@trinsec @obi I have a Galaxy A53. Ask away... 🙂

(BTW, I've never noticed any lag, but maybe I'm not a "power user"? 🤔)

@petetaylor

Ooh! Yay, I've got a couple questions:

- I've read about people just scrolling websites and the screen regularly stuttering during that. The whole interface feels slow and starting up apps would take a second or two to load. Camera is also sluggish, and people tended to miss the perfect camera moment by having a slow camera there.

I've also read that during an October update and turning off features fixes most if not all of them. But those reports are less abundant. You're not having any moment that you think 'darn, I wish this thing was faster'?

From reports of people online I saw frustration and that people were disappointed in the speed, and that they regretted buying it and would love to swap it for other phones. That's a bit scary for me for that price.

- How's the vibration of the phone? Is it pretty strong, or is it more like a zooming of a washing machine (which means less attention grabbing than a RAKTATATA vibration)?

@obi

@trinsec @obi Okay, I can only tell you my experience with a phone bought direct from Samsung in the UK (so, I presume Exynos processor 🤷‍♂️ ).

I have not experienced stuttering when scrolling through websites, although that may be something that I've just adjusted to. I'm not the sort of person to inspect whether my phone is hitting 120Hz constantly etc. I would not say that the interface feels slow. The exception is the camera, but I'll expand on that later.
I, personally, have never thought "I wish this phone was faster". I would say that it's the fastest phone that I've owned, however, I have never owned a "flagship" phone, so my point of reference is only mid-range and less.

@petetaylor

This sounds pretty hopeful so far. When'd you acquire the phone? And yeah I'm not asking for checking whether it's actually 120Hz, just your user experience with it. A stuttering would be noticeable.

I never owned a flagship either. I mean, I'm living with an ancient A3 for almost 5 years now. ;)

I'll eagerly await your camera expansion.

@obi

@trinsec I've had it since April. In terms of the web browsing, I use Edge (don't judge me!) with the "Tracking prevention" set to "Strict", which seems to block pretty much all ads and so pages load quickly and run smoothly. I also use Firefox occasionally as I really want to like their mobile browser, but after many years, it still doesn't match the quality of their desktop browser. However, using it to browse the web is equally smooth. I just tried out Chrome and that also seems snappy and smooth.

What I will say is that all the browsers take a good 3-4 seconds to load into memory. Re-opening once they're in memory is pretty snappy, but I guess if you have a lot of other apps open and the browser gets unloaded from memory, it'll be a few seconds to re-open it again. The only time this affects me is on the rare occasion that I play a game. This may or may not be important to you.

@petetaylor

I'm also idly wondering.. You have it since April. Would you say that whatever performance you had back then, it's definitely improved with updates you've gotten since then?

Like, maybe you didn't really see the performance back then as problematic as you found it fine already, but maybe it's gotten even smoother nowadays? Or have you noticed zero difference anyway?

@petetaylor

As a last question: How's the vibration? Is it clearly felt, or do you think 'what is that zooming feeling.. the fridge? The washing machine? Why does it keep zooming.. mm.. oh wait, the phone?'.

My A3 is pretty lousy, sometimes I wonder if my neighbours are having a music going or so.. (I'm deaf, so I would feel it, not hear it) and my phone likes to be obscure with the vibrating.

I appreciate all the answers you've given so far!