Nokia Lumia 930 Review - Interface and Functionality
Mid-range chipsets of the last few years tended to perform well in raw CPU benchmarks, but always had much less powerful graphics chipsets than their top-end relatives. Honor changed that this year with the frankly alarming Honor Play. It has a twelve-core Mali G72, to the A7’s older dual-core Mali G71. This is a huge disparity. And while the Honor Play has been delisted from 3DMark for cheating, the difference in benchmark scores is not solely down to that. The Honor Play scores around 3000 points in Slingshot Extreme.
The Galaxy A7 manages just 740. In every other respect the Galaxy A7 has what a great gaming phone needs. The screen and storage are there, but its raw graphics power is the weakest around. Hardcore gamers should think twice. Samsung Galaxy A7 — Camera There’s some of the same effect in the camera: class-leading specs on paper, but the results are not quite on the same level. The Galaxy A7 has three cameras on the back. There’s a 24-megapixel main sensor, an 8-megapixel wide and a third sensor for depth, to enable Samsung’s “live focus” background blur images.
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If we forget image quality for a moment, this is an excellent setup for compositional flexibility. You can take extra-wide shots, DSLR-style shallow depth of field images, and while there’s no “optical” zoom, digital zoom is there as a handy, if deeply unreliable, friend. On the surface daylight photos are also very pleasant. Samsung’s processing gives images a warm, colour-rich look, with noticeable raising of mid-tones to improve dynamic range. Check out the pics below.
Pretty nice, right? However, compare photos with the Nokia 7.1’s 12-megapixel images and the benefit of the 24 megapixel count here is clearly next to nil. The main camera takes surprisingly soft photos. There’s more detail than in the 8-megapixel wides, but fine detail is still markedly worse than that of the Honor 8X or Nokia 7.1. That the sharpness of the 8 and 24 megapixel images is comparable, even though the main camera has a much better f/1.7 lens, is damning. Night photos are only passable too. A wide camera gives you a more dramtic view than a zoom Some images may look soft close up, but the processing makes for pretty photos Night shots are only passable The Galaxy A7’s main camera is lower-end than it seems on paper, and it’s likely because of the sensor’s properties. A Sony IMX576 sensor chip is used in the rear camera. It has 0.9 micron sensor pixels.
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1 micron sensor pixels are small. These are tiny. The front camera uses a 24-megapixel IMX576 too. In this context it actually seems quite good. Huawei’s superb Mate 20 Pro uses the same selfie sensor. Strangely, Samsung lists the Exynos 7885 Octa processor’s maximum camera resolution as 21.7 megapixels.
Could this be to blame for what is, in some contexts, surprising image softness? Who knows. Video capture is capped at 1080p too, which may surprise when the resolution is so high.
This is not a camera disaster zone. You can take fairly good images with the Galaxy A7, particularly as the underlying colour and dynamic range processing is solid. However, it’s not the best camera at the price, just the most compositionally versatile. Samsung Galaxy A7 — Battery life The Samsung Galaxy A7 has a 3300mAh battery.
It’s fractionally larger than the Moto G6 Plus’s, and that phone’s screen is also fractionally (0.1in) smaller. Its stamina is in-line with this sensible but ordinary spec. The Galaxy A7 tends to last a full day of solid use with around 15-20 per cent left by the end. Samsung’s OLED screens are also power-efficient, so you won’t see very fast drain while playing downloaded video unless you set the brightness fairly high. A few modern touches are missing, though. The Galaxy A7 uses a microUSB port rather than the preferred USB-C.
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