Samsung has equipped the Galaxy A22 5G with a familiar camera set-up made up of three distinct sensors. There’s a 48MP wide camera, a 5MP ultra-wide, and a superfluous 2MP depth sensor. That main 48MP sensor is by far the most accomplished of the three, and would appear to be the same as that found in the Galaxy A32 5G. Like with that fractionally pricier phone, this sensor captures bright, sharp, well exposed images in decent lighting. Unlike the Galaxy A32 5G, of course, it also has a Full HD display to push. Those extra pixels don’t seem to affect the phone’s stamina at all though, and the Galaxy A22 5G will get you through two full days of moderate usage quite easily. It stands up to more intense usage, too. Running the intensive 3DMark Wild Life Stress Test benchmark for an hour solid sapped 11% of a charge, which is a respectable result, not to mention exactly the same as the Galaxy A32 5G managed to attain.

Samsung has kept its affordable phone reasonably up to date on the software front. While it launched with Android 11 and One UI 3.1, it’s been updated to Android 12 and OneUI 4.1. The 5MP ultra-wide is a major step down, however, with a big drop in detail and exposure quality, and with bags of grain at the edges. It’s a clear point of compromise, but not an entirely unexpected one at the price. Also like the Galaxy A32 5G, you get a 15W charger bundled in. The mere inclusion of a charger at all is a positive thing for a Samsung phone, but it’s not especially fast.The basic look of the Samsung Galaxy A22 5G follows the broad design template of other A-series handsets such as the Galaxy A32 5G and the Galaxy A52 5G. There are subtle differences to be found, however. Another difference from those aforementioned Samsung stablemates is the Galaxy A22 5G’s camera module. Here the three camera sensors and flash are arranged in a rounded-square formation rather than stretched out in a line. Curiously, the Galaxy A22 5G’s display is actually better than the more expensive Galaxy A32 5G’s, though it’s still far from a star component. You’re getting a 6.6-inch TFT LCD, which means you’re not even benefiting from the viewing angle-boosting benefits of an IPS panel, let alone the vibrant delights of full AMOLED. But at least here the resolution is a full 1080 x 2400, or FHD+.

What’s more, you get an elevated 90Hz refresh rate rather than the Galaxy A32 5G’s bog standard 60Hz, and it’s active by default. Most cheap phones that give you such a thing will require you to dive into the Settings menu to activate it manually. An average Geekbench 5 multi-core score of 1744 drops it into similar territory to its stablemate, along with the likes of the Redmi Note 11, and lands comfortably behind phones that run on the more mainstream Snapdragon 695 like the Realme 9 5G.

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