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Samsung Galaxy A80
I'd skip itI'd give this a miss.
An exciting phone with a clever rotating camera and a standout screen, held back by durability worries, dull colours and a missing headphone jack.
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- Price when I covered it
- 679 euro
- Featured in
- 3 videos · 2019–2025
- Category
- Phones · Mid-range
What I liked
- Excellent selfie camera from the main cameras
- Notchless display
- Really cool bit of kit
- Brand-new form factor
- Rotating camera allows selfies with the main and ultra-wide cameras
- Bright, vivid Super AMOLED display with no cutouts
What I didn't
- Moving parts let in dirt and break
- Adds waiting time
- Mechanism takes up space
- Hard to scale to bigger cameras
- Name suggests it is the best Samsung phone when it is not
- Camera mechanism has many moving parts and could fail over time
In my words
Straight from the video. Tap a timestamp to hear me say it.
“this 2019 phone is still like better than my iPhone 16 Pro Max from 2025”
“Motorized camera systems are actually generally a pretty bad idea.”
“an average consumer might not realize it's barely half the power of Samsung's best”
“it means you can take selfies with the main camera on this device and the quality looks amazing”
“there's potential over time for this to start to go wrong a little bit”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
3:03I Tested the Weirdest Phones on the Internet.A clever rotating camera that gives superb selfies, but motorised cameras are a bad idea and Samsung was right to drop them.
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1:48Dear Smartphone Companies.A cool phone, but its name misleads shoppers into thinking it is Samsung's best when it is barely half as powerful.
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0:00Samsung Galaxy A80 - ROTATING CAMERA Hands-on Review!An exciting phone with a clever rotating camera and a standout screen, held back by durability worries, dull colours and a missing headphone jack.
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Why it's on these shelves
- Gimmick
“it's cool the first 100 times you do it, but after that, you are just adding an extra 2 seconds every time”
▶ 4:30 - Actually innovative
“it's actually something I've been asking for on a phone for a long time”
▶ 1:28 - Camera nerd
“you can take selfies with the main camera on this device and the quality looks amazing”
▶ 1:26
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