7.5
Score

The A Series has always leveraged over its good screen, camera and battery life and that formula still remains to be true till today. Only thing is that, when you play it too safe, and there’s nothing to make consumers exciting, things tends to get a little stale and that’s exactly is happening with the Samsung Galaxy A57 and here’s our review of it.

Samsung Galaxy A57 Review

The Minor Improvements

Minor changes do matter but not when it’s as miniscule as this, does this convince you to change your phone? Let us know. But that said, the minor improvement are:

  • The phone is now 6.9” thinner compared to 7.4mm thin (A56)
  • Weight dropped from approx. 199 grams (A56) to 179 grams.
  • You get a new processor which we will share more on later
  • The RAM is at 12GB, and Storage goes upto 512GB vs 8GB and 256GB (A56)
  • And of course, new IP68 vs IP67 (A56)

These are decent improvements and for the most part, I am happy that the 128GB variant is gone for good and now we have a 512GB variant, especially in this time and age where games are taking ridiculous amount of storage and other content that you make or consume too.

Apart from that, the rest of the improvements are just little quality of life improvements that doesn’t really entice me, or it wouldn’t get anyone and everyone I know excited. Unless if you are coming from a much older phone, then yes I get it, this phone is improved by miles.

Exynos Processor Capable enough for Everyday Tasks

If your idea of gaming on a mid-tier is to set the game in medium settings and when I talk about games, I mean Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail – then this phone suffice. However, try to push the processor to handle games like Wuthering Waves is a bit too much because of how demanding the graphics is even at medium settings. But if gaming is not in the equation, well, you are looking at a fantastic mid-tier smartphone that is capable of handling tasks from social media, to your everyday multi tasking. I am glad that we have a 512GB variant this year because 256GB for a mid tier doesn’t cut it, especially with how file sizes are getting bigger and bigger.

The Bizarre WiFi and Network Reception Issues

For the first time, I can say that the Samsung Galaxy A57 has some bizarre network issues since its One UI 8.5 update. It doesn’t connect very well to the WiFi, the cell reception keeps dropping and the data connectivity isn’t stable either. After checking with a bunch of users and doing Analyzer ourselves, it appears that these don’t have the most stable connection. So, if you can, refrain from updating the phone.

AI isn’t improving these few years old Camera by the way, I don’t mean that in a Bad way

As a camera on its own, the Samsung Galaxy A57 has the same setup from last year and it shoots alright for a mid-tier but it isn’t going to blow your mind as we have seen the same camera for years now. Quick notes: The depth/RGB sensor is still there, and it’s useless, bring back at least a 3x or 5x Telephoto for the love of god. You can take a look at the photo samples. One of the thing they said and even confidently admitted is how the night photography is way better.

You can check those photos out but personally, for a mid-tier phone, the Xiaomi 17T Series has been annihilating the mid-tier camera segment by a lot with its impressive colours and photo quality. Just for that, I will say Samsung’s camera on this phone is missing the A Game entirely.

Apart from that, AI isn’t saving anyone here by the way. Samsung said that the camera has AI Image algorithm that improves the hair, face, grass, yes, grass. But these are things the phone was doing before the word AI was even associated to it. For a mid-tier objectively, it shoots like its predecessor but compare it with other mid-tier in this price point, the Samsung Galaxy A57 immediately falls behind.

Conclusion

Objectively the Samsung Galaxy A57 is a balanced phone, but there’s another phone that pretty much puts this phone to shame and that’s the Xiaomi 17T Series because it offers a lot more for less, especially in a time like this and if you don’t care so much about the clean UI experience Samsung offers, and want to try something else, get the 17T a shot and you won’t be disappointed.

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