With the mid-range segment more crowded than ever before, I believed it is time to review a phone that will likely sell in massive numbers over the globe, Samsung's A51. This handset a conservative yet stylish design, Samsung's A51 comes with quadruple rear cameras, an AMOLED screen and a centrally located selfie camera, and a glass-tastick rear panel.
Galaxy A51 has been on sale in Europe from February and the device entered the market in the US during April and retails for $400/£330.
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The Galaxy A51 Styling
Due to the glass-ticky back, the Galaxy A51 doesn't look or feel like a mid-range device, the plastic does seem forgiving when it's in the hand in that there aren't any sharp edges you can sometimes see with phones with back panels made from glass. This design trait with the back panel is nice and this gives some character to the device.
We see that the branding on cheaper handsets has been a smidgen over the top, Samsung's logo is discretely placed.
You'll see a camera setup that, is becomes even noteworthy due to what looks like a metallic ring around it that attracts your attention.
Audio fans are sure to be happy that there's an sound connector on the lower edge of the device, sitting alongside the USB-C charging port and the speaker chamber.
The top of the device there's a single microphone while the right edge there's a power button and loudness adjuster and a SIM card tray on the reverse side.
It's a neat yet, classy unit that will fit in a normal jeans pocket easily.
Performance
The Samsung Galaxy A51's Super AMOLED display is as good as you expect from Samsung}, the colors being vibrant and bright and the phone's viewing angles being a delight. There is not a lot to complain about although some folks will find something, other than it’s a little dim (but very legible) even when in sunlight and not ideal for viewing content on, even with the more info here contrast fully up.
Here is where testing flagship devices such as OPPO’s Find X2 Pro as well as the OnePlus 8 is not helpful in getting a sense of a mid-range handset such as Sasmung's Galaxy A51.
The Exynos processor can't compete with Snapdragon's 865 CPU in any way, and going from the former to Snapdragon's 865 becomes a slap to the face then you realise that the Galaxy A51 is a middle of the range unit and that allowances must be made.
You notice that, Samsung's Galaxy A51 is laggy at times and I was sometimes left wondering whether the device had registered my touch or not when trying to start an app or to share something.
This is a level of lag that we have not experienced for a few time, even with cheaper phones like Honor's 10 Lite that can be purchased for a measly £145.
And as for the phone's in-display fingerprint sensor, suffice to say that Samsung should have placed it on the rear panel because we got a success ratio of roughly half when attempting to unlock the A51 before having to end up entering the pin code in.