Samsung Galaxy A21s is a mid-range

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smartphone designed, developed, marketed, and manufactured by

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as part of its Galaxy A series. The A21s line consists of SM-A217F, SM-A217F/DS, SM-A217F/DSN, SM-A217M and SM-A217M/DS. Key upgrades over the previous model, the Samsung Galaxy A20s, include the new Exynos 850 chipset and an improved camera setup. It was announced and released in May 2020. * No longer receiving OS updates according to Samsung officials https://www.samsung.com * No longer receiving Security updates from Samsung. (Only receiving Google Play system updates only From Google).

Specifications

Hardware

The Galaxy A21s has a 6.5" PLS TFT LCD Infinity O display with HD+ 720 x 1600 resolution, 20:9

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, ~270 ppi density. The phone itself measures x x and weighs . The phone is powered by

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850 (8 nm) SoC (

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) with a octa-core (4x2.0 GHz Cortex-A55 & 4x2.0 GHz Cortex-A55) CPU and a Mali-G52

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. The phone comes with either 4GB or 6GB

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as well as 64GB or 128GB

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, which can be expanded via a

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card of up to 512GB. It comes with a non-removable 5000mAh lithium polymer

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which charges with a 15W Fast Charger. It also has a rear-mounted

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sensor.

Cameras

The Samsung Galaxy A21s has a four

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setup arranged in an "L" shape located in the corner with a rectangular protrusion similar to that of the

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and the

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. The array consists of a 48 MP wide

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camera, an 8 MP ultrawide camera, a 2 MP macro camera, and a 2 MP depth sensor. It also has a single 13 MP front facing camera, which sits in a small punch hole on the front of the

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. The rear facing cameras can record video up to

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in 30 fps. The front cameras can shoot

at 30 fps.

Software

The Galaxy A21s originally came with

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and One UI 2.5; the current version comes with

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and One UI 4.1. The phone has Samsung Knox 3.7 for added system security.

History

The Samsung Galaxy A21s was announced and released in May 2020. In August 2021, It was revealed that Samsung had sold over 10 million units of the Samsung Galaxy A21s.

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