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.
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