Review: Updated: Samsung Galaxy J3

Review: Updated: Samsung Galaxy J3

By Andrew Williams

Review: Updated: Samsung Galaxy J3

Introduction and design

Not every phone can be the Samsung Galaxy S7. For one thing, not everyone can afford a Galaxy S7 – but for a while Samsung went dark on budget phones, to the disappointment of fans of the brand who lacked capacious wallets.

However, it’s fired out loads of cheapies and mid-rangers over the last year or so – and its latest effort in this department, the Samsung Galaxy J3, is roughly what you’d get if you took the Moto G4 and injected it with a good shot of Galaxy S7 DNA.

But, while that sounds promising, in reality the Galaxy J3 misses out on a couple of near-essential basic features, making it a worse buy than some of the usual-suspect budget picks – it doesn’t unseat the Motorola Moto G4, and the Oppo F1 is superior too.

Samsung Galaxy J3 review

It’s worth considering how big an issue those niggles are for you, though, as at £149 (US$199, AU$260) the J3’s price is pretty keen for a Samsung.

You do need to be doubly careful about which model you buy though, as there are several differently-specced versions of the Samsung Galaxy J3 floating about across the …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Phones

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