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Samsung’s Galaxy A Series has been the pocket friendly price point without compromising too much on the specs.
This year’s offering holds true to this with a new range of A Series smartphones releasing.
STG received both the Samsung Galaxy A35 5G and Galaxy A55 to review and compare.
On first glance both smartdevices are very similar. Both offering up some killer camera’s that way higher priced devices don’t quite come close to, all the while not sparing too much on the inner workings to get you through a day… or three.
However when put to real-world use and the covers virtually removed, the Galaxy A35 5G and the Galaxy A55 are different and of course have differing price-points.
Both A Series smartphones come with a 6.6 inch AMOLED screen with a brightly detailed 120Hz refresh rate.
Storage on either phone has 128GB, but the RAM differs, of course. The Galaxy A55 being the beefier 8GB RAM and the Galaxy A35 5G coming in at 6GB.
Depending on what you use your smartphone for, this may or may not be a clincher for you. For example, the Galaxy A55 was able to play high quality mobile games at ease while the Galaxy A35 5G struggled.
Both the Galaxy A35 5G and Galaxy A55 offer some impressive cameras.
While the Galaxy A55 has a 50MP wide main camera and a 5MP Macro, same as the Galaxy A35 5G, the difference comes in at the secondary camera. The Galaxy A55’s 12MP ultra-wide vs. the Galaxy A35 5G’s 8MP.
There’s a huge difference between the selfies camera’s too. A mega 32MP ‘selfie’ camera on the Galaxy A55 whereas the Galaxy A35 5G was whittled down to 13MP.
In some scenarios this is likely to affect the level of detail when using the front camera.
Camera modes on offer were pretty much the same, and produced very similar results in both light and dark environments.
Samsung Galaxy A35 5G – Portrait mode
Interestingly my pick of the two devices when it came to camera specs vs. pricepoint was the Galaxy A35 5G.
The Galaxy A55 was a lot more fluid to use with its Exynos 1480. I found that the Exynos 1380 on the Galaxy A35 5G caused a wee bit of lag and sluggishness at times with general use. It also seems to be this difference in processor (and RAM) that came in to play with the ability to use either smartphone for console quality gaming.
Powering you through a day, or more on both is a 5,000 mAh battery.
This was excellent on both the Galaxy A55 and A35 5G, the Galaxy A35 lasting the longest, likely this was due to the phone’s inability for hardcore gaming, limiting its all-round use.
For general use either smartphone is easily going to get you through a couple of days on a full charge.
It can be confusing when you’re looking to upgrade your phone and figuring out which is right for you. There’s a few models in the Samsung Galaxy A Series, from the highest to the lowest, and it will also depend on your budget too.
If you’re considering a Samsung Galaxy A Series, we have compared one of the higher models to one of the lowest, and as you’ll see the differences can be minimal but at the same time restrictive for what you may need from your smartphone.
Either way, which ever smartphone tier you choose it comes down to what you use your phone for and I can definitely say that both the Galaxy A55 and Galaxy A35 5G are worth their respective price tags.
You actually get more than what you pay for with Samsung’s Galaxy A Series.