Second hand Samsung devices are quite good as long as you buy the higher end range. A few years down the line you may not receive any security updates for the OS, but the screens are usually excellent and the chips inside them still play video just fine. You just need a seller who doesn’t sell it because their kid cracked the screen…
When I bought my tablet I went to a physical store (crazy, I know) and quickly rules out any of Lenovo’s e-waste. I picked one of the Samsung FE tablets (basically last generation’s high end device with a mid range chip) but I also considered last gen’s top end model.
I had no problem unlocking my secondhand Tab S6. There usually aren’t 3rd party ROMs or recovery images available though, software modification is limited to grabbing the factory Samsung ROM and installing magisk on it.
Second hand Samsung devices are quite good as long as you buy the higher end range. A few years down the line you may not receive any security updates for the OS, but the screens are usually excellent and the chips inside them still play video just fine. You just need a seller who doesn’t sell it because their kid cracked the screen…
When I bought my tablet I went to a physical store (crazy, I know) and quickly rules out any of Lenovo’s e-waste. I picked one of the Samsung FE tablets (basically last generation’s high end device with a mid range chip) but I also considered last gen’s top end model.
I’d like a decent Samsung tab but I can’t unlock their bootloaders in the US
I had no problem unlocking my secondhand Tab S6. There usually aren’t 3rd party ROMs or recovery images available though, software modification is limited to grabbing the factory Samsung ROM and installing magisk on it.