The Galaxy A53: A Mid-Range Powerhouse?

The biggest change the galaxy a53 brings is in the internals, there's a new in-house Samsung made Exynos 1280 chip which is built on an energy efficient 5nm fabrication process node. It features two Cortex A78 CPU cores clocked at 2.4 gigahertz and 6 Cortex A55 CPU cores clocked at 2 gigahertz alongside the Mali G68 GPU with 4 cores clocked at 1 gigahertz.

Looking at the benchmark tests, I ran the Exynos 1280 looks very similar to the Diamond City 920 and the Snapdragon 778G so it's a pretty capable chipset. Yes, but if you want pure performance over everything else, Samsung's mid-range phones are not the best options. You will easily get phones with Diamond CT 1200 at a lower price while oneplus is also launching the OnePlus Note 3 with Diamond City 8100 pretty soon.

The ICO 9 SE is another phone that's priced similar to the Galaxy A53 but comes with a much more powerful Snapdragon Triple A chipset. In my brief time with the phone, I found it to be plenty fluid where animations render well and the UI is enjoyable to navigate to. I also did not notice the phone getting warm so that is a positive sign as well. As for gaming, I have only had a few sessions of PUBG Mobile so far but I'm a little disappointed to see that the max setting that you can go here is HD graphics and high frame rates only, that's basically 30 to 35 fps on average and nothing more.

But since it's a pretty new chipset, a software update should certainly be on the cards which should improve the overall performance. Fingers crossed! Talking of software updates, Samsung has promised four years of OS and five years of security updates on the Galaxy A53 while this thing runs on the latest Android 12 straight out of the box so this is just an insane level of software commitment which is unheard of on a mid-range phone.

Okay, time to talk about its cameras and this is where the Galaxy A53 wins big time against any other mid-range phones you can find right now. We get a familiar-looking curved sloped camera cut out here that houses a quad camera array with a 64 megapixel primary lens equipped with OIS, a 12 megapixel ultra wide angle lens, and two 5 megapixel depth and macro sensors.

I have captured over 50 photos with this phone in less than 24 hours and I really like them. During daytime, you get well-detailed sharp images with the classic Samsung color optimization. The HDR processing is good and the whites are balanced as well. The 12 megapixel ultra wide angle camera is also a class above what other brands manage it has a wider field of view and much better details than the one from other mid-range phones that usually settle with an 8 megapixel ultra wide angle lens.

Even the portraits here have good skin tone and shadow detail while the overall image has a nice bokeh and background exposure. It's the same with selfie photos too, but I think the biggest improvement with the Galaxy A53 is low light photography as you can see it can capture some good nighttime photos and this time around night mode does not take too much time to process the shot either.

So, yeah, the Galaxy A53 is definitely a pretty decent mid-range camera phone for photos. But for videos, I think Samsung has deliberately made it look inferior. Companies often do this to differentiate it from their flagship phones and sadly, the Galaxy A53 is the victim of this sculpture here both 4K 30fps and 1080p 60fps videos don't have stable results despite the phone's primary camera featuring OIS whose primary task is to stabilize videos.

And when using the Super Steady mode it caps out at 1080p 30fps, and the overall video quality just looks costly. So, this brings us to the end of this video, um overall I think it's going to be interesting to see at what price Samsung launches this phone here in the South Asian region um if it's priced below 30,000 Indian Rupees I think it will be an incredible value but higher than that you get to consider other options like the ICO 9 SE and the upcoming OnePlus Note 3.

Anyway, uh before I give you my solid judgement about the Galaxy A53 I will be using this phone alongside the ICO 9 SE which I have just bought in for review and once the official prices of the Galaxy A53 are revealed I will be sharing all my experiences with the phone in my full review so do watch out for that, and if you have any questions regarding the Galaxy A53 feel free to leave a comment down below saying this, I am Prativa, and I will see you soon

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and namaste everyone i hope you guys are doing well so uh today i have samsung's latest premium mid-range phone the galaxy a53 with me so far samsung has launched four phones in the a series this year the galaxy a23 83 a53 and the galaxy a73 here the a23 is the least expensive phone among the four while the a73 is the most expensive one as for the galaxy a53 it is currently available for pre-booking in the us for some 450 but samsung is also throwing in a pair of buds live worth around 150 for free as a part of the pre-booking deal in the south asian market we can expect it to be a little cheaper given the amount of competition we have in the midway segment i expect the base 6 128 gb variant of the a53 to be around 30 000 rupees in india whereas the 8 128 gb variant should cost around 32 000 indian rupees but the actual mrp could be a little higher given samsung's history of overpricing their a series of phones anyway the galaxy a53 is one of the first mid-range phones from samsung that skips a charger inside the box here just like the company's flagship phones all you get is some paperwork a sim ejector tool and a type c to type c cable inside the box and that's about it you'll have to buy this 25 watt charger separately which costs 20 or some 13 000 rupees in india so with all this considered i seriously think that samsung has got to go easy when pricing this phone with that out of the way let's talk about the phone itself i have been using the galaxy a53 for a day or so and i can instantly notice the same dna here that we saw on last year's galaxy a52 and a52s even if you look at the spec sheets side by side the a53 does not necessarily bring any major upgrades so samsung's formula here is basically if it ain't broke don't fix it but i do see some quality of life improvements here starting with the design although its overall dimension and weight are exactly the same as last year's galaxy 52 samsung has included a bigger 5000mah battery this time versus the 4 500 milliamp battery on its predecessor plus a53's plastic bag feels more premium compared to previous models as well i think they've used different kind of polycarbonate material which feels of much better quality and just like last year i like this phone's overall heft and weight distribution as well it does not feel too big to hold so you will enjoy typing on this thing even with one hand i also love this new peach color variant but you can also choose between black white and blue finishes but yeah this peach color looks quite attractive and unique if you ask me and regardless of which color variant you end up going for the galaxy a53 gets ip67 dust and waterproofing and it seems like samsung is so into this feature that they have included it on the cheaper galaxy a33 as well up front the display also remains the same with a 6.5 inch super amoled panel with a 120 hertz refresh rate hdr 10 plus support and gorilla glass 5 protection and here too i feel like the actual quality of the display is better than last year seems that samsung has used a slightly better amoled panel with the galaxy a53 as you guys might know i am using the galaxy s22 ultra right now as my primary phone and uh what's great about the a53 is that samsung has used the similar color science of its flagship phones on their cheaper models too and since we've been testing a lot of mid-range phones from xiaomi viewer me and oneplus in the past couple of weeks i can instantly tell that the galaxy a53s display is just better in every possible way sadly samsung has removed the headphone jack this time which was present on last year's a series phones but you do get a stereo speaker here all right the biggest change the galaxy a53 brings is in the internals there's a new in-house samsung made exynos 1280 chip which is built on an energy efficient 5nm fabrication process node it features two cortex a78 cpu cores clocked at 2.4 gigahertz and 6 cortex a55 cpu cores clocked at 2 gigahertz alongside the mali g68 gpu with 4 cores clocked at 1 gigahertz looking at the benchmark tests i ran the exynos 1280 looks very similar to the diamond city 920 and the snapdragon 778g so it's a pretty capable chipset yes but if you want pure performance over everything else samsung's mid-range phones are not the best options you will easily get phones with diamond ct 1200 at a lower price while oneplus is also launching the oneplus note 3 with diamond city 8100 pretty soon the ico 9 se is another phone that's priced similar to the galaxy a53 but comes with a much more powerful snapdragon triple a chipset in my brief time with the phone i found it to be plenty fluid where animations render well and the ui is enjoyable to navigate to i also did not notice the phone getting warm so that is a positive sign as well as for gaming i have only had a few sessions of pubg mobile so far but i'm a little disappointed to see that the max setting that you can go here is hd graphics and high frame rates only that's basically 30 to 35 fps on average and nothing more but since it's a pretty new chipset a software update should certainly be on the cards which should improve the overall performance fingers crossed and uh talking of software updates samsung has promised four years of os and five years of security updates on the galaxy a53 while this thing runs on the latest android 12 straight out of the box so this is just an insane level of software commitment which is unheard of on a mid-range phone okay time to talk about its cameras and this is where the galaxy a53 wins big time against any other mid-range phones you can find right now we get a familiar-looking curved sloped camera cut out here that houses a quad camera array with a 64 megapixel primary lens equipped with ois a 12 megapixel ultra wide angle lens and two 5 megapixel depth and macro sensors i have captured over 50 photos with this phone in less than 24 hours and i really like them during daytime you get well detailed sharp images with the classic samsung color optimization the hdr processing is good and the whites are balanced as well the 12 megapixel ultra white camera is also a class above what other brands manage it has a wider field of view and much better details than the one from other mid-range phones that usually settle with an 8 megapixel ultra wide angle lens even the portraits here have good skin tone and shadow detail while the overall image has a nice bokeh and background exposure it's the same with selfie photos too but i think the biggest improvement with the galaxy a53 is low light photography as you can see it can capture some good nighttime photos and this time around night mode does not take too much time to process the shot either so i'm guessing that the exynos 1280 has a superior image signal processor compared to ones from media tech and qualcomm so yeah the galaxy a53 is definitely a pretty decent mid-range camera phone for photos but for videos i think samsung has deliberately made it look inferior companies often do this to differentiate it from their flagship phones and sadly the galaxy a53 is the victim of this sculpture here both 4k 30fps and 1080p 60fps videos don't have stable results despite the phone's primary camera featuring ois whose primary task is to stabilize videos and when using the super steady mode it caps out at 1080p 30fps and the overall video quality just looks costly so this brings us to the end of this video um overall i think it's going to be interesting to see at what price samsung launches this phone here in the south asian region um if it's priced below 30 000 indian rupees i think it will be an incredible value but higher than that you get to consider other options like the ico 9se and the upcoming oneplus note 3. anyway uh before i give you my solid judgement about the galaxy a53 i will be using this phone alongside the ico 9se which i have just bought in for review and once the official prices of the galaxy a53 are revealed i will be sharing all my experiences with the phone in my full review so do watch out for that and if you have any questions regarding the galaxy a53 feel free to leave a comment down below saying this i am prativa and i will see you soonhello and namaste everyone i hope you guys are doing well so uh today i have samsung's latest premium mid-range phone the galaxy a53 with me so far samsung has launched four phones in the a series this year the galaxy a23 83 a53 and the galaxy a73 here the a23 is the least expensive phone among the four while the a73 is the most expensive one as for the galaxy a53 it is currently available for pre-booking in the us for some 450 but samsung is also throwing in a pair of buds live worth around 150 for free as a part of the pre-booking deal in the south asian market we can expect it to be a little cheaper given the amount of competition we have in the midway segment i expect the base 6 128 gb variant of the a53 to be around 30 000 rupees in india whereas the 8 128 gb variant should cost around 32 000 indian rupees but the actual mrp could be a little higher given samsung's history of overpricing their a series of phones anyway the galaxy a53 is one of the first mid-range phones from samsung that skips a charger inside the box here just like the company's flagship phones all you get is some paperwork a sim ejector tool and a type c to type c cable inside the box and that's about it you'll have to buy this 25 watt charger separately which costs 20 or some 13 000 rupees in india so with all this considered i seriously think that samsung has got to go easy when pricing this phone with that out of the way let's talk about the phone itself i have been using the galaxy a53 for a day or so and i can instantly notice the same dna here that we saw on last year's galaxy a52 and a52s even if you look at the spec sheets side by side the a53 does not necessarily bring any major upgrades so samsung's formula here is basically if it ain't broke don't fix it but i do see some quality of life improvements here starting with the design although its overall dimension and weight are exactly the same as last year's galaxy 52 samsung has included a bigger 5000mah battery this time versus the 4 500 milliamp battery on its predecessor plus a53's plastic bag feels more premium compared to previous models as well i think they've used different kind of polycarbonate material which feels of much better quality and just like last year i like this phone's overall heft and weight distribution as well it does not feel too big to hold so you will enjoy typing on this thing even with one hand i also love this new peach color variant but you can also choose between black white and blue finishes but yeah this peach color looks quite attractive and unique if you ask me and regardless of which color variant you end up going for the galaxy a53 gets ip67 dust and waterproofing and it seems like samsung is so into this feature that they have included it on the cheaper galaxy a33 as well up front the display also remains the same with a 6.5 inch super amoled panel with a 120 hertz refresh rate hdr 10 plus support and gorilla glass 5 protection and here too i feel like the actual quality of the display is better than last year seems that samsung has used a slightly better amoled panel with the galaxy a53 as you guys might know i am using the galaxy s22 ultra right now as my primary phone and uh what's great about the a53 is that samsung has used the similar color science of its flagship phones on their cheaper models too and since we've been testing a lot of mid-range phones from xiaomi viewer me and oneplus in the past couple of weeks i can instantly tell that the galaxy a53s display is just better in every possible way sadly samsung has removed the headphone jack this time which was present on last year's a series phones but you do get a stereo speaker here all right the biggest change the galaxy a53 brings is in the internals there's a new in-house samsung made exynos 1280 chip which is built on an energy efficient 5nm fabrication process node it features two cortex a78 cpu cores clocked at 2.4 gigahertz and 6 cortex a55 cpu cores clocked at 2 gigahertz alongside the mali g68 gpu with 4 cores clocked at 1 gigahertz looking at the benchmark tests i ran the exynos 1280 looks very similar to the diamond city 920 and the snapdragon 778g so it's a pretty capable chipset yes but if you want pure performance over everything else samsung's mid-range phones are not the best options you will easily get phones with diamond ct 1200 at a lower price while oneplus is also launching the oneplus note 3 with diamond city 8100 pretty soon the ico 9 se is another phone that's priced similar to the galaxy a53 but comes with a much more powerful snapdragon triple a chipset in my brief time with the phone i found it to be plenty fluid where animations render well and the ui is enjoyable to navigate to i also did not notice the phone getting warm so that is a positive sign as well as for gaming i have only had a few sessions of pubg mobile so far but i'm a little disappointed to see that the max setting that you can go here is hd graphics and high frame rates only that's basically 30 to 35 fps on average and nothing more but since it's a pretty new chipset a software update should certainly be on the cards which should improve the overall performance fingers crossed and uh talking of software updates samsung has promised four years of os and five years of security updates on the galaxy a53 while this thing runs on the latest android 12 straight out of the box so this is just an insane level of software commitment which is unheard of on a mid-range phone okay time to talk about its cameras and this is where the galaxy a53 wins big time against any other mid-range phones you can find right now we get a familiar-looking curved sloped camera cut out here that houses a quad camera array with a 64 megapixel primary lens equipped with ois a 12 megapixel ultra wide angle lens and two 5 megapixel depth and macro sensors i have captured over 50 photos with this phone in less than 24 hours and i really like them during daytime you get well detailed sharp images with the classic samsung color optimization the hdr processing is good and the whites are balanced as well the 12 megapixel ultra white camera is also a class above what other brands manage it has a wider field of view and much better details than the one from other mid-range phones that usually settle with an 8 megapixel ultra wide angle lens even the portraits here have good skin tone and shadow detail while the overall image has a nice bokeh and background exposure it's the same with selfie photos too but i think the biggest improvement with the galaxy a53 is low light photography as you can see it can capture some good nighttime photos and this time around night mode does not take too much time to process the shot either so i'm guessing that the exynos 1280 has a superior image signal processor compared to ones from media tech and qualcomm so yeah the galaxy a53 is definitely a pretty decent mid-range camera phone for photos but for videos i think samsung has deliberately made it look inferior companies often do this to differentiate it from their flagship phones and sadly the galaxy a53 is the victim of this sculpture here both 4k 30fps and 1080p 60fps videos don't have stable results despite the phone's primary camera featuring ois whose primary task is to stabilize videos and when using the super steady mode it caps out at 1080p 30fps and the overall video quality just looks costly so this brings us to the end of this video um overall i think it's going to be interesting to see at what price samsung launches this phone here in the south asian region um if it's priced below 30 000 indian rupees i think it will be an incredible value but higher than that you get to consider other options like the ico 9se and the upcoming oneplus note 3. anyway uh before i give you my solid judgement about the galaxy a53 i will be using this phone alongside the ico 9se which i have just bought in for review and once the official prices of the galaxy a53 are revealed i will be sharing all my experiences with the phone in my full review so do watch out for that and if you have any questions regarding the galaxy a53 feel free to leave a comment down below saying this i am prativa and i will see you soon\n"