Owner of version 8/256. The device has some very good features, especially regarding the screen (brightness, color performance, high resolution), main camera (both in photos and videos), and stereo sound. The processor (Snapdragon 778G) is excellent for fast multitasking (I had noticed this for months on the Honor 50). NFC & BT, which I use frequently, also have no problem.
On the other hand, the fingerprint sensor is lacking. It is simply mediocre and not always reliable. Sometimes it recognizes immediately, other times it delays and requires contact again, and other times it throws an error on the same finger.... I did not have such problems to such an extent with Huawei or Honor models regarding fingerprint, so personally it seems bad to me.
The battery should also be relatively satisfactory (theoretically on paper), but in practice this is not the case. Those users who complain about autonomy are right. 2 SIM cards, with One UI 4.1 - Android 12 version, I barely make it through the day sometimes (which I did not experience with the previous phone - with the same processor and slightly lower autonomy supposedly). Note that I have set the Smooth Motion option to Basic (60 Hz) and battery protection to 85% charge in the settings. In the above, take into account the slow charging (only 15W charger included in the package).
I am not concerned about the plastic construction quality, as I have had it in a case since day one (by the way, many options for case and tempered glass for this model, as it is popular).
Finally, I will say that my interlocutors sometimes do not hear me clearly when I speak from open listening, without knowing if this happens to other owners.
Overall, I will say that I have positive impressions, because from the beginning I am interested in the triptych screen-camera-speed, and there it is good from my experience so far, although for the money it costs it should be slightly better in some points.
P.S. I received a notification for Android 13 installation from today (05/12/2022).
P.S. 2 having passed several days the new version (10/01/2023), apart from changes and additions, there is no improvement in terms of autonomy. In addition, at random times, lines appear on the screen, and after a while it returns. It does not present it every day, but if it continues unfortunately it goes for service.
P.S. 3 (16/05/2023) many freezes for the past 2-3 months, to the point of becoming annoying (with less than 80 GB of storage space out of the 256 that my phone has, while RAM usually uses 4 to 4.5 GB out of the 8 GB in my model, having set an additional 4 GB in the RAM Plus option), One UI 5.1 version. The worst thing is in some cases, the device simply did not respond to any command, "freezing", it required a forced restart. Let's move on. What did you have Samsung, what did I always have...
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