Crime against technology: Samsung Galaxy A16 is the best-selling Android phone no one should buy

Good phones are getting cheaper, and cheap phones are getting better but is that really true?

Regardless, there’s still a huge appeal for budget devices around the world, and particularly in developing countries. For that very reason, the best-selling Android phone of 2023 was in fact the $200 Galaxy A14.

Combining the 4G and 5G versions of the same phone, this one actually became the third best-selling phone of last year.

Naturally, this makes the successor to the Galaxy Galaxy A15 (which might very well turn out to be the best-selling Android phone of 2024) a very important device.

But that’s not the case if you go through the spec sheet of the just-launched Galaxy A16. Or if you simply take a quick look at it.

Galaxy A16: Samsung has decided the best-selling Android phone in the world should look worse than a phone from 2015

It might be hard to believe but the Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 Pro and Motorola Moto Edge 50 cost as much as the Galaxy A16. But they look like $1,000 phones next to Samsung’s phone.

Now, it’s true – people on a budget don’t necessarily want or expect to get a phone that costs $200 but looks like a $1,200 flagship. But looking at the new Galaxy A16, you’d think Samsung has taken it to the extreme.