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!

After reading about this phone in articles and reviews, I expected problems. But the phone surprised me. It's doing very well! This A15 feels heavier and more sturdy than my old A51. The screen is brighter and more readable. It charges quicker and the battery lasts longer. I don't do anything intensive on my phone. I make calls, send texts, browse to look something up, use maps, etc.--no complex games or anything. I also took off all the game bloatware it came with to free up space. The phone handles all I do very well. I do notice a slight lag between pressing a button and getting a response. I can live with that. For the price, this is an outstanding phone that meets my needs.

I bought this as a secondary work phone. I use a Galaxy S23 Ultra normally. Really, as a budget phone, it's pretty nice. I admit I've been spoiled by the Ultra. The A15 is by comparison pretty sluggish and laggy. The haptics are by comparison very clunky and not at all refined like the Ultra. But it does what I need it to do. I like that it has dual sim. E-sim would've been nice, but can't have it all. I can definitely see how the A15 would be perfectly good for someone who doesn't require or want the Ultra level performance. I'd say most people would be happy with this device. If I hadn't been daily driving an Ultra for the past year, I'd probably say the A15 is a 5-star phone. It's good, but not top tier. Update: battery life is excellent.

*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.