Samsung’s Galaxy A34 and A54 are the latest additions to the popular midrange A-series. While both phones offer a number of upgrades over last year’s models, what’s most striking to me is how much they both resemble this year’s Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus.
The camera bumps of the A33 and A53 are gone, leaving three basic camera lenses per phone. It makes both look more premium to me, and Samsung promises flagship-level support periods of up to four generations of major Android updates and five years of security patches.
The Galaxy A54 will go on sale in the US on April 6 starting at $449.99 with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage. In the UK, the A54 will launch this month from £449 for 8GB RAM and 128GB storage, or £499 for 8GB RAM and 256GB storage.
Meanwhile, the Galaxy A34 will also be available in the UK this month from £349 for 6GB RAM and 128GB storage, or £399 for 8GB RAM and 256GB storage. Samsung is not announcing a US release for the Galaxy A34 at this time. We’ve contacted the company for exact European pricing and release information.
Hold them in your hands and the illusion of the flagship disappears, these are clearly midrange phones. Both feel a bit chunky (8.2mm, presumably to make room for their large 5,000mAh batteries), and the A34 in particular has a plastic-feeling back panel. Both phones support fast charging up to 25W.
The phones each come with a main, ultra-wide and macro camera on their backs, though their exact specs differ. The A54 has a 50-megapixel main sensor, which is joined by a 12-megapixel ultrawide and 5-megapixel macro. Samsung boasts that this main sensor is larger than the one in the previous generation model, which should make for better low-light photography. The A34, meanwhile, has a 48-megapixel main camera, 8-megapixel ultrawide and 5-megapixel macro camera.
At the front, the phones are more visually distinguishable. The A34 has its 13-megapixel selfie camera in a small teardrop notch, while the A54 has a cutout housing the 32-megapixel front-facing sensor. Both have 120Hz, 1080p OLED displays with a peak brightness of 1000 nits, although the A34’s screen is slightly larger at 6.6in, up from 6.4in on the A54.
Internally, the A34 is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 1080 processor, while the A54 has one of Samsung’s own Exynos 1380 chips. Both phones have microSD card slots that support cards up to 1 TB.
Rounding out the specs, both phones have a relatively robust IP67 dust and water resistance rating (that’s technically enough for full submersion, though we wouldn’t recommend putting that to the test yourself), 5G, and built-in fingerprint sensors. The exact colors vary by market, but in the UK the A34 is available in black, silver, lime and violet, while the A54 is sold in white instead of silver in addition to black, lime and violet.
Stay tuned for our full review of the Samsung Galaxy A54.
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