but manageable. It's pretty slippery though, like a freshly swam toad on an autumn eve.

Display: 720p OLED display. Ahh... OLED. The next best thing to CRTs :)

RAM: 2 GB, which is plenty enough.

Rest of the specs can be found at GSMARENA.COM (outside link).

What I use this phone for:

It's stationed in my bedroom. I use it to watch and listen to mainly Youtube videos (via NewPipe, naturally), meditations, ASMR stuff and audiobooks when I go to bed (and also while doing chores).
The files are on the phone storage, of course, for reliable offline usage and extended battery life with the WiFi turned off.
It's my comfy trusty relaxing white noise machine to keep my mind nice and blank <3

Backstory and thoughts on the phone (AND SAMSUNG BLOATWARE *shakes fist*):

My most recent phone acquisition! I got it free from my relative, and it has no replaced Phone #3 - Samsung Galaxy Core Prime as it is better in literally every single way for my use case of it, aside from maybe the phone being a tad little too big for my tastes and being so slippery like a darn toad! Get over here you *phone drops* aahh noo.... But I can manage that, because the pros outweigh the cons.

One thing I majorly dislike about Samsung phones, is the amount of bloatware they come with. Some you can uninstall, most you can only disable, and some things that are in the settings menu (like theming) are locked behind a Samsung account! Dude, like, so uncool, man. When I go to the settings menu of my phone, I expect everything I can tune over there to be completely doable without creating yet another account on yet another corporation's database so they can use it to spy on me and sell all of my data to advertisers. I say no thanks, Google is enough for me brah.
With the previous phone I linked above, the Samsung Galaxy Core Prime, which was a few years older, there didn't use to be so much bloatware and most everything could be customized within the phone itself. Also, my wife recently got a new Samsung phone (for free, of course) and it also has even more of this kinda stuff! Ah well, that's life for ya I guess. One of the reasons I went for Motorola when it came to my personal new phone, they have far less bloat.

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