Samsung Galaxy A50 A505G 64GB Duos GSM Unlocked Phone w/Triple 25MP Camera – Black
$279.99
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The Samsung galaxy A50 is a complete device that provides for a onscreen fingerprint sensor along with the 6.4-inch (16.21 centimeters) super AMOLED – infinity u cut display, FHD+ resolution (2340 x 1080), 404 ppi with 16m colours and triple camera setup – 16mp (f1.9)+ 5mp (2.2) wide angle camera + 5mp (2.2) with flash and 25mp (f2.0) front facing camera. May come with foreign charger. charger may be foreign
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Samsung Galaxy A50 A505G 64GB Duos GSM Unlocked Phone w/Triple 25MP Camera – Black
$279.99
Mark42 –
Much better than expected! I’m very happy with this phone.
I am very impressed by the A50. Coming from a Galaxy S5, the A50 is a big improvement and I had cautious high hopes about size, features and performance. I was not let down.Received model SM-A505G/DS in a sealed Samsung box with a US compatible charger (EP-TA200 15 watt Adaptive Fast Charger) and a rather short 31.25″, 79.5cm USB C cable, headphones, clear case, SanDisk brand 64GB Class C (high speed) Micro SD card, and warranty cards (valid in the US only if you live in the US Virgin Islands, LOL). BTW, the USA is not the only country that uses the two blade plug. Many countries use that same design, but run on 240V. Philippians is one that comes to mind. The A505G/DS model is basically the South American variant of the A50.Setup is easy, fully charge the phone, insert a SIM and the included SD card, then power on, choose your language and wait a few minutes. I transferred the apps, data, settings, contacts, etc from the old phone (Galaxy S5) to the new A50 using the Samsung Smart Switch app (had to download and install on the old phone from the app store). Then in about 15 minutes the data was wirelessly transferred and apps installed on the A50. Saved me lots of time.The Finger Print reader works very fast. Other reviews claim it is useless, slow etc. I got unlock response times less than 1 second with two fingers prints registered. Adding a third slowed it down to about 1 full second. So I suspect registering 5 fingers will slow it down more. Also note that the phone comes with a tempered glass screen protector already installed, so don’t put a another one on top of it or that could mess up touch response and fingerprint reading.Both hand air gestures and near field are not supported with model A505G/DS. I never used these features on my old S5, so I don’t miss them on the A50. More about NFC and Samsung Pay later.Bloatware is practically non-existent. There are only a few Google and Samsung apps that can not be uninstalled, but can be disabled. The major offender is Bixby. I know of no one that wants or uses Bixby. There is nothing like all the junk you get with a branded phone. IE games, sports apps, shopping apps, etc that take up lots of memory and just can not be deleted unless you ROOT your phone.The initial 100% charge lasted about 4 hours of WI-Fi , LTE and constant changes to settings, screen savers, install/uninstall, downloads, etc until it was down to about 40%. I finally let it run down to 25% and put it on to charge. An hour later it was back to 100%, and that charge lasted the whole next day of constant use, testing every feature, etc. Every time the battery is recharged, it lasts noticeably longer, and this is typical of a new LION battery.I was very worried that the 4G/LTE bands would not match Cricket Wireless (Cricket is owned by ATT ). The seller listed the bands the phone supports in the Q&A section above, and Cricket Wireless uses LTE Bands B2 (1900 PCS), B4 (1700/2100 AWS 1), B17 (700 bc), and B30 (2300 WCS). Bands B2, B4, and B17 are supported by the A50 so 4G is working for me even though I am on the fringe of a LTE area getting only 1 or 2 bars tops while having connection on 3 of the 4 Cricket bands . Speed test showed consistent 5 to 6 Mbps download speeds even with such a weak signal. When it was raining hard, the phone was getting H+ (3G). Note that these bands only apply to the A505G/DS model. The other popular foreign model is A505F/DS and it supports entirely different set of LTE bands. So if you are on a ATT based GSM system, you need the A505G/DS model.The back of this A50 is the “iridescent” version, about as rigid as the S5 plastic back, and collects fingerprint smudges like you will not believe. But it looks really cool. I’m using a Wallet Case, so the back does not matter to me.The 4GB of ROM are enough for my use, as even with multiple apps running at once, no more than 2.5GB have been used. After deleting the installed apps I didn’t want, and transferred and/or downloaded more apps, the internal memory shows 39GB free. And that includes what the OS uses. Plenty of room for more apps. All the data, photos, video, etc are on the SD card.A few hours after setting up the phone, an update was downloaded that took about 15-20 minutes to install. Says it improves finger print reader performance, and makes apps and the OS more stable, as well as other things. So far the phone performs flawlessly.The CPU in this phone is very fast. 8 cores, 4 up to 2.31 Ghz, and 4 up to 1.74 Ghz as measured by the GPU-Z app. Graphics are fast too, and the screen looks great. Haven’t tested the camera yet, but so far the few pics I took look very good. When I get home in a few days I’ll see how good the pics look on a 27″ 4K monitor.The audio app works great, has an equalizer and other other features.The included headphones are the hard plastic style, not foam buds. So unless you want to press each piece into your ears while listening to music, they are pretty much only good for phone conversations.The Bluetooth 5.0 is awesome. I only have 4.1 headsets, but the distance 5.0 gives is amazing. Left the phone in the family room, and walked outside. That put 1 interior wall, and one outside wall between me and the phone. I was able to walk about 50 feet from the house before the music broke up. I am able to walk all over 2,500 sq ft ranch with the phone in the middle of the house and not even one hickup in the playback. Also transferred a few files from the laptop (BT 4.1) to the A50. Worked well. Was an easy way to copy some stuff to the A50.Fast charging works, well, fast. About 1 hour from about 30% to 100%. The charging tester showed that even though the A50 said “100% charged”, but it was not. The charger continued to output slowly diminishing amperage at 9.0 volts for about another 15-20 minutes until the tester showed that the A50 was no longer drawing any power from the charger. So I suggest leaving the A50 on the charger about 15 minutes past the Notification that it is 100% charged to actually get a full charge.Hot spot worked with my laptop in the same room. But with the poor 4G signal I was getting performance was barely OK. Video would not play. I suspect this would improve with a descent 4G signal.Phone calls using only WIFI work great. Sending pictures and texts via WIFI worked good too. Using 4G, large photos attached to texts were sent in just a matter of moments.BTW, I just took the SIM card out of the S5 and put it in the A50 and it worked. A few hours later I logged into my Cricket Wireless account and it was showing the EMEI number from the A50.All and all, the phone is doing what I want and doing it better than expected, and with no glitches, freezing, heating up or slowing down. I’m very happy.Update 10/16/2019. In an area that has good 4G, (3,4 out of 5 bars) video phone calls work great. No glitches, no stutter, no voice issues. I have traveled all over town with this phone doing a video chat to Hong Kong perfectly. HK is where my fiance is. Nice.I gave up trying to get Samsung Pay and Google Pay to work at checkout, even though the phone has the sensors (NFC) needed for checkout. I was unable to identify the specific sub APL routine that connects the NFC sensor in the phone to the applications that get installed. That seems to be the the problem. Phone has the NFC sensor, but not a driver to connect to apps that need NFC support for checkout. Anyone know where I can download the NFC driver, please let me know.Anyway, the phone is still working perfectly. I have manually rebooted the phone about 6 times after big installs and big uninstalls. The phone is working great. Perfect. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.BTW, speed tests in a 3/4 bar 4G area hit the Cricket limit of 8Gb/s on downloads. So it is working well on the Cricket system. If you have an Att account, I believe the cap is 10Gb/s download. You will have to test yourself. Upload tests are not working. But I can upload huge pics with no problems. Multiple huge pics attached to a single text message go in a matter of moments. Emails with 6 or 8 big picture attachments are sent in less than 20 seconds. So the LTE is working well.
Chris LudaChez Tracy –
A must but for MetroPCS users or ones done financing phones
Highly recommend. I am so done buying phones with carriers and spending around 30$ a month for a high end phone. I have MetroPCS in Miami FL and it works very well. Especially outdoors (my house is known to hinder cell reception). Outside with a weak LTE+ I can hit 59mb/s down and 39 up. On normal LTE I get 21 to 29, though upload says anywhere from 3 to 15. But I never really upload. When I am in a highly populated area in Miami LTE+ on full bars gets me 80mb/s plus (have hit 100 plus a couple times).This phone is a monster. MetroPCS offers the A20 for a very low price for new customers but about 208$ activated for a current customer with in store rebate. The different between the A20 and A50 is large. So paying the extra 30-50$ is worth it.4gb of RAM is pretty high end now (some upper phones are at 6) as many phones of good quality offer 2gb to 3gb (I believe the A20 is 3gb)64gb internal storage is enough for me but you also get a free 64gb microSD. I love microSDs since you can put them in so many things to share so I see this as a major plus (the SD card is class 10 ultra capable of high speed transfer so great quality).The processor is one of the better Exynos sets and much higher than the A20 with a much better GPU. Everything I have done has been lightning fast. The processor upgrade from the A20 is worth the money alone.The screen/display is amazing. Samsung’s AMOLED brand always delivers. The front of the phone is beautiful. And it comes with a screen protector on already (i suck at putting them on) with a free clear case that is ok, but better than nothing till you get a better one.Basically this phone is at least on par with a Galaxy S9 and close to the 10. Just in a more plastic shell. Still feels great in your hand. Not heavy very accessible.Battery life for me has been weird but I am a very heavy user who is constantly browsing and reading watching Netflix and YouTube. It lasts my entire day of heavy use so far. Really wish I could open it for multiple battery use .I don’t use cell cameras much as I’m in the stone age of social media (hate snap chat and FB) but took a couple photos and they were the best cell phone pictures I have ever taken (in terms of quality).The bad? Things that don’t affect me much. The fingerprint scanner and fingerprint functions totally were a hassle for me. I don’t like using it but I tried and was very dissatisfied. It was difficult to get my fingerprint read to open anything. So I stuck with the pattern or code.I have not tried face recognition.Overall this phone is a must for MetroPCS users that are interested in the A20 or someone who wants a powerhouse phone without shelling out more than $500.Samsung still has the bloat ware. OneUI is ok. Better than TouchhWiz and some bloat can be frozen. I haven’t messed with Bixby (always hated Google assistant).I paid $238 for mine. Wish I did it sooner.Remember to make sure the model purchased will support USA LTE If you are here in the states (some A50 do not. My A505G does) and this is a GSM phone not a CDMA so no Verizon or Sprint.As someone who has had 3 different Notes, the original Galaxy 1 and the 6, this phone is just great. Save your money. Get this phone is a nice sturdy case and you win. An edit to add in the end but better Samsung phones have a great sound chipset and can make music sound so much better than other phones. I came from the J7 Prime and music is so much better on this phone.TL;DR if you are a MetroPCS customer on a budget this phone is a must. Good battery fantastic chipset. Amazing display. Bad fingerprint sensor.
Omar –
Vengo de un Redmi Note 5 y estoy muy satisfecho con este nuevo teléfono.Pros:-Primero lo primero, la pantalla es excelente, se nota la calidad viniendo del IPS del Redmi Note.-Muy buena baterÃa, para el uso moderado que le doy funciona bastante bien y da el dÃa sin problemas.-La capa de Samsung (One UI) con android 9 es mejor de lo que esperaba, más ligera que las anteriores, buen diseño y muchas buenas caracterÃsticas, esperemos que Samsung no se olvide de actualizaciones.-La cámara es decente, y el sensor de gran apertura para mi es lo mas llamativo se presta para fotos más interesantes.-El procesador exynos, aunque no llega a ser tan potente como otros snapdragon de gamas medias, es suficiente para el dia a dia, junto con los 4 de RAM no da problema con el multitasking, en juegos no lo he probado por que no lo uso para eso.Contras:-El sensor de huella en pantalla, a lo que he leÃdo es algo lento, en mi caso no lo he comprobado al 100 porque mi teléfono tenÃa una mica puesta en la pantalla, y como es de plástico probablemente interfiere en la detección de la huella, conmigo fallaba muchas veces y otras tardaba mucho que preferà usar otro método de desbloqueo, también tiene desbloqueo facial pero tampoco lo he probado. En lo personal no tengo problema con los otros métodos de desbloqueo pero si te importa mucho el lector de huellas, es algo a tener en cuenta, hay que mencionar que es algo que se puede mejorar por software, esperemos que en futuras actualizaciones se haga.-La parte de atrás es como plastico-cristal pero algo más inclinado a plástico, refleja la luz muy padre pero las marcas de huellas de los dedos se pegan, igual viene con una fundita.Apesar de los contras le dejo 5 estrellas, es muy buen teléfono con un montón de caracterÃsticas por software que lo hacen divertido, algunas compartidas con las de los nuevos S10 por el One UI, tiene una buena pantalla y rendimiento balanceado.
Horacio Roberto –
Para empezar, quedaré mal debido a que no tengo fotos del dispositivo ya que no tengo el como tomar una foto. Espero que mi palabra les sea más que suficiente. El primer punto a tomar en cuenta es que es una “ganga” debido a lo que contiene y lo que es en sà el dispositivo. La caja vino totalmente sellado y en buen estado. Dentro de la caja viene una micro SD de 64GB de regalo, un protector de silicona de tono negro ahumado, el dispositivo trae una mica ya puesta de buena calidad y suave al tacto y sus accesorios originales(audÃfonos, adaptador para la corriente y el cable). Cabe mencionar que el cable y el adaptador es de carga rápida. El servicio de entrega fué rápido y eficaz. Ordené el celular en color negro pero este trae un degradado tipo tornasol muy bonito. El teléfono tiene un sonido fuerte y claro, un brillo excelente y con unos audÃfonos puedes activar el Dolby que incluye el sistema del celular. Algo extra a tomar en cuenta. Jamás habÃa usado un celular de Samsung y menos uno con esta nueva capa de personalización. Honestamente, es muy simple y muy intuitivo, justo como a mi me gusta. Una respuesta muy rápida el teléfono. Consejo:al programar la huella, registren dos veces el mismo dedo para que el sensor funcione a la primera en todo momento.
Enrique López –
Un gran teléfono con detalles de alta gama en un dispositivo a precio de media, la pantalla es hermosa, la cámara bastante sorprendentemente, desgraciadamente tiene su punto malo, y es, el sistema biométrico de huella digital que está integrado en la pantalla, es terrible, funciona por ratos y es súper lento, a veces simplemente es inútil, por lo cual termine quitándola y usando una mezcla de patrón y reconocimiento facial.Una tristeza, porque pensé que serÃa mi regreso triunfal a la marca Samsung, sin gastar la ridiculez,que cuesta la lÃnea S.De cualquier forma, el aparato y su funcionamiento son destacados y muy buenos, si no te importa lo de la huella digital, disfrutarás mucho el dispositivo.
Shegarrios –
Todo está muy bien, sólo tengo un pequeñÃsimo comentario, no estoy seguro si el que me llegó trae vidrio templado o no, se le nota un borde en la orilla de la pantalla que no empata con las formas de la cámara y no me he atrevido a intentar removerlo. Si lo trae pareciera que serÃa una protección mas para el telefono, lo cuál se agradece pero… a mi punto de vista (si es que lo tiene) serÃa innecesario, estuve viendo pruebas que le hicieron de rayones a la pantalla y dudo que el vidrio que se le pudiera poner empate con esto. Además eso explicarÃa por qué es un poquitÃn malo para detectar las huellas. No sé si alguien pueda sacarme de la duda si es o no un vidrio extra; y en caso de serlo cómo removerlo de la manera más limpiamente cuando este empiece a dar muestras de rayones. AdjuntarÃa fotos… peeero, pues se me complica poco, vdd, jajaja.
Kevin Uriel Gómez cervantes –
El celular incluye una funda transparente y una mica que aunque no es de cristal, permite usar el equipo cómodamente. El A50 es una buena opción si se busca tener un celular de gama alta con precio de media: tiene un diseño de la nueva generación de celulares que ofrece un manejo más amigable, tiene triple cámara trasera con 25 megapÃxeles y sus 4gb de RAM lo hace ser rápido. Lo único que le faltó para alcanzar la perfección fue el hecho de que su baterÃa no fuera de una gran duración, no me malentiendan, es de 4,000 miliamperios con carga rápida. Es una baterÃa eficiente, te dura todo el dÃa, te llega a sobrar pero de todas maneras lo tienes que cortar porque no te va a llegar a mediodÃa del siguiente.