15 Samsung Galaxy A04s review

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Samsung Galaxy A04s review

15 Samsung Galaxy A04s review

 this is the new entry-level phone from Samsung the Galaxy with budget

phones it's hard to be too picky but even so what is the Galaxy a04s able to bring to the table I'm willing for GSM Arena and let's find out in our full review [Music] the Galaxy ao4s is pretty much the lowest tier model offered by Samsung this year you won't find competitive specs here but there is a large battery so at least it should have battery life going for it the a04s has a plastic unibody design the back is glossy and a bit of a

fingerprint magnet the phone feels a bit large in the hand maybe because of the rounded sides but overall it provides a decently comfortable grip on the front is a 6.5-inch LCD screen with a 720p resolution and a teardrop-shaped Notch an upgrade over last year is that you get a 90 Hertz refresh rate too the high refresh rate is nice to have especially at this price and you can dial down to 60 hertz to save energy too but despite that, this display's resolution gives away its budget nature at 270 PPI content isn't as sharp here

as on a 1080p screen which you can find on some competitors the color accuracy isn't too bad though whites are a bit on the bluish side and there aren't any options to tweak the colors and settings when it comes to brightness the Galaxy ao4s was able to achieve just 390 nits maximum and there's no brightness boost available on top of that it's actually quite a bit less than last year's model for audio there's a 3.

5 millimeter Jack for headphones and a single bottom-firing speaker the speaker earned an average score in our loudness test and its sound quality isn't great there's Distortion at higher volumes and hardly any Bass Wide Awake [Music] I'm seeing you everywhere you can wake up and unlock the Galaxy a04s with a side-mounted fingerprint reader built into the power button it's really fast and accurate and you can get the phone with 32 64 or 128 gigs of storage on board and that's expandable through microSD but most apps will keep their data on

the phone's main storage so we recommend going for at least 64 gigs the Samsung software experience is one reason to go for this phone over similarly priced competitors it runs one UI core 4.1 based on Android 12. it's a straightforward interface with plenty of customizations over what you'd see on stock Android One UI core brings most of the features you'd find on Samsung's more expensive devices you are missing some things like Bixby and Samsung Pay but the main ones are all here the main issue is that this

interface is probably a bit too resource heavy for this sort of Hardware we often experience slowdowns and stutters even when doing some relatively low-key tasks but the Galaxy a04s packs under the hood is an Exynos 850 chipset it's Samsung-made and built on an 8 nanometer process in benchmarks the phone sits near the bottom of the charts even falling behind other phones in this class the GPU performance isn't great but where the ao4s stumbles is in the CPU department and that's what leads to those slowdowns

when going about your daily business like I mentioned before the Galaxy ao4s is pretty good when it comes to battery life it has a 5,000 milliamp-hour battery and was able to earn an endurance rating of 114 hours in our proprietary tests charging on the other hand is a bit disappointing the phone supports 15 watt charging but doesn't come with an adapter in the box but even with a Samsung charger we were only able to charge the a04s from 0 to 28 percent in half an hour the galaxy a04s has three cameras on the

back but you can argue that only the 50-megapixel main cam is very useful the others include a 2-megapixel macro camera and a depth sensor the main cam saves photos at 12.5 megapixels and if there's plenty of light the performance is solid the a04s punches above its weight class here delivering good sharpness and detail true to life colors low noise and nice dynamic range portraits are sharp and detailed and offer good color saturation The Edge detection around the subject is decent too if the scene isn't too complex

2 megapixel photos from the macro cam aren't great you just can't expect too much detail at this resolution and the contrast and colors leave more to be desired in low light photos from the main cam are okay considering the price of this phone the photos have a good overall exposure and there's a decent amount of detail the contrasts and colors are alright but highlights come out clipped there doesn't seem to be any HDR going on here nor is there a night mode selfies come from the 5 megapixel

front-facing Cam and there are two choices for the field of view a normal mode and a cropped either way the photos are decent for a low-end phone colors are Lively and you get good sharpness if there's enough light dynamic range is okay for the most part videos can be captured in up to 1080p resolution at 30fps the footage from the main cam is good with adequate dynamic range accurate colors and OK sharpness for 1080p so that's the Samsung Galaxy ao4s we didn't expect a whole lot from an entry-level phone but what you do get

here is a high refresh rate on the display solid battery life a decent camera and Samsung software the problem with the software though is that while you do get a feature-packed interface the phone struggles to run those features smoothly because of its low-power chipset which's the point of having an extra smooth display of this going to be lag anyway so in the end the Galaxy ao4s is an okay phone considering the price but there are better options out there thanks for watching guys and see you on the next one