Samsung has increased the price of entry level mid-ranger
In the upcoming years for the smartphone industry, the Galaxy A57 Going to be the safe harbour for the Samsung Industry. This new innovation from the Samsung Industry is another solid, dependable handset without squeezing its margin.
Elsewhere there is no competition in this range at all except one the Pixel 10a is also an exact same phone while holding firm with its pricing.
Samsung just pushed things just a little more. The Galaxy A57 is a leaner,faster phone than the Samsung Galaxy A56 but it definitely comes with a improvement but you’ll have to pay extra bucks for this nerd.
I am still testing it out that it will be the best phone of Samsung or Not?
Design & Build
- More Lightest
- Slim Design
- More Durable
Samsung has retained the look of Samsung Galaxy A56 here but has gone further in slimming the A57 Down which makes this model even more premium.
Some more features such as pill shaped camera module, Supporting three distinct lenses and power and volume buttons that bulges out from the right side of the panel.
However, the Galaxy A57 has small footprint than its predecessor, thanks to slightly slimmer bezels. Samsung Galaxy A57 feels every bit as premium as its predecessor with an aluminium body and Gorilla Glass Victus+ to the Front and rear. Samsung has improved the build quality with a superior IP68 dust and water resistance rating.
Screen
- 6.7-inch 120Hz Full HD+ Super AMOLED display
- 1200nits (High Brightness Mode or HBM), 1900nits (peak)
- Optical in-display fingerprint sensor
Samsung hasn’t touched the display of the Galaxy A57 compared to last year. It’s a 6.7 inch Super AMOLED with a full HD+ resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. And The Galaxy A56 also has 1200nits in high brightness mode which similar in the case of A57 also.
Specs & Performance
- 4nm Samsung Exynos 1680 chipset
- 13% larger vapour chamber than A56
- 8 or 12GB of RAM
Even in the more affordable mid-range tier, Samsung’s A-series phones have never exactly been known for their quickness. Although it doesn’t top any benchmark tables either, the Galaxy A57 more than deserves the moniker “fast enough.”
This marks the introduction of Samsung’s new Exynos 1680 chip, which is a respectable performance. A 16% increase in CPU multi-core performance and roughly a 13% increase in GPU performance are suggested by benchmark tests. Although it’s not a significant improvement, it provides useful headroom for daily operations. Jumping between open apps usually results in only a slight pause, and flicking between home screens and menus is not far from flagship-smooth.
The fingerprint unlock technique can feel a bit cumbersome, as was already said, but the camera app is the clearest indication that your phone is less expensive. It requires a patience-testing amount of shutter time for night photographs, and it takes a beat longer to power up than the top phones.
Cameras
- 50Mp f/1.8 main w/ OIS + 12MP f/2.2 ultrawide + 5Mp f/2.4 macro camera
- 12Mp f/2.2 selfie camera
- Up to 4K/30fps video front and back
he fact that Samsung hasn’t done anything with the Galaxy A57 camera system is a little disheartening. The Samsung Galaxy A54 from 2023 actually has the same basic twin camera setup as the Galaxy A56!
The same 12Mp f/2.2 ultra-wide camera is paired with the same 1/1.56″, 50Mp f/1.8 primary camera. I don’t consider the 5Mp macro camera to be a different issue because you can be sure that high-end flagship phones would include such components if they were really useful.
The new and enhanced Exynos 1680 chip and advancements in image processing indicate that there have been some advances, although they are not very significant. With a strong dynamic range (for a mid-range) and those distinctive Samsung punched-up blue skies, the primary camera still produces respectable images in favorable circumstances. Although they’re not the most organic photos, they are definitely visually pleasing and very shareable.
Naturally, the 12Mp ultra-wide cannot match the main camera in terms of detail or dynamic range, but Samsung’s proficiency in image processing guarantees a largely uniform tone between the two.
For zoomed photos, the Galaxy A57 must crop in on its primary sensor because it lacks a separate telephoto. Although detail begins to deteriorate at 4x and you probably shouldn’t even attempt with 10x, this creates tonally consistent shots.
Battery Life & Charging
- 5000mAh battery
- 45W Super Fast Charge 2.0 wired charging
- No wireless charging
The Galaxy A57 retains the same 5000mAh battery despite Samsung’s latest mid-range smartphone being lighter and smaller. In the midst of a broader trend of greater capacity, this is in danger of falling below what we would consider to be an average size for a larger phone like this. However, it continues to be sufficient for everyday use. You won’t even have to worry about running out of juice after using it heavily for an entire day. I was left with 41% on a single day of comparatively short (three hours and fifteen minutes of screen time) but intense use, which comprised an hour and a half of web browsing, fifty minutes of gaming, and thirty minutes of YouTube. Nevertheless, the findings of the PCMark 3.0 battery test for the Galaxy A57 didn’t exactly blow everyone away. It really scored many hours worse than the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro and the Google Pixel 10a, and more than an hour lower than the Galaxy A56.
This is one of the faster chargers in the Samsung range thanks to the return of 45W Super rapid Charge 2.0 rapid charging. In thirty minutes, I managed to get the Galaxy A57 from empty to sixty-five percent.
However, wireless charging is not available here. Although Google, a major competitor, offers this capability with the Pixel 10a and Pixel 9a.
Software & Apps
- One UI 8.5 with Android 16
- 6 years of OS & security update support
- ‘Awesome Intelligence’ in place of Galaxy AI
It’s satisfying to see the Galaxy A57 launching with Samsung’s most recent UI straight out of the box at a time when owners of older Galaxy S phones have been griping about the wait in receiving the most recent One UI 8.5 update. Due to the company’s long-standing dedication to the Android platform and strong partnership with Google, Samsung has one of the newest and most sophisticated user interfaces available.
Though it’s unfortunate that the handy Now Brief utility from the Galaxy S series is still missing, I really enjoy the crisp, vibrant widgets that fill the primary Home Screen. Despite having similar names, the lock screen Now Bar widget that we get here isn’t quite the same.
Samsung’s highly regarded Galaxy AI suite of machine learning capabilities is also absent. It is replaced by what the business refers to as “Awesome Intelligence,” which is a more condensed and straightforward list of AI-enhanced capabilities. Read Aloud offers a text-to-speech feature for webpages, Voice Transcription does the opposite for voice and call recordings, and AI Select offers a number of context-sensitive actions based on the current contents of the screen.
Only Google’s Pixel series has been able to surpass Samsung’s impressive six-year software support commitment.
Specs
- Android 16, One UI 8.5
- 6.7in, FHD+, OLED, 120Hz, flat display
- In-display optical fingerprint sensor
- Exynos 1680
- 8GB/12GB LPDDR5X RAM
- 256GB/512GB storage
- 50Mp, f/1.8 main camera
- 12Mp macro camera
- Up to 4K @ 30fps rear video
- 12Mp front-facing camera
- Stereo speakers
- Dual-SIM
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6e
- Bluetooth 6.0
- 5000mAh battery
- 45W charging
- 161.5 x 76.8 x 6.9 mm
- 179g
- Launch colours: Awesome Navy, Awesome Gray, Awesome Icyblue, Awesome Lilac