[General Questions and Answers] koragg97:
I can share my experience with my S5 SM-G900F Snapdragon 801 version (have had it for 3 years now, plan to keep it one more before getting the Note 9). The screen is amazing, FHD resolution is still pretty awesome today. Colors are sharp and vibrant and the maximum brightness (with auto brightness enabled) is fine for using under direct sunlight (not for me, but my screen is dirty...that's another story xd). It actually has technology that you won't find in today's flagships by Samsung: the IR blaster is such an example and I find it to be a really useful feature to have in my pocket. You can control literally any electric device which uses a normal infrared remote, all from your phone. Also there's a heart rate sensor which works ok. Battery is removable so if it needs replacing at any point in time you can just get a new one for 10 bucks and swap it - this is no longer the case with any new smartphone. I have the 16GB internal storage option with a 64GB MicroSD card in it and I've never run out of internal storage, even when I played some games/had more apps than now. This depends on your usage I guess, and the amount of apps you will need to install (also their size). You said you don't really care about the camera but I'll still mention it: it's a very nice camera for daytime shots. In lowlight it's pretty bad but then again phone was made in 2014. It has selective focus too which is nice for a 4 year old model. The battery is a 2800mAh cell and it's life is acceptable I guess. It's nothing superb in today's standards but I get between 3-4 hours of screen on time and around 10-12 hours total state time with 3G always turned on and on WiFi when at home. Use Facebook Light and Messenger Light - that saves a looot of juice, trust me. And the only feature you lose are the chat heads of messenger. Last but not least there are a lot of custom ROMs, kernels and mods for the International version which is the SM-G900F. You can raise the clock speed up to 2.6 or 2.7 GHZ and use it fine, though battery will drain faster ofcourse. You can also undervolt it with specific kernels like Boeffla's. This tends to prevent the phone from heating up as much as it does without any undervolt so it also saves up some battery as well. There's a mod which enables stereo sound via the back and front speakers + it makes it louder, which is awesome. You get all the standard features that come with it which is great: AirView and so on. You can also put a firmware that looks like the newer Samsung Experience software of newer phones and have a lot of the new features like Edge Panels, Themes, Icon Packs, Always-On Display (drains battery, use only while charging - Tasker can help here) and pretty much all other new stuff. If you decide to stay on stock Samsung firmware you'll have a fingerprint sensor, which is not as good as today's but still works perfectly fine if you set it up the correct way as it requires a swipe to work, not just a touch. This feature is gone on these ROMs that port newer firmware though, unless you replace your lock screen with a 3rd party one (or unless devs fix it somehow). That's about it, if you have any further questions feel free to mention me here via the @ and my username right next to it and I'll be glad to answer them. Cheers :) S5 beats J5 2017 in everything btw