Yesterday Samsung introduced the corporate’s new Galaxy A51 5G and A71 5G telephones – for the primary time including 5G capabilities to the corporate’s arguably hottest and profitable cellphone line-up.
While there’s numerous discuss concerning the status high-end Galaxy S sequence from Samsung – the vast majority of telephones the corporate truly sells lies of their extra inexpensive mid-range line-up. Particularly in the previous few years, the A-series gadgets have seen a considerable amount of success and being Samsung’s prime promoting telephones. The new A51 and A71 iterate on final 12 months’s fashions – updating numerous the elements of the telephones hopefully with out breaking the financial institution when it comes to value. Today’s A51 5G and A71 5G telephones increase the beforehand introduced A51 and A71’s with 5G connectivity.
| Samsung Galaxy A51 & A71 Series | ||
| Galaxy A51 5G | Galaxy A71 5G | |
| SoC | Exynos 980
2x Cortex-A77 @ 2.2GHz Mali-G76MP5 |
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| Display | 6.5-inch | 6.7-inch |
| SAMOLED FHD+ 2400 x 1080 (20:9) |
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| Dimensions | 158.9 x 73.6 x 8.7 mm 187 grams |
162.5 x 75.5 x 8.1 mm 185 grams |
| RAM | 6/8GB | |
| NAND Storage |
128 GB + mSD |
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| Battery | 4500mAh (17.32Wh) typ.
4370mAh (16.82Wh) rated |
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| 15W Fast Charging |
25W Fast Charging |
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| Front Camera | 32MP f/2.2 |
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| Primary Rear Camera | 48MP f/2.0 |
64MP f/1.8 |
| Secondary Rear Camera |
12MP Ultra-Wide-Angle f/2.2 |
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| Tertiary Rear Camera |
5MP Depth Camera f/2.4 |
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| Extra Camera |
5MP Macro Shot f/2.4 |
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| 4G / 5G Modem |
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| Exynos 5G – (Integrated)
(LTE Category 16/18) (5G NR Sub-6) |
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| SIM Size | NanoSIM + eSIM | |
| Wireless | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac BT 5.Zero LE, NFC, GPS/Glonass/Galileo/BDS |
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| Connectivity | USB Type-C | |
| Special Features | On-screen fingerprint sensor | |
| Launch OS | Android 10 with Samsung OneUI 2.0 (Unconfirmed but) |
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| Launch Prices | n/a | n/a |
While we don’t have outright affirmation from Samsung, the telephones are seemingly powered by the brand new premium Exynos 980 SoC from Samsung SLSI – it’s the one chip that matches Samsung’s higher-level specs of the brand new cellphone’s SoCs. The chipset was launched final September and appeared extraordinarily aggressive in its positioning, brandishing all of the capabilities of comparable chips in its vary, together with the latest Cortex-A77 CPU cores.
The key facet of the telephones is that they’re 5G succesful. Samsung right here integrates the modem onto the chip, able to assist sub-6GHz networks (mmWave functionality is lacking – each on account of technical lack of capacity and the related greater prices).
Usually Samsung posts an both/or within the specs of the SoC of a brand new machine when it differs between areas. Here the specs are referring to a single chip – it’s going to be fascinating to see if this additionally signifies that Samsung goes ahead with the Exynos chip within the USA – usually a market the place the corporate all the time most popular to make use of Qualcomm chips.
The telephones are available in 6 or 8GB of RAM though Samsung doesn’t specify how this will likely be chosen as they solely listing 128GB storage as the one configurable choice in that regard. MicroSD card slot is of course nonetheless accessible for extra storage.
On the entrance, each the A51 and A71 include 2400 x 1080 FHD+ AMOLED displays- solely differing of their diagonal dimension at 6.5” and 6.7”.
These are literally nonetheless fairly massive telephones at 73.6 and 75.5mm widths, each wider than a Galaxy S20+, with the A71 virtually matching an S20 Ultra in width. Oddly sufficient, the smaller A51 is marketed as being the heavier of the 2 new telephones at 187g vs 185g.
Both come…
