Samsung Galaxy A16 5G - now you know

In fall 2024, at October Samsung announced their new model Galaxy A16 5G

Features

Extra features on the Galaxy A16 5G are Virtual proximity sensing.

Available options for charge 25W wired.

Another important features on device are sensors, on this model installed Fingerprint (side-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, compass.

About Samsung Galaxy A16 5G camera

Model got triple cameras 50 MP, f/1.8, (wide), AF 5 MP, f/2.2, (ultrawide) 2 MP, f/2.4, (macro). Few another additional options are LED flash, panorama, HDR. Video recording on main camera of this device is available with 1080p@30fps, gyro-EIS options. This is not bad for example one of available devices at the moment, HMD 105 4G,

Video on selfie camera of Samsung Galaxy A16 5G is supported with 1080p@30fps modes.

Connectivity

This model supporting bands 2G, 3G and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 17, 20, 28, 38, 40, 41, 66. Performance is HSPA, LTE, 5G, GSM / HSPA / LTE / 5G.

NFC Yes (market/region dependent), USB USB Type-C 2.0, WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth 5.3, A2DP, LE, Positioning GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS, BDS, QZSS.

Physical

Galaxy A16 5G this time has 77.9mmX164.4mmX7.9mm size.

This model is available in 3 colors, which are blue black, light gray, gold as well as light green.

On Galaxy A16 5G maiden using tehnology Super AMOLED, 90Hz, 800 nits (HBM), on that point this model was ahead from only 41% existing mobile phones in screen size contest, 6.7 inches, 110.2 cm2 (~86.0% screen-to-body ratio) display having resolution 1080 x 2340 pixels h/w is 19.5:9 and having density 385 pixels in inch.

Under the hood

The version is powered CPU Octa-core (2x2.4 GHz Cortex-A78 & 6x2.0 GHz Cortex-A55) or Octa-core (2x2.4 GHz Cortex-A76 & 6x2.0 GHz Cortex-A55), with chip Exynos 1330 (5 nm) or Mediatek Dimensity 6300 (6 nm), Graphic card on the Galaxy A16 5G is Mali-G68 MP2 or Mali-G57 MC2.

Storage on Galaxy A16 5G is 128GB 4GB RAM, 256GB 8GB RAM, card slot is supported microSDXC (uses shared SIM slot), under the hood is Android 14, up to 6 major Android upgrades, One UI 6.1.