Samsung Galaxy A13 128GB

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Samsung Galaxy A13 Review, Specifications and Camera Performance

Samsung produces high-end flagships and mid-range phones, as well as phones for those on a smaller budget, such as the Samsung Galaxy A13. Is it still possible to have a good time at this expense, or is it more of a painful exercise?

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Samsung Galaxy A13 Review

Body and Finger Print

The entry-level Galaxy A13 is not the cheapest new Samsung you can get right now. Here we have the 4G version. There’s also a 5G phone which has a different chipset. The phone has a glossy plastic unibody which isn’t flimsy but feels far from premium. I wish it was a bit grippier too. The galaxy A13’s fingerprint reader is integrated with the power button on the side. It’s fast and responsive.

Screen and Protection

There’s a timeout between unlocks, but that’s not an issue for regular use. The screen of the A13 is a 6.6-inch PLS LCD with Gorilla Glass 5 protection, a 1080p resolution, and a standard 60hz refresh rate. Because it doesn’t have a high refresh rate, the movement on this display is less smooth than on more premium phones, but even beyond that, the pixel response is pretty sluggish and this results in ghosting and smearing when you’re swiping around.

Display

This display is okay for budget phones. You don’t get HDR support, and the colors aren’t very accurate nor are they adjustable, but the resolution is higher than many competitors who have 720p screens and the brightness is decent for the class. We measured 500 nits maximum with the manual slider. Auto-brightness is a different story.

Chipset

The A13 doesn’t have an ambient light sensor and tries to make adjustments by leveraging the selfie camera. This doesn’t work well. The readings don’t come too often, so it only changes once in a while. A lot of the time it’s simply unresponsive. The chipset of the Galaxy A13 is nothing impressive. In fact, it’s probably the most disappointing aspect of this device. It’s an Exynos 850 built on an 8-nanometer process, and it performs admirably.

Software

It sits at the bottom of the charts, even in this budget class. The phone struggles in CPU tests but is especially underpowered in the GPU department. Even if you don’t care about gaming, the Galaxy A13 often lags and stutters when performing basic tasks and even when navigating the home screen. It seems that the Exynos 850s GPU can’t really handle the high-resolution 1080p display and the whole experience suffers for it. That’s too bad because one of the main reasons to go for a galaxy phone at this price in Pakistan, is its Samsung software package. Samsung hasn’t said anything specific about future software support, so we’ll have to wait and see how long the a13 receives regular audio updates.

Audio and Speakers

The Galaxy  A13 has a headphone jack and a single bottom-firing loudspeaker. The speaker scored just average on our loudness chart. The quality of the sound is decent overall, but there’s no bass, and the Galaxy A13 can come with either 32, 64, or 128 gigs of storage, which is easily expandable through a microSD card.

Battery Life

The Galaxy A13’s battery life is quite good, with a capacity of 5,000 milliamp-hours. It was able to score a 114-hour endurance rating in our proprietary test. There’s support for up to 15-watt charging, but you don’t get an adapter in the box. Using a 25-watt Samsung charger, we were only able to take the A13 from zero to 27 in half an hour. By applying these tricks, as I mentioned earlier, you can extend the battery life of the Galaxy phone. 

Main Camera

Now on to the cameras The Galaxy A13 has a 50-megapixel main camera, a 5-megapixel ultra-wide shooter, a 2-megapixel macro cam, and a depth sensor. The main cam photos come out at 12.5 megapixels, and they’re solid, especially for a budget phone. There’s plenty of resolved detail and good sharpness. true-to-life colours and a wide enough dynamic range.

Depth Sensor

Portrait shots come from the main camera with the help of the depth sensor, but for some reason, they have an 8-megapixel resolution. These are good, and the subject separation is decent, with just the occasional mistake. The 5-megapixel photos from the ultra-wide cam are only OK. You get the desired wide field of view, but these photos are soft and lacking in detail, with limited dynamic range.

The two-megapixel close-ups from the macro cam have about the detail level you’d expect at this resolution, and the fixed focus means that shooting takes a lot of trial and error in low light.

Shots from the main camera are decent. There’s a good amount of detail, the sharpening isn’t too aggressive, and the noise is minimal. The biggest issue is the limited dynamic range. Light sources are often blown out, shadows are underdeveloped, and there’s no night mode available to help things out. The ultrawide camera struggles a lot in low light. The shots look quite soft and noisy.

Selfie Camera

The selfies from the 8-megapixel front-facing camera are good; there’s plenty of detail and nicely rendered colors. Videos can be captured at up to 1080p resolution at 30 fps. Footage from the main camera looks good, with plenty of detail and sharpness, true-to-life colours, and a decent dynamic range. At first, the video from the ultra-wide camera is usable, with good-looking colours and a reasonable level of detail.

Unfortunately, there is no video stabilization on the Samsung Galaxy A13 at all, and footage can come out quite shaky as a result.

So that’s the Samsung Galaxy A13. The battery life is solid, and the cameras do a pretty good job too, but the problem is that this phone is just too slow. You have that sluggish pixel response of the display and then the stutters and hiccups that come up even when performing basic tasks. On top of it all, the Galaxy A13 isn’t even that cheap. There are quite a few alternatives available in the Pakistani market.

Frequently Ask Questions ( FAQs)

Q. What is the price of the Samsung Galaxy A13 in Pakistan?

Ans. Samsung Galaxy A13 price in Pakistan is Rs 33,600 and in Cost price in US Dollar $ 208.

Q. What is the internal Storage and RAM of the Samsung Galaxy A13?

Ans.  Samsung Galaxy A13 has 128 GB internal storage with 4 GB of RAM

Q. What is the Battery Size of Samsung Galaxy A13 ?

Ans.  The smartphone has 5000 mAh Battery with 15 W fast charging capacity.