Best place to buy a used Samsung S24?

impracticaldogg

impracticaldogg

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I've always bought low end phones because I don't do much except the basics - calls, email, WhatsApp and YouTube. This year I've given myself a budget of R10k max for a change. I want a smaller Android phone I can hold easily in one hand, that will be snappy for say five years.
Having looked for a while the best option seems to be a used Galaxy, not Ultra or Plus.
Looking around cellucity.co.za and Takealot seem to be recommended. Revibe.co.za not. At this stage I'm leaning towards cellucity.co.za. Are they reliable?
 
Probably carbonite?
A used S23:
https://carbonite.co.za/index.php?threads/samsung-s23-256gb-black-used.611579/

Just got to two years for the S24 in Feb, so I'd not expect many used ones in the market yet from upgrades, plus I'd expect people to keep them for longer as latest have less worthwhile upgrades and the S24 is the beginning of the 7 years of upgrades (was basically the only reason to buy it versus the S23).
 
impracticaldogg said:
Ive read the S24fe is larger than the plain s24. I'm really really set on having a small phone and not a 6.7inch slab
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many here say that the small screen is terrible on the S24 ie blurred and blocky and very poor picture quality - this is not the case on the FE's - that same screen is why the people who complained have changed brands when upgrading and are now not buying Samsung

yes the size is significantly larger but the hardware differences are not significant - and the software is identical with every single software feature being the same as the smaller S24 with none of the screen issues - and apparently there is a special at Takealot where the S24FE is selling at R8499 - at that price there is nothing close to it even if its a third party import (Grey Stock) since the only bad thing about that is that Samsung Wallet will not work (but you can install Google wallet and that will work about equally well)

https://www.takealot.com/samsung-galaxy-s24-fe-5g-256g-dual-sim-graphite/PLID95965387

it is almost the same chip as the one in the S25FE and the S25FE has one improved camera and some other small minor changes and it is a bit lighter and it will have one extra generation of additional Android updates but it still costs around R3k to R4k more than the S24FE for now (at Takelot .... more like around R6k to R7k more from official ZA Samsung sources)
 
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naughty001 said:
many here say that the small screen is terrible on the S24 ie blurred and blocky and very poor picture quality - this is not the case on the FE's - that same screen is why the people who complained have changed brands when upgrading and are now not buying Samsung

yes the size is significantly larger but the hardware differences are not significant - and the software is identical with every single software feature being the same as the smaller S24 with none of the screen issues - and apparently there is a special at Takealot where the S24FE is selling at R8499 - at that price there is nothing close to it even if its a third party import (Grey Stock) since the only bad thing about that is that Samsung Wallet will not work (but you can install Google wallet and that will work about equally well)

https://www.takealot.com/samsung-galaxy-s24-fe-5g-256g-dual-sim-graphite/PLID95965387

it is almost the same chip as the one in the S25FE and the S25FE has one improved camera and some other small minor changes and it is a bit lighter and it will have one extra generation of additional Android updates but it still costs around R3k to R4k more than the S24FE for now (at Takelot .... more like around R6k to R7k more from official ZA Samsung sources)
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He wants a smaller phone, going S25FE is not a valid recommendation.

The base pixels and the a series are also smaller form factor, just south Africa they're gray import and generally too expensive for what they're worth.
 
Johnatan56 said:
He wants a smaller phone, going S25FE is not a valid recommendation.

The base pixels and the a series are also smaller form factor, just south Africa they're gray import and generally too expensive for what they're worth.
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then he should look at other brands - here is what another user in this forum has said about the S24 ..... no use to sticking to one brand if the product you want is not quite right

Then I got the s24 and it is the worst phone I have ever owned, pictures are terrible, screen is grainy, ai was a new thing and was poor so my loyalty to Samsung is non existent.
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the same guy went and purchased a Vivo X300 pro - and posted somewhere on the forum there is a review of the S26 that compared photos and screens which actually proved the point about what the guy was saying above because the photos looked blocky and pixelated and as i said they don't on the FE screens


the Samsung bigger screens are generally pretty decent and IMHO pretty good - because the phones are capable of taking 8k at 30hz video they can play upscaled 8k video very well (even in Dex onto an actual screen) - i compared the same video on an S22 and S23 and an S24 and then on an S24 Ultra - the Ultra was obviously the best and the FE surprisingly was pretty decent and fairly better than all the rest (all these phones are capable of Video shooting at 8k at 30 FPS and some of them even at 24 FPS so they can all playback 8k recordings) - and most photos are capable of looking pretty decent on the FE screens
 
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naughty001 said:
then he should look at other brands - here is what another user in this forum has said about the S24 ..... no use to sticking to one brand if the product you want is not quite right
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Physical size and horsepower matters more than camera quality to me. And I'm looking at 2nd hand because budget is limited. But thanks for the info
 
impracticaldogg said:
Physical size and horsepower matters more than camera quality to me. And I'm looking at 2nd hand because budget is limited. But thanks for the info
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you read my post wrong - i never said anything about the camera quality - i was talking about the quality of the pic and video that is displayed on the screen after it was captured - the smaller Samsung screens are subpar if you read what i said above correctly - while the bigger screens are more acceptable so if you want a smaller screen phone then look away from Samsung is exactly what i said

besides if the horsepower matters - the S24 uses the Exynos 2400 while the S25 uses the Snapdragon 8 elite 1st generation (worldwide) which is crazily faster too so you might want to consider that if you seriously want to stick to Samsung
 
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Sworaxe said:
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nothing really impressive about a chick who looks like that - you just get more broke quicker and also only just land up getting many different STD's and have to spend any money you had left on doctors ..... besides she has probably already gobbled up more D's than the number of rands in your (supposedly rich) bank account
 
naughty001 said:
nothing really impressive about a chick who looks like that - you just get more broke quicker and also only just land up getting many different STD's and have to spend any money you had left on doctors ..... besides she has probably already gobbled up more D's than the number of rands in your (supposedly rich) bank account
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I'm looking at cellucity.co.za or techmarkit.co.za. Anyone have experience with these stores? Techmarkit has a physical outlet in Rosebank so leaning towards that. HelloPeter has a number of complaints for Texhmarkit but unsure whether to avoid because of this
 
Smiggles said:
6.1 inch iPhone 16e brand new. Why bother with someone else's secondhand poo stained phone?
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for R10k or under? i would still go with a bigger screen than suffer this ie a pared down iphone thats missing a lot compared to the full iphone experience
 
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impracticaldogg said:
I'm looking at cellucity.co.za or techmarkit.co.za. Anyone have experience with these stores? Techmarkit has a physical outlet in Rosebank so leaning towards that. HelloPeter has a number of complaints for Texhmarkit but unsure whether to avoid because of this
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Cellucity is reputable and reasonable in pricing.
 
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