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You might therefore not be expecting much from the Samsung Galaxy A20e, and in some ways you’d be right – this isn’t a phone that really excels in many areas, but that it’s competent at all at this price is something, and it’s certainly competent, while in some areas going beyond what’s necessary.
Connectivity meanwhile includes the basics – Bluetooth 5.0, 4G, and NFC, but of course there’s no 5G here. Verdict The Samsung Galaxy A20e is a basic phone in a lot of ways but one that goes above and beyond in a few. Its fast charging battery is a really pleasant surprise, while its dual-lens camera and edge-to-edge screen are also appreciated. Of course, it’s also in a crowded market, so it arguably needs to be more than simply competent to stand out. Does it manage that? Read on to see. ScreenMemory size - User memory is less than the total memory due to storage of the operating system and software used to operate the phones features. The Samsung Galaxy A20e is one of the cheapest recent Samsung smartphones you can buy, coming in below the likes of the Samsung Galaxy A71 and Samsung Galaxy A51, and oddly even the Samsung Galaxy A10. What we are left with is a phone that does most daily tasks fast enough but should not be considered by anyone who likes to play a game or two. The hardware simply is not fast enough to provide a pleasant gaming experience. This is not mitigated, unfortunately, by the device’s HD display resolution. We’ve noted above that the Samsung Galaxy A20e has decent screen-to-body ratio, and this fact ensures it looks reasonably good from the front. No one will confuse this for a flagship – even without turning the screen on, the bezel below is too large for any expensive phone, but for what it costs, it looks good.
The prices shown are our recommended repair prices for out of warranty screen replacement. This is a representative example of a reasonable repair cost for an out of warranty screen repair at any of our Authorised Service Centres. The price may change should any additional work be required to your device and you may be able to find a cheaper price by shopping around. One area where the Galaxy A20e does not diverge all that much from its more expensive siblings is the software. The device runs Android 9 Pie out of the box, with all the One UI glory that most recent Galaxy devices now run. Now, before you ask what we expect of a device in this price range, we would once more like to point out: the Galaxy A40 is a bit more powerful. Is the performance gap as big as the price gap? Perhaps not, but add that to the comparable issue we described with the display, and you start to get a sense of where all this is going. It is, in fact, one of the very cheapest smartphones you can buy from any company, which is all the more surprising when you consider that this isn’t just any company – it’s Samsung, a big-name brand. Usable memory size is less than the total memory size due to storage of the operating system and software required to operate the phones' features. Actual usable memory size will also vary depending on the mobile phone operator and may change after software upgrades are performed.As for memory, there’s just 32GB built in, which won’t go far, but there’s also a microSD card slot with support for cards of up to 512GB, so there’s no need to run short on storage.
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You inevitably make some sacrifices when you’re not spending much and we’d argue that the biggest sacrifice here is the battery life, since some cheap phones - like the Moto G8 Power Lite - actually have big batteries. If your product is deemed to be out of warranty on engineer inspection the repair and a convenience surcharge will be chargeable. Actual user memory will vary depending on the mobile phone operator and may change after software upgrades are performed. Samsung has, of course, more often saved cost by including a cheaper LCD panel in its affordable devices. But in this case, the difference in screen quality between the A20e and the A40 is much bigger than the price gap between the phones suggests. This, you will notice, is a theme we will be running into more often over the course of this review. Its aspect ratio is an increasingly conventional 19.5:9, and it’s fairly light on bezel, with a teardrop notch at the top and a strip at the bottom, but little to the sides, giving it an edge-to-edge look. That leads to a screen-to-body ratio of 80.4%, which isn’t bad for a phone that’s this cheap. Design
The A20e has themes, a Night mode, Secure Folder, Samsung Pass, and the one-handed optimization for Samsung’s own apps and interface. Though Samsung has been adding more and more features over the past years, after a period of minimization, One UI still presents a clean environment with logical menus. The 5MP ultra-wide snapper isn’t quite as capable, but it is nice to have the option of fitting more into a shot – that’s not something that’s guaranteed at this end of the market. The Samsung Galaxy A20e has a 5.8-inch 720 x 1560 screen, which is a reasonable size and a reasonable resolution, especially for the price. It amounts to 296 pixels per inch, a figure which isn’t a million miles from even the iPhone 11 with its 326 pixels per inch. The Samsung Galaxy A20e has a 3,000mAh battery, which is on the small side, but can sometimes get the job done in lower spec devices like this. In practice its life isn’t at all special, but will see you through the important one-day period, so you can charge it overnight.And if you find yourself needing to juice it up partway through a day that’s less of a problem here than with some cheap phones, as the Galaxy A20e supports 15W fast charging. Now, as fast charging goes that’s quite slow (the OnePlus 8 offers double that for example and some phones have even more charging power), but fast charging at all on such a cheap handset is impressive and unusual.
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