Tracfone Samsung Galaxy A51 4G LTE prepaid Smartphone (Locked) - Black - 128GB - Sim Card Included - CDMA

My review of the Samsung Galaxy A-50. I purchased this phone as an "upgrade" to my Samsung Galaxy S-6 Edge. The main reason was simply screen size. 5.1" for the S-6 verse 6.4" for the A50. I was also impressed with the cameras on the A50. A 25 mega pixel front camera, with 3 rear cameras. I have not had a chance to check out the night time camera or slow motion video yet. From the camera screen it is very easy to change between the different camera functions such as normal and wide angle lens, video, slow motions, etc. I was pretty amazed at the difference in the amount of content that can be included in a picture taken using the wide angle lens, verse the normal lens. Incredible. The USB-C charging cable that comes with the camera is pretty much junk. It's only like 3' long and pretty useless. I ordered a couple of 6' cables from Amazon, and they are very high quality. The Fast Charging is pretty fast. Example: My S-6 was down to 68% last week. I plugged in the charger and it told me the estimated time to reach full charge was 2 hours 59 minutes. Today, my A50 was down to 28% and it charged to full capacity in about 2 hours. Have not tested to see how long the battery will last. I'm not a big data user, mainly just Facebook and email. (Update: I charged it to full yesterday at about 1400 hrs. Today, at 1640 hrs, the phone is at 68% and that's with mild use.) It has a tear drop notch on the front screen to accommodate the front facing camera but thankfully it is not very obtrusive and allows for much smaller bezels around the phone. I have been having trouble getting the finger print scanner to work correctly. I'll keep playing around with it. I placed a screen protector on the phone so that might have something to do with it. I do have it set for Facial Recognition and that works well. I can only san approximately 75% before it shows me a message and I have to start over. I even removed the screen protector, to no avail. For this reason I awarded the fingerprint scanner 1 star. Overall, I'm pretty happy with my purchase. I'd have to say this was a well worth upgrade. IMPORTANT SCAM ALERT: I am now very disappointed. This is a copy of a portion of my Amazon invoice: Items Ordered Price 1 of: Samsung Galaxy A50 US Version Factory Unlocked Cell Phone with 64GB Memory, 6.4" Screen, Black, [SM-A505UZKNXAA] Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC Condition: New Note it states Condition: New. Well after receiving my phone, I went to the Samsung web site to register my "new" phone. It asked me for the IMEI number. When I entered it, the web site advised me the product was already registered! I'm not an expert in these matters, and correct me if I'm wrong, but the only way a product can already be registered is if it was owned and registered by someone else, yes? So Amazon sold me a used/renewed product they listed as being New. Now I'm left wondering how this is going to effect my manufacturers warranty, if one even exists for this product????? Secondary Update I jumped the gun, and was a little unfair of my comments above. I spoke with John, an Amazon Customer Service Rep. After explaining this situation, he offered to either have me return the phone for a refund or he would send a replacement. I really like the phone so I opted for the replacement. He processed that before we even got out of chat and it will be here in a few days. He assured me the replacement will in fact be new, unused and unregistered, so I'm back to being a big fan of Amazon. Thanks John

This phone checks off all the boxes of a phone for a typical SOHO user. On sale, it's a great deal! Hardware: The processor is mid-range not flagship-level, but the phone feels snappy in basic day-to-day tasks, which was my #1 concern. The screen is bright, crisp and has no notch; just a tiny "hole" for the front camera lens. Nice. The phone comes with 4 GB RAM and 128 GB of storage. I added a MicroSD with another 128 GB of storage. Ample RAM and plenty of storage. The phone also has a relatively large screen, which I also wanted, and has all the 4G LTE bands for T-Mobile including 66 and 71 (unlike its dual-SIM International counter-part, which does not have at least one of those bands, from what I've read). It also has other LTE bands which are used by carriers outside the US (as shown in the specs). In addition to the usual Wi-Fi and BT radios, this phone also has NFC, unlike many other phones in this price range (like almost all Moto phones that I researched as well as some of the Chinese brands' non-flagship phones). The screen protector glass that I use seems to make the fingerprint reader unable to recognize my fingerprints, so I would have preferred a separate fingerprint reader, but the phone does also offer face recognition, which I have not tried. One thing this phone does not have is an LED on front for notifications, but I don't really miss that, as you can see an "always-on" screen by simply double-tapping the screen. Software: I happen to dislike the design that Samsung used in their built-in apps like Contacts and Messages, where they block out a large portion of the top of the screen for just a title and some subtitle information, and begin the contacts or messages only about half-way down the screen. Once you scroll, you regain the whole screen, but I find this annoying to initially lose half the screen. Solution: Download the official Google Contacts and Messages apps and use those instead of Samsung's. One thing I do like in both Samsung and LG's customization of Android is that you can choose to have the bottom software back button on either the left, which is the "Google" default or on the right, which is the "Samsung" default. From what I have seen, Moto and perhaps others do not offer this option; the back button is always on the bottom left, not customizable to the right. I use the extremely customizable Nova Launcher (highly recommended) so I did not use the included Samsung Launcher. A big benefit to having a Samsung phone is the following: there is a "feature" of Android OS 10, about which many have complained online. If you connect a Bluetooth headset, and set that to play both phone calls and music, then your notification sounds will play over the headset only, not the phone's speaker. So if you are not wearing your headset and you get a text, for example, then you will not hear any notification sound. LG addresses this by enabling you to toggle from the notification "shade" whether or not to use the BT headset for only calls or for audio as well. But Samsung does better, in my opinion. It offers a free SoundAssistant app (downloadable from either their App Store or the Play Store but only for Samsung devices) which easily addresses this (and adds some nice features, like quick access to all volume sliders and more). I have it set to always play the notification sounds over the speaker, even if I'm listening to music on my BT headset. Samsung and LG both offer software (typically included in the phone) that enables you to migrate from any old phone, including their respective competitors' phones, to their own. Samsung calls this SmartSwitch. I was unable to use a USB-C to USB-C cable to do the transfer, but Wi-Fi direct did work to copy over all my call logs and other data. Google also can backup/restore some data from your Google Drive, but that does not include Call Logs and certain other data. Finally, since it is unlocked by Samsung, there are no hoops through which to jump (like calling the carrier for an unlock code, etc.) if you want to travel overseas and use a local SIM card; it's unlocked and ready to go. Other thoughts: My more recent phones have been LG Stylo phones, with the Samsung Galaxy S3 prior to those. I have been looking into a replacement for my old LG Stylo phone, which is very laggy as it comes with only 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage. Most of the Moto phones, for example, while reasonably priced, do not come with NFC. You probably won't miss NFC until you happen to need it. You could use NFC to transfer data from one device to another, though you can use Wi-Fi Direct instead, in most cases. Samsung actually makes good use of NFC with its Samsung Pay digital wallet, if you are interested in that. Bottom line: This phone is a very good all-around mid-range phone. On sale, it cost not much more than a typical low-end phone from T-Mobile or elsewhere. Unlike many other phones, it has NFC but, more importantly, it just works and does not lag.

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)

I have been needed a new phone for quite some time. I bought a Samsung tab A 10.5 2018 over the summer, and I could not connect it with my phone, because my phone was too, old and did not support the new software. I had a Samsung galaxy note edge, but I didnt want to spend $1000 on a new Note, so the A50 was in my price range, even though it is a mid range phone, it has flagship features. This phone works great on Tmobile, the only problem I had, was that my phone was so old, I didnt have a nano sim card, so I had to go to the Tmobile store and purchase a nano sim for $10. The Tmobile sales rep, put my new sim card and my micro sd card in, then she activated my new sim with my with my old Tmobile number(I'm already a Tmobile customer), and I was on my way in less than 10 minutes. Setting the phone up with the apps and content from my old phone was easy with Samsung Smart Switch. The phone is absolutely stunning and so is the screen quality. The A50 has better screen resolution than all my devices including my new tablet. So any movies or shows you watch on it in HD, are going to look beautiful! The phone is very intuitive, it basically tells you what you need to do, to get the most out of your apps and how to set it up. It's very fast, fluid and very touch responsive without the lag you might get on a inexpensive phone. So far the photos come out great. I haven't put the camera through all of its paces yet, but once I do, I will upgrade my review. I took a photo at night, and I was impressed with the detail, and color on the photo, the phone's camera as so many features, it's going to take me a good week to play with them all. I'm still setting the phone up, because there are so many features you can play with, and I definitely want to utilize them. I use my phone for work, and my last phone had a 13mp camera and the photos were good, so with a 25mp camera, I can't wait to take work photos and upload them to the website. I have had $1000 phones before and for $350 this phone still delivers the same premium experience as a flagship phone, with only one drawback the speaker quality isn't that great, but it is doable. I still gave the phone 5 stars because it's only $275-$350, so it's not going to be perfect. The sound quality is fine for watching movies and shows, not so great for listening to music, but I use earphones to listen to music anyway, so it is not a deal breaker for me. Call sound quality is good, so no problems there. I hear alot of people having problems with the fingerprint scanner, I never used it, because I always had problems with them on my other high end Samsung devices, so I stick to a lock pin. You can program you phone to stay unlocked when you are in a trusted place, like home or work or when it is on your body. You can also do face recognition, it's works, but only if you are in a well lit room. Did I mention how beautiful the screen is, or how easy it is to use and navigate, you are going to love this phone!

*This review is for the Samsung Galaxy A50, purchased on Amazon for $275, March 2020. *I use the Xfinity Network. I had the Iphone 4, 5, and 6. Long time Apple user here. I wanted a phone with a larger screen, better camera, more memory, etc. but didn't want to pay $700+ for a new phone. The A50 looked like it fit the bill at a nice price and the reviews I saw were overall quite good. When the phone arrived the package and phone appeared new and the phone was indeed unlocked as described. I plugged it in and turned it on, setup was a breeze, it walks you through it step by step. Setup my WiFi and downloaded all the updates. Turned both phones off, took the sim out of my Iphone 6 and put it in this phone (A50 package includes a little pin tool to open the sim tray-no paper clip needed. If you're like me and never opened a sim tray before I will tell you it takes a bit of force and the tray comes all the way out). As soon as I started the A50 back up it recognized the carrier and I was able to make and receive calls/texts right away without any problems. When I log into the Xfinity site it still shows my phone listed as the Iphone 6, I imagine I'll have to call someone at Xfinity to have that updated, but no biggy, the phone works great! The screen is big and beautiful, very bright and clear. The Android OS is completely new to me, but it's very intuitive and easy to learn. The biometric face detection works very well, I didn't try to fool it with a picture, I figure if I lose my phone it's unlikely that someone will have a picture of me on hand to try and fool it with. I had my wife & kids try to open it and they couldn't. The case I bought comes with a built in screen protector, unfortunately the finger print scanner doesn't work with it, but I think that's the cases fault not the phones. I haven't used the camera very much yet, but so far it seems pretty good. I've only had the phone for 24 hours, but so far I'm VERY pleased with this purchase. I'll update this review in the future if my opinion changes with more experience with it.

UPDATE Two months after using this phone. --Loudness is a big plus. I can hold this phone 5 inches away, it is loud enough to hear and speak with others. Due to radiation dangers, I like being able to use this phone without holding it to my ear. --4GB memory makes this phone work better than its contemporaries with 3 or 2 GB memory and slightly (lets say 50%) stronger CPU-Processor. --Receptivity with my home wifi and with cell phone towers is excellent. *** I use my Google voice phone number on this too! It works great on this A51. I like having two phone numbers on one phone. I have an Obi at home to use with my Google Voice. Now I have disconnected it, to use this phone as my Google voice connection. --- I like the huge, very high def. OLED screen --- Phone is very touch responsive. Much better than my old LG Rebel 4....I also use a stylus with A51. Cheap generic styluses work well on A51. You do not need to buy an official Samsung stylus. I have been building and using Windows PCs since 1997. This phone is one of the top 5 "computer" upgrades I have ever done. My old LG was pathetic compared to this A51 and its receptivity was fading, for whatever reason. With dropped phones calls and so on. ___________________________________ It rings loudly, but also those who phone me....their voices come in loud! Which I like! So I can hold it 5" from my mouth. This way I don't get all those LTE frequencies entering my skull and brain. Safer this way. Good way to stimulate getting brain cancer is to hold a cell phone at your ear for hours each day. I bought this on Black Friday at Amazon --- for $100 It came with Android 10 and started to automatically upgrade to Android 11. Android 12 is alive, and being rolled out, but being doled out to Gooogle Pixel phones first. I cannot wait to get android 12 My previous phone had Android 8 and was not going to upgrade above 8 Android 11 is so much better and more logical than Android 8. It is 10 times better. With my previous phone, my reception and connectivity for voice phone calls via TracFone was getting worse and worse. Especially in my house. With phone calls breaking up etc. / With my new A51 these problems are gone. This A51 phone has the wifi-calling feature (old phone did not) which I can activate if I need to enhance my phone call reception when at home. This means that if necessary, part of my phone call is routed through the internet via my home wifi network. It hitches a ride with my wifi. ### Just as a test, I have not yet activated wifi calling. No need to. Your case might be different. If you are in a rural area and have a home wifi network. For sure look into wifi calling. Go to settings >>> Connections>>>wifi calling with its on-off slider button The OLED screen is very vivid and lovely. It has a blue light filter/damper for use at night. Battery life is good and probably very good. I have not really used the very high rez cameras much yet. Only briefly and they seem OK Bottom line is that me talking reception is much better/ in fact I have zero problems. Thanks Samsung!! ... I never buy Apple

I purchased the A71 5G not really knowing what I was getting because the only other phone I've had was an LG. Now I'm in awe of this phone. I bought the unlocked version so I could choose my carrier. From day #1 I was so pleasantly surprised in the many, many features offered and the ease of the learning curve. So many features! Can't really describe them all, but there's one really nifty one that stands out. I'm an old man living in a rest home. My hearing isn't the best. So one of these features is the phones ability to give me a "hearing test" of sorts. I put on my headphones and it plays different tones (in each ear separately) and uses the info to create a wave, then "mold" the output for maximum control of the sound. That way I actually hear the correct tones at any volume I listen to! To me, at my age, that is such a positive thing. The screen on the phone is "wall to wall, " both ways. Very high resolution. I'd rather watch movies on my phone than my TV. For security, it uses, if desired, face recognition or fingerprints. Either one, very easy to set up. And the battery seems to last forever - and I do a lot of face time with my children due to the Covid-19 pandemic. I also stream movies, videos and such quite a bit. When it gets down below 20% or so, I slip my magnetic charging cord onto it, and it charges FAST! (NOTE : the magnetic cord is only good for charging - NOT data xfer!) All in all, I'd call this the middle of the road as far as price goes, but with a plethora of other goodies that even that expensive "i" type phone doesn't have. More bang for your buck here!

Had I only known 2 weeks ago when I bought my A71 5G, I would have waited and pre-ordered the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE. Though you get a 6.5" on the S20 FE screen vs 6.7" on the A71, the S20 FE gives you so much more for just $100 difference in price. Both are 5G enabled, have a screen resolution of 2400 x 1080 and Gorilla Glass 3 screen protection, but only the Galaxy S20 FE supports a 120Hz refresh rate vs. the A71's 60Hz refresh rate. Similarly, each phone is powered by a 4,500mAh battery with 25W fast charging capabilities but only the Galaxy S20 FE supports wireless charging and wireless PowerShare. S20 FE has stereo speakers vs. A71's single-firing speaker. Both phones have an aluminum frame and a plastic back panel but the Galaxy S20 FE has more colorful choices and has a matte finish which shows less fingerprints. In addition, the Galaxy A71 has UFS 2.1 storage while the Galaxy S20 FE takes advantage of the much faster UFS 3.0 standard. The Galaxy S20 FE features the newer Snapdragon 865 chipset in the US as opposed to the Exynos 980 solution in the A71. It also ships with the latest version of One UI (2.5) instead of One UI 2.1. In fact, the Galaxy S20 FE delivers a complete One UI flagship-grade experience with features like Samsung DeX / wireless DeX. Last but not least, the new budget flagship is IP68-certified whereas the Galaxy A71 5G lacks dust and water protection. The front-facing lens on the S20 FE is only 3.34mm in diameter (the smallest in any Samsung device), giving you more "entirely flat" screen, less lens notch. Camera setup is also slightly different, but that's a matter of taste. Buyer's remorse in light of the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S20 FE? Yes. However, my experience with the A71 has been fine overall. I wanted a larger screen than my Pixel 2's 5.7" screen and this one delivers. It's bright, colorful. The phone also has a lot of bells & whistles thanks to Samsung's UI (I strongly suggest watching Tips & Tricks videos on YouTube to take full advantage of what a Samsung phone offers). However, some of those bells and whistles do not work such as Dolby Atmos sound (it makes no difference if it's on or off), the Display Edge Lighting (which only works for me when the phone is locked and the screen is black. It doesn't work with any other apps like it should). The camera is great and shows you how to get the best shot (and it works). I don't listen to music without earbud, so I can't comment on listening to music on the one speaker. But the speaker is fine for videos with dialogue. The on-screen thumbprint unlock is a nightmare (something you have to have to deal with it on all new Samsung phones). Rarely does it unlock the first time and because of the size of the phone I have to use one hand to keep the phone steady while the other hand's fingerprint is used to unlock the phone. Battery life is nothing short of amazing. I've gone two days with 30% battery left (no heavy video usage, but heavy on apps, email and texts). And if you haven't experienced 5G--Wow! I can get reception in places like elevators and my doctor's office that I couldn't before. I don't play games, so I can't comment on its processor. Satisfied overall with the Galaxy A71 5G? Yes. Disappointed I didn't know to hold out for the Galaxy S20 FE which only costs $100 more? DEFINITELY.