MAY 2020 PCWorld 31Samsung’s low-cost Galaxy
A-Series phones aim to reverse
U.S. smartphone slump
Premium features for pennies on the dollar. BY MICHAEL SIMONW
hile its thousand-dollar-
plus flagship phones might
get all the attention,
Samsung’s best-selling
phone of 2019 (go.pcworld.com/sl19) wasn’t
the Galaxy S10 or the Note 10+, it was the
$350 A50. Now, with a global smartphone
slump that has hit the Galaxy S20 hard (go.pcworld.com/smsl), Samsung is doubling
down on that strategy.
Make that sextupling down. On April 8,
Samsung announced six new Galaxy A
phones coming to the U.S., ranging from the
ultra-cheap $110 Galaxy A01 to the $600
Galaxy A71 5G. The handsets have an array of
different features and specs, but they all haveIMAGE: CHRISTOPHER HEBERT