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[89135]

Does anyone have any  Pros and Cons on the Tracfone Samsung Galaxy A01? Would be used  basically for emergency and camera every now and then..  (I now have the LG Sunset 4G and evidently will stop working shortly as it won't be compatible.

Thanks!

[Nuttmeg]

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@89135 wrote:

Does anyone have any  Pros and Cons on the Tracfone Samsung Galaxy A01? Would be used  basically for emergency and camera every now and then..  (I now have the LG Sunset 4G and evidently will stop working shortly as it won't be compatible.

Thanks!

@89135 

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HSN has two Samsung Tracfones the A11 and A21. You can compare them with a YouTube video.  You may want to select the phone with the best cameras. 

The A01 is just not a great phone. 

[89135]

@Nuttmeg  I already checked on the A10...

I am asking about the A01...any thoughts on that one?

[Nuttmeg]

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@89135 wrote:

@Nuttmeg  I already checked on the A10...

I am asking about the A01...any thoughts on that one?

@89135 

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Sorry about that. 

The A01 is a phone with older technology. It has only 16GB of storage and a slow wireless card.

LOL,  Samsung has too many phones. 

[gardenman]

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@Nuttmeg wrote:

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@89135 wrote:

@Nuttmeg  I already checked on the A10...

I am asking about the A01...any thoughts on that one?

@89135 

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Sorry about that. 

The A01 is a phone with older technology. It has only 16GB of storage and a slow wireless card.

LOL,  Samsung has too many phones. 

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I've often wondered what would happen if a phone company or computer chip maker just made one top-of-the-line model but made a whole lot of them and sold them at as low a cost point as possible. When you look at a computer's CPU you can buy an AMD processor for an AM4 socket motherboard for suggested retail from $100-$800. Just looking at them, other than the printing, they look the same. They fit the same motherboard. The manufacturing process is pretty similar for both types. Why not just make the $800 one but sell it for $150-$200? You'd sell a ton of them. You'd only have to develop and support one product instead of the ten to twenty you do now. 

It's the same with phones. (It gets a little more complicated with phones as much of the cost is licenses and whatnot and not the hardware.) If you could turn out an absolutely top-of-the-line phone for under $200, you'd sell a gazillion of them. Could it be done? Maybe. The money you'd save by not developing, manufacturing, advertising, and distributing ten or more different phones, might just save enough to make it possible. A modern "cheap" smartphone has technology that would have cost you ten times as much five years ago. Why wait five years for the lower cost if you could do it now?

[89135]

Sooo @gardenman ..Do you have an opinion on the Samsung A01 ?

[gardenman]

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@89135 wrote:

Sooo @gardenman ..Do you have an opinion on the Samsung A01 ?

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It's not a phone I considered so I didn't research it before getting my new phone. As a rule, Samsung phones are good, but I can't speak for that model.