SAMSUNG Galaxy A15 5G A Series Cell Phone, 128GB Unlocked Android Smartphone, AMOLED Display, Expandable Storage, Knox Security, Super Fast Charging, Hi-Res Camera, US Version, 2024, Blue Black

Good phone for a low cost. Everything transfered smoothly. I have T- Mobile and I'm in the USA. Good photos and videos. Smooth scrolling. Not too many crazy updates. I like the ability to remove most preinstalled apps as well. Battery life is great. Downfalls are minimal. *Side on/off button is flush with the side and takes longer to locate. *screenshot are rather difficult with the palm swipe. It takes quite a few tries, loosing what you want to screenshot happens often. As an older person I screenshot things I can't read so I can zoom in. I try to avoid that now. *No sd card storage to remove or replace. I miss that, even though the phone has lots of available room. I use to save the sd cards for personal back up photos. *Sim card slot looks as if it won't securely hold in the tray. Isn't a tight fit, but suprisingly it does work with some patience. A month into use, It's a good phone so far!

A good 1st phone for my daughter

It's a phone and works which is more than you can say about most inexpensive phones. Why pay 500 plus dollars plus 50 dollars a month to talk on the phone? If you drop these expensive things you are sorry. It's unlocked and works on Twillo. There's no charging cable or tool to get the SIM card out. It was achore to get the card out. Data transfer was hard. The new trend in cell phones is to grub out the most money they can. The thing is like most phones. Way to big to fit in your pocket, thus a nuisance. I bought another Samsing for myself and it was the same deal but at least it works. This one is for my wife. I had a Moto G cell that lasted ten years tied to Republic service. It fit easily in my pocket. Excellent clarity and text messaging. I bought a holster for my new Samsung and it looks ridiculous. Correctly sized pocket phones are labeled for kids or the elderly! That's simply crap! Most don't even work. Cell phones are considered profit centers for their makers and phone services. I want SERVICE that works not a "phone plan"! I want a pocket phone for under 200 bucks. It's too much to ask from these phone con artists. I don't even carry a phone now. I leave it in the car for emergencies. To summarize. This phone works on Twillo. It will probably last a few years, if you buy a protective case. It does everthing that a 500 plus dollar phone does. It's ok. Don't be a sucker and pay any more than you just have to do so. The government should step in and regulate this business. They won't. The USA needs reliable communication. Doubtful that low cost, quality phones or phone service will happen.

*12/28/2024 Update - **Removing Screen Potector Makes Previous Problems Go Away. Changed to 5-star** I have a tech savvy son-in-law who told me that the problems I was having with the screen could be related to the screen protector causing problems. I didn't like the idea of not having a screen protector, so I didn't act on in right away. But when the problems became bad enough that I was seriously considering getting a new phone, I decided to see what would happen if I removed the protector. Amazing! All the screen related problems cleared up! I have been protectorless for about a month now, and only once have I been forced to restart my phone due to a performance-related issue. Added bonus - the battery charge seems to last longer as well, probably because my phone was doing so many things on its own while in my pocket before. Original Review, around March 30, 2024 - I bought this phone because of all the good reviews and that it was affordable. I had had bad experiences with Samsung phones in the past, but I thought maybe they had improved. I was disappointed. Within a couple of days, when I was trying to type out texts, I found that even if I very carefully pushed on a letter that I wanted, another letter, or number, or word would show up in the text box. I would have to re-start the phone to get it to work again. And that was not all. Other times the screen would start jittering badly, or quickly shifting back and forth between two apps when I wasn't even touching it. This behavior has persisted. Due to this problem, I have to re-start the phone on the average every two days, but there have been a few times whey I've had to do it three or four times in one day. Also, I'm not sure why the default setting for the screen is "gestures". This was very frustrating because I could only remember a few basic gestures, so I could never do things like bring up the screen with all of the open apps, as well as having other things happen that I didn't want to happen when I tried certain swipe gestures. I finally got sick of this problem, and looked it up on the internet and found where there was a way to get three buttons at the bottom of the screen - one for "back a screen", one for the "home" screen" and one to open the window allowing you to scroll through (and close) open apps individually - or close them all with one button. The battery saving feature takes a while to get it right. This feature keeps you from over-charging it, and stops the charging when the battery gets to 85% full. For the first few weeks, this resulted in me sometimes running out of power before my day was through. This feature has some king of AI support, I think, and it has gotten better over time. It still says it only gets 85% full, but it usually lasts a whole day unless I am using it very heavily. Otherwise, the phone seems to work well, but the screen problem is bad enough that I can only give this a two star rating.

I recently watched the new movie, "BlackBerry" about the rise and fall of the BlackBerry. Spoiler Alert!! // In the movie, towards the end, they had to quickly manufacture a new model that would compete with the iPhone, which did not have a keyboard. Because they were so hasty in building the model, nearly 100% of the models were returned due to manufacture error. You can watch it here on Amazon Prime. Our Samsung Galaxy A32 5Gs were getting very slow and laggy. Granted they were only 2 years old! We decided to replace them with this phone. Out of the box, this new phone was even more laggy than the phones we were replacing. The most shocking moment was when I tried to load a simple website on Chrome and the graphics on the webpage froze and repeated themselves multiple times on the page. I pulled up my old laggy phone next to it and even that phone had seamless scrolling compared to the brand new phone that lagged. Really really shocking! I don't want to go through another experience of a lagging phone, and so we returned both phones, but wow! I guess technology quality is really going downhill with these lower level unlocked budget phones. Granted, I read all the gleaming reviews. I trusted this would be a good phone. More than $400 later (for two phones), and I'm doubting whether I should keep buying from Samsung Galaxy?! Even my MAC laptop, which is MORE THAN 10 years old ... does not lag like that new phone!!! 🤦🤦🤦

So where to begin I got this phone to replace my other A series phone because I use them for carrying extra storage. Since the mainline phones have the extra storage part taken out. Since last year when I bought the phone I've dropped it plenty of time so its safe to say these phones are far more durable than previous A series phones. I haven't had much issues far as scratches go or heating issue. The phone has remained in great condition even with all I put it through. Its extra storage is the only reason I got the phone so its functionally a great fit for those needing or looking for that extra storage. It looks great with its sleek design and like I said I haven't had a problem when the phone has a heat issue. I'm sure its scratch resistant as well. All in all I like it and will say it was worth the buy since I can add an SD card to it.

I purchased this phone as a backup in case one of our phones breaks. After the initial setup, it was soooo slow I almost boxed it back up to return. But I remembered encountering this issue on other phones, caused by restoring data and apps from previous phone. I decided to fully update the phones software, factory reset it, and then declined to skip the prompt to transfer data from other device. Immediate difference. NIGHT AND DAY. make sure you try this if it's slow out of the box. I honestly think I might switch over to budget phones long term, this is great for the price, and handles everything just fine. Full days usage and I'm ending the day with 58% battery.

Yes it works, but I have complaints! The touch-screen is the biggest problem, it is unresponsive and inexact. VERY INEXACT. The battery life is pretty good, but not as good as my Moto-G. And it gets really bad call reception in my area if it's not set to wi-fi calling. I do live in a very remote location, but still, what the heck? My old phone worked! My husband's phone works! It's a phone, shouldn't its primary function be making and receiving calls? (Oh, I just betrayed my age, didn't I?) That's all my complaints. Those caveats aside, it has good smartphone functionality and it's sturdy. It is also extremely affordable. I'm afraid I had high expectations. Because they are the premier Android brand, I expected a low-level Samsung to be at least as good as a mid-level Motorola. NO. That is NOT the case. I will be going back to a Moto-G when this phone reaches the end of its usefulness. And I will try to take better care of the next one!