Samsung Galaxy M12. A Budget-Friendly Device With Many Pleasant Surprises
Samsung Galaxy M12 can be an excellent alternative in its price segment to Chinese competitors. After all, it also received new technologies. What exactly and what can you expect after buying this smart phone? Read on.
Design
The device has a water drop notch on the front, which can be called old-fashioned, but for our taste, it is better than a round notch on the screen. In the middle is the front camera, above the speaker for conversations. On the right are the volume rockers, below the power button, which has a built-in fingerprint scanner. There are 4 cameras on the back and a good flash that has five levels of brightness when you use it as a flashlight.
Screen
This is where the Galaxy M12 will surprise you. The screen here PLS is a kind of liquid crystal display, but made by Samsung. It is better and more energy efficient than a conventional IPS matrix. Naturally, the quality of the matrix is high. At angles, it does not change color, the color palette itself is close to sRGB. In our opinion, the main advantage here is the lack of shim (screen flicker), which is found in AMOLED screens, especially cheap ones. Also, to the pluses of PLS, you can add the absence of screen burn-in and cheap repairs.
Soft
Galaxy M12 is running Android 11, One UI Core-shell. And here is our main surprise in this smartphone, it works perfectly with 90 hertz. There are no glitches or lags, and this was very surprising because in cheap smart phones you always expect a catch, there is none here. Moreover, it’s hard for me to name a competitor to this phone in terms of the smoothness of the interface for this money. By buying this budget smart phone, you get a level of work in the menu of smart phones, which are two or three times more expensive. Surprising but true.
Processor and Memory
Samsung Galaxy M12 is equipped with Exynos 850. This is a budget processor but made using 8-nanometer process technology. The processor has 8 cores ARM Cortex-A55 with a frequency of 2000 MHz. Graphic accelerator Mali-G52 MP6. It just pulls all the games. We don’t say it’s a gaming smart phone, we say it’s a smart phone that you can play on if you need it.
If we talk about memory, there are two versions here: 3/32 and 4/64. The memory itself is slow, eMMC, while the RAM is LPDDR4X. Naturally, we recommend only 4/64 for purchase. 4 gigabytes of RAM is the minimum for Android to work comfortably with applications and with the interface itself.
Camera
The interface itself is very simple, it is designed so that you do not think about the photo settings, and the smart phone will do it for you. AI is hidden, as is HDR along with night mode, but it’s all there. How exactly to take a photo decides the smart phone itself. Therefore, sometimes the pictures can be taken longer. For example, if the camera takes a picture with HDR or with a shutter speed at night, you don’t see it, but it happens automatically and it’s hard for such a processor to do it quickly.
There are 4 modules in total: 48 megapixels is the main module, 5 megapixels are an ultra-wide-angle lens, 2 megapixels are responsible for the depth and the other 2 megapixels are a macro module. The front camera has 8 megapixels.
Battery
If you play, the smart phone will sit down in 8 hours. But the battery here is 5000 mAh, so you don’t have to worry about autonomy. The battery charges the native power supply for the first half hour by 40 percent. Fully charges the smart phone in just over 2.5 hours.
The conclusion is simple. The Samsung Galaxy M12 is an extremely great smart phone that will surprise and delight you in its early days. Find yours available on the Samsung UK’s website.
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