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Model: SAMSUNG Galaxy A53 5G A Series Cell Phone, Factory Unlocked Android Smartphone, 128GB, 6.5” FHD Super AMOLED Screen, Long Battery Life, US Version, Black

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PueliPow79
12-10-2022 at 02:28 AM.
12-10-2022 at 02:28 AM.
I guess this is a decent deal if you missed all the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals
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JasminKmp
12-10-2022 at 02:35 AM.
12-10-2022 at 02:35 AM.
This is a good looking phone
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vsauce
12-10-2022 at 02:40 AM.
12-10-2022 at 02:40 AM.
$140 at Metro if you can wait 6 months for unlock
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glock22c
12-10-2022 at 04:54 AM.

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12-10-2022 at 04:54 AM.
Thumbs up for OP, but the experience i had with this phone, I would avoid.

Again, my experience only. Bought this phone for the wife in early April, right after it came out. Phone was very good, snappy, 5G, the wife was happy. Then late-October, she shows me that the battery is swelling and it's popped the back of the case open slightly. OK i think, it's under warranty, so i create a case with Samsung and send it off for free. All seems good with the world. Then Samsung care emails me saying that because of the damage, it'll be $79 dollars to repair. WTF, the battery is covered under warranty for 1 YR? Send some emails and finally am told that the battery is covered fully, but the plastic case back got damaged (cracked) from the swelling and that replacing that part is $79 as it is not under warranty. I told them I'm not paying them a cent since THEIR sh*t quality battery swelled up and broke the cheap plastic back. They of course disagreed, and I told them just send the d*mn thing back, they are not getting 1 more cent from me. Anyway, now i have a broken phone in a box lol.

Good news is that we had a spare phone, so no issue for the wife, and we actually got her a Pixel 6a from the Google Black Friday sale at a great price after trade in of an older Pixel 3aXL. Much better phone and she's happy.

So, thanks to the OP but I would avoid this phone only from my personal experience.

Take care all.
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BenedictDonald
12-10-2022 at 04:57 AM.
12-10-2022 at 04:57 AM.
If you can still get the pixel 6a for 299, I think you will enjoy it much more. I did the metro deal a few months back, and I would never want this phone as a daily driver. I also got in on the Slickdeal for the TCL 4X 5G I think it was called, and that was even better than this galaxy a53. Just my two cents.
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hos01
12-10-2022 at 05:17 AM.
12-10-2022 at 05:17 AM.
Quote from glock22c :
Thumbs up for OP, but the experience i had with this phone, I would avoid.

Again, my experience only. Bought this phone for the wife in early April, right after it came out. Phone was very good, snappy, 5G, the wife was happy. Then late-October, she shows me that the battery is swelling and it's popped the back of the case open slightly. OK i think, it's under warranty, so i create a case with Samsung and send it off for free. All seems good with the world. Then Samsung care emails me saying that because of the damage, it'll be $79 dollars to repair. WTF, the battery is covered under warranty for 1 YR? Send some emails and finally am told that the battery is covered fully, but the plastic case back got damaged (cracked) from the swelling and that replacing that part is $79 as it is not under warranty. I told them I'm not paying them a cent since THEIR sh*t quality battery swelled up and broke the cheap plastic back. They of course disagreed, and I told them just send the d*mn thing back, they are not getting 1 more cent from me. Anyway, now i have a broken phone in a box lol.

Good news is that we had a spare phone, so no issue for the wife, and we actually got her a Pixel 6a from the Google Black Friday sale at a great price after trade in of an older Pixel 3aXL. Much better phone and she's happy.

So, thanks to the OP but I would avoid this phone only from my personal experience.

Take care all.
There is nothing wrong with A53. Battery swelling is a known problem with samsung phones. It happened to me twice. once with a galaxy S7 and then with S20+. Samsung does not want to take responsibility for this problem. I bought replacement berry and back cover from ebay and fixed it myself for a fraction of the repair cost.
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ilovethissite
12-10-2022 at 08:33 AM.
12-10-2022 at 08:33 AM.
What's this with activation bs? I thought the whole point of being unlocked was you could do whatever with the phone. I'd like to use this phone with cricket but I guess this deal requires you to also pay for a month of service with another carrier first, correct?
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NAMP_Compliance
12-10-2022 at 09:51 AM.
12-10-2022 at 09:51 AM.
Quote from glock22c :
Thumbs up for OP, but the experience i had with this phone, I would avoid.

Again, my experience only. Bought this phone for the wife in early April, right after it came out. Phone was very good, snappy, 5G, the wife was happy. Then late-October, she shows me that the battery is swelling and it's popped the back of the case open slightly. OK i think, it's under warranty, so i create a case with Samsung and send it off for free. All seems good with the world. Then Samsung care emails me saying that because of the damage, it'll be $79 dollars to repair. WTF, the battery is covered under warranty for 1 YR? Send some emails and finally am told that the battery is covered fully, but the plastic case back got damaged (cracked) from the swelling and that replacing that part is $79 as it is not under warranty. I told them I'm not paying them a cent since THEIR sh*t quality battery swelled up and broke the cheap plastic back. They of course disagreed, and I told them just send the d*mn thing back, they are not getting 1 more cent from me. Anyway, now i have a broken phone in a box lol.

Good news is that we had a spare phone, so no issue for the wife, and we actually got her a Pixel 6a from the Google Black Friday sale at a great price after trade in of an older Pixel 3aXL. Much better phone and she's happy.

So, thanks to the OP but I would avoid this phone only from my personal experience.

Take care all.
dude at least that thing did not explode or catch on fire
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Peerless_Warrior
12-10-2022 at 09:59 AM.
12-10-2022 at 09:59 AM.
Quote from PueliPow79 :
I guess this is a decent deal if you missed all the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals
Yeah, and this costs more than S22U deal. < $90 broken Flip3 got you a 128GB S22U for under $110. Around 200 for 256GB I think. Tax was also refunded post credit.

It's important to use search around black Friday and make deal alerts. They had $300 Sennheiser headphones for $97 (price mistake).

Quote from BenedictDonald :
If you can still get the pixel 6a for 299, I think you will enjoy it much more. I did the metro deal a few months back, and I would never want this phone as a daily driver. I also got in on the Slickdeal for the TCL 4X 5G I think it was called, and that was even better than this galaxy a53. Just my two cents.
Battery is underwhelming on the 6a, worse than my old OnePlus 8. Speaking as an owner. Signal could be much better. Idle drain is high due to bad modem and inefficient hardware. Camera is great but phone needs work.
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hiroxdeals
12-10-2022 at 08:34 PM.
12-10-2022 at 08:34 PM.
Some interesting choices made in the design of this phone. I picked one up with the $100 Metro deal. Great screen, snappy performance. Doesn't have memory card or headset jack, which seems to be the trend to imitate that bad aspects of apple. What is befuddling is the decision to replace a metal, glass, or matching plastic back (which costs ten bucks on ebay) with a piece of super cheap and thin back. Not surprised it instantly cracked with battery swelling rather than lifting off. Sure, most people will put a cover on it anyway, but really?!

Btw, in the past, Samsung had sales on screen replacements for $50. When my old s9 spontaneously cracked after I saw the deal 😉 they were kind enough to replace the battery and back.
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ixrs
12-11-2022 at 05:36 AM.
12-11-2022 at 05:36 AM.
Moto stylus 5g 2022 is probably the better phone for the price.

The cpus are nearly the same and the moto does better on games since game developers optimize for the 695 rather than the exynos this has. In addition the moto has 256gb and a headphone jack.

Only get this if you must get Samsung
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Bigbanks
12-11-2022 at 08:03 AM.
12-11-2022 at 08:03 AM.
Quote from vsauce :
$140 at Metro if you can wait 6 months for unlock
I did this and hopefully in January, it will be unlocked. It is a very good phone. I mean very good for what it is made more. If my flip breaks again, it will be used in its place without concern
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norcal007
12-11-2022 at 08:08 AM.
12-11-2022 at 08:08 AM.
Quote from vsauce :
$140 at Metro if you can wait 6 months for unlock
$49.99 with port in
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youknowright
12-11-2022 at 09:09 AM.
12-11-2022 at 09:09 AM.
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$49.99 with port in
Does the stores charge extra for port in? Or just $49 total!
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