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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.

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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.

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.

The Samsung Galaxy A50 was launched in early 2019 as a feature-rich budget smartphone that included a large 6.4-inch AMOLED FHD+ display with a small waterdrop notch and thin chin to ensure lots of screen real estate. It was also one of the most powerful devices at this end of the market, running Android 9.0 on a Exynos 9610 chipset and featuring no fewer than three camera modules. The standard-wide camera was built around a 25 MP sensor that bins down to 12.2 MP output coupled to a 26mm f/1.7 lens, with an 8 MP ultra-wide camera and a 5 MP depth sensor for bokeh shots.

Securing an updated overall DXOMARK Camera score of 76 the Samsung Galaxy A50 is someway behind the latest devices for smartphone image quality. Perhaps not surprisingly this older device struggled under our more challenging version 4 testing protocols. Its Photo score of 76 is almost 50 points behind the leader and particularly low scores for night, bokeh and preview performance had an impact. Achieving a Zoom score of 27, the A50 delivered better results in our ultra-wide analysis but without a dedicated tele-lens results were low in the tele category. A Video score of 67 is also the lowest achieved under version 4 testing to date and although results for exposure, color and noise were acceptable, poor performance in autofocus and texture had an impact overall.

For an 18-month-old budget device, the Samsung A50 put in a respectable performance under our challenging new testing regime. Noise is fairly well controlled in outdoor scenes, but the level of detail is low overall in all tested conditions. Faces are well exposed in backlit conditions, and although target exposures are acceptable, dynamic range is limited. Strong green white balance casts in outdoor images is a weakness, however, and the quality of zoom shots leaves a little to be desired, with low detail and obvious color casts. In our new and challenging test scenes that include more subject motion, we also observed ghosting artifacts in some A50 images, which affected the final score.

Capturing videos, we found exposure to be generally accurate under stable lighting conditions indoors and outdoors. Exposure adaptation is slow as lighting conditions change, however, and dynamic range is limited in videos. Exposure on faces is pretty good, though, and skin tones are generally acceptable in indoor movies. White balance is a little unstable, however, so expect to see a slight variation in color casts and strong color casts in outdoor videos in particular. Video detail is low in most conditions and luminance noise is visible in both indoor and low-light conditions. Autofocus tracking is also poor and the A50’s stabilization system isn’t very effective, with residual motion and image deformation often visible when the camera is moving during recording.

The A50 isn’t a top performer for preview image quality, with strong differences compared to capture in most situations, and although zoom smoothness is good, zoom range is very limited using pinch. With no live HDR, highlights in preview are always overexposed in high-contrast conditions. The on-screen “HDR ON” symbol gives some indication that HDR processing will be applied in capture, which is useful, but processing isn’t always applied when required. Faces are often exposed darker in capture, too. So for the most part, there are significant differences between preview and capture in outdoor and indoor conditions. Exposure representation is better in low light, but a loss of texture and additional noise is often visible in preview under poor lighting.

Bokeh rendering often differs considerably between preview and capture as well. Depth estimation is poor in preview, indicating significant subject segmentation errors and a terribly patchy blur gradient effect on objects at different distances behind the portrait. Consistency could be improved, too, as the bokeh effect is sometimes activated in preview but then not applied in capture. This is annoying, and especially so when the “effect ready” confirmation appears on screen and the effect still isn’t applied.

Using pinch zoom, stable exposure, color, focus, and field of view ensure good performance, but the zoom range is very limited (between 1x to 4x magnification). It’s necessary to use the on-screen buttons to switch between the A50’s wide and primary cameras, and the device is very slow to adapt, taking around a second to bring the image into focus.

Launched in February 2019, the Galaxy A50 is a feature-rich, budget smartphone that includes a large 6.4-inch AMOLED FHD+ display with a small waterdrop notch and a thin chin, thus providing lots of screen real estate. With an Exynos 9610 chipset running Android 9.0, the Galaxy A50 is one of the most powerful devices at this end of the market. The photography proposition offers not one, but three cameras on the rear of the device: a 25Mp sensor coupled to a 26mm f/1.7 lens for the main camera, an 8Mp ultra-wide camera, and a 5Mp depth-sensing sensor for bokeh shots. Read on to find out how the Samsung Galaxy A50 camera performs against the competition in our in-depth review.

Achieving an overall DxOMark Mobile score of 83 points, the Samsung Galaxy A50 does not rank at the very top of our database of smartphone image quality, but is only 3 points behind last year’s Galaxy A9. The A50’s performance is also on par with much older flagship devices, such as the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (82 points) and the Apple iPhone 7 (85 points).

Securing a Photo score of 85 points, the A50 does well for stills, particularly in bright sunny conditions, with good exposures, nice color rendering, and generally accurate white balance ensuring pleasant pictures.

Shooting in tricky high-contrast conditions, the A50 offers wide dynamic range, with effective HDR rendering ensuring well-preserved detail in both the highlight and shadow regions in our “under the bridge” test scene. In fact, the shadow recovery in some of the A50’s HDR shots offered a slight improvement over the more expensive competition. Although a little chromatic noise, as well as ringing and aliasing edge artifacts are visible at close inspection, the A50 does a good job on HDR shots overall.

Portrait mode is another positive aspect for the A50, thanks to the dedicated depth-sensing sensor’s reasonably accurate depth estimation and subject masking when applying background blur to portraits. It’s not perfect, with some edge artifacts and abrupt transitions in the blur gradient visible when examining images at large scale. These are less obvious when viewing images on the device’s display, however, and the A50 did a better job of isolating complex details such as the glasses in our test portrait compared to the Samsung Galaxy A9 or LG G8. The A50 applies a nice circular shape to background spotlights, too, and although bokeh shots can lack a little contrast, with slightly washed-out color, the overall effect remains generally pleasant.

The main areas for improvement are low levels of detail preservation in all conditions and particularly with zoom shots, as well as disappointing results in cloudy outdoor scenes and lower light conditions generally. We observed several failures in overcast outdoor conditions, including a fairly strong greenish color cast and a heavier build-up of luminance noise in flat areas, with lower levels of detail in intricate areas than we’d expect to see in outdoor images. In fact, detail preservation is one of the A50’s main weaknesses, with fine localized detail rarely rendered well in any lighting conditions.

Opting for an ultra-wide-angle second camera on the A50 may prove popular with those photographers looking to squeeze more into the frame, but it also means there’s no tele-lens for improved zoom shots. Consequently, while the A50 offers a digital zoom solution up to a maximum 4x magnification, the results are some ways off the pace of what you can expect from the good performers. Even at close range (approximately 2x magnification), a significant loss of detail is visible, with unnatural rendering often evident in intricate areas. At medium range (approximately 4x magnification), other issues such as ringing and denoising artifacts, a heavy build-up of noise, and poor color rendering further reduce the quality of the A50’s zoom shots.

Flash performance is a strength for the A50, and although target exposures are a little high for both flash-only and mixed lighting shots, they remain acceptable and ensure nice bright results. Corner shading is reasonably well-controlled, too, but there is a strong difference in the level of noise between the center and corners of the frame in flash shots in which the edges have been brightened by image processing. Some luminance noise is also visible on faces in the center of the frame, but it is handled better there than in the corners. White balance is fairly neutral in flash shots, too, and although some slight desaturation is evident in flash-only shots, overall color rendering remains acceptable.

Tested under controlled conditions in the lab, the A50’s PDAF autofocus system performed well, consistently delivering in-focus images. It’s not the fastest we’ve tested, but its response times of around 100ms in our outdoor (1000 lux) shots and indoor (300 lux) shots are well within acceptable limits. It was slower in low light (20 lux), often taking around 500ms (0.5 second) for the focus to lock on, which will make it a little more challenging to quickly grab a well-focused shot when the light is poor.

The A50 achieves a Video score of 79 points. Its main strengths for movies are pleasant color with generally accurate white balance, and well-controlled noise in both outdoor and indoor lighting conditions—although both color and noise control deteriorate noticeably in very low light. Noise is particularly well-controlled in flat areas of uniform color, where a visible build-up of luminance noise is often distracting in smartphone videos. On the A50, a coarse noise becomes visible only in low-light videos.

Target exposures are generally accurate and pleasant in the A50’s videos, too, so again, it’s only in low-light conditions between 1 and 20 lux where serious under-exposure becomes obvious. We observed some exposure instabilities in all conditions, however, and dynamic range is very limited, so you’d be best off seeking more balanced lighting conditions when shooting video.

The main areas for improvement with video concern autofocus, detail, and stabilization. Autofocus instabilities are common, with frequent and unnecessary refocusing easily triggered by small changes in the scene, and autofocus tracking is relatively poor in all lighting conditions. The A50’s stabilization system is fairly effective for static handheld videos and with moderate panning movements, but recording while walking results in strong judders and residual high-frequency motion with every step. Detail is also low generally, with visible differences in the sharpness between frames; and obvious artifacts affect the integrity of videos particularly indoors and in low light.

Packing a large 6.4-inch AMOLED display, the Exynos 9610 chipset, and a triple-camera setup, the Samsung Galaxy A50 has plenty for the budget-conscious smartphone enthusiast to get excited about. Under the rigors of our rear-camera testing, however, the A50 can’t match the performance of some of the best mid-range devices and certainly not the image quality of the latest flagship offerings. It’s best in bright sunny conditions, where exposure, dynamic range, and color are good, and bokeh shots are very acceptable. In cloudy or low-light conditions, though, it’s not quite as effective with stills or video, and we found zoom shots to be a particular weakness.

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.