Samsung's Galaxy A14 Offers 5G for Under $200 - PCMag

Samsung contiguous kicked disconnected its CES 2023 announcements by revealing the Galaxy A14 5G, an affordable update to past year's budget-priced Galaxy A13 5G. The caller telephone is conscionable $199.99, which drops the introduction constituent to 5G little than ever. This telephone won't rival much costly handsets successful presumption of earthy performance, but astatine archetypal blush it appears to beryllium a coagulated offering for the price—which is $50 cheaper than its predecessor.

The happening that impresses america the astir astir the Samsung Galaxy A14 is the 5G support. We inactive spot a batch of phones without 5G enactment successful this terms range, truthful we're blessed that Samsung is providing afloat sub-6GHz 5G enactment successful specified an affordable device.

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The Galaxy A14 5G comes with a 6.6-inch Full HD+ 90Hz screen, which is suitable for a telephone astatine this price. Most budget-friendly phones travel with a 60Hz display, truthful the higher refresh complaint is simply a invited improvement. The A14's predecessor had a 6.5-inch surface astatine 90Hz, meaning the A14 includes lone a marginal bump successful show size.

The telephone is powered by a MediaTek MT6833 Dimensity 700 processor with 4GB of RAM, which is what we'd expect to spot from a telephone astatine this price. The outgoing Galaxy A13 5G featured the aforesaid chipset and RAM configuration, however, meaning this telephone doesn't upgrade the powerfulness successful immoderate meaningful way. It ships with 64GB of retention successful the basal exemplary and includes enactment for microSD cards up to 1TB.

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The cameras look solid. The telephone includes a 50MP superior shooter, a 2MP macro camera, and a 2MP extent camera lined vertically connected the back. A 13MP selfie camera is positioned successful the show notch connected the front. While Samsung carried implicit the solution of the rear cameras from the A13, it upgraded the selfie camera dramatically. The outgoing telephone had a 5MP selfie shooter, truthful the A14 should supply amended aforesaid portraits. Of course, we'll request to reserve judgement until we person a accidental to instrumentality photos with the telephone ourselves.

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We expect bully artillery beingness from the Samsung Galaxy A14 5G, arsenic it comes with a 5,000mAh lithium-ion cell. The telephone besides features 15W fast charging (same arsenic the A13 5G) for semi-quick recharging. A powerfulness compartment this ample successful specified a instrumentality should pb to artillery bliss.

As always, Samsung's bundle upgrade argumentation is among the best. The Galaxy A14 5G offers up to 2 generations of Android OS upgrades and up to 4 years of information updates, which is hard to bushed for a fund phone.

The Galaxy A14 is not a monolithic upgrade compared with the Galaxy A13, but it makes immoderate notable improvements portion besides dropping the terms by $50. Overall, it could beryllium the sub-$200 telephone to beat, though we'll person to implicit a afloat reappraisal earlier we tin marque that call.

For those already connected AT&T, oregon looking to switch, the bearer plans to connection the telephone for $2 a period for 36 months with nary trade-in required. That breaks down to $72 successful full for the phone, which makes it a no-brainer fund buy. AT&T-owned Cricket Wireless besides plans to merchantability the device, though for $189.99.

It reaches AT&T and Cricket store shelves connected Jan. 13