The Samsung Galaxy A23 is an Android-based smartphone designed, developed and marketed by

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as a part of its Galaxy A series. The phone was announced on March 4, 2022, alongside the Galaxy A13.

Design

The screen is made of

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5. The back panel and side are made of glossy plastic. The design of the smartphone is similar to the

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. Below are the USB-C connector, speaker, microphone and 3.5 mm audio jack. The second microphone is located on top. Depending on the version, there is a slot for 1 SIM card and a microSD memory card up to 1 TB or a slot for 2 SIM cards and a microSD memory card up to 1 TB. On the right are the volume buttons and the smartphone lock button, which has a built-in fingerprint scanner. Samsung Galaxy A23 is sold in 4 colors: black (Awesome Black), white (Awesome White), blue (Awesome Blue) and orange (Awesome Peach).

Specifications

Hardware

Galaxy A23 is a smartphone with a slate-type factor form, the size of which is 164.5 × 76.9 × 8.4 mm and weighs 195 grams. The device is equipped with GSM, HSPA and LTE connectivity and Wi-Fi 802.A/b/g/n/ac dual-band with Bluetooth 5.0 Wi-Fi Direct support and hotspot support with A2DP and LE, GPS with A-GPS, BeiDou, Galileo and GLONASS. It has a USB-C port 2.0 and 3.5 mm audio jack input. It has a 6.6 inch diagonal touchscreen, TFT LCD Infinity-V-type, rounded corners and 1080 × 2408 pixel FHD+ resolution. The 5000 mAh lithium polymer battery is not removable by the user. The phone supports ultra-fast charging at 25 W, but comes with a 15 W charger out of the box. The chipset is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 (SM6225) with an eighth-core CPU (4 cores at 2.4 GHz + 4 cores at 1.9 GHz). The internal eMMC-type memory 5.1 is 64/128 GB expandable with microSD up to 1 TB, while RAM is 4, 6 or 8 GB (depending on the version chosen). The back camera has a 50 megapixel main sensor with an f/1 opening.The D-SLR-Focus is equipped with a PDAF auto focus, HDR mode and flash LED mode, capable of recording up to 1080p to 30 photograms per second, while the front camera is single 8MP with a blank recording. It also has a 8MP ultrawide camera a 2MP Macro camera and a depth sensor.

Software

The operating system is

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with

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4.1. It can be updated to

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with One UI 5.1, and will also receive and an additional year of security updates. can be updated to Android 15 with One UI 7.0 (on June or earlier July) and the last update to Android 16, One UI 8.0.

References

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