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When the Samsung Galaxy A52 was launched in Nigeria, the Price was N139,000 for the 6GB RAM, 128GB internal storage version, and now thanks to the policies of the CBN Governor, the price is now N160,000. The Samsung Galaxy A72 on launch day was N198,500 for the 8GB RAM, 128GB internal storage option and now you can pick one up for N215,000.

With the sudden and regrettable increase in price, it is important more than ever to know what differentiates the Samsung Galaxy A52 from the A72.

Build Quality

The build quality isn’t what makes the Samsung Galaxy A72 more expensive, NO. Both smartphones have a plastic rear, plastic frame, and the display of both smartphones is protected with corning gorilla glass 5. Both can be abused and still function, these smartphones are tough but just don’t drop them face down. Both smartphones are IP67 Water and dust resistant up to 1m for 30mins and as for the weight, the Samsung Galaxy A72 is the heavier device.

External features

For the external features, both smartphones have dual stereo speakers and they sound identical. They both have a hybrid sim card tray and a memory card slot. They have an in-display fingerprint scanner and I found the fingerprint scanner of the Samsung Galaxy A52 to be more accurate and responsive. Both smartphones have a 3.5mm audio jack, usb type c port, and a secondary mic at the top. So the external features aren’t what makes the Samsung Galaxy A72 more expensive. Maybe the display?

Display

Well, moving to the display, the Samsung Galaxy A52 comes with a 6.5 inch 1080p Super AMOLED display while the Samsung Galaxy A72 has a 6.7 inch 1080p Super AMOLED display. Both displays have a 90Hz Refresh rate and both displays are vibrant and equally bright. For the display quality, they are identical. The only difference I can see here is the Samsung Galaxy A72 is taller. I personally prefer the display size of the Samsung Galaxy A52, it is a more compact smartphone that you can use with one hand.

Performance

Moving to the processor, the Samsung Galaxy A52 and A72 come with the snapdragon 720G processor. The Snapdragon 720G Processor is an 8nm processor, a mid-range processor that offers decent gaming and multitasking capabilities. Multitasking is slightly better on the Samsung Galaxy A72 because it has 8GB of RAM against the 6GB of Ram on the A52. For gaming, both smartphones come with the Adreno 618 GPU and they played games at the same graphics settings. Pubg ran on HD graphics and high frame rate and at 30 fps.
Call of Duty ran at very high graphics and a very high frame rate. If you are a gamer, and you are stuck between these two smartphones, you will be please to know that they offer the same gaming performance. For the operating system, both smartphones are running android 11 with one UI 3.1 and Both will get monthly security updates for 4 years and 2 or 3 Android OS updates.


Cameras

For the front cameras, both smartphones have a 32MP front-facing camera and they take identical pictures. Samsung really does know how to take pictures I must say. I am particularly impressed with the cameras of the Samsung Galaxy A52 because it isn’t all that expensive but the pictures are just sharp, detailed, and vibrant. Portrait shots look very good on both smartphones and still, I can’t see any difference between the pictures of the Samsung Galaxy A52 compared with the Samsung Galaxy A72.

Moving to the rear camera, again, they both come with a 64MP main camera, 12MP ultra-wide camera, and both have a 5MP macro camera. The Samsung Galaxy A52 has a 5MP depth camera and the Samsung Galaxy A72 come with an 8MP telephoto camera that has Optical image stabilization.

For the 64MP main camera, photos are vibrant, clean and they look identical. 12MP ultra-wide camera takes very good and colorful pictures and they look identical, Macro shots using the 5MP camera look identical. The Samsung Galaxy A52 has a 5MP depth camera and the Samsung Galaxy A72 doesn’t but for portrait shots, I can’t see any difference. The difference is with the telephoto camera. The Samsung Galaxy A72 can take 30X photos while the A52 can only take 10X photos. Is this important, well not to me, I dont spy on my neighbors but if you do, the A72 8MP telephoto camera should come in handy.


Battery

For the battery, the Samsung Galaxy A72 has a bigger battery capacity. It has a 5,000 mAh battery and it comes with a 25 watts fast charger while the Samsung Galaxy A52 comes with a 4,500 mAh battery with a 15 watts fast charger. Considering the price of the A52, I think Samsung should have included a faster charger.

For charging time,
It took the Samsung Galaxy A72 1hr 26mins to charge to 100% while it took the Samsung Galaxy A52 1hr 36mins to charge to 100%.

For the battery drain test, after installing the necessary games and apps for the drain test, the battery level of the Samsung Galaxy A72 dropped to 88% while the Samsung galaxy A52 was at 91%.

I calibrated the displays of both smartphones to have the same brightness and ran the AnTuTu benchmark app. After three hours, the battery level dropped to 46% for the A52 and 43% for the Samsung Galaxy A72.

I launched Genshin impact for 2 hours, the battery of the A52 dropped to 8% and the A72 is at 10%. The Samsung Galaxy A52 died first not too long after the A72 followed. Under sustained load, I got almost identical battery life from both smartphones.

Conclusion

The Samsung Galaxy A52 is the device I would pick. It is cheaper, build quality is the same, performance is the same, cameras are almost the same except that the Samsung Galaxy A72 has a telephoto camera which I dont really need and the battery life is almost identical. Also, the A52 is easier to hold in the hand.