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

I needed an inexpensive phone for my son to use as his first phone, this was a good fit, good price and size, compatible with our phone service which is Tmobile, easy to use, he has had this phone for awhile and there haven't been any issues with it, good strong phone.

Phone works as expected. I have done some research regarding the best value android phones around the 200 usd range. The A14 regularly comes up as the winner for this category and that was the phone I was about to buy, but then I immediately found this A15 right before buying. It's virtually the same price as the A14 5G and I made sure to compare the two online, both are similar in features, though the A15 is better. The performance is also slightly similar, sometimes the A15 is ahead and the A14 is ahead maybe once or twice in tests. Overall the A15 is a great phone and comes with way more storage than the A14. I highly recommend the A15

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.

UPDATE: After having this phone for months I have to say it's the biggest POS that I've ever had!! More glitches than I could list. I took 4 stars away because I'm so angry at all the glitches. Now I'm going to go back to my A10E, at least that was reliable!! I decided to wait to write a review because I was on the fence about keeping it or not. My previous phone was a Samsung A10E which is not a very heavy phone. The A15 is considerably heavier which I am (still) not very comfortable with. Comparing the 2 phones as far as memory is concerned is markedly different. The A10E has 32 gigs of internal memory. The A15 has 128 gigs of internal memory. Considering that I have alot of pics on my phone with several different albums, this makes the A15 a better product. The battery life is quite good. The appearance is beautiful. I purchased the light blue phone. I have a clear cover on my phone. This is my 4th Samsung cell phone. Samsung never disappoints with quality, durability and performance. I love the Samsung Smart Switch which makes moving your data from one phone to another fast and super easy. They don't provide a SIM card or micro SD card so you need to make sure to move your cards into your new phone. The software is similar to previous Samsung phone with a few tweaks. For example, to get a screen shot for the A15 you need to press both power and volume down button simultaneously. What makes the A15 different from any of my previous Samsungs is with the A15 you have to press each twice. There is a feature that would put a floating icon on your screen and open it and tap screenshot then you will get your screenshot. Now, what sold me on the A15 is a neat feature where, upon your approval, they will block all spam/scam phone calls. So no more annoying spam/scam calls!! It's a neat feature!! Like I said, I love Samsung phones!!

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.

It's a nice cellphone for the price. Fully unlocked, good storage cappacity. Looks good, it's not heavy. The sound quality is decent and of course, it's a Samsung so it has great compatibility for almost everything.

After a few days with the phone, I can say that it's pretty sub-par. It's definitely a step up from my previous device, but I honestly expected more from a 5G Galaxy device in 2024. The camera is nice, and the body is solid. The screen is beautiful, visually, but is slow and unresponsive, at times refusing to register taps and swipes. I've owned Galaxy devices before, but the Samsung bloatware on this one takes the cake. Dozens of apps are preloaded that you'll have to either disable or uninstall to get some of the precious memory back, and OneUI is aggressively intrusive, causing compatibility and sign in issues with just about everything you want to use. I suppose this is a case of get-what-you-pay-for, but the user experience seems oddly frustrating, given the promised five years of support. This phone has reaffirmed that the Samsung device environment is not for me.