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Samsung has a comfortable throne. Or at least the company acts that way. His latest budget phones – the Galaxy A26 and the Galaxy A36 – check all the boxes. But next to the phones well designed by nothing and Motorola with comparable prices, it seems that Samsung is constantly on the brand and the fact that you can probably collect one of these devices from a carrier in a few minutes.

And many people will do exactly this, thanks to various promotions of the carrier who make fun of an A36 or A26 “free” if you subscribe to a specific cell plan (suggestion: they are never free). So if you intend to buy one of these, what should you get? THE $ 400 Galaxy A36 or the $ 300 Galaxy A26? I spent more than a week with both like my main phone, and the first thing I will say is that they are easily the best phones of the Galaxy series in Samsung years. It is not a tall bar, though.

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Galaxy A36, left. Galaxy A26, right.
Photography: Julian Chokkattu

The black-black color of these telephones seems to be dated, not to mention the fact that it easily attracts smudge and dust. Samsung calls him fantastic black for the A36, but if anything it is more an average gray. Choose lavender if you can, even if the A26 is only available in a darker shade of black. Look at the competition: the splendid brilliant blue of Motorola’s Motorcycle g stylus And its consistency in vegan leather, or the unique styles of the Nothing Phone (3A) series, all below $ 400, and you will feel robbed. The phones are personal and should have character; These galaxies are without them.

They are quite large telephones with 6.7 -inch AMOLED screens, with a update frequency at 120 Hz. I had no problems using them on sunny days while the screen becomes beautiful and bright, even if the colors seem swept away when it makes things bag. The A36 becomes slightly brighter and the colors do not seem faded in sunny conditions. The screen is interrupted with a tear -style selfie camera on the A26, while you get a more modern floating camera on the A36.

On the hardware, the A26 still maintains the microSD slot, so that it can expand the memory beyond the internal 128 GB. You do not have such luxury on the A36, which seems strange considering its highest price. The A36 ago Having an in-road fingerprint sensor compared to a capacitive sensor on the ignition button of the A26, even if I found it slower and not so reliable.

Here is the enigma: I had a better overall experience on the Galaxy A26 compared to the Galaxy A36. It is disconcerting considering the price difference of $ 100 between the two: the more it should be better, right? This was more pronounced with performance.