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

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 waste 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 very somewhat thicker astatine 7.8mm. Other specs are simply unchanged, for illustration the 6GB RAM and 128GB storage, 5,000mAh battery, 6.7-inch 120Hz display, and 50-megapixel rear camera. There’s only 1 existent upgrade to the phone, but it is simply a invited one: a move from the Exynos 1380 to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chipset.

Samsung isn’t wholly to blasted here. Prices are up across the industry, and fund phones consequence being particularly difficult deed — Nothing has moreover cancelled planned smartphone additions to its budget-friendly CMF line. Even Apple accrued prices today, though for now its iPhones haven’t been affected.

The Galaxy A27 goes connected waste successful the US from July 14th, and only successful black. International markets will besides get bluish and pinkish options, and an earlier July 3rd release.