It does focus on the nearest person.  And it has a very low depth of field. There are other phones that give good depth of fields with the same aperture. Also, even if it focuses on the first person, the details of the image capture are horrible. The colors are just patches and it tries to make it smooth. It looks artificial pictures. I know there is a slider to make the selfie smooth or sharp. But even after sharp settings, the pictures are very low quality. I can post more pictures here. ... View more

Stay away from this phone. Not only it has shaky pictures in low light, but there is no details captured the in the image. Check and zoom the hair details. For the group selifes, everyone is blurred as they are out of focus. Only the nearest person taking pictures is in focus. But again, see the details  of the f ace. It is all patches of colors and blurred. One of the worst camera in the world. I sold this at half price and brought Gionee A1.   group selfie out of focus for others. Only nearest person in focus. But that too all blurred. No details all blured and and no details. See hairs. ... View more

I recently bought S8 plus after having using Note 4 for 2 yrs. Within 2 days, I started noticing some patch on the screen near the speaker slot on the top. This patch will go off after cleaning with a cloth. But will reappear immediately. I ignored it. But in next 1 month, I started noticing the central area on the screen looking blurry or smudged. They were not scratches. I took utmost care to handle the phone. But the screen was becoming blurred in the center area where you use the finger touch to interact with the screen. It is like if you rub your thumb on a polished plastic paper, it will become blurry. I took the phone to support center. They said the screen is faulty. They replaced the screen as I was entitled to one-time replacement. But now I a scared if this will happen again. This is not expected from a super expensive flagship phone. Your note 4 phone was strong than this fragile phone.  ... View more

You are wrong. I am engineer who has worked in mobile R&D in Seoul, korea. The problem in this phone is that the front camera's depth-of-field is very low. If you dont know, most selfies have friends behind us. And your camera makes them all blur. Poor customers think it is their fault. They don't know Samsung engineers have done a bad job.  This cannot be fixed. Finally I sold this A5 that i got at 30k and brounght a chinese Geonie A1 phone at 20K. The front camera of this chinese phone is awesome. No one is blurred even if they stand 5 ft away from my face.  I had samsung S4, S6, Note2, Note4 and wanted to buy S8. Now I dont trust. Even in S8 the finger print scanner is at wrong position next to camera lense. This will making it always with finger print marks & blurred pictures.  ... View more

@ CarolinaW -  This issues is in all A 2017 series phones where you have used the same camera hardware. I brought the phone in India/Bangalore from Samsung store. I have also checked in many other samsung stores in front of your technical persons. I tested in many other A5/A7 2017 phones. They have admitted this issue. It cannot be rectified. It is like your Note 7 issue. You need to call back all phones or scrap all of them and refund the money.  ... View more

I have many other phones like Honor4, oneplus2 and samsung note4, etc. But this issue with A5 2017 is strange. How can samsung do this. I am from technical background and i know this issue is due to focus fixed to 1 Ft lenght. I also have a doubt that this will not be fixed as the focual lenght of camera is hardware related. The camera assembly in the A5 is already fixed with predefined aperture and focal lenght. If this was USA, consumers can file a case against samsung. But since this is India we need to resell this. Samsung will not do anything.  ... View more

I also have same issue. Its so ***** that for a 30K phone the front camera is out-of-focus if your face is away from 1 Feet. This is very bad engineering setting. The front camera depth-of-field is very low. The focal lenght of the camera is small. So your face needs to be withing 30cm. Or it will be blurry. IF you are taking group selfie and rest of the people are behind you, they are all blurred.  Such a engineering mistake from samsung is unacceptable.  They should release a firmware update to fix the focal lenght of front camera.  ... View more