- Analysis by KJ David
At its core, the Samsung Galaxy A2 Core is a low-caliber smartphone intended for basic Android users and those who just want essential smartphone pros and cons. Its biggest drawbacks include a subpar (by the entry-level standards as we were reviewing its specs) 5-inch 960 x 540 qHD display 
that obviously shies in comparison to the HD-720p or FHD-1080p facades sported by a few of its rivals in the Android Go department.
Speaking of Android Go, the A2 Core is powered by the Go Edition of Android 8.0 Oreo 
, which essentially means that it is loaded with stripped-down versions of basic Google applications and is infused with a bunch of performance tweaks to help out its unpromising hardware.
It uses an octa-core 7870 processor running at 1.6GHz , which, although won't be putting it on Phonerated's list of the best octa-core phones any time soon, still sounds tolerable, coming from a 2019-released entry-level smartphone. Its measly 1GB-only RAM count sounds paltry, though, even by the low-end standards of its time.
The Galaxy A2 Core's cons also include a couple of old-fashioned cameras. At the back, it touts a 5-megapixel f/1.9-aperture main camera that is at least accompanied by a standard LED flash, while up front sits a mundane 5-megapixel selfie cam with an aperture of f/2.0.
This Galaxy A model is far from a big-battery smartphone, relying on a so-so 2600mAh battery scoring a 12-hour continuous video playback time (1.5x videos). It also does not bother with a fingerprint scanner , which had grown to be a standard smartphone pro as of its market entry.
This low-ender comes with a 16GB memory that can be expanded by up to 256GB , which, by the standards of this Android class, sounds rather generous. It dons either a Blue or a Black finish.
So, keeping its low-class assortment of pros and cons in mind, the Galaxy A2 Core caters to those in search of an eight-core-powered essentials-only smartphone.
On-paper Review score: 
Despite our efforts to find SAR (radiation) information for this phone, we never found it, which is sad. How can we know how much radiation this phone emits?
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Not too long ago, this smartphone's processing specs would have appeared nice, but compared to recent smartphones, a 1.6GHz Exynos 7870 processor with only 1GB of RAM looks a little pale, compared to recent smartphones with their multi-core gigahertz processor and large RAM.
It's frustrating that we could not find its weight information.
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We like that the Galaxy A2 Core sports a gigahertz CPU (1.6GHz) but, the only information we could find on the RAM is that it is around 1GB. Since the RAM is your phone's working space, we think it might turn out too sluggish for some tasks.
The selfie cam resolution seems just about average.
** This phone is also known as: Samsung A2 Core
*** These cons and pros are computer-generated based on our proprietary algorithm and the specs we found for this phone. Should you spot an error, please let us know.
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