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The Galaxy A56 is the worst mid-range phone I used in 2025
Samsung somehow thinks it's okay to charge $499 while delivering no tangible upgrades.
As such, the Exynos 1580 on the Galaxy A56 is considerably slower than other mid-range phones, and this is immediately evident when you push the hardware — it just doesn't do a good job with gaming, and I noticed some lag after a week of use even with the optimized One UI 7. (Image credit: Apoorva Bhardwaj / Android Central)Another uptick has to do with the visual aesthetic; Samsung tweaked the design at the back, introducing an oblong camera island that looks clean. Samsung has proven time and again that it doesn't care about delivering meaningful changes to its mid-range phones, and the A56 does a great job highlighting the brand's deficiencies in 2025.
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