Ausdroid Reviews: Samsung Galaxy A54 5G – When The A team Flagship looks meets the mid range expectations

Samsung started ramping up the mid-range sequence with its newest A sequence units launching in Australia. The Galaxy A54 5G is a part of this newest sequence, and the corporate on the time said that this A54 5G was essentially the most premium-looking and feature-laden gadget within the new vary. It additionally brings with it, Samsung Galaxy’s dedication to designing superior cellular experiences which can be accessible for everybody.

So once we have been supplied a possibility to evaluate the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G, we determined to take it out for a spin and see if the A54 5G may stay as much as the hype and dedication of Samsung.

So can the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G deal with two weeks of utilization and each day life?

What’s within the field?

Within the field, you get the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G handset, SIM pin software, a 1m USB-C to USB-C knowledge cable and the standard fast begin information.

The Design

The Galaxy A54 5G has each entrance and rear glass; the evaluate unit supplied is the Violet color, which is gorgeous.

The entrance of the Galaxy A54 5G homes the 6.4-inch Infinity-O Show Full HD+ show. Granted, there’s a small chin across the prime, backside and sides, but it surely doesn’t distract the viewing expertise after a small period of time utilizing the gadget. The show is tremendous crisp with very actual colors, and the brightness ranges are wonderful. Viewing and watching movies and taking part in video games are simply pretty much as good as they’re on my Galaxy S22 Extremely.

The fingerprint scanner is situated in direction of the underside center of the display and is an under-display fingerprint scanner. The front-facing 32 MP digital camera is situated within the prime center of the show.

The appropriate-hand facet of the Galaxy A54 5G homes the quantity rocker, with the standby/energy button situated straight underneath the quantity rocker buttons.

The highest facet of the Galaxy A54 5G homes the SIM/MicroSD card tray on the left hand facet with the appropriate hand facet is one other microphone to assist drown out background noise.

The underside facet of the Galaxy A54 5G homes the USB-C charger which is situated within the center, to the appropriate is the speaker grills and the left of the USB-C charger is the second microphone.

Flipping the Galaxy A54 5G homes the three rear cameras made up of a 50 MP essential vast digital camera lens, 12 MP ultra-wide lens and a 5 MP macro lens. The digital camera lenses protrude about 1-2 mm out from the rear glass panel and due to this when laid flat on a desk can result in some wobble. There’s additionally a single LED flashlight situated simply to the appropriate of the rear digital camera lenses

Beneath the hood of the Galaxy A54 5G, you will see that it’s powered by an Exynos 1380 Octa-Core processor chip set alongside 6 GB RAM and 128 GB onboard storage which could be expanded to 1 TB by way of MicroSD card.

The one factor that for some individuals could also be upset in, is the truth that the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G doesn’t include a 3.5mm audio jack however for me that was a non situation as I do have a tendency to make use of my Bluetooth earbuds or headphones when out and about, however its value protecting that into consideration when enthusiastic about buying this gadget when you desire having a 3.5 mm audio jack included in your gadget.

Lights, Digital camera…….Motion!

The Samsung Galaxy A54 5G comes with a triple rear digital camera arrange made up of a 50MP essential vast digital camera lens, 12MP ultrawide lens and a 5MP macro lens.

By way of the options inside the digital camera app, there are the standard from regular picture, portrait,video to macro, panorama, meals, single take, evening, professional picture, professional video, tremendous slo-mo, sluggish movement and hyperlapse. There’s additionally an extra characteristic referred to as enjoyable which utlises SnapChat filters to create enjoyable images to share of which I took a pair with the entrance dealing with digital camera.

The images taken are fairly clear and crisp, with element and colors standing out to how it’s in actual life and one thing that may be a little bit of a hit or miss with price range and mid vary units.

The shutter was additionally fairly snappy with little to no lag between the shutter pace in capturing the Kodak second so to talk.

Entrance dealing with digital camera 32MP is kind of good and once more the colors and movie high quality is crisp. The portrait mode is simply pretty much as good as what it’s with my Galaxy S22 Extremely.

Nonetheless the primary Achilles heel is the evening images mode which was a bit of hit or miss to get a ok picture, with some noise and grain showing in these images however general nonetheless fairly digital camera and expertise for a mid vary gadget.

Additionally Macro Mode was additionally a bit of hit or miss as making an attempt to get a ok image was at instances a bit of irritating and personally not one thing I actually care about with taking images normally. I discovered more often than not these images appeared extra blurry than truly taking it in regular picture mode.

Battery Life, Connectivity and Software program

By way of battery life, the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G comes with a 5000 mAh non-replaceable battery which was in a position to final the day with some average to excessive utilization, going between apps and likewise watching movies and social media. Taking the telephone off charger at about 7 am-7:30 am by the point I bought house with average to some excessive utilization I used to be in a position to not less than nonetheless have 25% to 30% cost by the point I bought house at about 6pm.

Fortunately the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G was in a position to help 25W quick charging – the one catch is the traditional wall charger isn’t included within the field with the gadget so you’ll need to buy this individually from Samsung or utilise present chargers which help this operate. Additionally wi-fi charging isn’t supported on this gadget so you probably have a wi-fi charger arrange, you gained;t get any use from it with this gadget.

Connectivity sensible, the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G comes with Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 ax), Bluetooth model 5.3, NFC capabilities alongside 4G and 5G connectivity capabilities.

The Galaxy A54 5G runs Android 13 proper out of the field and Samsung’s One UI 5.1. Throughout the evaluate interval there was one month-to-month safety replace which was put in through the evaluate interval.

The one factor that did annoy me a bit of was through the arrange processes, Samsung put a range or important apps to put in that included app video games akin to coin grasp, monopoly go, callapp, solitaire and a few others, and while I assumed I un-selected these apps, they nonetheless have been downloaded to the gadget. I get the rationale behind this but it surely does bug me a bit of as a result of I’ve sure apps I desire to be uploaded to ones I both don’t need or have little or no use for.

There was little to no lag within the efficiency with taking part in some gentle cellular video games, though some graphic intense video games like asphalt 9 I did discover some slight lag however the gadget was in a position to deal with it with out slowing down or freezing. Although the gadget did warmth up a bit of taking part in this recreation and a few video games or watching youtube or netflix movies but it surely didn´t overheat or get too scorching to deal with.

Must you take into account buying one?

So the large query actually is that, is the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G value contemplating shopping for? Effectively the reply can be sure because it does carry some nice worth for cash from the general expertise, the cameras, efficiency and battery energy all doing fairly properly.

Sure there have been a few points I did expertise with the gadget the general conclusion can be from me is that when you´re after a brand new gadget however didn’t need to completely break the financial institution or in search of a second gadget say for work, then the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G may be very a lot worthy of consideration.

My solely query is can the Galaxy A54 5G beat or not less than carry its weight for when the Pixel 7a is launched given uwe expect the brand new Pixel 7a gadget to be launched someday quickly, will probably be but to see what the comparisons can be.

The Samsung Galaxy A54 5G is available in violet and graphite colors and could be bought from the Samsung web site and shops alongside retail companion JB Hello-Fi, The Good Guys, Officeworks, Massive W, Catch.com.au, Harvey Norman and Optus, although the latter is obtainable by way of cell phone plans. The Samsung Galaxy A54 5G retails for $699.