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Samsung has announced the Galaxy A42 5G, the latest in its calendar of more reasonably priced and lower-specced A-series phones. The A42 is now Samsung's cheapest phone with 5G, selling for ?349 (about $455 USD). That puts it ?80 bottommost the Galaxy A51 5G, which was ahead the cheapest way to buy into Samsung's 5G calendar at ?429 (or priced at $500 USD in the US).

The Galaxy A42 uses the Snapdragon 750G, a middle-of-the-pack processor that was just announced by Qualcomm last month. It's supposed to be a step up from the Snapdragon 730G, seen in phones like the Pixel 4A, except it isn't really as prepared as the Snapdragon 765G, seen in the Pixel 4A 5G and OnePlus Nord.

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The phone has a 6.6-inch OLED garishness with a bead cutout for a 20 megapixel camera at the top, 4GB to 8GB of RAM depending on the model, 128GB of accumulator expandable by MicroSD, a 5,000 mAh battery, and a fingerprint sensor built into the screen. On the back, there are four cameras: a 48 megapixel wide, 8 megapixel ultrawide, a 5 megapixel macro, and a 5 megapixel fathomage sensor for creating reading effects.

It comes in three colors -- black, gray, and white -- hullabaloo with a equatorial lattice precondition on the convey that darkens in stages as it rises up the phone. The phone launches in the UK on November 6th. The Verge has reached out to Samsung to ask proximate broader availability.

Samsung's Galaxy A42 will compete intentionally with OnePlus' Nord, which sells for ?379, or neutral ?30 more. For that more ?30, the Nord includes a faster processor, more RAM, a 90Hz display, and a additional selfie camera, and it's received often real reviews, too. That said, it's palatable the A42's value will eolith -- the Galaxy A51 5G is once on unloading in the US for $325, or $175 off, which makes it orderly cheaper than the A42 while the unloading lasts.