[Samsung Galaxy A50 Guides, News, & Discussion] fablebreton:
i have some PM from guys with my previous smartphone who ask me if A50 is good choice, so ... here is my answer after a little week of use my, may be people who hesitate to buy it will find this post useful :

My model : i have bought the one with 4G RAM / no nfc ( 250€ only ! ) i was thinking RAM would be far enough, but when i have seen all apps samsungs pre install .... :mad: => if you dont want to debloat it's better to buy the 6G Ram model. After debloat 4G ram is enough for me

Screen : the oled screen is big and beautiful, i really enjoy it

speed : after this debloat and disable animation ( in dev settings ) the UI is very fast , before that i had slight stutters

sound : internal spaker is bad for music, but it was not a surprise for me, i always use a bluetooth speaker or my bose headphones. With dolby atmos enabled in Sound\advanced : the sound is really good in my headphone

Samsung rom : it's my first samsung device, I usually use custom roms, so for me there is far too much apps that i don't need...

BUT after this debloat i must say the rom is really good :) not really need custom rom ! a lot of usefull tweaks who improves the daily use.

the black theme is beautifull. the Blue light filter can be fully customized (opacity, start time, end time ) . AlwaysOnDisplay can be programmed to be disabled the night (so it drain less battery ). Samsung gesture is fine and can be enabled instead of navbar. easy switch (call , sms , data ) when you use 2 simcard.

Camera : i like it. quality is good. My wife use it for selfies ( :crying: ) and love the "show hand feature" to take a selfie

Battery : after debloat and disable AOD the night ( AOD drain near 1% per hour ) , the battery is good. I would say a little bit less that my previous device ( moto z play ) but it was a battery monster. And A50 screen is bigger and cpu faster, so it's ok, enough

Fingerprint scanner: epic fail from samsung :mad: (have not they tested? ) , you can still use it but with me accuracy is bad, even if it's a little bit better after april update and with that or that . Even when it works it is so slow ( it is faster to use pattern )

BUT

for me it does not matter so much because the face unlock works so fine ! even in a dark room. So i have enable : Screen pattern + Face recognition + Smart Lock + changed screen timeout from 15 sec to 30 sec, and quite happy with that. I rarely need to use screen pattern and nearly have forgotten this bad fingerprint scanner

EDIT November 2019 : Samsung have patched the fingerprint, it's fast now, so not an issue anymore

network some guys seems to complain about 4G speed, no issue for me, i use 2 sims with no problem

XDA / root / Custom Rom : twrp dev is probably abandonned, root is a bit touchy/risky

BUT Samsung ROM is secure and well designed, a lot of usefull tweaks => so for me better to stick to stock for now anyway.

So, Would i recommend A50 ? the answer is "Yes", if you can use face unlock and forget fingerprint. if debloat with adb is in your in your abilities ( or try to root ). And if you don't use internal speaker to listen music. For that price ( the 4G ram model = 250€) it's really a good purchase for a so excellent oled screen / big battery / quite fast cpu / quite good cam / excellent rom. Warning if you need NFC there is a specific model with NFC