Samsung A70 6.7" 4500 no curved screen ~£400

Flibster · 11 Mar 2020 at 13:42

Got the A71 delivered on Monday. Sadly was too ill to pay it much attention at the time. Pretty impressive phone for what I paid. (including the view case and cashback it's just under £300 - through an offer from other half's work and direct from Samsung)

Screen is good. Fingerprint sensor isn't great, but it'll do for most things. Not had a chance to play with the camera(s) yet. Case is fine, nothing spectacular with it. 2 sim slots and a SD card is useful as hell. Currently got a 400gb SD card in it taken from my old phone and apart from a 'transfer media' notification that wouldn't sod off for a while, it's working fine.

Because I was stuck on Lollipop for a while so many apps need replacing with versions that work well with Android 10.

Hating having to log in to all the accounts again though. Especially ones that use 2fa... Need to move all that across. Thinking of going with Authy instead of Google's Authenticator

ShiWarrior · 11 Mar 2020 at 13:49

A71 ? must be the A70 replacement ?

If its anything like the A70
get it updated, the fingerprint sensors gets a huge improvement

ShiWarrior · 13 Mar 2020 at 18:43

Android 10 is now available for the A70
but in India
Samsung have now started to roll it out

https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-galaxy-a70-android-10-update-released/

Minstadave · 13 Mar 2020 at 21:52

ShiWarrior said:
Android 10 is now available for the A70
but in India
Samsung have now started to roll it out

https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-galaxy-a70-android-10-update-released/

It's only a very incremental update, tried it on a Note 10 briefly, was hard to tell the difference.

Flibster · 14 Mar 2020 at 00:26

ShiWarrior said:
A71 ? must be the A70 replacement ?

If its anything like the A70
get it updated, the fingerprint sensors gets a huge improvement

It's on the latest update. Fingerprint sensor is still just about fine. Main camera is very impressive for a cheap phone though.

pinkpound · 19 Mar 2020 at 14:39

Got the wife the A71 last week she's comes a S7E . Nice phone and screen , she likes the extra screen size saves her popping reading glasses on as much . I'm impressed with dual sim slot + sd card slot great as she swapping from voda to BT and can have both sims in + sd card

£260 with £100 S7E trade-in and £60 cashback from Samsung

El Jimben · 4 Apr 2020 at 16:39

Just got the notification that Android 10 is available

ShiWarrior · 4 Apr 2020 at 16:39

Minstadave · 4 Apr 2020 at 16:40

El Jimben said:
Just got the notification that Android 10 is available

Nice one! Checked manually and got it too

Minstadave · 4 Apr 2020 at 19:40

Updated, barely any difference TBH.

Changed to the new gesture controls and tweaked the quick panel layout.

ShiWarrior · 4 Apr 2020 at 19:47

just come up on my screen
ill update tomorrow

El Jimben · 4 Apr 2020 at 19:56

Minstadave said:
Updated, barely any difference TBH.

Changed to the new gesture controls and tweaked the quick panel layout.

The fingerprint sensor feels more responsive than before & I'd say that overall, my phone does feel a bit snappier.

Minstadave · 4 Apr 2020 at 20:04

El Jimben said:
The fingerprint sensor feels more responsive than before & I'd say that overall, my phone does feel a bit snappier.

I gave up using the scanner, I'll give it another try.

ShiWarrior · 8 Apr 2020 at 11:10

i to gave up on fingerprint scanner, used to use it to log into my bank accounts
i just use pin codes instead

i do like the charging status always on now when charging

pinkpound · 8 Apr 2020 at 11:58

ShiWarrior said:
i to gave up on fingerprint scanner, used to use it to log into my bank accounts
i just use pin codes instead

i do like the charging status always on now when charging

Have to tried the fix for fingerprint scanner . I has definitely improved my wife's A71

Jump to 1:18

Flibster · 8 Apr 2020 at 21:23

pinkpound said:
Have to tried the fix for fingerprint scanner . I has definitely improved my wife's A71

Jump to 1:18

Jesus H Tapdancing Christ that's an improvement! :eek:

Cheers!

tamzzy · 9 Apr 2020 at 17:57

If anyone is thinking of getting the A71... Samsung is having a promo on their S10 lite...£399 (not including cashback/trade-in...so potentially much less) by using code SAMSUNG20
I've just got one for £371.20 by trading in my 9 year old galaxy S gen1 lol
EDIT: Oh, and also, no employee discount/link needed...available to all

ShiWarrior · 24 Apr 2020 at 21:15

since getting Android Q
When my A70 Screen timeout happens, on charge, it no longer says fast charging, only when I activate the phone and check the charging status

how can i tell if its fast charging when on the black screen ?

james.miller · 25 Apr 2020 at 13:04

let it timeout when close to 0% and let it charge. if it hits 80% in around an hour then it's fast charging. Alternatively, use a power meter to test the charger - it should be pulling 20-25 watts from the wall depending on how full the battery is.

edit: i've just checked mine and it does fast charge despite not displaying it on screen so i guess it's just a software bug

ShiWarrior · 25 Apr 2020 at 16:20

i charged it last night, was about 30% , it took like 4 hours to get to 80

ill time it next time