Budget-friendly Smartphones are one of the important considerations these days due to the ongoing pandemic. Why? Homeschooling is strictly followed in the country, face-to-face class is still on hold until such time that we have a commercially available COVID-19 vaccine for everyone. Well, for those students and parents (as well), worry no more, two budget-friendly phones are currently available in most of the Telco Retail stores nationwide.
The Huawei Y5 Lite and Samsung A01 Core
Huawei Y5 Lite
SRP: PhP3990
Key Specifications:
Screen Size: 5.45 Inches
Network: GSM/HSPA/LTE
OS: Android 8.1 Oreo (Go Edition)
Chipset: Mediatek MT6739 (28nm)
CPU: Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53
RAM: 1GB
ROM: 16GB
Main Camera: 8MP
Front Camera: 5MP
Card Slot: Dedicated Expandable up to 128GB
WLAN: Wi-Fi 02.11b/g/n with Wi-Fi Direct Hotspot
Bluetooth: v4.2
Charger port: MicroUSB 2.0
Battery: Non-removable Li-Ion 3020 mAh Battery
Samsung Galaxy A01 Core
SRP: PhP3990
Key Specifications:
Screen Size: 5.3 Inches
Network: GSM/HSPA/LTE
OS: Android 10 (Go Edition)
Chipset: Mediatek MT6739 (28nm)
CPU: Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53
RAM: 1GB
ROM: 16GB
Main Camera: 8MP
Front Camera: 5MP
Card Slot: Dedicated Expandable up to 128GB
WLAN: Wi-Fi 02.11b/g/n with Wi-Fi Direct Hotspot
Bluetooth: v5.0
Charger port: MicroUSB 2.0
Battery: Non-removable Li-Ion 3000 mAh Battery
Which one is better?
Both have super identical performance capacity except for the android version of Samsung Galaxy A01 Core. It’s not a major difference, however, some apps might not run in the old version of Android which the Huawei Y5 Lite has. Although, the Huawei Y5 Lite has a higher battery capacity at 3020 mAh compared to Samsung Galaxy A01 Core’s 3000 mAh. Not much difference though 🙂
What to choose?
Retail SRP is the same as PhP3990, but we will choose Samsung Galaxy A01 Core in this comparison, because of the updated Android 10.0 version which will give more versatility on apps download in Google Play Store (we hope).
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