If you thought Samsung’s Galaxy A16 was a budgeting masterclass, you haven’t yet seen Samsung’s latest crack at a budget smartphone. That’ll be the new Galaxy A06, announced earlier today and already carrying a R2,500 price tag, mimicking that of TCL’s budget offering, the 505. That won’t be the last time you hear that.
Going budget (on a budget)
You might expect Samsung to shirk its responsibility to kit the budget A06 properly, but that’s not what we see here. Sure, the SoC is a little underpowered, but for R2,500 were you honestly expecting anything different? If you were, the 5,000mAh battery will do its best to make it up to you in the long run.
The A06 rocks a 6.7in LCD on its front embedded among the plastic chassis, while the rear is home to the 50MP main camera and accompanying 2MP depth sensor. You’ll have to make do with the 8MP sensor in the front of the display when taking selfies, though we’d advise getting good with that lead sensor around the back.
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Samsung’s been cagey about the chipset powering the A06, but a visit to GSMArena reckons it’s working with a MediaTek Helio G85 (an upgrade over TCL’s Helio G36 lodged inside the 505). There’s only 4GB of system memory and 64GB of storage that’ll expand as high as 1TB if you’ve got the SD card for it.
Samsung promises at least two major OS updates, and four years of security updates to entice you in the A06’s direction even further, if the price isn’t already attractive enough.