The Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G is a good overall phone, and there are no two ways about it. However, it is also proof of the idea that whatever is good is not necessarily recommended. This is what makes the Galaxy A52s (referred to from now on) a little curveball when you need to explain to a potential buyer what’s wrong with it. You see, if you advise buyers against it, you will be doing a loss for a really good smartphone. However, if you recommend it, there’s really only one reason you might want to consider doing so.
Before we make ourselves more clear, essential: The Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G 5G SoC. It has 6GB or 8GB of RAM (our variant of the latter), but only 128GB of storage. There’s a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED FHD+ display with 120Hz refresh rate, along with a drill hole slot that houses a 32MP front camera. At the back, the design is similar to Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S21 series, and houses a quad camera setup with 64MP primary, 12MP ultra-wide, and two 5MP units for macro shots and depth assistance. All of this is powered by a 4,500mAh battery with 25W fast charging.
Design and build: reaches for flagships, misses some cues
Samsung has very clearly taken its flagship phone design for the premium segment, and the Galaxy A52s has clear design cues from the S21 series. While I’m particularly fond of the matte rear and its blocky colors, some may find it too plain Zen. However, the steel-finished rim feels a bit cheap. The display side doesn’t sit completely flush with the rim, and there’s a slightly beveled edge that juts out toward the phone’s grip.
I don’t particularly like how the rear camera setup looks – it seems the designers stopped using the S21 design here because the marketing team needed the two lineups to look different. Build quality wise, things are better with the Galaxy A52s. The power and volume buttons are well placed, the matte rear makes the phone easy to hold, and there’s also a 3.5mm audio port on the bottom for wired IEMs. It’s also smooth to hold, and I especially like its in-hand feel and light build. Despite its lightness, it still feels like a phone that can withstand a few bumps and not get damaged.
Performance and Software: A Distinctive (and Nice) Samsung Experience
The 6.5-inch, Full HD+ Super AMOLED display is typically Samsung’s, and its 120Hz refresh rate means the display is also on par with the Galaxy S21 series. Placed next to each other, if the design of the Galaxy A52s and Galaxy S21+ is masked, there will be little to differentiate the two in terms of display quality.
This essentially means a smooth display, which produces higher saturation levels than most other phones on the market. Still, you get vibrant and punchy colors, a high contrast ratio to produce deep black levels, enough brightness to deliver clean whites, and enough tactile feedback. It has everything to make the Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G a smartphone that has a great display.
However, keep in mind that most phones today, especially those in the premium price bracket, offer displays that are either very good, or in most cases excellent. The differentiating factor here, OneUI 3.1, is Samsung’s custom take on Android 11 and offers decent ergonomics. If you’re switching from an Android phone from a different OEM to a Samsung phone, you’ll need some time to get used to it. Other than that, there’s nothing you really miss.
Display: Sleek, fresh and uncluttered
Beyond benchmarks and performance tests, what I really like about the Samsung Galaxy A52S 5G is how clean the entire experience is with it. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G SoC is becoming an increasingly popular choice in the mid-premium smartphone range, and in the Galaxy A52s, it does the job with ample smoothness and uncluttered simplicity.
As a result, everyday performance is smooth, and almost every regular task app loads without any hiccups. The chipset inside is powerful enough for even basic multitasking – for example, I can have up to eight tabs open on Gmail, Drive, Sheets, Outlook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and the Brave browser, and the phone shows no sign of struggling. Were. keep up. Overall performance remained as smooth as I could have hoped for, and on smooth use, Samsung doesn’t seem to have a habit of force-killing background apps – 8GB of RAM is clearly enough.
It’s for a no-nonsense performance standpoint that I found myself increasingly using the Galaxy A52s as my everyday work tool. Even throwing the fairly demanding Pokémon Go into the aforementioned mix of apps didn’t make things sluggish, and the 120Hz display further added to the feeling of smoothness and fluidity. Graphic intense games like Asphalt 9 are rendered with enough crispness in detail, and only a discerning eye will notice that, despite its pretense, it’s not a staple.
Benchmark tests via Geekbench 5 reveal a difference of around 30 percent in single-core performance and a 20 percent difference in multi-core performance between the Galaxy A52s and more expensive, flagship smartphones. What makes this difference in real life are actions such as using the app drawer search, which takes a second longer and shows signs of stuttering on this phone – something you won’t see on the Galaxy S21 Ultra. If such little things bother you, including some suspended browser tabs when you don’t actively use them, this is the Galaxy S series that you must check out.
Otherwise, the Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G is more than enough for most users.
Camera: Not a trendsetter, but good nonetheless
A big part of what makes a phone ‘good’ is how stable and reliable it is in terms of its overall performance. The Galaxy A52s’ cameras are exactly that – not a world beater, but a reliable bunch when you should be shooting a spontaneous moment. Smooth performance means the camera app itself doesn’t take forever to open, and is good enough thanks to ample memory and a decent ISP (image signal processor), shutter response, and other features of the camera app.
The 64MP main camera is generally Samsung’s in terms of color balance which produces a bit more saturated and enhanced colors by default. Impressively, though, it appears to have good dynamic range, which ensures better detailed shadows and a better balanced sky in contrast photos. It also helps with a more natural light balance in the video. My only real criticism is a slight lack of fine detail in low light conditions, but other than that, there’s nothing wrong here.
Macro photography is quite good with the Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G, and the 12MP ultra-wide unit is usable as well. The 32MP front camera produces good skin tones in selfies, but we’d advise against using filters. Most of the built-in filter options further soften the skin texture, giving selfies an artificial look. If you want a certain color tone in your selfies, we recommend using the photo editing app la Snapseed.
Battery life: Enough for a day’s work and play
The 4,500mAh battery on the Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G isn’t monstrous, but is good enough to last a full day’s work for users with moderate usage intensity. However, there’s not a lot of room for extra use—stretched your daily schedule with an extra hour of gaming or a few episodes of your favorite show, and you’ll find yourself with about 10 to 11 hours for the charger at best. find.
Thankfully, the 25W USB-C fast charger boosts the battery to 50 percent in just 25 minutes, and a full charge in less than an hour. It’s far from the fastest charging standard, and doesn’t have any extra features like reverse or wireless charging. But, like the rest of the phone, it works well and stable.
Verdict: It’s All So Good, Until You Look at the Price
By now, you’ve probably figured out that we love the Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G, and if you come to this decision, you won’t go wrong. You see, if someone just gifts you this smartphone without spending a single penny on this smartphone, then we would say that it is a very good smartphone. It doesn’t try to do flashy stuff, but gives you just the right amount of firepower to carry you through the day. For most users, this will be enough.
That is, until you see the price tag. For our variant with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage, the Galaxy A52s costs Rs 37,499 (or Rs 34,499, if you have an HDFC Bank credit card). In comparison, for the same chipset, RAM, storage, display smoothness and top-notch fast charging speed, we have realme gt Master Edition priced at Rs 27,990, recently launched iQoo Z5 Which is priced at Rs 23,999, and the upcoming Xiaomi 11 Lite NE 5G, it is expected to be priced similar to the Realme GT ME.
Would you like to volunteer around Rs 10,000 more to get essentially the same experience? The short answer is that unless you’re a big fan of Samsung, there’s no reason why you would. If you are, you will most likely wait, save and get a Galaxy S or Galaxy Z series smartphone. It’s this last point that makes the Galaxy A52s a tedious smartphone to justify as a purchase – even though it’s a pretty good overall device to use.
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