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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2019
I was seriously impressed with this phone. Heck I was impressed with the Galaxy A20 that I saw in store. When I researched and found for a few bucks more the Galaxy A50 had significantly better specs, I bought it immediately.
And I wasn't disappointed.
The screen is phenomenal. It isn't the highest resolution screen in the world, but it's higher resolution than my eyes can notice. So no complaints there. The LED panel makes color rendering fantastic. Visually the screen is stunning.
The battery life is just silly. I'm seeing 4 to 5 hours of screen time on a single charge. And the standby time is crazy, with almost no drain whatsoever with the screen off. I'm talking about it going all night with less than 1% drop. I'm not playing games though. This is internet, email, phone calls, etc. Gaming will probably drain it a little faster.
The processor is snappy. The whole thing is very responsive. I don't find any lag on it at all. It's a GREAT phone for the price.
There are a couple minor things.
The camera is just okay. 25MP sounds like high res, but the rendering of an image still has a lot of noise when you zoom in. Any photo it takes looks find on the screen at normal 1x zoom. They look fine when printed on normal sized paper. But you can't zoom in far or print really big and get a high res image. It's good enough for 95% of people who want a simple point and shoot camera handy.
The speaker (the media speaker, not the phone speaker) is slightly tinny. It's not crystal clear reproduction of sound. This really only impacts music. And odds are that you're listening to music on headphones that negates that problem. Pod casts, speakphone calls, etc....it's not bad enough to cause audio problems with that sort of thing. But it's not crystal clear sound reproduction.
My biggest complaint about the phone is the lack of notification lights. The Always On Display is a nice idea in concept (only on an LED phone. On an LCD it's a battery hogging disaster) but its' not nearly customization enough. I like that I can have it show notifications. But I don't like it showing the clock. Even as super dim it's too bright for a dark room. It needs to have an option to only show notification with no clock and then ONLY if you have an active notification. And why can't it blink so I'd notice a notification from across the room? Just make a small circle that blinks in the middle of the giant LED panel to give notification alerts. Why is that so hard?
Anyway those are my 3 complaints about the phone. They aren't deal killers. But they do knock the A50 from 5 stars to 4. I don't see any reason to spend $1000 on the Galaxy S10 though when the A50 is more than enough phone for 90% of people out there. It just does everything you'd want it to do (minus good notifications)
And I wasn't disappointed.
The screen is phenomenal. It isn't the highest resolution screen in the world, but it's higher resolution than my eyes can notice. So no complaints there. The LED panel makes color rendering fantastic. Visually the screen is stunning.
The battery life is just silly. I'm seeing 4 to 5 hours of screen time on a single charge. And the standby time is crazy, with almost no drain whatsoever with the screen off. I'm talking about it going all night with less than 1% drop. I'm not playing games though. This is internet, email, phone calls, etc. Gaming will probably drain it a little faster.
The processor is snappy. The whole thing is very responsive. I don't find any lag on it at all. It's a GREAT phone for the price.
There are a couple minor things.
The camera is just okay. 25MP sounds like high res, but the rendering of an image still has a lot of noise when you zoom in. Any photo it takes looks find on the screen at normal 1x zoom. They look fine when printed on normal sized paper. But you can't zoom in far or print really big and get a high res image. It's good enough for 95% of people who want a simple point and shoot camera handy.
The speaker (the media speaker, not the phone speaker) is slightly tinny. It's not crystal clear reproduction of sound. This really only impacts music. And odds are that you're listening to music on headphones that negates that problem. Pod casts, speakphone calls, etc....it's not bad enough to cause audio problems with that sort of thing. But it's not crystal clear sound reproduction.
My biggest complaint about the phone is the lack of notification lights. The Always On Display is a nice idea in concept (only on an LED phone. On an LCD it's a battery hogging disaster) but its' not nearly customization enough. I like that I can have it show notifications. But I don't like it showing the clock. Even as super dim it's too bright for a dark room. It needs to have an option to only show notification with no clock and then ONLY if you have an active notification. And why can't it blink so I'd notice a notification from across the room? Just make a small circle that blinks in the middle of the giant LED panel to give notification alerts. Why is that so hard?
Anyway those are my 3 complaints about the phone. They aren't deal killers. But they do knock the A50 from 5 stars to 4. I don't see any reason to spend $1000 on the Galaxy S10 though when the A50 is more than enough phone for 90% of people out there. It just does everything you'd want it to do (minus good notifications)
