Samsung Galaxy A50 A505G 64GB Duos GSM Unlocked Phone w/Triple 25MP Camera - Black

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.

Last year we needed new phones. I like Samsung products, but I refuse to pay the asking price for the high end Galaxy phones. We ended up buying two BLU Vivo8s for around $150 each. They had an awesome battery but were glitchy from the beginning(not enough time or room to list the details). We lived with them for a year or so, but after a while we were just ready for something else. I saw an article on the A50 on some website and was intrigued. Even though I could not find a US specific A50 for sale, after some digging I found the SM-A505G model was supposed to be US compatible. It's the Latin America version if I remember right. We took a chance and ordered one A50 and one A30....hoping they would work on AT&T in the midwest. Both phones take NANO sims(not micro) so we had to get different cards before we could try them. Calling worked just fine first try. Texting worked first try. We don't use a huge amount of data, but speeds seem fine. The only issue was with MMS. We sent a couple of pics back and forth just to test....no luck. :( In some of my searching and researching pre-purchase, I had found a site(and bookmarked it) that listed some settings that had to be changed(added) to get MMS to work. We entered the settings ....and it worked!! We've only had them about a week, but so far so good. None of the goofiness that the BLU phones did. The only Con so far....... Some other people mentioned an issue with the fingerprint reader on the A50. At first it worked great...first try, every time. But a day or two later I went to unlock and it did not recognize my fingerprint. After several tries it finally worked. I have deleted fingerprints and redone them and tried several different fingers. It just doesn't work consistently. I hate to say it, but even the BLU phone had a better fingerprint reader. Usually I just give up and enter the pattern....it's faster. Even with this one "con" I can live with it. Great phone...good price...Samsung firmware quality....good size for my old eyes(not too big or too small). Wife is happy with her A30 also(and the fingerprint reader works great on it). We'll probably keep these phones for a long time unless some unforeseen issues pop up.

The phone didnt come with manual. It was priced affordably with a 64 gb internal memory along with 64 gb sd card. Battery life great. Can run multiple apps and smoothly. For a significant amount of time. Takes phenomenal pictures. Quality is above and beyond expected. What ever you take a picture of comes out life like. Vibrant colors. Big screen for video play. Easily play games or stream. Easy to cast or transfer files to other devices. Phone honestly has more capabilities then I can think of. That's why I was so bummed about know owners manual. Phone can take abuse and no big scratches. Only real drawbacks in the flashlight. Not bright at all and still havent figured out if it has a signal light that goes off when in sleep mode and not in use that notifies you. If you missed a notification when you were occupied without having to stop and check always liked that capability. Very disappointed in the brightness of flash light. Overall for the price an unbelievable phone. No monthly fee for 18 months where at end of contract you have dropped 1200 to 2000 dollars for a phone you now have to upgrade or replace or god forbid continue paying for. One of the best features is the security of your files and life stories. Fingerprint very capable to all the most recent and best security precautions.

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.

I one star rating for the package it came in. Am a fair person … But From I bought this phone for my stepdad...up to this day its not working can you imagine!!!! after I spend so much money to surprise him for his birthday.. I had seen the comments and say hey probably its just a one off factory error why people were say negative…..i took the chance but am telling you if your planning on buying this phone forget.. The first red flag that I got is that before it was delivered it kept saying delivery reschedule etc for abt two weeks I ordered it and couldn't get it just jeep saying delivery rechdule reschedule. Mind you it came well packaged like every brand new phone but it doesn't work on any net work not even for an hr good and its an unlock phone I purchased. I took it to every dealer and it just wont keep any service for any network and No one can solve the problem…. Right now its a big lost my stepdad is disappointed and I can't afford to buy him another phone to replace it right now…. its so sad cause it cost a lot of money and the phone is just sitting down at home like a statue. This should not be if your selling an item for so much money you should ensure it does what you say it do people don't have money to waste like its picked off a green trees outside am terrible hurt. God knows

I moved away from Apple phones a few months ago, and this phone got everything I needed on a phone. This particular model SM-A505G is sold in Latin America, the box is in Spanish, and it came with a 128GB SD Card (sweet surprise) for those users who want more from their phone, this particular one comes with bootloader unlocked no 7 days jail stuff (don't buy the US version U1). and also compatible with CDMA cellphone companies in the US, like AT&T and T-Mobile. (4G-LTE). I have no problem using fingerprint function. It is fast and lite and the battery is in excellent condition. Overall a very good phone for the money. Thank you.

EDIT: After three months the phone is still so solid in all areas. Made a great purchase here. EDIT 2: After one year, AccuBattery reports 90% battery capacity retention. Solid. Original review: The Galaxy A50 is the first phone I've ever bought unlocked. I've had it for over a month now and I feel I can safely say that this really is an incredible phone for the price point. Its battery is the best thing about it, and it's actually why I bought the phone. It always lasts the entire day with heavy usage AND GPS on, will probably last you two if you don't use it very often throughout the way. Full marks. I'm on AT&T's network and there's been absolutely no reception issues in Texas. Can't say for anywhere else but I assume it's still good. The speaker volume is very good and the phone even came pre-installed with a screen protector, which is awesome. (And a microSD card!) I can't say much for its gaming performance. Not because it's bad, but rather, I hardly play games on my phone to properly give an opinion. Seemed solid with Minecraft though. (Update: It runs kinda poorly in Pokemon Masters, but all other games are no struggle.) And although it may not serve much use in the US, its radio feature is actually very cool. I love that. This may be a hot take, especially considering others' reviews of it, but the in-screen fingerprint reader is not half bad. It's definitely not as lenient as you would hope, but if you can learn to scan your finger in a consistent angle, it's acceptable. The camera's the worst part about the phone, but I feel the default Samsung Camera app does it even more injustice. For video capture, stabilization is always on so you have a large feeling of delay when you capture video. Some aspect ratios aren't available, and video framerate options are nowhere to be seen. Additionally, while the camera supports the Camera2 API, those features are stripped from Pro mode. A workaround I now use is downloading Open Camera off the Play Store and enabling Camera2 features. All that aside though, the camera still offers interesting and fun shots to take. It really should be fine for people who aren't power users. It's good enough. Another minor inconvenience is that the phone lacks Smart Capture entirely, for whatever reason. I had to download Screen Master as a replacement ... which seems to do fine as is, so it's not a big deal. One last thing is that I notice my touches stick when I type too fast, resulting in accidental swipe text input. I don't know if that's a global thing or if that's just some sort of unfortunate issue I have. This never happened with my S7. I just remedy it by typing slower. Overall though? This is a really good phone. It's exceeded my expectations in several areas. :) PS. Attached images are shots I've taken with the camera. Aside from resolution shrinking (for bandwidth's sake) and captions, these are unedited.

I bought this to replace my galaxy s8 because my eyesight is not what it use to be and i wanted a larger screen. So far, here is what i found: The screen is good. Not great but good enough. Copying my stuff from the S8 to the A50 was easy. Note that the required cable to connect the 2 phones together was NOT included. Fortunatly i had one. I have also noted that the phone is not as snappy as my S8. This phone has no wireless charging, no notification LED, and no NFC. It is cheap and I should have suspected this. Battery life is yet to be determined. I will update as time goes by..assuming I keep it.