Samsung’s Galaxy A53 is the company’s newest mid-range phone. Last year, the Samsung Galaxy A52 5G was one of the best phones in its class. So, can the same be said about the next person? Well, to put it simply, the A53 5G seems like a good upgrade from the A52 5G and is a great phone for its price.
But there aren’t enough new features to make it worth buying if you already have an A52 5G or another good mid-range phone. Samsung just made small changes here and there, like making the battery bigger, the screen refresh rate faster, and the design different. Still, the new chip seems to help a lot in making the camera system better.
[content-egg-block template=offers_logo hide=price]The Galaxy A53 (let’s leave out “5G” from now on to make things easier) costs $449 in the U.S. and only comes in one version: 128GB of storage and 6GB of RAM. Now, that’s not a bad combination at all. But don’t worry, if you need more space, you can add more.
First of all, you get a 120Hz FHD+ AMOLED screen for almost half the price of the Galaxy S22. It’s also bigger, at 6.5in instead of 6.1in like the S22. Inside is Samsung’s mid-range Exynos 1280 chipset, which should give it much better performance than the previous A52 5G.
It also has 6GB of RAM and 128GB of expandable storage. The A53 5G has a total of four back cameras, but the main 64MP (f/1.8) lens is the best one. It comes with a 12MP ultrawide camera, a 5MP depth camera, and a macro camera. It’s also one of the cheapest 5G phones from Samsung, and it already has Android 12 on it. With the auto-brightness setting on, the brightness is also much better, with a measured peak luminance of 706cd/m2. The contrast is almost perfect because it’s an OLED screen.
The battery in the Galaxy A53 is 5,000 mAh, which is pretty big. Other flagships with 5,000 mAh batteries are the Galaxy S22 Ultra, the OnePlus 10 Pro, and the Pixel 6 Pro. So you might think that the Galaxy A53 has a great battery life, right? With the 25W charger, which doesn’t come with the phone, the Galaxy A53 just beats the Pixel 5a in our test, even though the Pixel 5a charges at a slower 18W. The iPhone SE, on the other hand, can be charged wirelessly, but the A53 can’t.