Samsung Galaxy s20 FE - Cloud Lavender (Unlocked)

It's a great phone however for being next Gen and they only made it a bit faster and improved battery life from the 22+ is pretty disappointing. They could have improved cameras, speakers, and user features. Aside from that I still like it, very good phone.

Reading the reviews, most of the low ratings mentioned facial recognition and fingerprint reader as not being all that great. What's new? Out of the past smartphones I h ave owned which were mostly Samsung, this one is no worse and not all that much better. I have never had a lot of success with either of the features having to do with security. I have redone my face about 20 times and it's hit and miss. As to fingerprint, about the same. So if neither works from the start I simple enter in the 4 digit pin. No big deal. As to battery life, I find it improved over the previous Galaxy S10e I was using. I am not disappointed in my purchase and firmly believe others reading the reviews, don't let the 1 and 2 star reviews guide you. I think this is a fine phone and will see going forward if I feel a need to change my review.

Don't listen to the one star haters. This phone is great. The screen is large and very bright. The UI is snappy and the battery lasts all day. I average over 9 hours of screen on time. That is impressive given the size and brightness of the screen. Takes roughly an hour to charge from 10% to 100% using an Anker 45 watt fast charger. Was able to upgrade to Android 14/One UI 6 after initial setup. Smart Switch was able to transfer all my apps, messages and photos as well. It even transfered active logins for certain apps. Which was nice. Stereo speakers are nothing special. They sound exactly like the speakers from the cheap A series phones. Not really a big deal to me as they are perfectly fine for videos. The speakers are not very good for music so I use my Galaxy buds or a Bluetooth speaker. Lastly, the fingerprint scanner that others have complained about. It takes some getting used to. It's a bit frustrating initially but once you get the muscle memory down it unlocks I'd say about 98% of the time on the first attempt. Train as many prints as possible. It definitely helps. Also, turn on increased touch sensitivity in settings. This phone is definitely worth it. The flat screen is nice and the size is perfect. It definitely has some heft. Making it feel premium. Which can't be said of the A series of phones. If you are on the fence, just get it. You won't regret it.

***UPDATE NOV 2023: The Alexa app was controlling the volume. The permission settings can not be modified so I just deleted Alexa on this phone and now the phone works great. Not sure of any other ways to keep the Alexa app without having issues with the volume***CHANGED RATING TO 5 STARS*** I wish I would have kept my S20+ (I may go back to it because I still have it). I should have carefully read the reviews. Like so many others have said - SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE VOLUME. It is way too low, like the person on the other end is whispering. I have the volume on max and I'm still struggling to hear people. Even the social media videos are playing super low. I keep waiting for an update, but I am running out of patience. I can barely hear anything on this phone (videos, regular calls, Zoom calls, ANYTHING involving sound). Samsung needs to fix this asap. I don't care about the number of pixels per picture. First and foremost, it is a PHONE. I am very disappointed. I have always had a Samsung, back when they had the S9! But I am seriously considering an iPhone because this should be an easy fix for Samsung and they will not address it. And yes, I already reached out to the manufacturer directly.

And get a flagship phone. My job provided S-series phones to me for the past 10 years. They were always a couple of generations behind but they worked fine. I just retired in June and decided to get a cheaper Android phone to replace my company S10 which had been working perfectly. I purchased a Motorola Stylus 5G and it's been a nightmare. I live in a dead zone for cell signal so I need wifi calling and the Motorola kept dropping network connection. Even though it was using wifi for all my apps just fine I often wasn't getting calls or texts. And when I would go back to a good cell signal it wouldn't automatically connect again unless I restarted the phone. I found myself doing restarts one or two times a day to get network and if I didn't I would miss calls or texts from people who said they couldn't get a hold of me. I remembered this happening once before when my job gave me a mid grade A50 and it was so bad I had to return it and ask for another S series. So lesson for me is just get a flagship...even if it's an older generation it's still going to work and age better than a mid grade. That said, I really like the S23+. I doesn't lose network, works flawlessly, is a perfect size and is easy to set up. Hopefully it ages as well as my S10 did. I could probably still be using that if I had it. I do miss having SD card options but there is enough memory to house my entire music collection without making a huge dent in the memory and higher end phones are discontinuing SD cards for a reason. I got this phone 20% of retail so if you wait you can save some money. I wish I never spent on the motorola in the first place. Budget phones might be fine if you live in a good area with great reception, but for me the two I've tried were nothing but a waste and a pain. This 23+ however, is a great phone.