Samsung galaxy A24

Design but it manages to stand out from the crowd with quite a few enticing features Samsung has switched from LCD to AMOLED this time around and increased the base storage they've also improved the battery life and you get an up-to-date Samsung software package the a24 isn't a waterproof phone though like the more expensive models and you don't get 5G support here or stereo speakers the design here is a bit different from last year's a23 4G the plastic back panel is again flat and glossy but instead of a camera Island there are individual black circles for each camera also the back doesn't taper into the rounded plastic frame there's a Sharper Edge here like I mentioned the Display display has been revamped it's a 6.5 inch AMOLED with a 1080p resolution and a 90 Hertz refresh rate because of the AMOLED Tech content is even more contrast than on LCD panels with deep blacks there's no HDR support here but the colors are accurate without a bluish tinge like what we experienced on the previous model and this time around you actually get color settings to further tweak them with Max brightness is also Head and Shoulders above what we experienced on the a23 on the a24 we measured a maximum of 460 nits with a manual slider and this can boost to over a thousand nits in auto mode when you need it the refresh rate handling is a step Audio backwards though you get 90 Hertz to smooth out your swiping and scrolling but it isn't adaptive on the a24 and won't dial down when idling to save energy for audio the galaxy a24 has a headphone jack and a single bottom firing speaker its loudness is just average and the sound quality is unimpressive you can listen for yourself with a provided link and compare to other devices too you can wake up and unlock the Galaxy a24 with a responsive side mounted fingerprint reader built into the power button and the phone comes with 128 gigs of Software storage on board and is expandable on top of that through micro SD one of the main reasons to get a budget Samsung phone over some competitors is that you get Samsung software suite it's one UI 5.1 based on Android 13. like you'd get on the flagships there are a handful of features missing that you'd find on the more expensive models like Samsung Dex but still you get almost everything here to find out more about the specific features of one UI 5.1 you can check out our dedicated video Performance the chipset of the Galaxy a24 is a MediaTek helio g99 it's no chart-topper but it's meant to provide decent performance for the money in benchmarks it does a decent job even outperforming last year's Galaxy a23 4G still the level here isn't enough to play Heavy games smoothly and you may encounter some longer loading times here and there at least the thermal management is excellent as you'd expect with such a processor just like last year the Galaxy a24 packs Battery a 5 000 milliamp-hour battery the battery life is even better this time around though with the a24 earning an excellent endurance rating of 141 hours in our tests the phone supports 25 watt charging which you don't get a charger in the box with a proper Samsung adapter we were able to charge from 0 to 46 percent in half an hour Cameras finally let's talk about the cameras like last year the a24 has a 50 megapixel main cap a 5 megapixel Ultra wide camera and a 2 megapixel macro cam no depth sensor this time around though the main camera saves 12.5 megapixel photos by default due to pixel binning these daylight shots look pretty good with low noise great contrast vibrant colors and wide enough dynamic range there is sufficient detail and in general the rendition is nice without heavy over sharpening there's no depth sensor but the performance in portrait mode is still good with decent subject separation in low light the main Cam's photos are well exposed with good contrast and likable saturated colors the detail level is subpar though and the dynamic range is rather narrow if you enable the night mode you get brighter photos that have wider dynamic range and fewer blown highlights the amount of detail is still uninspiring but these photos are usable the Galaxy a24's video capture maxes out a 1080p resolution these videos from the main camera are decent the detail is okay noise is low colors are true to life and the dynamic range is good we are not fans of how unnatural the foliage looks but all other subjects look fine the electronic stabilization works great here too now onto the ultra wide camera its 5 megapixel photos are rather poor they're over sharpened with mediocre detail and a bluish tinge as expected the ultra wide's low light photos are poor as well they're often too dark to see what's on them there's no support for night mode here either the 1080p videos from the ultrawide camera are alright with an acceptable level of detail the colors are cooler than they should be though 2 megapixel close-ups from the macro cam are unimpressive the colors and dynamic range are okay but you can't expect much detail at this resolution we did like the Selfies though from the new 13 megapixel front-facing cam they're great with plenty of detail and a balanced rendition the colors are accurate and there's a wide dynamic range so that's the Samsung Galaxy a24.