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The Galaxy M12 took me by surprise, as you probably already surmised after reading the title of this review. The display's quality is rather mediocre, but the 90Hz refresh rate works well most of the time and makes for smooth animations and scrolling. For a cheap phone, the M12 takes fairly solid pictures with its 48MP primary camera outdoors during the day and even in the nighttime when there's a good amount of artificial lighting around. With very little artificial lighting, photos come out noisy and dark, and there's no Night mode to get around that. In fact, the camera app has very few modes – you only get Pro, panorama, portrait, and food modes to choose from. You shouldn't enlarge photos taken with the wide-angle camera too much, since details look very fuzzy. Nonetheless, the lens is okay for snapshots. With Samsung's M series phones, the prettiness of the design is often inversely proportional to how good the spec sheet is. For the devices with impressive specs, like the M31s or M51, Samsung chooses to go with a plain and boring design. For devices that don't have too many attractive specs, the company puts more focus on the design, and the Galaxy M12 is yet another example of that. The new Samsung Galaxy M12 powers your everyday with its long lasting 5,000mAh battery, providing you with an upgraded M Series experience.
The brightness adjustment in videos is a bit sluggish, but the bigger problem is the slow autofocus that only responds after a second or two and then slowly goes through all the focus levels until the right one is found. Furthermore, the Samsung Galaxy M12 can only be recommended to video fans to a very limited extent due to the its weak dynamic range. You probably got an idea from the display section of this review that the Galaxy M12 performs pretty well, at least for the asking price. There is lag and stutter from time to time when you're navigating through the interface or switching between apps, but the phone generally tends to keep things running along smoothly. It's in stark contrast to last year's Galaxy A21s, which had a 60Hz display and the same processor and still had considerably more slowdowns. The M12 is the follow up to 2020’s Galaxy M11 and Samsung is promising “some of the biggest upgrades” in the M Series this year, including a 90Hz Infinity-V display, a powerful processor and a 5000mAh battery.The Samsung Galaxy M12 brings a considerable upgrade to its display with 90Hz high refresh rate. Along with 6.5 inch HD+ Infinity-V display, marathon-watchers can enjoy their favourite content on the go. Whether you are playing a game or binge-watching your favourite web series, the 20:9 aspect ratio coupled with Dolby Atmos ® support on wired and Bluetooth headsets offer an incredible sound and cinematic viewing experience. Thanks to the efficient Exynos 850 chipset and the 6,000 mAh battery, the Galaxy M12 can last two days on a single charge with light to moderate use. And one full day is possible even with heavy use. If battery life is one of your biggest concerns, the Galaxy M12 will make you very happy. Just don't expect ultra fast charging. It supports 15W charging (a 15W charger comes in the box) which takes two hours and 45 minutes to fill up the battery from 0 to 100. The Galaxy M12 features a quad-camera setup on its rear, including a 48-megapixel main wide angle sensor, a 5-megapixel ultra-wide angle sensor with a 123-degree field of view, a 2-megapixel macro sensor for close ups and a 2-megapixel depth sensor for portrait shots. There’s also an 8-megapixel (f/2.2) selfie camera on the front of the phone. How good will the Galaxy M12 be? The Galaxy M12, like all of Samsung's recent mid-range and budget phones, has very quiet speakers that can be inaudible with even a bit of ambient noise around. Plus, there are no earphones in the box so you will have to get your own, though having Dolby Atmos means you can have a good wired and Bluetooth audio experience. Calls, which have to be taken on the earpiece to be able to listen to the other person properly, work fine, and so does network reception. However, like other M series phones, you don't get support for carrier aggregation, so you can only connect to 4G/LTE networks, not 4G+/ or LTE-A networks.
The 90Hz refresh rate is the only saving grace of the Galaxy M12's display. The screen isn't very sharp, the colors are dull, and brightness levels aren't too hot, either. But I'm surprised how good the high refresh rate works here, despite the Exynos 850 being a very humble low-end processor focused purely on efficiency. It works better on the M12 than it does on the A32, which costs almost twice as much. The rest of the spec sheet isn't too special, though. That 90Hz refresh rate is tied to an LCD display with HD resolution, and battery charging speed maxes out at 15W. The 48MP main rear camera is accompanied by low-resolution ultra-wide, macro, and depth sensors, the software is the Core version of One UI 3.1 (which means most good Samsung features have been stripped away), and it is powered by the low-end Exynos 850 chipset. LONDON, UK – 19 th April, 2021 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd today announced the launch of the Samsung Galaxy M12 in the UK. After the success of Samsung Galaxy M11 in 2020, Samsung is looking to further provide exceptional features at an accessible price point with some of the biggest upgrades in M Series product offering this year. The Samsung Galaxy M12 comes with stunning Infinity-V Display, 90Hz high refresh rate, powerful processor on top of a massive 5,000mAh battery [1] for extended battery life giving consumers technology that will inspire their day.
Telephone and call quality – Good earpiece, moderate microphone
The Galaxy M12 boasts a 6.5-inch HD+ Infinity-V display with a 90Hz refresh rate – an upgrade over the M11. With the Galaxy M12, Samsung brings an affordable, stylish phone with a 90 Hz display onto the market. However, it has some catching up to do in terms of camera, Wi-Fi, and software updates. The Samsung Galaxy M12 is an affordable mid-range phone with a large battery and a 90 Hz display. The Galaxy smartphone looks stylish and offers significantly more storage than the predecessor.
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