Samsung doesn’t like to restrict its users to paying big chunk of money for the best smartphone experience, unlike some other companies. They are looking to expand their already widespread business by targeting all sorts of demographics. The intention behind Galaxy A7 was exactly that, as someone I know put it, Samsung Galaxy A7 is a poor man’s Galaxy Note. Let’s see how well the Galaxy A7 does in the phablet business.

Galaxy A7 supports LTE, among other network technologies, which is somewhat of a standard these days. It comes with dual sim slots which is also another growing trend among smartphones since the second sim slot allows for expansion of storage which was starting to become a luxury in the recent past.

The phone boasts a 5.5” Super AMOLED display with a full HD resolution. The pixel density at 401 ppi is also very respectable considering that there are very few that are better in that department. The screen has a Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection which means you don’t have to worry about damaging your screen by any chance, given that you aren’t deliberately hell bent on doing that.

The recent rising of 64-bit processors in the smartphones industry has also provoked Samsung into embedding a Snapdragon 615 chipset for the A7 running two quad-core Cortex-A53 at 1.5 and 1.0 GHz. The graphics are also very powerful with an Adreno 405 processing unit. The RAM, however, could’ve done a little better than 2 GB since it is becoming very common among the very affordable smartphones.

Samsung has put a really good camera with a 13 megapixels sensor capturing photos at an f/2.0 aperture which is guaranteed to capture more light and produce better results. The front-camera is also a 5 megapixels camera good for the selfie enthusiasts. It falls short in video recording department however, since it only records at 1080p when 4K is becoming a bit of a standard among the phones carrying a similar price tag.

With a non-removable 2600 mAh battery, the phone is guaranteed to carry out a regular day of usage easily but given the size of the phone, it could have packed a bit more punch to ensure at least 2 days of easy use.