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We’ve already covered the excellent Samsung Galaxy A70, but that’s not the only low-cost handset the South Korean giant is releasing this year. We also have the Galaxy A50, which is a very close match to the A70 but sits a little lower in the company’s portfolio. The burning question is which should you go for – and is the A50 as strong a rival for the all-conquering Google Pixel 3a? We’re about to find out.

The first thing you’ll notice about the Galaxy A50’s design is the rear panel. It’s made from plastic – as you might expect from a phone in this price range – but it has a really cool multi-colored design that appears to be black indoors but turns into all kinds of shades when sunlight hits it. Samsung isn’t the first company to use this kind of visual gimmick – Huawei is in the mix, too – but it looks remarkable and really gives the A50 a premium feel.

That’s definitely a positive because the rest of the Galaxy A50’s design is very much on the cheap side. The plastic frame feels lightweight, although it’s sturdy enough. The power and volume keys are on the right-hand side, with the SIM card tray on the opposite edge. On the bottom, you’ll find the USB-C port, single speaker and 3.5mm headphone socket. The back is dominated by that aforementioned color-changing rear panel, along with a three-camera setup, LED flash and Samsung logo.

There once was a time when AMOLED panel was the sole preserve of flagship phones, but these days that has all changed. Sure, Apple might still want to short-change its customers by putting an LCD screen inside the still-rather-expensive iPhone XR, but elsewhere in the marketplace AMOLED screens are being seen in devices that are below that magical £400 price point – the Pixel 3a being a perfect example.

Now, Samsung has gone one better by putting one of its superb panels inside the Galaxy A50, a phone which is even cheaper than the Pixel 3a. We’re talking a Super AMOLED screen here, with a Full HD+ (2340 x 1080 pixels) resolution. It’s protected by Gorilla Glass 3 and looks utterly amazing, especially for a phone in this price range.

Like the Galaxy A70, the Galaxy A50’s screen uses Samsung’s Infinity-U design, so the front-facing camera is contained within a small teardrop-style notch at the top. Granted, it’s not as cool as the Infinity-O screen seen on the flagship Galaxy S10, but it nonetheless means you’re getting a lot of screen for your money – even if the bezel at the bottom is a little too large for our liking.

Colors really pop and it’s easy to use in direct sunlight. When you consider the cost of this device, this display really is a marvel. It also has a fast and accurate in-screen fingerprint scanner, which is again impressive for such a modestly-priced device.

Samsung’s OneUI is powering the Galaxy A50, and it sits on top of Android Pie, the latest iteration of Google’s mobile OS. As we noted in the review for the Galaxy A70, everything is swift and responsive, but it’s a real shame that Samsung insists on getting you to sign into its own account to access core features.

Many of the Google apps you download are replicated by Samsung’s own offerings, most of which are markedly inferior. We’ve seen a lot of other companies realize that this duplication hurts the user experience, but Samsung has stubbornly stuck to its guns and continues to saddle its handsets with needless bloatware. It’s not a deal-breaker of course, and if you’re a seasoned Samsung user then you probably wouldn’t have it any other way, but we’re starting to grow a little tired of this pointless replication of functionality.

While the Galaxy A50 plays second fiddle to the Galaxy A70 is most respects, it actually has a more powerful processor at its heart. It’s running Samsung’s own octa-core Exynos 9610, which boasts four Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.31GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.74GHz. This is aided by 4GB or 6GB of RAM (depending on the model you buy) and 64GB storage, which you can boost by 512GB using a Micro SD card.

The 4,000mAh battery inside the Galaxy A50 will keep you going for an entire day without any issue whatsoever and is supported by 15W fast charging. This means you can quickly recharge the device when it’s low on juice.

The A50 has a similar three-camera setup to the one seen on the A70. There’s a primary 25-megapixel camera with an f/1.7 aperture, a secondary 5-megapixel camera for depth-sensing camera, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide angle lens which is blessed with a 123-degree field of view.

The main camera takes great shots in the right conditions, showcasing loads of color and plenty of detail. The secondary camera comes in handy when you’re taking bokeh shots, allowing the A50 to produce some arty portrait images.

However, it’s the wide-angle lens that we like the most here, as it allows you to fit more detail into a single shot. We had a lot of fun messing about with this particular feature, and it’s encouraging to see Samsung embrace this approach on two such pocket-friendly handsets. These two shots were taken at the exact same position; the first is the primary camera and the second is the wide-angle lens:

Sadly, the A50 falls down when it comes to low-light photography; it simply cannot compete with the Pixel 3a in this regard. Even so, this is a decent setup, as you can see from these sample images.

Given that there’s such a small difference in price between the Galaxy A50 and Galaxy A70, it’s hard to choose between them. However, we think the latter is perhaps the best option but if you’re really shopping on a tight budget then the A50 isn’t likely to disappoint.

Between the versatile cameras, bloat-free software and rather good gaming performance, the phone will more than suffice for most prospective users. The Samsung Galaxy A50 does it all while offering a really good user experience.

This device is no longer widely available. The Samsung Galaxy A50 is now unavailable to buy from most retailers. If you are looking for an alternative device, check out our list of the best Android phones you can buy and the best Samsung phones.

Last year if you told me Samsung would soon make some of the best mid-range smartphones, I would have laughed you off. Samsung’s mid-range J and A-series phones were utterly incompetent, with designs straight out of 2015. It took longer than expected, but the Chinese assault has finally had an effect. Samsung is now playing on the offensive and the Galaxy A50 is the best example of what happens when the company decides to get serious. Marking the top end of the A series (for now), the Galaxy A50 takes phones like the Redmi Note 7 Pro and Pocophone F1 head-on.

I worked on this Galaxy A50 review over the course of a week. My Samsung Galaxy A50 review unit with Samsung One UI on Android 9.0 was used in India on the Airtel network. The unit was running the March 1st, 2019 security patch and build number PPR1.180610.011.A505FDDU1ASC1.

Samsung’s M and A series phones share a lot of design elements. The Galaxy M30 and A50 are particularly similar. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this, and Samsung made just enough changes across products to make them stand out.

The Galaxy A50 picks up the gradient style of the M30 and gives it a rather attractive rainbow-like sheen. The phone looks great and will definitely turn heads. Samsung opted to use plastic all around, which helps keep the weight of the phone down to a sprightly 166 grams. The downside, of course, is that the phone is a fingerprint and scuff magnet. The phone will definitely pick up scratches over time and you’ll be well served by a quality case.

The weight reduction combined with excellent ergonomics makes the Galaxy A50 comfortable to hold. The back panel smoothly flows and curves around the edges ensuring there are no hard edges hurting your palm. The central frame is made of metal and has the volume rocker and power button on the right. On the left is a tray with dual nano-SIM card slots as well as a dedicated microSD card slot.

You might have noticed the lack of a fingerprint reader at the back. That’s because the Galaxy A50 employs an optical in-display fingerprint scanner. It works fine, but definitely isn’t as fast as a standard capacitive fingerprint reader. The in-display scanner takes just over a second to recognize your biometrics and let you into your phone. Personally, I found the face unlock option faster, but it definitely isn’t as safe.

The front of the phone resembles the Galaxy M30 quite a bit. The Samsung Galaxy A50’s Infinity-U waterdrop notch juts into the 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display. Bezels at the sides and top are as slim as they get in this category but the design is marred by the rather big chin at the bottom. Overall screen-to-body ratio is a very respectable 85.2 percent.

The Samsung Galaxy A50 has a 4,000mAh battery which is a step down from the larger 5,000mAh unit on the Galaxy M30. Regardless, the phone still comfortably lasts a full day of use and has a decent amount of charge left over. During my week of use, I consistently had 30-40 percent charge left over at the end of the day despite long calls, extensive social media use as well music streaming.

The 6.4 inch Super AMOLED Full HD+ display on the Galaxy A50 is definitely one of the highlights of the phone. It looks absolutely fantastic and makes watching multimedia content a pleasurable experience. With support for the Widevine L1 DRM, the phone is capable of streaming HD content from Netflix.

The screen is vibrant to the point of appearing ever so slightly oversaturated. There are options within the settings menu to tweak this to your taste. Being a Super AMOLED display, black levels are sufficiently deep too.

Viewing angles on the Galaxy A50 are great and the phone works outdoors comfortably. The screen brightness more than compensates for direct sunlight. The phone comes with an option to toggle on the always-on display mode for notifications which is great since there is no dedicated notification LED here.

The Galaxy A50 is powered by the Exynos 9610 chipset, which hasn’t been seen on any Galaxy phone yet. Built on a 10nm fabrication process, the chipset uses an octa-core big.LITTLE architecture. The four Cortex A73 cores clocked at 2.3GHz are powerful enough for almost anything you throw at the phone while the four Cortex A53 efficiency cores clocked at 1.6GHz ensure that the phone sips power when not performing an intensive activity. There’s a Mali G72 MP3 GPU handling the graphics end of the business.

The Samsung Galaxy A50’s battery performance is right in line with what you would expect from a phone with a 4,000mAh battery. The phone lasts a full of day with moderate use and has enough charge left over to last half of the next day too. Even with heavy gaming use, the phone sips power and you should be able to get a full day of use easily. In our testing with a mixed-use case of gaming, social media use and music streaming, the phone consistently managed over six hours of screen on time. The phone supports 15-watt fast charging.

Network performance was exemplary on the Galaxy A50 and the phone managed to hold a signal even in a low network environment. Calls sounded loud and clear at both ends.

The Exynos 9610 ensures that day-to-day usability is top notch on the Galaxy A50. Be it navigation around the interface, animations, gestures or just about any app you throw at the phone, it maintains a steady clip. Samsung did an amazing job optimizing the software for the hardware and using the phone feels great. Out of the box, the interface’s animations are a bit overbearing, but turning them off is easy (and highly recommended).

The GPU section is powered by a Mali G72 MP3 which we found satisfactory. The most obvious test was to put it through the most popular smartphone game around. The phone maintains a steady frame rate in PUBG with the settings at Ultra mode. I noticed no slowdowns, the draw distance was great. The phone got just moderately warm even with extended gaming. Without a doubt, the Galaxy A50 offers one of the best PUBG experiences in this category of phones.

Unlike the Galaxy M series smartphones, the Galaxy A50 runs Android Pie out of the box. Not just that, the phone has a One UI-based interface which is almost exactly the same as what you get on the Galaxy S10 as well.

During initial set up, the phone lets you install a wide range of Samsung apps, which is a much better way of onboarding users than bloating up the phone’s software. However, while the Galaxy A50 doesn’t really come preloaded with a lot of apps, it doesn’t mean it’s completely guilt free. The My Galaxy app pushes quite a few notifications daily. Apps like Daily Hunt and the Microsoft app suite cannot be uninstalled.

Samsung has since issued updates that brought the phone to the December 2019 security build. Other features include improved stability, the ability to take scrolling screenshots. .

As of April 1 2020, Samsung has started rolling out the Android 10 update to the Galaxy A50. Part of the A505FDDU4BTC4 update, it not only brings the latest version of Android but also the latest security patches. Elsewhere, the software skin has been updated to OneUI 2.0, which has a range of quality-of-life improvements like a reworked and improved camera interface and numerous fixes across the UI. The changelog details additional stability enhancements as well.

Samsung stepped up its game as far as cameras are concerned. I’m particularly enthused over the use of wide-angle lenses since they allow for much more versatility with photography. The camera arrangement on the Galaxy A50 uses a combination of a 25MP primary camera combined with an 8MP wide-angle lens as well as a 5MP depth sensor. The front facing camera also has a 25MP sensor.

The cameras on the Samsung Galaxy A50 are quite good for social media junkies. As long as there is good light out, the cameras can capture some great-looking shots. The primary camera has a tendency to overexpose, because of which the scene can appear brighter than it is. A quick toggle switch lets you move to the wide-angle lens. You can notice the difference in exposure between the two shots.

You definitely do not want to be pixel-peeping with the photos on the Galaxy A50. In a bid to reduce noise, Samsung has very aggressive algorithms going on that completely destroy low-level details and give images an almost watercolor-like effect. On the flip side, if all you do is look at images on your phone’s display, photos will look perfectly fine and ready to share on your preferred social platform.

The 25MP front-facing camera produces images that look good on screen but are once again short on low-level details. Compared to the Redmi Note 7 Pro and its pixel-binning-capable 48MP camera, the Samsung Galaxy A50 doesn’t do as well but it is still a versatile performer that can get good-looking shots as long as there is sufficient light.

With consecutive software updates, Samsung has consistently improved imaging performance on the A50 and it still holds up well against the competition.

The Samsung Galaxy A50 is available in two variants with the only difference between them being the amount of RAM onboard. The 4GB RAM variant is priced at 19,990 rupees (~$281) while the 6GB RAM version is available for 22,990 rupees (~$323). Storage on both variants is the same at 64GB, a move that is quite perplexing. The devices are on sale over at Flipkart, Samsung’s own online store as well as at offline stores. It is recommended that you wait for sales since the phone is known to get price drops to the tune of $70 bringing it down a much more enticing Rs. 14,999 (~$210).

Samsung has seemingly flooded the market with a whole range of phones stretching from the entry-level to upper-mid range segment. The phones progressively add on features but the common thread between them has to be the focus on user experience. And that’s really what the Galaxy A50 is all about.

The Galaxy A50 has a significantly better Super AMOLED display and a nicer design. Performance-wise too, the Samsung Galaxy A50 is more than capable of holding its own with popular games like PUBG. This is one of the best mid-rangers Samsung has produced in years and I would have no qualms recommending it to all but the most demanding users.

Entering June 2020, there are several competitors to the Samsung Galaxy A50 in India. The Redmi Note 9 Pro, the Poco X2 and even the Realme 6 Pro deliver a lot more performance and have a comprehensive camera package. However, Samsung’s software comes across as more optimized and the lack of advertisements is definitely nice to have.

Additionally, Samsung has released the upgraded Galaxy A51 which is a marked improvement in the imaging department over the original and offers better and more modern specifications.

Now that it’s been a while since the phone launched, it isn’t necessarily a go-to option for most users. In fact Samsung has launched the A50s and the A51 as successors to the phone. Add to that the many new competitors, it gets much harder to recommend the phone this late in the product’s lifetime.

Besides obvious features like a touchscreen and biometric sensors, the modern smartphone comes with an array of state-of-the-art hardware in the form of various sensors that help your device sense the environment around it. And if you have a Samsung handset, chances are, you have a handy feature built in that enables you to check if these sensors are functioning 100 percent.

Unbeknownst to a lot of Samsung fans, most Galaxy phones have a secret diagnostic mode built in which can be accessed simply by inputting a little-known code. Best of all, this feature is extremely easy to access and is a handy way of testing out a new or used phone to ensure it"s in perfect running order before you commit to buying it.

Before we begin, it"s important to note that this feature may not be available on your device. Certain carriers, most notably Verizon and Sprint, have been known to block the code-based diagnostic mode on their Samsung smartphones and tablets, though newer phones from Sprint like the Galaxy S6 seem to have this functionality restored.

Below are the following tests you can perform on your Samsung handset once you"ve input the code and entered HwModuleTest mode. Please note that some may be missing screenshots due to security reasons or the nature of the tests.

To check if your phone"s receiver is working properly, tap on the "Receiver" button to commence testing. Doing so should take you to a white screen, accompanied by a clearly audible dial tone. Once you"re satisfied, simply tap on the back button twice to go back to the main test page.

"Vibration" tests out your phone"s vibration motor. Your screen will go black once you tap on the "Vibration" button, accompanied by a constant vibration. Tap on the screen once to exit this test and go back to the main test screen.

The LED test checks for the functionality of your device"s LED notification light. Running the test is straightforward — simply tap on the "LED" button, then tap on the screen to change the LED"s color from red, to green, and finally to blue. Tap on the screen one last time to end the test and go back to the main diagnostics page.

All Galaxy A phones have always had one thing in common and that"s the Super AMOLED screen. The A50 isn"t a combo breaker either and it also packs a large 6.4" Super AMOLED screen of 1080p+ resolution. The actual pixel count is 2,340 x 1,080 making the aspect ratio quite wide at 19.5:9 and the pixel density is more than enough at 403ppi.

The A50 features the so-called Infinity-U panel, meaning it has a U-shaped notch at the top for the selfie camera. Samsung was one of the few makers to stay away as long as possible from the screen cutouts but eventually it caved in. We guess this makes Sony the last defender of the notch-free screens.

Anyway, notch or not, the Super AMOLED screen is of the usual high-quality we"ve grown to like. We measured about 420 nits of maximum brightness in manual mode and 550nits in auto with the ambient light sensor is exposed to bright light. We measured a minimum brightness of 1.8nits - pretty great result.

As we"ve come to expect from Samsung Super AMOLEDs, the display on the Galaxy A50 is capable of accurately reproducing different color spaces depending on content and selected display mode. The Basic mode stays true to sRGB (average DeltaE of 1.7), AMOLED Photo is for Adobe RGB applications (average DeltaE of 1.8), while AMOLED Cinema adheres to the DCI-P3 color space (average DeltaE of 2.0). Of course, the default Adaptive mode makes no claims for accuracy and posts an average DeltaE of 3.3 against a DCI-P3 target with a maximum deviation of 8.8.

The Galaxy A50 has a large 4,000mAh battery inside, quite like them Redmi Notes. It supports 15W charging but we didn"t get a retail box so we can"t provide you with any charging stats.

In our testing, the Galaxy A50 achieved more than respectable results. We clocked north of 12 hours on our Wi-Fi web browsing script and almost 16 hours of looping videos in airplane mode. The 3G talk time is over a day - an excellent score as well.

Adding to the mix the excellent standby performance the Galaxy A50 posted an overall Endurance rating of 98h. And we now know what to expect from any future Exynos 9610-powered smartphone.

Our battery tests were automated thanks to SmartViser, using its viSer App. The endurance rating above denotes how long a single battery charge will last you if you use the Samsung Galaxy A50 for an hour each of telephony, web browsing, and video playback daily. We"ve established this usage pattern so that our battery results are comparable across devices in the most common day-to-day tasks. The battery testing procedure is described in detail in case you"re interested in the nitty-gritty. You can check out our complete battery test table, where you can see how all of the smartphones we"ve tested will compare under your own typical use.

The Galaxy A50 has a single loudspeaker located on the bottom. It scored a "Very Good" mark in our three-pronged test when it comes to loudness, but the good news stops here. The output is rather poor and lacks big time in the high frequency. So, as far as quality is concerned - the A50 has a loud sound, but not that clean or rich.