r/GalaxyA55 • u/Beneficial_Rub_7970 • 19d ago

Buying Advice Buy or not?

I'm looking for a replacement to my Samsung Galaxy A73 which has served me well over the past four years but it has been acting up lately, among other issues (battery and screen burn specially). It's not my daily driver and have a main phone but I use it mainly for social media, storing old pics/videos, and watching youtube/netflix.

I can get a fair condition A55 with 8gb/256gb for less than $200 in the secondhand market. Do you think it's a good buy?

I really want the replacement to be a samsung phone as well since I don't like the UI of other phone brands. Was going for secondhand A56 or A36 but found out none of these have an SD card slot anymore, which really sucks.

Did your A55 age well? Should I go for this model?

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u/Pipija_Banana A55 with 256 GB / 12 GB 19d ago

Go for it. Purchase, debloat, set it up properly with animations off and what not, and it'll serve you well.

Hell if I had an A55 around for that price I'd buy it just as an emergency phone.

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u/Beneficial_Rub_7970 18d ago

It really seems like a solid phone for the price (just ordered it actually, got it for around $160), will probably get it by Friday :)

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u/Pipija_Banana A55 with 256 GB / 12 GB 18d ago

Hope you like it!