Samsung has just made two of its new Galaxy A series phones official at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Galaxy A30 and Galaxy A50 are the company’s first phones to feature Infinity-U displays, and the Galaxy A50 gets the distinction of being the first mid-range Galaxy with an in-display fingerprint sensor. Both phones are equipped with ultra-wide rear cameras as well.
The Galaxy A50 is the higher-end device here, as expected. It has a 6.4-inch Super AMOLED Infinity-U display with a fingerprint sensor underneath. It also has a triple rear camera setup, which includes a 25-megapixel primary sensor and a 5MP depth sensor for Live Focus shots. Samsung isn’t telling us the megapixel count of the ultra-wide camera, but it should be at least an 8MP lens similar to devices like the Galaxy A7 (2018) and A9 (2018).
The Galaxy A30 gets a dual rear camera setup that includes a 16-megapixel primary sensor and the ultra-wide sensor. Since these phones run Android Pie out of the box like the Galaxy S10, Samsung has built in many of the same AI features. For example, the phone will suggest the user to switch to the ultra-wide camera if it thinks it’s better suited to a particular scene. Scene Optimizer is included as well, although it can only detect 20 types of scenes. The Galaxy S10 gets support for up to 30 scenes.
The A30’s 6.4-inch display seems to be an LCD panel, as Samsung hasn’t mentioned a Super AMOLED screen for the A30. Both the A30 and A50 are powered by 4,000 mAh batteries, and that’s pretty much all the information Samsung is providing in the press release. Not that we need any more information after that huge leak that revealed all the specs of the Galaxy A30 and Galaxy A50 (along with the Galaxy A10) a few days ago, and we will be able to learn more at Samsung’s MWC booth later today.
The Galaxy A30 and Galaxy A50 will go on sale in mid-March, with white one of the color options for both phones (as we had exclusively revealed, white is going to be a color we will see on Samsung’s mid-range phones in 2019). India is likely to be the first country to see these devices, as Samsung India has already shown off the devices on its website and has an event planned for February 28 for new Galaxy A series phones.
