Samsung Galaxy A51

Overview

Samsung Galaxy A51 smartphone is expected to be launched in India soon. The support pages of the phone have gone live on Samsung India’s website which hints at the imminent launch of the phone. The smartphone was launched alongside the  Samsung Galaxy A71 at an event in Vietnam earlier this month and is now set to hit the Indian market. The Galaxy A51 is expected to be launched in India in December 2019. The phone packs quad rear cameras and runs on Samsung’s new One UI 2.0 custom skin based on Android 10 OS. 

The dual-SIM (Nano) Samsung Galaxy A51 features a 6.5-inch full-HD+ (1080x2400 pixels) Super AMOLED display and has a punch-hole display. It has an in-display fingerprint sensor for authentication and added security. The Samsung Galaxy A51 is powered by an octa-core SoC with up to 8GB of RAM. It packs a 48 MP + 12 MP + 5 MP + 5 MP quad rear camera setup and a 32 MP front selfie camera. It comes with 128 GB of onboard storage which is expandable via a microSD card slot. 

Design

The Samsung Galaxy A51 is the successor of the popular mid-range Galaxy A50 smartphone and comes with an interesting camera setup and an Infinity-O Super AMOLED display. The phone comes with an Infinity-O Super AMOLED display which was also seen on the company’s flagship Galaxy Note 10 and 10 Plus smartphone launched earlier this year. The phone has a 6.5-inch display with a resolution of 1080 x 2400 (405 ppi) in a 20:9 format. The device has a small hole punch in the center at the top of the display and has a screen-to-body ratio of 87.4 percent. The phone has Gorilla Glass 3 protection and has an in-display fingerprint sensor. 

The phone is available in Prism Crush Black, Prism Crush White, Prism Crush Blue, and Prism Crush Pink colours. 

Performance

The Samsung Galaxy A51 runs Android 9 Pie OS with Samsung custom One UI on top. An update to Android 10 will also happen in the future. The phone has an Exynos 9611 octa-core SoC which is manufactured with a 10nm process. In terms of RAM, the phone comes in 6GB and 8GB versions and has 128 GB of internal storage which is expandable up to 1TB using a microSD card slot. The phone has a Mali-G72 MP3 GPU for graphics. 

Camera

The Galaxy A51 features a quad rear camera set up which is housed in a module. The three sensors are positioned vertically and the fourth one is sitting parallel at the bottom of the module. The LED sitting is one the right-hand side of the three vertical sensors. The phone has a 48 MP, f/2.0, 26mm (wide), 1/2.0", 0.8µm, PDAF sensor, 12 MP, f/2.2, 13mm (ultrawide), 1.12µm sensor, 5 MP, f/2.4, (wide), dedicated macro camera, and a 5 MP, f/2.2, (wide), 1/5.0", 1.12µm, depth sensor. It has an LED flash, panorama, and HDR. 

The front punch hole houses the 32 MP selfie camera that can shoot videos at 1080p at 30 frames per second and supports HDR. 

Battery and Storage

The Samsung Galaxy A51 is backed by a 4,000 mAh battery which supports charging up to 15W. The phone has a USB-C port on the bottom of the phone. It comes in up to 8GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage which is expandable via a MicroSD slot up to 1TB. The phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack. 

Connectivity

Connectivity options included on the phone are 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS/ A-GPS, and USB Type-C port. It has a 4,000mAh battery that offers 15W fast charging support. The phone has a 3.5 mm headphone jack and supports NFC for file transfers. 

Configuration

The phone is powered by an Exynos 9611 (10nm) octa-core (4x2.3 GHz Cortex-A73 & 4x1.7 GHz Cortex-A53) processor with Mali-G72 MP3 GPU. It runs on Android 10.0 OS with the company’s One UI 2 on top. 

Platform

The Samsung Galaxy A51 is powered by an Exynos 9611 which is a 64-bit ARM mid-range microprocessor that was designed by Samsung in late 2019. The phone is made with Samsung's 10 nm process, the system on chip features eight cores consisting of four Cortex-A73 big cores operating at up to 2.3 GHz and four Cortex-A53 little 1.7 GHz cores. The chip incorporates a Mali-G72 MP3 GPU and comes with up to 4 GiB of quad-channel LPDDR4x-3200 memory. 

Technology

Samsung’s Exynos chip incorporates an LTE modem that supports Cat 12 600Mbps download and Cat 13 150Mbps upload speeds. The phone also supports Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0, and a 24 MP ISP.

Samsung says that the Exynos 9611 processor is designed to offer artificial intelligence capabilities via a deep-learning technology. It comes with a built-in digital signal processor and a neural network engine. The vision image processing unit of the Exynos 9611 can analyse analogue signals of images and videos as well as identify the objects and environment within the scene, says Samsung.

Sensors

The phone comes with a wide array of sensors including a fingerprint (under display, optical) sensor for additional security. It also has an accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity, and compass sensors. The phone also features Face Unlock technology. It also comes with support for NFC technology to transfer data. 

Multimedia

The phone has FM radio and supports FM Radio. It has USB 2.0, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, and USB On-The-Go. It has a loudspeaker and a 3.5 mm headphone jack and active noise cancellation with a dedicated microphone. 

The Samsung Galaxy A51 release date in India has not been revealed yet, but the smartphone is expected to be available in most of Samsung's major markets in early 2020. The phone may be launched in India and go up for pre-order at the end of this month.