Samsung Galaxy A22 5G review By GSMArena Official

These days, you often see lower end phones with both a regular LTE model and a 5g model which brings that extra connectivity but cuts some other features in order to stay within the same budget. This is pretty much the case here with Samsung's galaxy a22 5g. How does it compare to the regular a22 or the more expensive a325g? I'm will for GSM marina and, let's find out in our full review the galaxy a22 5g is a phone meant to fill a very specific niche 5g connectivity on a budget as 5g networks expand. We should expect even more of this kind of devices to show up, as you might expect, from a phone in this price range. The galaxy a22 5g is all plastic. The back surface has a matte look and is drippy but collects plenty of fingerprints.

The phone is a bit larger than the LTE only version and feels thick and chunky, which is strange, since it also seems hollow when you tap on it. The display is a 6.6 inch, IPS LCD with a 1080p resolution and a 90hz refresh rate, despite the rather large bezels. You still get a notch for the selfie cam and, unlike the a32 5g, you don't get gorilla glass protection here. This display does offer advantages over those of his cousins. The 4g galaxy a22 has an AMOLED screen, but a lower 720p resolution and a 325g has a 720p LCD that doesn't have a high refresh rate.

The refresh rate here is controlled, quite simply, it's either 90 hertz or 60 hertz. Depending on what you choose in settings, it might use up more energy since it isn't adaptive, but it still offers you a smoother experience when swiping scrolling and even playing games. The screen itself is just okay, but still decent. At this price point, there's good contrast for an LCD, and it's nice to have the higher resolution. Colors aren't very accurate, though trending toward bluish, and there aren't any color settings to tweak them with there's no HDR support and brightness is nothing special.

We measured a maximum of 385 nits with the slider and there's no additional boost available. On top of that, the a225g has both a headphone jack and a bottom firing loudspeaker. It scored just average on our loudness charts and audio quality from the speaker is nothing too impressive. Either you have the choice of either 64 or 128, gigs of storage on board the a225g and that's expandable through a micros slot, and waking up and unlocking the phone can be done with the fingerprint reader built into the power button. It's speedy and reliable some appeal of getting a Samsung phone, even a budget one is the long-term software support, but that's not quite the case with the a225g.

The phone still runs on one UI 3.1 based on android 11, but Samsung has scheduled support for two major OS updates here. In contrast, the higher tier models get three as well as four years of security updates. There are a couple of features missing here too, like music share and smart view, but besides that this is pretty much the same interface you'd get on Samsung's flagship phones, you get features like pinning apps to the top of the sheet with share options. You also get the advanced media, playback controls that came with android 11, which sit within the notification shade and there's notification. History available in settings in case you missed something or want to double-check.

You get edge panels which are a convenient place to store shortcuts and there's a game launcher which acts as a hub for your games, as well as providing options for things like notification alerts behind all of these features is a MediaTek density, 700 chipsets, built on a seven nanometer process, cruise it's about on par with the snapdragon 732g and the galaxy a22 5g holds its own on the charts. But as far as the GPU goes, it's no powerhouse, especially since many rivals at this price point are running a less demanding 720p display still in real world use. The interface and regular tasks are smooth enough and light games run quite well. The a22 5g has a large 5000 William hour battery and was able to score an endurance rating of 118 hours in our battery life tests. This is quite respectable, following just behind popular rivals.

Charging is a different story, though the phone comes with a 15 watt adapter and is able to charge from zero to just 23 in half an hour. One of the slowest speeds around. Let's move on to the cameras: the a22 5g has a 48 megapixel quad, Bayer main camera, a 5 megapixel ultra-wide cam and a depth sensor. This setup is actually a downgrade compared to the regular galaxy a22, which has is on the main cam a higher res ultra-wide and a macro camera too anyway, during the day and with the default settings, 12 megapixel photos from the main cam are good with plenty of detail and good sharpness. Colors are not too vibrant and dynamic range also leaves more to be desired.

The dedicated portrait mode works quite well for this price range with a nice looking background, both 5 megapixel shots from the ultra-wide are nothing to write home about the photos, have poor contrast and even more subdued colors, but also a narrow, dynamic range. Selfies are taken with the 8 megapixel front facing cam, and these are decent. There's an adequate amount of detail and colors. Look. Alright dynamic range is rather narrow, though in low light, the main cam's performance is unimpressive yet still.

Okay for a budget device. There's plenty of resolved detail, but these photos are generally soft and noisy with narrow, dynamic range. Turning on night mode has a pretty big effect. These photos are sharper with better definition and fine details shadows and highlights both get noticeable improvements too. The ultra-wide camera is barely usable in low light conditions.

The shots are blurry and dynamic range is not very good. With blown out highlights, there's no night mode support here either. One quirk about video recording on the a22 5g is that, while the chipset should technically support 4k capture you're limited to a maximum of 2048 by 1152, which Samsung calls 2k, it's not very impressive, delivering the same amount of detail as 1080p video and at times it looks even softer. Colors are also quite bland.1080P video from the ultra-wide cam looks rough with a low level of detail and a general softness throughout the frame. The dynamic range is limited too.

There is electronic stabilization available on either camera, and it works surprisingly well smoothing out all the small bumps and shakiness. We did notice some focus hunting introduced with the main cam, though so that's the Samsung Galaxy a22 5g, you get a high refresh rate, 1080p LCD, good battery life, a Samsung software experience and decent photo quality from the main camera and, of course, there's a solid chipset for the class which offers 5g connectivity. Like all the devices we've seen recently that offer 5g on a budget. There are compromises and shortcomings compared to 4g phones at the same price, but within this niche the a225g offers a nicer display than the a325g while still offering Samsung's, UI and software features. If that speaks to you, then it could be worth considering thanks for watching guys, stay safe and see you on the next one.

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Source : GSMArena Official