Samsung Galaxy F41 launched: everything you need to know.

 Samsung has introduced their new F series smartphones in India and Galaxy F41 being the first in the series. Samsung is targeting the F41 at the millennial or the youth generation. Galaxy F41  starts at ₹16,999 for 6GB RAM and 64GB storage model and ₹17,999 for 6GB + 128GB model. Launch offers include ₹1,500 discount during festive season which brings the effective prices to ₹15,499 and ₹16,499 respectively. It will also have instant 10% discount on SBI debit or credit cards. 

DESIGN:

The smartphone has a polycarbonate back and is similar to the lights of Galaxy M series smartphone. The phone is 8.9mm thick and weighs 191 gms. Fingerprint scanner is located at the back along with the triple camera setup. On the front it has a water-drop style notch. The phone is offered in three colours Fusion Black, Fusion Blue, Fusion Green.

SCREEN:

It packs in a 6.4 inch FHD+ sAmoled display with water-drop style notch in 19.5:9 aspect ratio and has 84.1% screen to body ratio. The phone is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. Also has 420 nits of brightness and 403 ppi (pixel per inch) density.

HARDWARE:

Galaxy F41 is powered by Samsung's own Exynos 9611 which is widely used in their smartphone from quiet some time. Has Mali-G72 MP3 GPU. 9611 is an octa-core processor and is made on 10nm fabrication process. It is made by 4x Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.3 GHz and 4x Cortex A53 clocked at 1.7 GHz. 

SOFTWARE:

It runs on OneUI core 2.1 over Android 10.

CAMERAS:

It houses a triple camera setup at the back with primary being a 64MP camera with f/1.8 aperture, second being a 8MP ultrawide angle lens with 123° field-of-view and f/2.2 aperture and finally a 5MP f/2.4 lens for depth (portrait shots).Selfie camera is of 32MP with f/2.0 aperture. Both front and back cameras support HDR, Panorama and video recordings from 1080p@30 fps upto 4k@30 fps.

BATTERY:

Galaxy F41 packs in a 6000mAh battery with 15 watt fast charging support and is the most highlighted feature of the smartphone. It can easily last upto 2 days with normal to heavy usage in single charge.

OTHERS:

The phone supports LPDDR4X RAM and UFS2.1 storage type. Has a single speaker at the bottom with 3.5mm headphone jack. Supports dual band Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 5.0, FM radio, and all other necessary sensors.

(This article is strictly based on paper specs and not on real life usage scenarios.)

Overall if you look at the specs it is very much similar to what Galaxy M31 and M21 brought. What do you think about the same? Do share your thoughts in the comments.

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