Samsung’s $200 Galaxy A17 Brings Google’s Circle to Search to Its Decrease-Priced Cellphone
Samsung’s $200 Galaxy A17 5G, introduced Tuesday, seems to be a smaller {hardware} refresh for the corporate’s lower-cost telephone — bearing many similarities to the Galaxy A16 that it’s going to change. Nonetheless, Samsung notes that the A17 can have entry to a number of AI options, together with Google’s Circle to Search and Gemini assistant.
Although each of these AI options have gotten widespread on all telephones working Android 16 (Motorola’s sub-$200 telephones additionally embrace them), the Galaxy A17 would possibly change into one of many broadest ways in which Circle to Search and Gemini attain new audiences. That is as a result of Samsung’s $200 telephone is usually one of many few non-Apple units to constantly prime gross sales charts within the US, as an illustration, the $200 Galaxy A16 at present ranks fifth on Counterpoint Analysis’s listing behind Apple’s iPhone 16 and iPhone 17.
Just like the Galaxy A16, the A17 can have a 6.7-inch show with a 90Hz refresh price, an IP54 ranking for water and mud resistance (can face up to splashes however nonetheless keep away from submerging the telephone) and is powered by Samsung’s Exynos 1330 processor. The cameras are additionally the identical, together with a 50-megapixel huge digicam, a 5-megapixel ultrawide digicam and a 2-megapixel macro digicam. Across the entrance is a 13-megapixel selfie digicam.
The Galaxy A17 will even embrace a 5,000-mAh battery, 25-watt wired charging, 4GB of RAM with 128GB of onboard storage, the choice to increase with a microSD card and can obtain six years of software program in addition to safety updates. That help interval is kind of notable for telephones offered within the $200 vary, as most telephones that price $200 get two to 3 years of updates.
The Galaxy A17 goes on sale within the US beginning Jan. 7, and can are available blue, black and grey fashions.
