Samsung’s midrange A-series telephones get a Galaxy S23 facelift

Samsung’s Galaxy A34 and A54 are the newest additions to its common midrange A-series. Though each telephones supply quite a few upgrades over final 12 months’s fashions, essentially the most placing factor for me is how a lot they each seem like this 12 months’s Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus.

The digicam bumps of the A33 and A53 are gone, leaving three easy digicam lenses per telephone of their wake. It makes each look extra premium to me, and Samsung is promising flagship-level assist intervals of as much as 4 generations of main Android updates and 5 years of safety patches.

The Galaxy A54 will go on sale on April sixth within the US beginning at $449.99 with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage. Within the UK the A54 is releasing this month beginning at £449 for 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, or £499 for 8GB RAM and 256GB of storage.

In the meantime, the Galaxy A34 may even be out there this month within the UK beginning at £349 for 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, or £399 for 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Samsung will not be saying a US launch for the Galaxy A34 at the moment. We’ve adopted up with the corporate for actual European pricing and launch data.

Maintain them in your arms and the flagship phantasm disappears, these are clearly midrange telephones. Each really feel slightly thick (8.2mm, presumably to make room for his or her giant 5,000mAh batteries), and the A34 particularly has a plastic-feeling again panel. Each telephones assist fast-charging at as much as 25W.

The telephones every include a essential, ultra-wide, and macro digicam on their again — although their actual specs differ. The A54 has a essential 50-megapixel sensor, which is joined by a 12-megapixel ultrawide, and 5-megapixel macro. Samsung boasts that this essential sensor is greater than the one present in its previous-gen mannequin, which ought to make for higher low-light images. The A34, in the meantime, has a 48-megapixel essential, 8-megapixel ultrawide, and 5-megapixel macro digicam.

Round entrance the telephones are extra visually distinct. The A34 has its 13-megapixel selfie digicam in a small teardrop notch, whereas the A54 has a hole-punch cutout containing its 32-megapixel front-facing sensor. Each have 120Hz, 1080p OLED shows with a peak brightness of 1000 nits, although the A34’s display screen is barely greater at 6.6 inches, versus 6.4 inches on the A54.

Internally, the A34 is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 1080 processor, whereas the A54 has one in every of Samsung’s in-house Exynos 1380 chips. Each telephones have microSD card slots that assist as much as a 1TB playing cards.

Rounding out the specs, each telephones characteristic a comparatively strong IP67 score for mud and water resistance (that’s technically sufficient for full submersion, although we’d advocate not placing that to the check your self), 5G, and in-display fingerprint sensors. Actual colours range by market, however within the UK the A34 is obtainable in black, silver, lime, and violet, whereas the A54 can be bought in white reasonably than silver along with black, lime, and violet.

Keep tuned for our full overview of the Samsung Galaxy A54.