Samsung Galaxy A21

SAMSUNG GALAXY A21 in Kenya

Buy Samsung Galaxy A21 in Kenya for a price of 21,500 shillings. Samsung Galaxy A21 comes with a 4000 mAh battery, 32 GB of internal storage, and a large 6.53 inches display. It also has a quad 16 MP camera and 3 GB of RAM. The phone comes in color Black only. Find more about this phone on this product on this website.

Galaxy A21 price in Kenya and key features

Phone overview

Within the run-away success that the entry range offering that the Samsung A series has become so popular for, lies another great gem, the Samsung Galaxy A21, a great phone by all means. The Samsung Galaxy A21 is a nice mixed bag, offering a little of everything that Samsung entry-level devices have become famous for. The expected price in Kenya is Ksh 19,000. Let’s take a review tour. See also Galaxy A20s.

Design

The Samsung Galaxy A21 comes with a generous 6.5 inch IPS LCD Infinity O display with a cut out to accommodate the front-facing camera. It has a generous 79.3% body to screen ratio and a PPI density of 270. The glass front, with Corning Gorilla protection, warps back into a plastic middle frame into the hardened plastic back. Here you find the quad-camera set up and a fingerprint scanner.

The glossy plastic often used in these devices feels premium and could easily pass for glass to the untrained eye. The bezels are minimal though there is a small chin at the bottom of the screen. Closer, lies the downward-firing speaker, a USB-c charging port and a dedicated 3.5 mm headphone jack. You may also want to see Galaxy A21s.

Performance

The Samsung Galaxy A21 comes to an octa-core 2.3 GHz CPU. It comes with 3GB RAM and 32 GB internal storage memory configurations. It also has a dedicated micro SD slot for expanding the internal memory to an extra 512 GB. The SoC is impressively capable, which is why it is so popular with entry-level devices. It holds its fort like a champ, despite dropping a frame or two during gaming or other intensive tasks.

Camera

The quad-camera design on the Samsung Galaxy A21 is a great addition. The primary camera is a 16 mp wide-angle lens, paired with an ultra-wide 8 mp lens, a 2 mp macro, and a dedicated 2 mp depth sensor. Being an entry-level, this is where we start to see decent cameras on pretty much of the budget devices so this one manages to impress. The images are rich and subtly sharp, the edge detection on the portrait mode believable and the bokeh effect quite balanced.

The photos might be noisy or grainy whenever the camera is exposed to either too much or little light, but a little fiddling with the camera can still get you the desired results. The cameras shoot 1080p video in 30fps, HDR and panorama support. The front-facing lens is an 8 mp lens. The selfies are great and very usable. The shooter can also deliver a 1080p video in 30fps.

Battery

The Samsung Galaxy A21 comes with a decent 4000 mAh non-removable Li-Po battery, which has now become an industry standard, easily lasting even a power user for a whole day. Good thing we get fast charging on this device, with the brick in the box promising up to 15W Fast Charging, filling the device in a little over 2 hours. This bundled with clever battery management software should easily last you all day and then some.

Software

The Samsung Galaxy A21 comes with android 10 straight out of the box, with Samsung’s One UI 2.0. The software feels smooth and has less bloatware as opposed to most of the competition in this class. The bigger RAM makes much for a very stable and fluid experience. This makes the One UI one of the more intuitive custom ROMs out there. Have a look at Samsung Galaxy A11.

Final remarks

The Samsung Galaxy A21 makes up for great design choice, swapping the pricier AMOLED screen to allow a quad-camera setup and better performance, delivering a very promising masterpiece. The device is 4G ready, with dual standby nano-SIM and FaceID unlock.

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