Samsung Galaxy A51 Review | Quad camera beast for £300

Reviewing Samsung's Galaxy A51 smartphone, a £300 budget-friendly version of those flagship handsets with quad lens rear camera, Exynos smarts, 4000mAh battery and One UI 2.0 on board. I've been testing the A51 as my full-time phone and here's my full thoughts on whether it's your best mid-range option.

While most attention is locked on the new Galaxy S20 series, the A-series blowers offer a similar experience for a cheaper price. This smartphone offers a flexible quad lens rear camera, complete with most of Samsung's usual features. That includes the night mode, live focus and the emoji nonsense. One UI brings plenty of extra additions and stronger security to Android 10 - go check out my full tips and tricks guide to see my favourite bits on the Galaxy A51.

Performance is reasonably smooth, although you'll see the occasional stutter and pause here and there from that Exynos platform. Thankfully the 4000mAh battery keeps you going all day without much stress.

So have you been using the Samsung A51 as your personal mobile? Leave your own review below.

[stephenlamba]

I like that the camera review is done separately, it usually dominates an unnecessarily huge chunk of the video in other reviewers' videos. Well done

[kamogelolefifi]

I love how you give descriptions of the phone full features and cool looks

[carlbot]

BROOOO that deadman wonderland background! SICK

[DaiPad]

Got my A51 last week and i really like it, it has more than enough of the features i want and the screen is awesome for the price and i find the phone speed to be good too...i paid £319 for it which meant i could go sim free and save a fair bit of money on my EE bill as well each month

[MegaJames]

I’ve descended into the ‘new blower’ vortex lately and I am loving your videos. Thank you for being consistently awesome 😎❤️

[MeltonJohn]

Just bought this today from your review, local lad keep it up pal

[JTManuel]

I can't wait for the"s" version. Great review, as always. Thank you.

[wildfiresecurity]

Please do a full review of the A71. I'm sceptical about switching back to Samsung and the A71 is the only one that catches my eye... and budget :)

[NMPNMPNMP]

I’m here 1 year later and Piers Morgan half granted your wishes 😂
Thanks for the review

[BamaChad-WCHD]

I've had one about 2 weeks now. I feel exactly the same about it pretty much. You mentioned the notifications sometimes not showing up until you unlock the phone. They went overly aggressive with the battery optimizations in my opinion. I think they tried to hide the weaker battery in it by making it aggressive by default. I tweaked my battery optimizations and it helped quite a bit with notifications showing up. I have noticed that when the same number calls me back to back the ringtones seem to change for no reason. Its quite annoying lol

[lordsparta]

Now, if I'm determined to buy and, by the way, what application do you use to have those wallpapers I like

[redwhendrunk]

Thanks for the nice vid sir. When will you get the A71?

[hugopaco]

Cheers mate. Congrats from Portugal. Give me some advice please, between this a51 and the Nova 5t, which one would you recommend buying? Consider the Nova may be around 60€ more expensive. Thanks

[rburks]

I hit that ding button for that Piers Morgan line alone. Plus great content.

[DivyanshuJha]

Please give wallpaper links in all of your video....

All of the wallpapers are amazing and I am unable to find them on internet

[ines]

When I first saw the phone in real life (it was off not on) I thought that the screen was a little bit small and not as big as other phones now so what do u think about this?

[PaulShare]

Good Review. Useful as this is a very affordable phone offering good value. Well done.

[siphrus]

this is really helpful, as my a51 is coming soon

[RDEnduro]

I have an A51 for one year and ultimately the only thing that doesn't work is the thumbprint reader. Otherwise really happy with this phone and the screen hasn't scratched at all even though its in my work pocket all the time

[BrianRussell]

Nice review thanks. I went for an A71 in the end. I guess you'll be doing a review but one maddening artificial limitation of seems to have is a limit of 3 registered fingerprints. Please let people know.