Samsung Galaxy A36 and A56 hands-on review

02 March 2025


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Invetor, 03 Mar 2025apart from the Virtual Proximity sensor (dammit samsung), t... more(and optical fingerprint scanner)

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    • 03 Mar 2025

    Not buying A56, 03 Mar 2025I was planning to buy A56 but no sd card, that's a cle... moreSame here. MicroSD is a must for me. More and more phones losing it. First flagship, and then midrange. Was thinking to upgrade from A52S to A56. So, this is a deal breaker.

      apart from the Virtual Proximity sensor (dammit samsung), the A36 is pretty decent.

        Anonymous, 03 Mar 2025No. Which is wild for Samsung giving 6 update but not letti... morelearn to optimise your data, remove unnecessary trash you don't need, transfer valuable data to PC/laptop or external drives.

          NO Silicon carbide tech, NO wireless Charging, NO LTPO tech, NO UFS 4 storage, Huge bezels including big chin, Macro cameras, weak processors to run 6 years to get updates. 8s gen 3, 7s gen 3 would have been much nicer.

          HUGE PRICE TAG. Samsung is only offering oneui 7 a software update as the only main update this year.

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            • Not buying A56
            • xjH
            • 03 Mar 2025

            I was planning to buy A56 but no sd card, that's a clear "no l won't buy"

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              • Dave A.
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              • 03 Mar 2025

              SEBSTIN, 03 Mar 2025two phone with different names? Why? Why all phones have t... moreI couldn't agree more. like why can't somebody go back to at least a 6-in and or 6.1 inch which is the perfect size to carry with you.

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                • L8G
                • 03 Mar 2025

                Anonymous, 02 Mar 2025On that basis it's better to get a A55 then.If you get a decent offer, get the A56 or the A26. If is 2nd hand better go to A55 or even A35.
                A36 is dissapointing....

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                  • Anonymous
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                  • 03 Mar 2025

                  Anonymous, 03 Mar 2025No. Which is wild for Samsung giving 6 update but not letti... moreNo slot = no buy

                  Bye bye Samsunk

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                    • nci
                    • 03 Mar 2025

                    Someone can't use dual SIM card?

                      Well.... no headphone jack on the A36. I guess the rumor was too good to be true.
                      Anyway, looking at the refurbished Snapdragon 6 gen 1, why would one spend more money on the A36 when one can just buy the A26 and gets the same performing SoC, IP67, also plastic frame, for less money?
                      And I'm sick of these glossy pastelly colors. This was cool 5 years ago, but it's gaudy and flat out cheap and make the phone color-less. What's wrong with simple vibrant colors?

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                        • Anonymous
                        • vaS
                        • 03 Mar 2025

                        Anonymous, 02 Mar 2025No micro SD card this time. Both of these crap phones belon... moreA-series cannibalizing baseline S series phones and Samsung figured things out. It's over.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • vaS
                          • 03 Mar 2025

                          [deleted post]Looks like a normal discussion to me, though. How are you interpreting it differently?

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                            • Anonymous
                            • vGN
                            • 03 Mar 2025

                            They removed the microSD slots so that they can sell their cloud subscriptions

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                              • Anonymous
                              • p$d
                              • 03 Mar 2025

                              Removing the sd card slot is the 2nd stupidest decision samsung has made right after removing headpone jack. Honestly, unless they release the xcover 7pro with OLED, then my next phone probably wont be samsung.

                                BobTheBuilder, 02 Mar 2025The person with the oldest phone that i've met is usin... moreThat's six years old later this year. It was a great phone. As you suggested, it's pretty rare, so a lot of this is marketing, especially given that Samsung is now slow with android updates and reduces phones to quarterly updates after a couple of years (for the midrangers).

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • Brt
                                  • 03 Mar 2025

                                  Absolute joke for samsung to drop mid range phones running one ui 7 before last years flagships

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • SYq
                                    • 03 Mar 2025

                                    Nichimen, 02 Mar 2025Is the expansion slot still available?No. Which is wild for Samsung giving 6 update but not letting those phones have micro SD slot. What's the point if you have 6 update but you only have 6 or 8 GB ram and 128GB or 256GB Storage. Those ram and storage gotta be full in 2 or 3 years because of how heavy android going to be and how big every storage need for app and everything else.

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                                      • SEBSTIN
                                      • g%R
                                      • 03 Mar 2025

                                      two phone with different names? Why?
                                      Why all phones have to be 6.7" only?!!!

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • 6X$
                                        • 02 Mar 2025

                                        A36 45w charge, S25 25w. What a 🤡 samsung

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