Samsung's Under-$200 Galaxy Phones Target the Essentials

Samsung's Under-$200 Galaxy Phones Target the Essentials

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Samsung Galaxy A02S, A03S and A12

From left to right: Samsung's Galaxy A02S, Galaxy A03S and Galaxy A12.

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Samsung Galaxy A02S

The Galaxy A02S costs $130. The phone has three cameras on the back, including a 13-megapixel wide main camera, a 2-megapixel macro lens and a 2-megapixel depth camera. A 5-megapixel front-facing camera sits on the front.

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Samsung Galaxy A02S

The phone lacks a fingerprint sensor, and I found that it struggled with multitasking during my testing.

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Samsung Galaxy A02S

The phone runs on Android 11.

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Not Enough Storage

All three of these phones only include 32GB of storage, which could fill up fast.

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Expandable Storage

But all three phones include a microSD card slot, which will allow you to expand the amount of storage space.

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Large Screen

All three phones have 6.5-inch screens that cap at 720p resolution.

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Fingerprint Sensor

The Galaxy A03S and A12 each have a fingerprint sensor built into the power button.

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Samsung Galaxy A03S

The Galaxy A03S is available in blue. The phone costs $160.

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Samsung Galaxy A03S

The A03S includes 3GB of memory, which made multitasking much better than on the A02S.

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Samsung Galaxy A12

The $180 Galaxy A12 adds on a fourth camera. Its camera complement includes a 16-megapixel main camera, a 5-megapixel ultrawide camera, a 2-megapixel macro camera and a 2-megapixel depth camera.

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Samsung Galaxy A02S, A03S and A12

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Samsung Rumored to Launch Another Foldable Phone This Year

Samsung is rumored to launch a third foldable device later this year, but this time around the phone may have a rollable or scrollable screen. Reliable Twitter tipster Ice universe on Thursday said Samsung's "mysterious third foldable device" is set to be released in the second half of this year, adding that there's a high probability of it being a "scroll screen phone."

While Ice universe says that the phone is set to be released this year, supply chain analyst Ross Young suggested the device may have been pushed back. "We previously had the Samsung slidable starting production by the end of 2022, then we heard it was pushed out," Young said in a tweet, adding that he'd have to confirm "if it was pulled back in or not."

At CES earlier this year, Samsung showed off some concept foldable phones, including one where the phone's screen expanded to the right with an unrolling motion. Samsung called the concept the Flex Slidable, but wouldn't say if the device would actually make it to the company's product line. It's unclear if the rumored new device would use a similar design.

Samsung didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

The newer foldable phones from Samsung, the Z Flip 3 and Z Fold 3, have been more popular than their predecessors. According to the company, these foldable phones sold more in their launch month than their predecessors did in all of 2020.

While foldables continue to garner popularity, companies are tinkering with what could be the next frontier in display tech: rollable or scrollable screens. LG showed a concept of a rollable phone at last year's CES and, to boot, it began selling its first OLED rollable TV at a whopping $100,000. TCL followed suit in showing a rollable phone concept at this year's CES. Even Apple submitted a patent for a flexible screen, indicating that a foldable or rollable iPhone could be in the future.

While these rollable phone concepts haven't made it into product lines yet, rumors suggest they could end up in our pockets and purses within the next few years.

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