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MagyarGigaset GS5 review - Gentle upgrade for the smartphone made in Germany
Possible competitors in comparison
Bewertung | Datum | Modell | Gewicht | Laufwerk | Groesse | Aufloesung | Preis ab |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79.5 % | 12/2021 | Gigaset GS5 Helio G85, Mali-G52 MP2 | 210 g | 128 GB eMMC Flash | 6.30" | 2340x1080 | |
| 77.2 % | 02/2021 | realme 7i Helio G85, Mali-G52 MP2 | 208 g | 64 GB eMMC Flash | 6.50" | 1600x720 | |
| 79.3 % | 03/2021 | Samsung Galaxy A32 5G Dimensity 720, Mali-G57 MP3 | 205 g | 64 GB UFS 2.1 Flash | 6.50" | 1600x720 | |
| 83.8 % | 07/2021 | Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G SD 732G, Adreno 618 | 157 g | 128 GB UFS 2.2 Flash | 6.55" | 2400x1080 |
Case, equipment, and operation
The Gigaset GS5 looks a lot like its predecessor, but it is a bit heavier and only has a dual-camera setup on the back that is still flush with the replaceable back cover. The glass back is neatly framed in the plastic as in the GS4, but the card slots are now under the cover. The removable battery is easy to access, and removing the SIM tray beforehand is no longer necessary. We liked the build quality in general.
The GS5's features are quite impressive. In addition to a full-fledged dual-SIM (nano) slot, there is also a microSD storage slot that can accept memory cards up to 512 GB. The microSD slot does not support an exFAT file system, however. Gigaset does not provide detailed information about the charging speeds and only said that the battery can be recharged within two hours, which should be possible roughly with an 18 W power adapter. Wirelessly, the smartphone can be charged with up to 15 W. An FM radio receiver is also integrated. The lack of DRM certification is disappointing.
Google Android 11 is used as the operating system with minimal modifications. Android 12 is supposed to be offered next year, and Gigaset promises security updates for up to three years.
The communication modules of the Gigaset GS5 work on an adequate level. The AC WLAN delivers stable transmission rates to our reference Netgear Nighthawk AX12 router. The supported mobile frequencies cover the most important bands for Europe but not many more and there's no 5G.
The voice quality of the GS5 is good when held to the ear. All call participants are clearly understandable and are heard naturally. The noise suppression leaves a rather mediocre impression in loud ambient noise. Although we remained intelligible on Gigaset's smartphone, we did sound very muffled and the volume fluctuates a lot. The speaker sounds a bit hollow but convinces with an overall decent intelligibility in quiet environments. Features such as VoLTE and WLAN calling are supported.
The system speed of the GS5 is satisfactory. Despite the newer SoC, there are small jerks every now and then. However, the glass surface has good gliding properties and the inputs are precisely implemented on the touchscreen. The fingerprint scanner on the back has a high recognition rate and an appealing unlock speed. A less secure 2D face recognition is also available.
| SD Card Reader - average JPG Copy Test (av. of 3 runs) | |
| Average of class Smartphone (10.9 - 77, n=125, last 2 years) | |
| Gigaset GS5 (Angelbird AV Pro V60) | |
| Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G (Toshiba Exceria Pro M501) | |
Cross Platform Disk Test (CPDT)
| Networking | |
| iperf3 transmit AX12 | |
| realme 7i | |
| Samsung Galaxy A32 5G | |
| Gigaset GS5 | |
| Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G | |
| iperf3 receive AX12 | |
| Samsung Galaxy A32 5G | |
| Gigaset GS5 | |
| Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G | |
| realme 7i | |
Cameras - dual optics with 48 MP in the Gigaset GS5
Gigaset has increased the megapixel range of the GS5. The front-facing lens now has 16 MP, and the quality of the pictures is similar to that of the GS4 and is on a decent level.
The setup on the back now has one lens less, but the ultra-wide-angle now takes over the tasks of the former macro lens. This has a positive effect on close-ups although no miracles should be expected. Thanks to the 48 MP main camera, the pictures are visibly better and look brighter and more vivid than those from the GS4. Not much has changed in terms of zooming, which ends at a 4x digital magnification with a rather less convincing quality.
Videos are recorded in Full HD (30 fps) at best on the front camera or in QHD (1440p @ 30 fps) with the main camera.
Image Comparison
Choose a scene and navigate within the first image. One click changes the position on touchscreens. One click on the zoomed-in image opens the original in a new window. The first image shows the scaled photograph of the test device.
HauptkameraHauptkameraUltraweitwinkel5-facher ZoomLow-Light
Display - Flicker-free LCD with higher brightness
Gigaset has not changed the display dimensions compared to the predecessor but has increased the brightness a bit, which is on a similar level in manual mode and in the APL50 measurement. The black value is okay and provides a crisp contrast. However, the minimum luminosity is too high, so eyes are unnecessarily strained in the dark.
The color reproduction is also not particularly accurate. The grayscale is very cool and all colors are oversaturated. Thus, they often look a bit gaudy but are not overly annoying.
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Brightness Distribution: 93 %
Center on Battery: 513 cd/m²
Contrast: 1315:1 (Black: 0.39 cd/m²)
ΔE Color 7.2 | 0.55-29.43 Ø5.2
ΔE Greyscale 8.6 | 0.57-98 Ø5.4
99.9% sRGB (Calman 2D)
Gamma: 1.91
| Gigaset GS5 IPS, 2340x1080, 6.30 | Samsung Galaxy A32 5G TFT-LCD, 1600x720, 6.50 | realme 7i IPS, 1600x720, 6.50 | Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G AMOLED, 2400x1080, 6.55 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Response Times | -33% | 12% | 93% | |
| Response Time Grey 50% / Grey 80% * | 50 ? | 66.8 ? -34% | 40 ? 20% | 2.8 ? 94% |
| Response Time Black / White * | 30.8 ? | 40.8 ? -32% | 30 ? 3% | 2.4 ? 92% |
| PWM Frequency | 926 ? | 373.1 ? | ||
| Screen | -3% | -9% | 57% | |
| Brightness middle | 513 | 543 6% | 597 16% | 815 59% |
| Brightness | 517 | 512 -1% | 569 10% | 809 56% |
| Brightness Distribution | 93 | 85 -9% | 91 -2% | 98 5% |
| Black Level * | 0.39 | 0.63 -62% | 0.74 -90% | |
| Contrast | 1315 | 862 -34% | 807 -39% | |
| Colorchecker dE 2000 * | 7.2 | 4.9 32% | 5.47 24% | 1.3 82% |
| Colorchecker dE 2000 max. * | 10.8 | 8.6 20% | 12.11 -12% | 3.1 71% |
| Greyscale dE 2000 * | 8.6 | 6.3 27% | 6.9 20% | 2.6 70% |
| Gamma | 1.91 115% | 2.23 99% | 2.363 93% | 2.17 101% |
| CCT | 8643 75% | 8120 80% | 8091 80% | 6544 99% |
| Total Average (Program / Settings) | -18% /
-9% | 2% /
-5% | 75% /
66% |
* ... smaller is better
Display Response Times
| ↔ Response Time Black to White | ||
|---|---|---|
| 30.8 ms ... rise ↗ and fall ↘ combined | ↗ 13.6 ms rise |  |
| ↘ 17.2 ms fall | ||
| The screen shows slow response rates in our tests and will be unsatisfactory for gamers. In comparison, all tested devices range from 0.1 (minimum) to 240 (maximum) ms. » 80 % of all devices are better. This means that the measured response time is worse than the average of all tested devices (22.3 ms). | ||
| ↔ Response Time 50% Grey to 80% Grey | ||
| 50 ms ... rise ↗ and fall ↘ combined | ↗ 28.4 ms rise |  |
| ↘ 21.6 ms fall | ||
| The screen shows slow response rates in our tests and will be unsatisfactory for gamers. In comparison, all tested devices range from 0.25 (minimum) to 636 (maximum) ms. » 83 % of all devices are better. This means that the measured response time is worse than the average of all tested devices (35.1 ms). | ||
Screen Flickering / PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation)
| Screen flickering / PWM not detected |  | ||
In comparison: 53 % of all tested devices do not use PWM to dim the display. If PWM was detected, an average of 19046 (minimum: 5 - maximum: 3846000) Hz was measured. | |||
Performance, emissions and battery life
The Helio G85 SoC of the Gigaset GS5 is newer than the Helio P70 in the GS4 but is not necessarily faster. The graphics calculations in 3DMark reveal small advantages for the previous year's model, but the GFXBench test turns the tables again. In general, the performance is more in the mid-range. The GS5 does not develop a lot of heat at any time; it only gets warm to the touch.
The speaker on the chin sounds quite balanced at medium volumes but booms and noises very strongly at higher levels. Gigaset has improved the audio jack, which offers a clean sound output (SNR: 94.37 dBFS). Those who prefer Bluetooth can use the audio codecs SBC, AAC, aptX, aptX HD and LDAC.
The battery runtimes are good overall but slightly worse than the predecessor despite sporting a larger battery.
| Geekbench 5.4 | |
| Single-Core (sort by value) | |
| Gigaset GS5 | |
| Samsung Galaxy A32 5G | |
| realme 7i | |
| Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G | |
| Average Mediatek Helio G85 (344 - 369, n=11) | |
| Average of class Smartphone (119 - 1885, n=241, last 2 years) | |
| Multi-Core (sort by value) | |
| Gigaset GS5 | |
| Samsung Galaxy A32 5G | |
| realme 7i | |
| Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G | |
| Average Mediatek Helio G85 (1184 - 1363, n=11) | |
| Average of class Smartphone (473 - 5538, n=241, last 2 years) | |
| PCMark for Android | |
| Work 3.0 (sort by value) | |
| Gigaset GS5 | |
| Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G | |
| Average Mediatek Helio G85 (6596 - 8672, n=9) | |
| Average of class Smartphone (4780 - 28378, n=228, last 2 years) | |
| Work 2.0 performance score (sort by value) | |
| Samsung Galaxy A32 5G | |
| realme 7i | |
| Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G | |
| Average Mediatek Helio G85 (8655 - 8698, n=3) | |
| Average of class Smartphone (5279 - 13282, n=28, last 2 years) | |
| GFXBench | |
| on screen Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Onscreen (sort by value) | |
| Gigaset GS5 | |
| Samsung Galaxy A32 5G | |
| realme 7i | |
| Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G | |
| Average Mediatek Helio G85 (7.5 - 22, n=12) | |
| Average of class Smartphone (3.6 - 123, n=240, last 2 years) | |
| 1920x1080 Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Offscreen (sort by value) | |
| Gigaset GS5 | |
| Samsung Galaxy A32 5G | |
| realme 7i | |
| Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G | |
| Average Mediatek Helio G85 (8 - 9.7, n=12) | |
| Average of class Smartphone (1.9 - 175, n=241, last 2 years) | |
| on screen Aztec Ruins High Tier Onscreen (sort by value) | |
| Gigaset GS5 | |
| Samsung Galaxy A32 5G | |
| realme 7i | |
| Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G | |
| Average Mediatek Helio G85 (5 - 13, n=12) | |
| Average of class Smartphone (2.8 - 100, n=241, last 2 years) | |
| 2560x1440 Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen (sort by value) | |
| Gigaset GS5 | |
| Samsung Galaxy A32 5G | |
| realme 7i | |
| Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G | |
| Average Mediatek Helio G85 (3.1 - 3.5, n=12) | |
| Average of class Smartphone (0.85 - 68, n=241, last 2 years) | |
| Gigaset GS5 | Samsung Galaxy A32 5G | realme 7i | Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G | Average 128 GB eMMC Flash | Average of class Smartphone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AndroBench 3-5 | 163% | 26% | 98% | -4% | 267% | |
| Sequential Read 256KB | 319.8 | 858 168% | 316.4 -1% | 481.8 51% | 289 ? -10% | 1183 ? 270% |
| Sequential Write 256KB | 269 | 381.7 42% | 187.2 -30% | 269 0% | 193.5 ? -28% | 743 ? 176% |
| Random Read 4KB | 160.5 | 174.6 9% | 77.4 -52% | 145 -10% | 82.7 ? -48% | 208 ? 30% |
| Random Write 4KB | 31.37 | 167.1 433% | 89.5 185% | 141.6 351% | 53 ? 69% | 217 ? 592% |
Temperature
(+) The maximum temperature on the upper side is 36.6 °C / 98 F, compared to the average of 34.9 °C / 95 F, ranging from 21.9 to 52.9 °C for the class Smartphone.
(+) The bottom heats up to a maximum of 33.8 °C / 93 F, compared to the average of 33.7 °C / 93 F
(+) In idle usage, the average temperature for the upper side is 29.1 °C / 84 F, compared to the device average of 32.7 °C / 91 F.
Loudspeaker
Gigaset GS5 audio analysis
(+) | speakers can play relatively loud (89.6 dB)
Bass 100 - 315 Hz
(-) | nearly no bass - on average 34.3% lower than median
(+) | bass is linear (5.5% delta to prev. frequency)
Mids 400 - 2000 Hz
(±) | reduced mids - on average 5.6% lower than median
(+) | mids are linear (6.4% delta to prev. frequency)
Highs 2 - 16 kHz
(+) | balanced highs - only 4.5% away from median
(+) | highs are linear (3.7% delta to prev. frequency)
Overall 100 - 16.000 Hz
(±) | linearity of overall sound is average (20.8% difference to median)
Compared to same class
» 33% of all tested devices in this class were better, 12% similar, 56% worse
» The best had a delta of 11%, average was 23%, worst was 65%
Compared to all devices tested
» 57% of all tested devices were better, 8% similar, 35% worse
» The best had a delta of 3%, average was 20%, worst was 65%
Samsung Galaxy A32 5G audio analysis
(+) | speakers can play relatively loud (93.2 dB)
Bass 100 - 315 Hz
(-) | nearly no bass - on average 19.9% lower than median
(+) | bass is linear (3.5% delta to prev. frequency)
Mids 400 - 2000 Hz
(±) | reduced mids - on average 5.8% lower than median
(+) | mids are linear (4.5% delta to prev. frequency)
Highs 2 - 16 kHz
(±) | higher highs - on average 9.8% higher than median
(+) | highs are linear (3.7% delta to prev. frequency)
Overall 100 - 16.000 Hz
(±) | linearity of overall sound is average (17.3% difference to median)
Compared to same class
» 8% of all tested devices in this class were better, 6% similar, 85% worse
» The best had a delta of 11%, average was 23%, worst was 65%
Compared to all devices tested
» 33% of all tested devices were better, 8% similar, 59% worse
» The best had a delta of 3%, average was 20%, worst was 65%
Battery life
| Gigaset GS5 4500 mAh | Samsung Galaxy A32 5G 5000 mAh | realme 7i 6000 mAh | Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G 4250 mAh | Average of class Smartphone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery Runtime | |||||
| WiFi Websurfing | 868 | 1235 42% | 1307 51% | 692 -20% | 887 ? 2% |
Pros
Cons
Verdict - GS5 convinces with unique selling points
The Gigaset GS5 convinces with its simple design and good build, but it also has unique selling points with wireless charging with up to 15 W and an exchangeable battery, which are not found in this price range. Also, OS updates for up to three years are not always seen in this segment.
The Gigaset GS5 convinces with a replaceable battery, good build quality, Qi charging, and a much-improved camera, but it requires a willingness to compromise in terms of system speed and the lack of 5G.
Furthermore, the German-made phone offers a large memory and a good audio jack. A big step forward has also been made in terms of cameras. On the other hand, the GS5 also has to put up with criticism. The SoC is not one of the fastest, there is no exFAT support for microSDs, and DRM certification and 5G are also missing.
Strong competition mainly comes from the Far East in the form of the Galaxy A32 5G or the Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 4G.
Price and availability
The Gigaset GS5 is available directly from the manufacturer's store where it can optionally be engraved (+€5) or have a passepartout image printed for a small surcharge (+€15). Alternatively, the Gigaset GS5 is also available with Amazon and OTTO.
Gigaset GS5
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12/10/2021 v7
Daniel Schmidt
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