Samsung’s new budget phone costs $50 more despite downgrades

The US lone gets it successful black, but bluish and pinkish models are launching elsewhere. | Image: Samsung

The Galaxy A27 has been announced, and astatine $349.99 it's $50 much than past year's A26. That's understandable successful the existent economical climate, but a harder merchantability fixed that Samsung has besides downgraded a fewer cardinal specs.

Compared to last year's phone, the A27 has little solution 12-megapixel selfie and 5-megapixel ultrawide cameras, worse IP64 waterproofing, and is precise somewhat thicker astatine 7.8mm. Other specs are simply unchanged, similar the 6GB RAM and 128GB storage, 5,000mAh battery, 6.7-inch 120Hz display, and 50-megapixel rear camera. There's lone 1 existent upgrade to the phone, but it is simply a invited one: a determination from the Exynos 1380 to Qualcomm's …

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