Galaxy A50 review: The mid-range bestseller that defined Samsung's 2019 A-series reboot.
The A-series turning point.
A50 reset Samsung's mid-range after years of overpriced J-series phones — Super AMOLED, in-display fingerprint and a triple cam at $349. It sold in huge volume and set the template for every A-series since.
01Display
80/100At 80/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among mid-range phones of 2019 — 7 points above the cohort average.
02Camera
68/10068/100 puts it above the 64-point average for mid-range phones of 2019.
03Performance
64/10064/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2019.
04Battery
76/10076/100 puts it above the 72-point average for mid-range phones of 2019.
05Build
66/10066/100 trails the 71-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2019.
- Bright Super AMOLED at sub-$350
- In-display fingerprint rare in tier
- 4000 mAh comfortably lasts a day
- Exynos 9610 stutters under load
- Slow under-display scanner on launch firmware
- Mono speaker
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 101-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .