This is because the ram is being used to this level due to the system. It will help the phone perform smoother as the system has loads of ram to work with. Unused ram is not going to be useful, so it might as well be used. If you are worried by the ram management, when you start to open many large ram apps, the system will use less ram to make room for those apps. So having 1gb or 2gb of ram free when the phone is idle is not a bad thing; it is actually good as you know it has been optimised to run the system well when it can and is not wasting unused ram on nothing. ... View more

This is down to Samsung changing the naming scheme of the new a series. The successor to the a5 would be the a50, which is why all these features are missing because the A10 replaces the older J3. I do agree that they should make it clearer that the A10 is not better than the A5, but a upgrade to the J3/4 instead. ... View more

Well the A50 is a decent midrange but definitely not better than an S8+. Apart from 2 more software updates and a better battery, you would have a slower phone, worse main camera, no more water resistance or wireless charging and a plastic body. The last 2 are minor, though, but I would not go to an a50 from an S8+. It would be much better if you went for an A71, coming out very soon if not already in your country as this has a better camera, very big screen and very powerful (nearly 70% more than a50 and a51) ... View more

Yeah it's crazy- we are stuck with these dodgy gestures and laggy animations along with android pie forever now when A6 gets one UI 2.0 and all the good stuff along with that😭☹️ ... View more

Wait for the A51 in my opinion. It will launch at around the same price in a month or so globally and compared to the a50 it has: A better screen with punch hole cutout and much thinner bezels, better front camera (32mp Vs 25mp), much better rear cameras (48mp main, 5mp macro, 5mp depth and 12mp ultra wide Vs  25mp main, 8mp ultra wide and 5mp macro on a50), nicer design, one more year of software updates and launches with android 10, 4k video support natively, edge screen etc... ... View more

Unfortunately it seems there is no way to gett his feature on the A20e. Its annoying to me as well that they don't give it to older devices, but as my a8 has AOD I just have it set to tap to wake aod and double tapping the home button on AOD wakes the screen. As the A20e has an LCD and is a low end phone, this workaround will never work ... View more

I assume you mean the A20e, as there's nothing called the S20e. It probably doesn't have double tap to wake as this could be a hardware limitation, as higher end devices have it. Samsung isn't going to add it anyway (I have experience with asking for features) ... View more

(such as less than 10cm) ... View more

Yeah I have that in my a8 too. Super annoying but I think it's because these phones use PDAF autofocusing compared to regular ones on j7 and A3 2016( which I had without this issue). It is more accurate but not as reliable as regular focusing. I still think it could be resolved though as on my device it only happens at short distances ... View more

I don't think we should pay any more to Samsung than we already do just to get a proper amount of updates. They have already developed it for A7 2018 which has the same CPU as the A8, and therefore can just be easily ported to this device. And if they want to charge money, they should just not update the j4+ and j6+ and avoid developing android 10 for those. I'd be surprised if those devices could even run Minecraft well with such an old low end snapdragon 425 which was optimised for android 5.1. They might as well not update those devices, prevent them from becoming even slower then they already are and update the A8 and S8 instead. Therefore, A8 and S8 owners would be happy and would buy another Samsung product, and j4+ and j6+ owners would not be sad that their phone is an unusuable mess on android 10 and would get another Samsung phone later. Therefore Samsung makes more profit if they don't charge to update phones - just don't update the ones with ancient processors. It's very simple samsung! ... View more

Yeah, the A20e is more of a J series replacement. I owned an A3 2016 previously and my friend has an a20e, and imo the screen difference is quite noticiabke. It is faster, but the A40 isn't much more expensive and offers a higher resolution oled screen, a faster CPU, a better camera, smaller bezels, faster updates and better software features (the a20e doesn't have scrolling screenshot which my a3 did for example). The A20e is a good phone, but for very little more the A40 is much better of a deal ... View more

Yeah it's unfortunate that it the a series no longer have water resistance. However, if your A3 is water resistant, it is the 2017 model and I would say the A40 is much better than the a20e. In fact, your A3 has a better OLED screen than the A20e. The A40 doesn't have water resistance, but it is a similar price to the A20e so it is a better option ... View more

I asked through Samsung members and they said that they will give the feature as a suggestion but they won't probably add it because it would raise the cost of the device and they want the a series to be affordable to everyone. However if the feature already exists (on every other phone and the S series and Note series), then how would it cost them to add it? It's like saying that pre-installing the free Samsung calendar app will make the phone more expensive, even if it already exists and they don't need to develop it. ... View more

Yeah, I agree. Literally even budget phones have this feature and on A series we cant even use a 3rd party app to have actual shutter speed (it exists but only up to ½ to 1 seconds). The a series should support it and if they are being marketed as phones with amazing cameras. They have the hardware for it clearly (The newly released Galaxy A71 and A51 have great quad camera hardware, a 64mp f1.8 lens for the A71 and 48mp f2.0 for the A51, and with the inclusion of the Snapdragon 730 the A71 is probably the best midrange phone). All A series phone from 2018 onwards should get this shutter speed option (including A8 2018 Samsung, stop treating it like a 2017 phone not even getting android 10) ... View more

Well, considering the A7 2018 has the same CPU and A40 has a similar one and same camera, which get android 10, someone might make a custom android 10 ROM somewhere down the line. However if you install it you have a risk of bricking your phone and it voids your warranty and Samsung pay/ Samsung health/wearable functionality ... View more

Still, samsung phones recieve secutiry updates for a sufficient amount of time, 3 to 4 years to be exact. My old A3 2016 which was released in december 2015 is on a 2019 security patch. By this time, most people would have upgraded to a newer phone. Many people want the newest features an android update brings, and leaving out a phone while updating a far weaker model is unnaceptable. Personally I would rather samsung put their resources into developing new and meaningul Android feature updates and having quaterly security updates then just boring security updates with no features every month, which is what the A8 gets while the last time it got new features was back with android pie months ago. Look at the Galaxy A50 - that gets bug fixes and feature improvements every month along with security updates.  ... View more

You can unfortunately only use the messages and email apps on the watch if you have a Samsung phone ... View more

I don't know why, have it on my a8 2018 probably one of the things Samsung disabled or removed this year with the a series ... View more

s8 isn't getting it as on the list. Everyone should contain to them to give A8 update through Samsung members - they might give it if they notice all the people annoyed at this stupid desicion. Samsung been doing this for years - A3 2016 gets no Oreo, J3 2016 does. J5 2017 gets pie, a5 2017 doesn't. This needs to stop and therefore the A8 should get android 10 ... View more

Yes but that's for S8 we need to get for A8 as well as A8 they told me won't get it because of some update policy. Also S8 not on the list so I think the representative told you this just to stop anyone else complaining but it won't get it still ... View more

I complained in the members app about this and I got a response that the A8 isn't getting android 10 because it launched with 7 instead of android 8 even though it's better than the A6 and the person even said it was more expensive and yet it won't get android 10.  ... View more

(While A6 and A7 gets 1android 10) ... View more

And now, Samsung has expanded this list to China and India and guess what - no A8. WHY! If you can't handle simply creating a 1GB OS update file for one phone model, then exclude phones from the list that probably can't even run android 9 fine (J6+). This phone MUST get android 10, or we should all stop supporting this disastarous company. I had a choice between this phone, A7 2018 and A6, all with oreo as it was more than 2 months since the a8 came out and I picked the A8, what I thought was the best (definentally better than a6 and better than a7 in many areas). It was also the most expensive. And now we learn it isn't getting Android 10! This is a SCAM Samsung and you should be ashamed of yourselves and add the A8 to the Andorid 10 list NOW!!! ... View more

Wow. Just wow. Officially the J6 gets android 10 and the A8 doesn't. Neither does the S8. WHAT IS THIS! (Shown on Sammobile website BTW) ... View more

Yeah, I fully agree with you. Also the A30 has a slower processor then the a8 and a plastic build with not even any water resistance (a disgrace in 2019). Also, there was the report of the s8 getting android 10 and it would be unfair for a8 users to be left in the cold. I think the s8 may not get it though , it is not certain because 2 years ago a Samsung employee said the s6 would get android 8 but once again unfairly, it never did. Also, I just got an email from Samsung about upgrading to a new, disgraceful a series phone such as the inferior to a8 galaxy A50. To be honest, I think the only true a8 successor is s10e. ... View more