SAMSUNG Galaxy A15 5G A Series Cell Phone, 128GB Unlocked Android Smartphone, AMOLED Display, Expandable Storage, Knox Security, Super Fast Charging, US Version, 2024, Blue Black

Really decent for the money
This isn’t a flagship phone but very adequate for the price tag. The screen is a little slow but it may be due to screen protector. Provides everything I need for a really great price

Great phone!
This is a very nice phone. Samsung did a really good job on this one.The build quality is solid. The plastic case is a matte iridescent deep blackish blue and does a good job at not showing fingerprints. The AMOLED screen has good colors and perfect deep blacks. The high capacity battery (5,000mAh) lasts 7-10 days with light usage before needing to recharge. The software is typical Samsung high-quality and the Samsung-built email app is still the best amongst Android phones. The fingerprint reader on the side unlocks the phone instantaneously. The charging port is USB-C. Speed-wise, the phone is plenty fast and doesn’t lag. It has 5G cell phone connectivity but you can turn it off and use 4G to save on battery life. Networking also supports 2G (i.e. GSM) that can be turned on or off. Built-in storage is a whopping 128GB. Expansion-wise, the SIM tray accepts 2 SIM cards (i.e. this is indeed a dual-SIM phone), or 1 SIM card + 1 Micro-SD card. There is a headphone jack at the bottom, next to the charging port. The phone is quite big, i.e. the screen is huge, and it’s rather heavy but so are most phones nowadays. It barely fits in my pants pockets.This is marketed as an entry-level phone, but honestly, it has such much memory, long battery life, fingerprint unlock, 3 good cameras, dual-SIM, Micro-SD expansion, headphone jack, USB C, great software support, future-proof updates, and is quite fast, so you may wonder why you’d ever need to buy anything more expensive.Overall, great modern phone at a reasonable price ($200) that should work well for most people and last a long time.

The Honda Civic of cell phones. It’ll get you where you’re going
For my uses this phone is a great deal. I use it as a phone, for email, to text, to access the internet, for Zoom, to navigate, to take photos, and a bunch of lesser things like controlling my alarm system and thermometer, reading the Washington Post etc. What I don’t do is game and social media.The most important things I want in a phone are that it does what I need, which it does, and that it be stable and robust – it’s a Samsung — nuf said.I had been using a Samsung Galaxy J7 for the past five years but finally decided that it just didn’t have enough memory so I got the A15 which has about 4x more memory and seems perfectly adequate. Aside from inadequate memory, my old J7 worked perfectly and still does.I see some complaints about the A15 being slow. It seems fine for my uses, but you’ve probably guessed by now that I’m not exactly a tech expert, power user type. I can tell you that videos and Zoom operate smoothly. It may not work very well for high demand functions like gaming, but I wouldn’t know.I opted for the US version for $200 rather than the international version for $20 or $30 less because I didn’t want to mess around with any possible compatibility issues with my cell service provider. Speaking of cost: for my uses, why would I spend 4 to 6 times more for a high-end phone — really?The battery seems fine. I let it charge at night but it so far has never gone below 80% during an average day’s use. The screen is large and sharp and the cameras seem to do a fine job. I could only wish that it was smaller and lighter and that it had cordless charging but for the price I’m not complaining.FYI: The phone weighs 7.57 oz (0.47lbs) and the dimensions are 6 ¼” x 3”