Samsung Galaxy A20 32GB blue for $179 at OW. This phone is unlocked and is available to all Australian networks.
I bought this flip case from Aliexpress
https://www.samsung.com/au/smartphones/galaxy-a20-a205/
Ozbargain's Best Budget Smartphone (Under $300) in 2019
Credit to Arthur Danger for the above description
Literally bought this last night for 255 from catch of the day. HELP!!
Ozbargain skills -1
Well I checked before I bought but the deals on here were all old.
This outranks the nokia 2.3 in value IMHO, which is what I was waiting for, so I bought one. Thanks OP.
Grabbed it as a temp phone as mine died recently while i wait to see what the next release of phones is like. Word of warning I first tried to get this delviered to parcel locker and they cancelled my order as they said I didn't meet their customer privacy and security standards.
Should I buy this to replace my cracked s9+??
How does this match up against s9+? Any comparisons from users?
I have an S7 and was considering replacing it with an A20… the S7 hardware is better than this phone in a number of ways so your S9+ likely far exceeds the performance of this.
My S7 is cracked but I'll use it til the end and likely replace it with one of these or its replacement.
Dual sim?
I thought it was a dual sim phone, but confirmed this is a single sim model.
Thanks op, got one
should i upgrade from an iphone 5?
Only if you want to switch to Android, have bigger and more colourfull screen and much longer battery life.
Will be bigger and heavier though lol.
I don't use my phone for much besides communication and social media. I'm basically a boomer
Many boomers use smartphones for more than communication and social media.
Also using social media such as twitter and facebook are very recource hungry.
I bought one for my grandma. Any recommended screen protector? She always drop off things to ground.
Yeah, a really strong one as well as a solid soft gelly bumper case with strenghtened reinforced corners.
Thank you.
Thanks OP. Got a couple to upgrade the kids’ ageing phones.
Some good specs
Would this be any better than an iPhone 5s?
Shows $277 now?
Yes, I ordered it, prior, hope that they honour the price
damn was it like a pricing error or something and now its fixed?
Officeworks tend to just price match, so their price was just someone else's and that jumped around. ~$180 is a regular Coles price, so no price error. Coles rotate their specials on Wednesdays so maybe OW was just matching them.
oh right
that makes so much sense
cheers
glad i bought one yesterday
@macdaddyjordan: But Coles only sells the Prepaid Locked version for $169-$199 ( both the Vodafone & Telstra
prepaid versions ) I thought, so Officeworks usually would not price match that. Might have missed
unlocked sale price, so stand to be corrected lol.
Ordered yesterday arvo, received just now this morning.
Why would Officeworks end this deal if the Coles deal got extended?
Anyone able to Price Match Coles with Officeworks??
No, Coles deal is for network locked phone. This one is unlocked. Crazy that people are bidding up to $270 for this on ebay.
Excactly. See my above comment.
I have this phone and just wanted to say how much I hate it. It's been the worst interfacing phone I've ever had. How can a tiny iphone 5 screen be more successful in typing than this phone! I HATE the thin bezel and its pretty much unusable in so many locations because it detects a tiny fold of skin from the palm holding it etc (I'm a 41yr old healthy slim non fat fingered 70kg male)…
It's just a crap phone, and the updates keep coming and make the whole phone slower and worse (despite having the bare minimum apps installed).
Don't feel bad if u missed this deal, this phone just ain't that great an experience in general imo.
What does your weight have to do with your typing skills?
I haven't had this issue and I'm a 52 year old fat fingered guy.
thin bezel … detects a tiny fold of skin from the palm holding it
Me too. Haven't found a way to hold it to avoid this. Maybe a case helps?
@Arthur Dunger: Haven't tried the GPS out yet. I did update to the latest version which is supposed to fix the GPS issues though according to comments in this post. Will let you know if/when I get around to it I guess.