Launch deal for new release models
Galaxy A36 (RRP $549)
$100 off outright purchase - $449
$150 off 12 month plan - $399
Galaxy A56 (RRP $699)
$150 off outright purchase - $549
$200 off 12 month plan - $499
JB Hi-Fi and TGG selling it for RRP with $100 gift card if you prefer that.
I thought the A56 has only been available in the last couple of weeks, so how long did your company actually use the 300 phones?
The A56 also has the newer 1580 cpu over the 1480 cpu from the A55.
Asking as i think this is what my employer is replacing our current old work phones with.
Yeah I dealt with the A55, there isn't that much between the 1480 and 1580 as far as real world performance goes thats why I figure my experience with them is still relevant. I should've clarified that a bit better so I apologise for that. I expect, based on the specs of both, that the A56 will go by the same way as the A55 as far as longevity goes but realistically it depends on the use case, the people that just text and call with their phones, no problem. The ones that answered emails opened pdfs etc etc needed something stronger.
Also these were vanilla, so if your company loads any programs, monitoring software etc that needs to be considered too.
I still manage my current companies phones and honestly, for all the hate apple gets, their refurb program and promised updates period they end up being my go to for company phones, I still run a iphone 12 mini that I will run into the ground.
Why would you think the 1480 is similar to the 1580? It's a completely new chip with new CPU cores and instruction set. Benchmarks are showing CPU is 15-25% faster and graphics are nearly 33% faster than the 1480. I don't think that's a fair comparison if you haven't used the 1580.
@Doge: I have used the A56.. A better comparison would be to compare the 1580 with a couple year old flagship processor because this is what I am suggesting, my 3 year old 12 mini goes toe to toe with the brand new 1580. You can buy a refurbished 12 mini for almost half the price of the A56, for the exact same performance. If you want to spend the same amount you can get an iphone 14 refurbished(or even brand new if you look long enough) which blows the A56 out of the water in terms of performance. If you wanna go team green you can get an S23 for a hundred bucks or so under the A56 cost refurbished too.
Anyway I could do comparisons all day long but the point I am trying to make is you can make that $550 go a lot further as an individual - raw performance isn't everything, you gotta do a bit of legwork but thats why these phones exist, for people not wanting to actually look around at options.
These A series phones suck as work phones, too slow and laggy etc.. It's prob the bloatware IT have installed on them.
Is 128gb 6gb ram enough these days?
Enough for everyday use, browsing, YouTube, banking and email. A36 should have 8gb ram instead of this 6gb ram garbage.
Ive been using flagships for a long time and rdcently using the a35.
Honestly, as a daily driver, for the price i got it <300, it's fine.
It isn's as smooth (duh) but it's not frustratingly so. It has full one ui, so good lock works.
Beautiful amoled with 120hz screen. And fine battery life.
You do miss out on AI goodies, but if you don't care, it's fine.
I find the a3x series is the minimum, if you want to use as a daily driver. Anything else is more of a backup/secondary phone territory.
The a5x would be more premium, but some would argue, go for an fe instead.
Same sentiments as you. I'm reading this from my A35 and it's been more than sufficient for my needs. Only complaint would be the in-display fingerprint reader. Id prefer a side mounted one instead.
I didn’t realise the “A” stands for Awesome
Great deal, wish they have a phone with smaller foot print.
Just letting you know a36 while having Snapdragon chip perform well below last year a55 Exynos . Hope that information help some buyere
How does this compare to Nothing Phone 3a
are these phones locked to Telstra sims only?
Can I get price-beat with officeworks and get the $100 Giftcard too as they are giving the gift card too. so this would make the phone 100+ dollars cheaper?
(pricebeat telstra), telstra price is-549, 5% off is 521.55-100(gift card), so the net cost would be 421.55??
Try it and let us know
So it looks like these run the same chip as the previous model and I just wanted to post my experience with those below. If you are in this budget range I strongly suggest looking at a flagship model thats a year or two old refurbished or along those lines, I believe you will get more life out of one of those than one of these.
I know ill get one or two people telling me they have had theirs for years and its been fine, and of course it will be if your use case suits this phone. I ran about 300 of these at company for a while and by the time I finished up most people had been upgraded bar like 20 odd people that somehow found their A56 is still working fine. These people were the ones that would pull their laptop out to check and email not use their phone. YMMV but based on the stats I have dealt with I recommend against buying one of these. The A36 might be okay cause you are paying a bit less but again same rule will definitely apply if they couldn't get the A56 up to scratch.