Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G
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- Anonymous
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- 18 May 2022
Anonymous, 17 May 2022Because you get the best user interface. You get the best s... more*On Android 11
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- Anonymous
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- 18 May 2022
A52s user, 18 May 2022Has anyone already installed the May Security Patch update?... moreNo problems from me whatsoever everything runs as expected.
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- Sam799
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- 18 May 2022
Anonymous, 17 May 2022Why did you switch from S20FE? What was wrong with it ? W... moreIt was the 5G version phone was really good but it had touch issues which were very annoying & couldn't be fixed with the updates.
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- nichimen
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- 18 May 2022
are the selfie video stbilized or not?
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- A52s user
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- 18 May 2022
Has anyone already installed the May Security Patch update? Are there any problems or is everything okay?
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- RandyRiffin
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- 18 May 2022
Anonymous, 18 May 2022As an A52S user, the things I like about it might be the th... moreYou could have gotten an older flagship, like S10 but whatever
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- Anonymous
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- 18 May 2022
Anonymous, 18 May 2022As an A52S user, the things I like about it might be the th... moreTrue. I wanted to buy A52s but couldn't find and bought A52 instead. But fortunately it is good too as I'm not a gamer.
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- Anonymous
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- 18 May 2022
Gino76ph, 17 May 2022And may i ask why? Please give me three (or five) good reasons?As an A52S user, the things I like about it might be the things you'll like about it too.
1. Flagship-grade experience for under 400USD
2. One UI has been very stable and very user-friendly.
3. Great cameras for the price.
I avoided getting a flagship because they're way too overpriced right now, settled for this one and it's just delivers in everything.
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- 18 May 2022
Anonymous, 17 May 2022Because you get the best user interface. You get the best s... moreya true..it is one of the best devices u can get..
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- Anonymous
- MSK
- 18 May 2022
Deeman, 17 May 2022Hello guys please help me I bought the a52s 2 weeks but i h... moreYou can try factory reset or Settings/Remote support. The latter I never used to see how it works but why not try everything. However I'm afraid yes it's a hardware screen problem and you'll have to claim your warranty anyway.
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- Anonymous
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- 18 May 2022
Deeman, 17 May 2022Hello guys please help me I bought the a52s 2 weeks but i h... moreI think its ghost touch, probably due to screen defect take it to claim warranty.
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- Anonymous
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- 17 May 2022
Sam799, 16 May 2022I switched from the S20FE to this & can't be more ... moreWhy did you switch from S20FE?
What was wrong with it ?
Was it 5G (Snapdragon version) ?
Or it was 4G (Exynos version)?
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- Anonymous
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- 17 May 2022
Gino76ph, 17 May 2022And may i ask why? Please give me three (or five) good reasons?Because you get the best user interface. You get the best support. You get great camera and so on. Nobody can beat Samsung. It isn't laggy and bad anymore. That days have gone. Even midrangers are great now.
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- 17 May 2022
Anonymous, 16 May 2022Go for Samsung.And may i ask why? Please give me three (or five) good reasons?
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- Anonymous
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- 17 May 2022
Deeman, 17 May 2022Hello guys please help me I bought the a52s 2 weeks but i h... moreFirst time ever I've heard about that issue on this phone. Sorry, I would like to help, but I can't because you're probably the only person that have encountered that kind of the problem.
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- 17 May 2022
Hello guys please help me I bought the a52s 2 weeks but i have a problem of the screen just touches itself opening things alone i don't know what to do now and this happened twice
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- 17 May 2022
Sam799, 17 May 2022A detailed and informative review, really appreciate it 👍it... moreSamsung Galaxy A52s is indeed a great phone. What is more important is at INR26K ($336, €320) it poses a great value, a rarity among Samsung devices.
The more I use the phone, more I fall in love with it. And I am no Sammy fanboy, quite opposite actually. A smartphone needs to get the basics right, to me every phone needs to have great call quality, reception quality. This is where I find my A52s excels, as the earpiece is loud and clear while taking calls. Not only does it supports dual SIM 4G VoLTE, it also have support for 12 (5G) bands with the most important N78 band included in the list. The only gripe is the phone supports single SIM 5G as other runs on 4G. However I am least bothered as it will take another 3 years in my country to start 5G. The phone has excellent 4G carrier aggregation support which is more important to me as of now.
And we should not forget in two aspects A52s has no competition, first the image quality that is coming out of the Samsung ISOCELL GW1 (64 MP) main sensor coupled with OIS. Ofcourse Samsung image processing and color science is adding a lot of magic in it. Second, it is rated IP67 for water and dust resistance. An absolute rarity at this price bracket. I now have the peace of mind as a light drizzle will not make my phone dead.
The trump card of the entire A52s package is undoubtedly the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G SoC built on latest 6nm TSMC nodes. Its performance comes very close to that of an Snapdragon flagship 8-series chip like Snapdragon 860. The other aspect of 778G is it runs super cool. To run a highly customized heavy skin like OneUI over Android 12 you need ample amount of performance which 778G provides with ease coupled with 8GB of RAM. To me for the current OneUI 4.1 you need at least Snapdragon 750G with 8G RAM to provide that butter smooth feeling. Anything less and you feel slight stutters in OneUI.
So in the end I will reiterate, and this comes from the mouth of a prior Samsung hater, that A52s is a fantastic phone for its price, perhaps the best Samsung phone to ever adorn the A series tag.
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- 17 May 2022
Anonymous, 17 May 2022Found a bug after may patch + apps updated. EU software. De... more*
I meant RAM, not battery
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- 17 May 2022
RishiGuru, 17 May 2022Using the Samsung Galaxy A52s for a week now. It had been r... moreA detailed and informative review, really appreciate it 👍it will definitely help people to know more about the A52s which indeed is a great phone.
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- utg
- 17 May 2022
Sam799, 16 May 2022A53 with exynos 1280 is worse than this SD 778G in may ways... moreUsing the Samsung Galaxy A52s for a week now. It had been really long since I last used a Sammy, maybe 12 years back. I always stay away from Sammy because they provide the pesky Exynos variants in India. Secondly, we have too many competitive options for any price bracket. Samsung's upper midrange to flagships phones have always been excellent devices but with an astronomical price tag.
This phone is different in that sense. Samsung by mistake may have created the alltime A-series masterpiece with A52s. Its performance with almost flagship grade Snapdragon 778G SoC coupled with 8GB LPDDR4x RAM punches well above the price to performance ratio which Samsung had initially intended to keep the A series bound to. And then when I count in the best UI over Android i.e. OneUI with four years of software support and an online price of INR26K ($336, €320) all seems justified. I got the Mint color variant, which looks nice.
The A52s even though made entirely out of plastic, feels nice in hand, and I like that Samsung did not went the Chinese way of mimicking glass finish with plastic. The matte finish plastic back is good to touch and provides an unique look and feel. I generally look for three unique set of criterias while buying a phone which are gradually omitted by mobile phone manufacturers, so as to buy them separately and fill their bursiting coffers with more money. These are presence of a 3.5mm headphone jack, a must, microSD card expansion option and a wall charger included in the box. Fortunately this phone comes with all three while it's successor the A53 lacks both headphone jack & charger in box. And then the A53 comes with that unwanted, low performance Exynos SoC.
I hate TWS replacing the golden wired headphones, because TWS is technically incapable of reproducing the sound quality of a high quality wired earphones. Unfortunately even the $400 Samsung S20 FE 5G lacked the headphone jack. The bright Samsung AMOLED HDR10+ certified display of A52s is gorgeous and so are the stereo speakers. However the display has screen flickering issue, may cause headaches under low light conditions. Performance and fluidity of OneUI 4.1 @ 120Hz refresh rate is a joy to use. I truly love the software experience provided by this phone and how fluid and stutter free the powerful SD778G is keeping it. You get premium features like Knox security and secure folder too which are good add ons.
I watched quite a few YouTube videos of how to initially setup OneUI as you need to be carefull else the phone will be filled with junk apps and spam notifications. The phone arrived to me with OneUi 4.0 over Android 12 loaded. After some 1.6GB of OTA updates it arrived to the latest software version as below:
One UI version: 4.1
Android Version: Android 12
Android Security Patch: 1st April, 2022
Build Number: SP1A.210812.016.A528BXXS1CVD1
After finishing all OTA updates, I performed a full hard factory reset to remove any previous OS junk which makes the phone slow over time. Then I setup OneUI from scratch while keeping the useless virtual RAM (known as RAM Plus) to a minimum of 2GB as you cannot disable it. Inbuilt memory in this case UFS 2.1 cannot substitute a LPDDR4X RAM. Period. 8 gigs of RAM is enough for my A52s. The in-display fingerprint scanner though a tad slower is very accurate, you do not need to try multiple times.
All in all very satisfied with the A52s, a very rare Samsung gem of a phone with extraordinary performance, great set of cameras. Audio through the audio jack is surprisingly good when used with USB Audio Player Pro. The app recognises the inbuilt Qualcomm DAC and applies setting accordingly to wring maximum performance from it.
Fantastic phone for its price, perhaps the best Samsung phone to ever adorn the A series tag.