Samsung Galaxy A12 — Full Review — YOUTECHRIVE

Samsung A12 — Introduction

It’s the year 2021, and we already had the S21 trio of Samsung high-end phones over for review. On the opposite end of the Galaxy spectrum is the Galaxy A12 (12, not 21) — an entry-level handset designed to offer the Samsung experience, on a budget.

Announced late last year and available since January, the Galaxy A12 is not the absolute most affordable phone Samsung sells — the Galaxy M02 gets that title.

Samsung A12 — Specs at a glance

Body & Display

6.5" PLS IPS with resolution of 720 x 1600

Glass Front and Plastic Back

Dual SIM, Micro SDXC memory Card Slot (Dedicated Slot)

Platform & Network

Android OS 10, One UI 2.5

Octa core CPU with MediaTek Helio P35

64 GB/ 4 GB RAM, 128 GB/ 4 GB RAM, 128 GB/ 6 GB RAM

Features

Main Quad Camera 48MP, 5MP, 2MP, 2MP

Selfie Camera 8MP

Stereo loudspeakers, 3.5mm headphone jack, Fingerprint Sensor

Non-Removable Li-Po 5000 mAh battery

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One important bit — the Galaxy A12 is powered by a 5,000mAh battery and that’s a lot of battery for a 12nm entry-level chipset and a 720p display, 6.5-inch as it may be. We’re expecting solid numbers for battery life.

Samsung Galaxy A12 unboxing

The Galaxy A12 arrives in a simple package that has the plain cardboard box inside a sleeve, a likeness of the phone printed on top. You get a couple of essentials — a 15W adaptor and USB-C cable and that’s it.

Design

The Galaxy A12 is made mostly out of plastic — a very good-looking and nice feeling plastic. It’s not really a rear panel and frame type of build — there’s no exposed ‘frame’. Rather, it’s a unibody construction where the back cover also envelops the periphery of the handset.

Adequate 6.5-inch LCD

The Galaxy A12 remains one of few phones in Samsung’s lineup to not use an OLED display. It’s a PLS panel or Samsung’s take on the IPS LCD. At 6.5 inches in diagonal, it’s anything but small, so if you’re looking for screen estate, the A12 delivers. The 1600x720px resolution stretches a bit thin on this size — pixel density works out to 264ppi, though if you’re not deliberately looking at fine texts from up close, you should be okay.

Samsung Galaxy A12 — battery life

The Galaxy A12 is powered by a 5,000mAh battery — ample capacity for its relatively modest hardware. Indeed, the combination makes for some pretty respectable endurance figures.

We clocked over 16 hours of web browsing over Wi-Fi and an hour less of looping videos offline. The A12 managed over 31 hours on a voice call, pretty great, and topped it all off with a low standby power draw. In the end, the Galaxy A12’s Endurance score worked out to 123h.

Android 10 and One UI 2.5

Our Galaxy A12 review unit is running Android 10 with Samsung’s One UI 2.5 on top. It’s a bit of a bummer that there’s no Android 11 with One UI 3.0 on the A12 just yet, but we’re hopeful it will get updated eventually.

Quad-camera

The Galaxy A12 has four cameras on its back, in a somewhat typical for the class 2+2 arrangement — there are two ‘real’ cameras and two more to make it look better in promo materials.

Verdict

Samsung often struggles to compete with the value-oriented brands in the lower market segments, and that’s the case with the Galaxy A12 we have here. It’s not a bad phone, and it excels in endurance, it takes decent pictures, and it looks good in the process. It’s also a Samsung, and the brand itself could make it more appealing than its actual merits.

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Originally published at https://youtechrive.com on February 28, 2021.