Last week, we were treated to a new iPhone. He has the last A18 Chip and Apple intelligence, but it also starts at £ 600 for a complaint phone with a 60 Hz screen in 2025.
Just a week later and I hold what will soon be the new mid-range entry of Samsung, the Galaxy A56, and that makes me ask myself how the last mobile proposal of Apple is just off-base.
To begin with, the A56 accumulates at £ 100 less than the base price of the iPhone 16th, despite the double of internal storage (256 GB), but this is only the tip of the iceberg.
There is only a few things you can do with a single rear camera
It would seem that the efforts of Samsung AI are not as dependent on the equipment as Apple, with Galaxy AI, the features flowing from the flagship series Galaxy S25, despite the A56 not shaking a flagship class chipset.
The phone sports instead what the company calls “Awesome AI” which, as part of its new UI 7.0 user experience, includes brand news like Now Brief and AI Select; In addition to the latest update of the experience of the circle in search of Google and, of course, Google Gemini is also preloaded on the phone.
With this new entry in the A series, Samsung also raises the bar among the best mid -range phones of Android, promising six years of SG and security updates.
Although Apple does not make a promising update in advance when it launches new iPhones, previous entries in the series received between five and seven years of support. As such, it is fair to assume that the A56 is delivered with so much stay, from the point of view of the software.
Although the new EXYNOS 1580 mid-range chipset will probably not follow the rhythm of the Apple A18 silicon at the foreground of the 16th, it always marks a welcome jump in the promised performance for the A Galaxy series has itself.
Samsung says that it offers an improvement of 12% of NPU performance (necessary for AI tasks), an increase of 16% of GPU performance (ideal for game) and 18% CPU performance, compared to exynos 1480 found in the A55 galaxy last year.
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Despite a design from generation to generation (7.4 mm to 8.2 mm, while the 16th is 7.8 mm thick), as well as to give the phone a premium sensation and finish in person, the brushed metal frame of the A56 also hides a new steam chamber which is 45% larger than that found inside the A55.
This represents good things for sustained performance; Something that we are certainly going to test side by side with alternatives, including the 16th, the revision time.
The two phones wear Selfies 12MP Snappers (although the A56 is much less bewitched compared to the arrangement of the notch identification on the iPhone), but it is the rear camera system where the galaxy has the edge.
I have no doubt that the 48MP fusion camera on the 16th – with its 2x sensor -crop zoom zoom – will work admirably, but there is only many that you can do with a single rear camera.
The A56 has a cool linear triple camera table, LED by a 50 MP sensor which captures in 12MP by default, but now allows a full capture of 50 MP if you prefer; While a larger sensor (with larger 1 µm pixels) was also set for better HDR video capture (completing 4K / 30 images per second on the 4K / 60FPS cap of the iPhone).
Add to that a 12MP secondary ultrairs and a dedicated macro 5MP sensor, as well as semantic separation improved by AI -AIM as the best – make sure everyone looks at the camera and smiling – and there is just much more to the shooting experience of the A56, from the point of view of versatility.
Samsung has perfected the formula of the series A
Perhaps one of the most flagrant gaps in the makeup of the 16th, despite its price, concerns its display. Although Oled (unlike the line entries is before it), the 6.1 -inch panel of the phone still accumulates for a 60Hz pedestrian.
The Galaxy A5 line has OLED visuals and a fluidity of 120 Hz of a promotion type for years at this stage. The 6.7 -inch panel on the A56 is also a much brighter display, promising a maximum HBM (high luminosity mode) of 1200 nights, associated with a peak of 1900 NIZ for the HDR content.
Compare this to the light ceiling on a scale of 800 nit of the 16th, and at 1200 nings maximum and I know what display I prefer to look in full sun.
Samsung has perfected the formula of series A, on the basis of my initial meeting with the Galaxy A56, and although the mid -range performance is in competition with Apple devices on all fronts, in almost all other fields, it is one of the most convincing competitors of the 16th to launch this year.
While storage and RAM can vary depending on the market, in the United Kingdom, the Galaxy A56 is delivered with 256 GB of UFS 3.1 and 8 GB storage of RAM LPDDR5X, which costs £ 499 and will be sold on March 19. You can pre -order it now from Samsung.
