SAMSUNG GALAXY A50S DETAILED INFORMATION

SAMSUNG GALAXY A50S DETAILED INFORMATION 

Samsung Galaxy A50S

The A-series, along with the M-series, have worked wonders for SamsungSamsung in taking back market share and propelling the Korean brand as a favourable option for low-cost smartphones. Over the past few years, Samsung’s mid-range and budget phones were being outsold by the likes of Xiaomi, Oppo and the likes. The reason was primarily better performance, eked out from new chipsets and better cameras. Since the beginning of 2019, Samsung has been playing the same game by introducing new features and hardware at competitive prices. The Samsung Galaxy A50s is the latest addition to that lineup.

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Performance

Samsung continues to pack new Exynos chipsets with its A-series phones. The A50s this time comes with the Exynos 9611. It’s based on a 10nm platform, which gives it the edge in power efficiency over the competing Qualcomm SoCs, at least on paper. There are four Cortex-A73 Cores at 2.3GHz and 4 Cortex-A53 at 1.7GHz, offering a good mix of performance and efficiency in that price-range. The phone is offered in 4GB and 6GB RAM with up to 128GB UFS 2.1 storage.

the A50s feels like a good performer. This is confirmed in the benchmark results. On AnTuTu, the Galaxy A50s scored 171696, similar to the Redmi Note 7 Pro but not as much than the Redmi Note 8 Pro. It’s also close to the scores achieved by the Realme X, and much higher than the Galaxy M30.

With Geekbench 5 released, scores from Geekbench 4 (which was used to test older devices launched this year) are not comparable. So we looked at PCMark Work 2.0 scores to get an idea of real-world performance. It turns out, despite a high AnTuTu score, the Galaxy A50s lags behind on PCMark Work 2.0.

As for graphics, the Exynos 9611 packs a Mali-G72 MP3 GPU which also competes fairly well with the popular Adreno GPUs in Qualcomm SoCs. The A50s outscored most of the other M-series and A-series mid-rangers that Samsung launched, and came close to beating the Redmi Note 7 Pro and the Realme X.

In the real-world, the Galaxy A50s did feel quite smooth during use. I wouldn’t call it fast, but at least it didn’t feel sluggish out of the box. The transitions are smooth, but scrolling in heavy apps like Facebook is not as smooth as the Redmi K20. There is also a noticeable lag between pressing the power button and the lockscreen showing up, and that’s primarily because Samsung thought it’d be a good idea to change the wallpaper of the lockscreen every time you wake the phone up using content served by a third-party. I have a feeling it’s only going to get slower over time. The on-screen fingerprint sensor also takes longer to unlock as compared to the Redmi K20 which is similarly priced.

While the Galaxy A50s is good enough for accomplishing your regular tasks of browsing social media, gaming is not something it’s particularly proficient in. On Gamebench, the Galaxy A50s clocked 28 FPS with 87 percent stability and even on PUBG Mobile, it clocked 29 FPS with 89 percent stability. These are numbers most mid-range phones will offer, but if you play with all the settings maxed out, the A50s will feel really sluggish.

Software

The Samsung Galaxy A50s runs on OneUI based on Android 9. It’s a massive improvement over the previous Experience UI in how the icons look, the transitions and the overall stability of the UI. It’s also far more intuitive, but it’s the presence of a number of additional apps from Samsung that somewhat mars the experience. For one, these apps cannot be uninstalled. Even more frustrating is the number of notifications they flood you with. Furthermore, the wallpaper carousel in the lock-screen takes away from the experience more than it enhances it, but that’s just my personal opinion. These features are just as invasive as serving ads in the UI.