Samsung Galaxy A14 LTE smartphone review – Is this an update?

Samsung uses a triple-camera setup on the back of the Galaxy A14. The star of the combo is clearly the 50-MP main camera. In good light conditions, the pictures are acceptable but lack a bit in sharpness. The color reproduction is rather pale. Movements lead to blurriness and streaking. But considering the MSRP, the performance offered by the main camera is good. The results of the HDR mode turn out positive. On the other hand, you should forgo using the digital zoom, since its results turn out very blurry.

It is good that Samsung also offers a Pro mode in the Galaxy A14: Optionally, ISO, shutter speed, aperture, focus, and white balance can be manually adjusted. Usually, the camera of the A14 uses pixel binning, but you can also take pictures in the full 50-MP resolution. In addition, the smartphone offers a panorama mode and various filter presets for arts and food.

For the macro mode, the A14 uses a separate 2-MP macro lens. Unfortunately, the results are rarely acceptable. To recognize some details, you definitely need a lot of light on the object. The results of the 5-MP ultrawide-angle lens turn out slightly better, but particularly the edges of the pictures are still blurry.

The 13-MP front camera takes good pictures, and portraits with blurry background also succeed reliably. A nice feature is the slider control allowing the user to adjust the degree of blurriness. You can even modify this afterwards in the gallery. Samsung forgoes an autofocus in the front camera, and none of the lenses offers an optical image stabilizer.

Recording videos is not one of the strengths of the Galaxy A14. With all of the lenses, the maximum resolution is FHD at 30 FPS. The autofocus of the main camera in the back works quickly and reliably, but you still need a steady hand, since otherwise the recordings can easily become blurry. When operating the camera, going through the modes, or switching between the camera and gallery, there are some clear stutters, and the operation isn’t smooth. This corresponds to the A14’s speed of operation, which is slow in general. But the shutter release still always works quickly.