Samsung Galaxy A36 and A56 hands-on review

02 March 2025


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Luke, 03 Mar 2025Yeah, you can always use cloud for 60-100GB game files stor... moreYeah,.....encourage the multi billion companies who takes away a convenient, cheaper feature so they can make even more money from you by selling you yet another subscription service.

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    vkcpolice, 04 Mar 2025No sd card no buy is as simple as that I'm moving to a... moreWhere? Everyone is removing them. Most have no local warranty on my area. The insulting part would be Samsung still having both jack and sd card slots on XCover models but do not sell them globally.

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      • 04 Mar 2025

      No expandable memory is a killer for me. I have 400GB stored on my 512GB card, which cost me around $30. You'd be paying $300 extra for that much extra storage on a phone with no expandable storage, that's a 10x disparity. Otherwise, you'd be paying for the extra data plans needed if you want to depend on the "cloud", not to mention you're putting your private data in corporate hands, and if you ever don't have internet for whatever reason, you can't access it. If you ever damage your phone, you lose it all (except the aforementioned cloud), while I can just retrieve my card, which I've done before. I can also quickly and easily move that data to my pc or whatever by physically taking it out of the phone. I have control, I'm paying more to give up that control.

      I don't understand the mentality of people who just blindly accept companies taking away useful features and demanding you pay more, something which Apple popularized. There is absolutely no reason to be their slave, unless you actually prefer paying more for less. If you keep accepting it, they will keep doing it, until you're paying a fortune for nothing.

      I've bought Samsung since their very first Galaxy phones, it seems like it's time to stop. Their last good phone was the S20FE. Samsung might as well be named "Apple" now, and the reason I bought Samsung because it wasn't Apple.

        No sd card no buy is as simple as that I'm moving to another manufacturer the lack of software support and the lack of any care for there consumers is a joke.

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          Lister, 03 Mar 2025What on earth are you people storing to need SD cards on mi... more256gb too small, at least 512gb since sd card removed. will stick with A55, and also A55 got flagship camera cut out

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            • 04 Mar 2025

            gh6st, 03 Mar 2025This site hilariously out of touch. Saying that company sho... moreThey bought the phone, of course they don't care. You don't even know what statement you are making.

              What modem does the a56 use? Is it the new modem used in the Google Pixel 9?

                Why does the more expensive model look like it has a thicker bezel? Or maybe just the same thickness. I feel it should be slightly thinner. It's only logical for bezels to shrink the more premium the model is, relatively speaking.

                  gh6st, 03 Mar 2025This site hilariously out of touch. Saying that company sho... moreJust the opposite. Enthusiasts pursue the highest value. The average consumer is out of touch because they accept any compromises and never make noise. They don't look at the whole picture or use their whole phone. They're the lowest common denominator.

                  And yeah, they deserve to be aired out, regardless of how old of an issue this is. Why accept less, when you know you could have better? This is the same company that mocked Apple for not including a charger in the box and then one year later copied the practice and scrubbed the official ad from the internet. Damn Chaebols.

                    Okay, cool, it seems they are killing the A5x line. No reason to pay more for the A56 when the A36 is almost identical. People who consider these kinds of phones are going to have cases anyway, so the build quality is not even important.

                    If Samsung wanted to reduce their overall profit, I guess they are successful here. They're going to drive a lot of people to the cheaper A36.

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                      • 03 Mar 2025

                      Pesedm, 03 Mar 2025The hams have A15 and UI 7 And the ULTRA flagships are wai... moredamn, they gave the new phones the new software.....
                      i agree, they shouldve started them on android 10 so gsmarena literal whos have something to actually complain about.....

                        The hams have A15 and UI 7
                        And the ULTRA flagships are waiting.
                        Bravo Samsung.

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                          • 03 Mar 2025

                          Dedicated sd slot is compulsory

                            Enough of your experiment with A Series models. Please give me a latest version of my A50s.
                            - with 2 sim slots and an EXCLUSIVE memory card slot.
                            Those who work with his phone to the fullest know it's importance and utility.

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                              potato4k, 03 Mar 2025Well.... no headphone jack on the A36. I guess the rumor wa... moreIt doesn't have the headphone jack since the A33

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                                Anonymous, 02 Mar 2025No micro SD card this time. Both of these crap phones belon... moreThis site hilariously out of touch. Saying that company should go out of business, when 99% of actual irl buyers don't care about sd cards is really funny. People here are shitting on the phone that they weren't planning to buy anyway

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                                  Moahmed, 03 Mar 2025I have been using Samsung A52 since 2021 and i want to upgr... moreGo for A55. Better than going for A56. There isn't much difference in specifications also you will get an sd card slot

                                    Lister, 03 Mar 2025What on earth are you people storing to need SD cards on mi... moreWhen your phone gets busted, and you're unable to retrieve the memories you captured on that phone, remember that if you had microSD, you would not lose a single picture.

                                      No SD card slot = no purchase. End of story. If you really must get rid of it then at least offer a 512GB version.

                                        Lister, 03 Mar 2025What on earth are you people storing to need SD cards on mi... moreErr, my entire 120GB music library and my entire life's photos.

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