With the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 priced at $700 on Amazon and $750 at Best Buy, the best place to buy an unlocked version of the Galaxy Note 5 32GB might just be on eBay where the phablet is being sold for $580 with no contract strings attached.
That $580 price point is about 42 percent, or $420, off the original manufacturer's suggested retail price. The handsets are being sold new and with the orginal packaging. Plus, there's free shipping.
The eBay listing for the unlocked Samsung Galaxy Note 5 32 GB is being offered by merchant Monoprice. The merchant has a 99.7 percent positive feedback rating, so this deal is certainly legit, and the Note 5 is certainly worth it.
The Note 5 has an adaptive 5.7-inch QuadHD display, Super AMOLED Gorilla Glass 4, that outputs a pixel count of 2560 x 1440. That big face offers enough room for some side-by-side multitasking. To get around all of that high-resolution real estate, there's Samsung's S Pen.
For photos and videos, the Note 5 wears a 5MP chat cam on its face and there's a 16MP workhorse of a camera at its rear. It captures 2K video 30 frames per second and 1080 content at 60 fps.
The Note 5 comes with Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box and it's compatible with Samsung Pay, a service similar to Apple Pay, which will mimic the swipe of a debit card when waved around near any old card reader. Apple Pay requires Near Field Communications stations, and those aren't as near as prevalent as good old fashion card readers.
Under the hood, the Galaxy Note 5 leverages the Samsung Exynos 7420. More specifically, it's powered by a 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex A53 Quad-Core processor and 2.1 GHz ARM Cortex A57 Quad-Core CPU.
Samsung first unveiled the Galaxy Note 5 on Aug. 13 this year, proclaiming it and the Galaxy S6 Edge+ were both ahead of the curve. In launching both big-faced phones, Samsung is restating its commitment to going bold, stated JK Shin, CEO and president of the IT & Mobile Division of Samsung Electronics.
"At Samsung, we believed in the promise that large screen smartphones could actively address some major consumers pain points by providing users with a better viewing experience and more productivity on-the-go," he said.
