Samsung Galaxy A16 4G Review: specs and features, camera quality test, gaming benchmark, user opinions and photos

Samsung Galaxy A16 4G - failing to keep up with the market

The Korean company Samsung is still one of the most commercially successful among smartphone manufacturers, but competitors from China and the USA are gradually taking away audience shares for themselves. This fact is associated with the corporation's not very successful products in the low and middle price segments. Thus, the hero of today's review, although it turned out to be quite balanced in technical characteristics, is still much inferior to opponents from the Celestial Empire in many respects.

The appearance of the new product is not ideal. Claims will be addressed to the wide lower frame of the display and the outdated design of the 13-megapixel selfie camera. The case is made of polycarbonate, but quite high-quality, the triple camera unit looks relevant, and the side fingerprint scanner does not raise questions. The 6.7-inch AMOLED screen is also good. The FullHD+ resolution ensures picture clarity, the 90-Hz refresh rate - its smoothness. Peak brightness crosses the 1000 nit mark, so partial visibility of content is still preserved under direct sunlight. Color rendering is close to realistic, but there is no protection against the PWM effect. People sensitive to it will get tired eyes.

MediaTek Helio G99 processor, 4GB/8GB RAM and Mali G57MC2 video core - this is definitely not a new, but still viable bundle, ready to provide performance in the region of 350-370 thousand points in the AnTuTu benchmark. This will be enough for the responsiveness of Android 14, as well as many Android games. For resource-intensive projects like Genshin Impact, it is strongly recommended to purchase a configuration with a large amount of RAM. Then you can hope for stable gameplay with minimal or close to them graphics presets. The battery capacity has reached 5000 mAh, which is enough for 8-9 hours of active screen time. But the charging power is modest. 25W today does not look particularly interesting, because competitors have analogues even in 67W. The internal storage is allocated 128/256 GB, there is a slot for MicroSD cards.

But the photo capabilities of the main 50-, 5- and 2-megapixel cameras are mediocre. Auxiliary modules are almost useless, and the main photosensor without optical stabilization gives in to photography in poor lighting. There is no stereo sound, they also saved on a jack for wired headphones. But the piggy bank of pluses is replenished with contactless payment NFC. Thus, we have a device that is inferior to a number of alternatives in terms of photographic capabilities, CPU speed.