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Am looking at switching back to Android from iPhone and a friend has been raving about the Samsung Galaxy A50 which seems to be £250 new.
Is there anything comparable Android-wise I should be considering do we think?
TIA - I know there are loads of these threads, my apologies!
Stock answer here is Moto G.
Bit more money but I'm pleased with my Pixel 3a I picked up for £330.
Pixel 3a here too. Dope.
Just got one of these for the Mrs.
Seems ok for the money.
One irritating thing tho is there's no led notification light for txt, WhatsApp etc.
Pixel 3a is a bit more yeah, but looks interesting, ta.
Pixel 3a users: what makes it so good?
Edit: no SD card slot, how’s that work for you then?
I just got one for my son from Giffgaff for £250 and you get £50 cashback from Samsung on top of that.
Get one direct from Samsung as they have a daft minimum £100 off for trading in virtually any Android or apple phone.
Might need to buy a more expensive model but the reduction makes up for it.
I have a Samsung A8 (2018) that's coming up to 2 years old. It's fantastic still and I'm sure the A50 is probably a similar phone judging on the price point.
I went from an iPhone SE and can't see myself going back to apple anytime soon.
You can get the Xiaomi Mi 9t for about that price if you shop around
As a regular MTBer & outdoorsy person (let's just pretend that's why we are all here), I recon you should consider a rugged, waterproof phone. I've just got a uleFone 6e & really pleased so far.
Pixel 3a here. Missed the last deal for £350 by 12 hours so spent about 3 months sulking and refusing to pay full wack, and then for it for £330 during Black Friday week.
It's lovely and loadsa storage so lack of SD shouldn't matter, plus my old phone kept moving the apps back to the phone each time it updated them which meant I was always out of space anyway!
Need to increase the pressure setting for active edge as the Google Assistant keeps popping up!
Love my Pixel 3a. Great camera (the new Astrophotography mode is voodoo work), great screen, stock Android so will get Android updates as soon as they're released, really like the haptic feedback and has plenty of memory.
I picked up a Note 9 in very good condition from Music Magpies eBay shop for £288 with one of the codes they always spit out. Impressive so far, great battery life and the screen is lush.
I'm also in the market and I've just been on the Samsung website. Samsung A70 is £369. I can also get £100 trade in for my old Samsung and £60 cashback. That's mad.
Seems like a decent phone as well. I don't need anything magical.
Really interested by the Pixel 3a, found a deal via mobilephonesdirect that promises cashback in installments to bring the monthly cost down to something I'd be prepared to do.
Anyone had any experience of these sorts of deals? Just wondering what the catch is! Is the cashback actual money, or just money off other stuff I wonder?
Pixel 3a has two benefits:
Brilliant camera
Receives updates immediately as well as pixel specific features
The rest of it is a bog-standard phone - it just does phone stuff no bother without pissing you off in any way.
I have an A50.
It's fine, absolutely no problems.
Samsung S8 brand new SIM free for £235 in April from AO
Can't fault it so far.
Take a look at the pocophone F1. Shit name great phone. Ignore the reviews. Same spec as the pixel 3 ( not 3a ) bar the display. + SD card slot and headphone jack. Really pleased with mine. Had it nearly a year.
I have ordered an A50 from Amazon for £230 (SIM free) tonight after dropping and breaking the screen on my Nokia 6.1.
According to what I have read it is closer to stock Android (Android One) than previous Samsung phones so should be very similar to the Nokia.
Gutted about the Nokia though as I've only had it 18 months, I usually last a good 3 years or more and its the first I've broken
Got an A50 yesterday, had a terrible rattle from inside the phone casing. Samsung asked me to return for a refund. Sure was a one off, with the £50 cashback and £100 for an old phone on trade in it was cheap enough.
Worth noting it is surprisingly big btw.
The Nokia 6.1 is 148.8 x 75.8 x 8.2 mm and the A50 is 158.5 x 74.7 x 7.7 mm so ends up only 10mm bigger.
My old Nexus 5 seems tiny now! which is still in good working order but a bit tatty and no longer gets official updates. Even Lineage OS stopped doing updates, but it serves well as an additional display on my racing setup
OP here. Have gone for Pixel 3a on the crazy cashback scheme. Pray for me.
Bit late to the party, but I've got an A70 - it's a decent phone, but noticeably bigger than the iPhone XR it replaced.
Have gone for Pixel 3a
Great choice