The S series with dock features, pro camera and a lot more , if you have budget for S series, the premium is justified over A series.
FK with open box so if you have doubts , just carefully inspect
No product on fk shows that unless product is added to the cart & then proceed to the payment page at which point a msg should show “rest assured with open box delivery”.
That is the only risk with open box delivery, if you don’t inspect properly & accept the product then can’t raise physical damage issue afterwards. Also, now you also need to keep an eye on order status page on flipkart app to make sure open box delivery is not removed because seller shipped via a delivery partner other than ekart logistics (for which I made a thread here).
My wife is still using her s20fe …3 years later…works perfectly well even now…I have not yet had to change the battery or anything but the battery replacement cost is just 2-3k for samsung (max)
But s20fe is snapdragon…avoid any exynos like you avoided covid
I got a Pixel 8 for my cousin yesterday. delivered by Flipkart. The delivery guy opened and took photos of the box in the sealed state. also took photos after opening it. and gave it for my inspection and then asked for OTP.
so i guess its their standards these days.
Remember this, when it comes to Samsung, S series are higher tier models and A series are mid tier models. So, S series will usually have better hardware & software.
Also, you’ll get custom ROMs only for Qualcomm and not for Exynos.
And more importantly, you’ll get custom gcam APK’s for Qualcomm phones, especially Samsung phones.
Everything else was same for me except the bold part. In my case he opened the box. He took photos of the phone from both front and back and also box accessories. Then asked for OTP in a way that he’s doing me a favour or something. Passed further unsolicited remarks that the provided data cable is really costly and that there is charger in the box etc. (as I was murmuring to myself how I will have to buy a bloody charger now).
Like I said 2 years ago when this Open Box Delivery started. It’s a Big Bloody Drama; BBD. Yeah. Scammy AF place.
S23 is much better overall, I’ve used one which my dad has and honestly it’s a great device just less battery but we don’t get S23+ anymore so can’t do much!
I really like the in hand feel of the device and how compact it is, it very much resembles an iPhone.
I got a S23 too before this sale and it was open box delivery. I checked everything before saying the otp, first for scratches, dents then booted it up to check for any display issues like dead pixel etc only then I told OTP to delivery guy.
I’ve been using it for a month now, if you are okay with charging two times a day it’s a great little flagship. I’m using it at 60hz and the battery is pretty average but it works for me as the standby is ridiculously good. I can charge it to 90% in the morning and if I use it only for calls(hardly 10 minutes for the day) it’ll be at 80% when I get home at night. But if I turn on 5g and browse/watch videos for say 3hr total then it definitely needs charging again at night.
