Samsung’s $200 Galaxy A14 5G comes with an upgraded show

Samsung is beginning off 2023 with a funds cellphone refresh, making some good upgrades with the Galaxy A14 5G — at the least on paper. The A14 will price $199, which is $50 decrease than the A13 5G’s listing value. Compared to its predecessor, it comes with a higher-res show and selfie cam whereas leaving many different core specs alone. Samsung will even supply as much as 4 years of safety updates and two OS model upgrades, which is a major step up from the 2 or three years of safety updates which are rather more frequent at this value.

The A14 5G has a MediaTek 700 chipset and 4GB of RAM, similar to the A13. That’s wonderful — the A13 delivered good efficiency with that mixture, so Samsung isn’t making an attempt to repair one thing that wasn’t damaged. There’s nonetheless solely 64GB of storage, however as earlier than, microSD enlargement is an possibility. The display is a bit of greater at 6.6 inches, and backbone has been boosted from 720p to 1080p. It’s nonetheless a 90Hz display, which makes scrolling a bit of smoother than the usual 60Hz, however the additional pixels on such a giant show ought to be the actual difference-maker.

The rear digital camera array features a 50-megapixel major digital camera with low-res macro and depth sensors in tow, and the selfie digital camera has been upgraded from 5 megapixels to 13 megapixels. There’s a giant 5,000mAh battery on board in addition to sub-6GHz 5G, each carried over from the final technology. It ships with Android 13, so it’s updated with the newest software program OS model. Overall, it’s a decent set of specs for a $200 cellphone — even when it’s solely accessible in black. We’ll hold our fingers crossed for extra enjoyable colours subsequent time.