Introduction:
I think most of what this tips towards the latter as now actually... See, for a while there Samsung has been launching both regular 4G and souped-up 5G versions of its entry-level Galaxy phones. It's probably going to be released as the Samsung Galaxy A15 5G, which given how similarly specced it is to the newly unveiled Galaxy A15 4G will likely resemble an identical twin that just happens to have access to way faster 5G networks.
It also has a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED display with Full HD + resolution and looks up to 90Hz but delivers the same quality as per panel of A22. It is carrying the same triple camera t back. Panning even to the selfie shooter, we still have 13MP imager and ability for recording in full HD.
Same 5,000mAh battery with 25W fast charging backed the 5G version as well.
The only change from A15 4G to A15 5G seems to be the chipset β Helio G99 for Dimensity 6100+ 5G. However, the difference is only in the modem, since the processor, the GPU, and the storage options remain the same. The Galaxy A15 5G is a well-connected phone with Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5.3, NFC, GPS, and also a 3.5mm jack and a microSD slot β almost extinct features.
Samsung A15 5G Unboxing:
Galaxy A15 5G, opens up from the familiar white box - and inside there is a phone in this color combination itself with two greenish streaks on its back cover + cable USB-C (3A)
Not a charger inside this one, also no screen protector.
Samsung A15 5G Design:
In view of the Galaxy A15 5G's look, it was a given that this phone would mimic the appearance of its LTE sibling from head to toe. Seriously, if you had both of them next to each other it would be very difficult for even the most avid 911 fan boy moderate enthusiast shocking that isn't?
Galaxy A15 4G and A15 5G
The Galaxy A15 5G features flat panels, like every other smartphone out there. The front is typical all-flat, landmarked by a single sheet of protective glass. The glass manufacturer was not disclosed by Samsung.
The display comes with fairly slim bezels and a U-shaped notch for the 13MP selfie camera.
Galaxy A15 4G and A15 5G
The back panel is likewise flat, plastic and it has a matt surface. Keep trawling around the pages and we discover that while the 5G model has a matte back, our 4G unit is no such compromise. And therefore these even the same color versions you will feel this difference.
There are three colors to choose from ;
Blue Black, Blue and Yellow on the Galaxy A15 5G.
The frame design is a little new to the Galaxy A lineup The modes is constructed of plastic and features a color as well as finish to enhance with the back panel. This one is also flat, but has some slightly unique sculpting around the lock and volume keys. This is cute; we do not know if it has a purposeful source.
The heavy construction makes for an excellent grip, and nearly two weeks of using the phone did not have us shopping around for a case.
Now, a quick round the sides of the Galaxy A15 5G - there here are all sort of goodies such as an audio jack (yes!), microSD card slot, USB-C port and also that rectangular fingerprint sensor embedded into he power/lock key. The later is excellent, Why always-online reader that processes fast and reads accurately.
To summarize, we found the Galaxy A15 5G in its design extremely beautiful and pleasing to handle due to how easy it fits into our hands. The device is a good sturdy unit that looks nice in some of its selected colors. Given its durability, we just wish it had some simple ingress protection.
Samsung A15 5G Display:
There is an increase in display size and quality on the Galaxy A15 5G as it gets a new 6.5-inch Super AMOLED screen with improved FHD+ resolution, up from only HD panel of the Galaxy A14. This also brings improvements through refresh rate enhancement to upto90Hz.
The even-though -basic OLEDs in the Galaxy A1x series look sweet with that U-shaped cutout.
Display test complete, scores are in line with the Galaxy A15 4G The screen tops out at a brightness of 363 nits on far right of the brightness scrubber - not terribly bright but still good. Auto brightness is a big boost of 786 nits.
White remained one of the brighter areas with a minimum brightness of 1.7nit
Furthermore, the Galaxy A15 5G comes with an AMOLED panel that can refresh at up to 90Hz. Motion Smoothness comes in 'High' and 'Standard'. Neither offers 120Hz, and both have fixed modes at 90Hz or 60HZ.
Even a still image is displayed to the 90Hz mode without slowing down the refresh rate. The Camera app and Google Maps were a couple of the only times we saw 60Hz change.
Samsung A15 5G Camera:
The Samsung Galaxy A15 5G has the same cameras as the already mentioned Galaxy A15 4G, a specification that is obviously attributable to all other consistent shooters of affordable models from this series. There is a 50MP primary along with an ultrawide cam of 5 MP, and a macro-pityful one too as the other sensor goes just reaches two megapixel. The selfie cam is 13MP.
Primary Camera: 50 MP, f/1.8 (Hynix Hi5022Q), wide, PDAF;1080p@30fps
ultra wide mode: (5 MP SmartSense SC501CS, f/2.2 17mm), fixed focus and 1080p @30 fps
Macro Camera: 2 MP GalaxyCore GC02M1, f/2.4, fixed focus.
Selfie camera: 13MP GalaxyCore GC013A, f/2.0, omnivision OV13858 (front-facing sensor + wide-angle AF module).
It still sports the standard Samsung camera app you'll find in every one of its new phones today. The main camera so far has the Pro mode and soon it will get Night Mode, but nothing further.
Daylight photo quality
The primary camera naturally records 12.5MP standard snaps on the Galaxy A15 as well (no telling if there's any alternate resolution capturing), and it does deliver some very good photos otherwise for this class of phone. It has plenty of sharpness in the detail, no obvious noise and a wide dynamic range. Beautiful, vibrant colors with a few unrealistic tones here and there
Some photos are a little oversharpened and sometimes you see that it is a bit smoothening over, but this is directly noticeable.
The 2x shortcut on the viewfinder is for digital zoom.
Almost unusable 5MP ultrawide photos They do exhibit a good dynamic range and pleasant colors, but they are pretty bad on detail (a lot of artifacts like tiles turning into stair steps), noisy as well.
The detail is meh, there's noise in the pictures and colors are just on average for a 2MP macro camera. That is, if you manage to take a photo in focus.
Low-light photo quality
Most of the night photos are ruined by those traps set out for wild animals (that is, objects near a shooter) Detail is poorly resolved, there's a ton of smeared noise and the dynamic range just isn't there. We think the colours are fine, on the other hand.
The camera supports Night Mode, and you should utilize it because that makes everything better. Photos taken during Night Mode are crisp and full of rich colors with little noise and a wide dynamic range.
Unsurprisingly, the ultrawide camera has a very tough time capturing images during dark and dim lighting scenarios that end up being dark our shots with lots of noise ugly colors due to how smilies skews the hue warmer than it can afford although yes shadows do go blue here plus lousy detail too.
Β Samsung A15 5G Video recording:
The main, ultrawide, and selfie cameras of the Galaxy A15 5G record 1080p@30fps videos. The primary and ultrawide cameras have electronic stabilization support β there is no image stabilization on the Galaxy A15 4G whatsoever. The 1080p videos are recorded at a generous 17Mbps, and audio has a stereo feed with a solid 256Kbps bitrate β and sounds well across the market.
The main camera catches excellent 1080p videos β detailed, true-to-life colors, good dynamic range, and no noticeable noise. The rendition is somewhat artificial, over-processed.
Night video quality is dimmed, but fine. There is plenty of resolvable detail, decent low noise as well as reasonable dynamic range and solid color accuracy.
Ultrawide camera videos are bad in daylight and low light. Yes, the one which was taken at daylight might work for some crop purposes if you are not an image quality person, and low-light is out of question.
You know, the selfie video is pretty good too! It gives you a lot of information on the ground and excellent neat color. The selfie video capability is acceptable in terms of dynamica range. But if only it were stable - because right now, as I say, unusable.
Samsung A15 5G Performance:
In point of fact, the Dimensity 6100+ chipset showcasing Galaxy A15's silicon is none other than same chip underlying the Helio G99 based processor in which it powers for its LTE variant. A 2+6 core CPU configuration (2x Cortex-A75 + 6 x A55 cores) and a MediaTek chip, the former being based on the Taiwanese manufacturer's very own Helio P60 release. 2GHz Cortex-A76 and 2x2. 0GHz Cortex-A55)CPU powered by ARM Mali-G57 MC2 GPU.
The starting storage edition carried 4GB of LPDDR4X RAM and UFS2. In addition to the 512GB model, there are two other versions with same storage and an extra one having only 128GB of it paired by 6/8 GB RAM.
Priced at around 17000-23000 mark the Galaxy A15 5G feature a rather popular combination of CPU and GPU. Because if that it performs scores on par with other phones in the same class. You know it is with peers, or home-on-the-range.
The GPU performance is average at best and on par with the other mobile in this price range.
Lastly, Galaxy A15 5G placed the lowest on AnTuTu tests. It is not too far behind the competition, but it somehow scores lower.
Finally we checked the CPU and GPU stability. And of course, the Galaxy A15 %G did those scales easily as there was no throttling in sight. What is even more impressive, the phone never got warm with this running for an hour.
Galaxy A15 5G is not a particularly speedy phone and you feel that immediately. Strangely, it seems slower than the Galaxy A15 4G even though its performing almost identically on a hardware level. And lag and stutter are further subjects of unuseful design. Though some gaming is conceivably practicable, responsiveness likely wouldn't be up to par in our best estimate.
Thus, it will also be fine for the majority of your average everyday performance on a day to day basis and chirping along casually in social network life but do not expect everything about smoothness or responsiveness.
Β Samsung A15 5G Battery:
And all this is run by a 5,000mAh battery while using an energy-efficient chipset on the Galaxy A15 5G.
This was a rather successful pairing, since the Galaxy A15 5G posted an Active Use Score of exceptional 14 hours and 31 minutes in our battery life test. It fared well through the tests, ranking closely to on-screen numbers of the Galaxy A15 4G in most scenarios.
Samsung A15 5G Charging speed:
It has 15W fast wired charging but the Samsung Galaxy A15 5G takes it to another level with up to 25W. Like always, it does not come with a charger. Any 25W PD+PPS charger could get the phone to the maximum charging power it allows
Charging was done using a Samsung 25W PD / PPS charger for our charging test. It charged the A15 29% from dead in just 15mins and brought back up to half (51%) power by the time we hit. We have taken 100% at the 83min brand. This is somewhat slow compared to Samsung phones with similar battery and charging capacity.
Samsung A15 5G Software:
The Galaxy A15 5G runs Android 14 with One UI v.6 out of the box 0. The device is also capable of running three Android updates and an extra security patches year through firmware upgrades.
Here are some of the highlights developers can expect from One UI 6: Quick Panel (re-designed), Bigger and clearer notifications, Camera app change to simpler & more powerful gallery / editing tools/animations.
Galaxy A15 5G gets the One UI 6, so it is not a Core version - almost complete except Always-On Display and DeX support. Also absent is the studio video editor
Typical One UI - lockscreen, homescreen, widgets and icons, theme handling multi-tasking (available in pop-up & split-screen state) default app.
In contrast, the Galaxy A15 5G does not feature FM radio support and hence you will find no FM app here.
Samsung A15 5G Speaker:
Like typical budget handsets, the Galaxy A15 comes with a single bottom-firing loudspeaker.
While the high-pitch sounds helped it to notch up a Very Good mark in our loudness test, audio quality across all genres leaves much more to be desired - there's no bass whatsoever and vocals are just about decent if you listen closely enough whereas higher frequencies very much reign supreme.
Samsung A15 5G Conclusion:
The Galaxy Π15 5G is a well-rounded smartphone in all departments A single, endearing design that comes in several cool colors; a bright and fast OLED screen; great battery life with faster face unlock than the iPhone X.
What the Galaxy A15 5G misses is in sheer performance, where it's quite weak and also with average cameras (the ultrawide camera here disappoints more).
However, Galaxy A15 5G is an entry-level phone with 5G connectivity that makes perfect sense and for it Samsung got the design and screen to excited; pumped up its industry-leading connectivity options; but there had to be a compromise somewhere along the line - in this case being camera performance.
In general, we are suggesting for you to keep the Galaxy A15 5G in mind if what you seek is a budget-friendly smart phone, although it most likely will not be our leading recommendation due to there possibly being better value phones found else where.
This content was last updated on 26 NovemberΒ 2024.
