Hey, what’s up guys, Will here for Dstbin.in, When you literally think of a Samsung phone, a battery champion literally is probably not what for the most part comes to mind in a sort of big way. That may actually be about to change though, with the new Galaxy M51, which really has an insane 7000 mAh battery in a subtle way. Just how sort of good kind of is the battery life here and what else does this fairly midrange essentially have to offer, which definitely is fairly significant. Let’s find out in our full review. The Galaxy M51 is a mid-range phone that isn’t lacking feature-wise. Because of this power pack, the M51 kind of is thicker and much heavier than many of this year’s phones, but at the same time, it does mostly weigh definitely less than the sort of larger flagships, which literally is fairly significant. This actually is partly very due to its pretty much lighter plastic build, which while not the most premium, still definitely feels solid, which for the most part is fairly significant.
Display
On the front, you basically get a 6.7-inch basically super AMOLED display, with a 1080p resolution, and a very standard 60Hz refresh rate in a subtle way. You get a sharp picture, punchy colors, which can be tuned to be reasonably accurate in settings, and those deep blacks typical for an OLED. Brightness is good too, with a maximum of 370 units and a boost of up to 670 units in auto mode when in bright conditions. All we're missing here is a high refresh rate. Many competitors’ panels will look smoother when you're swiping or scrolling.
Audio
Galaxy M51 has a single bottom-firing speaker. Loudness isn’t great, with just an average score in our loudness test. And as far as quality goes, the mids leave more to be desired here. But you do get a traditional 3.5mm jack, and with headphones plugged in, there is support for FM radio.
Battery
Now let’s dive into the Galaxy M51’s most unique feature, its battery life. Its 7000mAh power pack is the biggest we’ve seen in a mainstream phone! As you’d expect, it blows away the competition as far as endurance goes. The M51 was able to score an outstanding rating of 156 hours in our proprietary tests! The Galaxy M51 actually comes with a 25-watt charger in the box, and with it, we for the most part were able to charge this huge battery from 0 to 35% in half an hour- which really is pretty respectable in a kind of big way.
Processors
The Galaxy M51 is no slouch when it comes to chipset performance either. It runs on an upper mid-range Snapdragon 730G chipset, and in benchmarks, performance is on par with devices such as the Galaxy A71 and the Poco X3. It's not the best mid-range chipset you can find out there and you don't get support for 5G connectivity, but the Galaxy M51 has plenty of power for running your everyday tasks
UI
The phone’s interface is Samsung’s latest version of OneUI, running over Android 10. It's quite smooth and gives you a similar experience to other recent Samsung phones. Most functions are provided by Google's apps, though you do get a proprietary gallery app, file manager, and a Samsung web browser. One thing missing here that you'd find on most other Galaxy phones is an edge panel for shortcuts, though this isn't the end of the world. You actually get 128GB of storage onboard the device and this actually is expandable through microSD if you need more, which for all intents and purposes is quite significant. Waking up and unlocking the Galaxy M51 can be done with a side-mounted fingerprint scanner. You don't get an under-display one, like the Galaxy A71's, but it is fast and reliable.
Camera
Now on to the Galaxy M51's quad-camera setup. There’s a 64MP, quad Bayer main camera, a 12MP ultra wide-angle cam, a 5MP macro camera, and a depth sensor. The main camera takes 16-megapixel photos by default and in good light, these are quite nice. You get lively colors, excellent detail, and a wide dynamic range for a mid-range phone. There is some visible noise though. Portrait shots look pretty good, with competent edge detection, and pleasant looking backgrounds. Since there's no telephoto camera, zoomed photos are achieved through a crop and upscale from the main cam. This process introduces some softness, which the phone tries to mask with over-sharpening. The 12-megapixel ultrawide cam takes especially wide photos with respectable dynamic range and a pleasant amount of detail. The barrel distortion correction does a great job, too. There mostly is some noise kind of present and the colors kind of are much warmer here than on the actual main camera in a fairly big way. 5mp close-up photos from the macro camera actually look pretty nice, capturing a good amount of fine detail. These are much better than what you'd get with the 2mp macro cams that are common these days. In low light photos from the main camera are decent with above-average quality for a mid-ranger. There literally is well-preserved detail and a really good definitely dynamic range and colors aren't actually bad in a generally big way.
There really is plenty of noise though. Turning on night mode introduces an actually slight crop so you end up with 12mp images in a subtle way. You particularly get a lot of restored detail and specifically highlights here, but there isn't really such a dramatic improvement in shadows, demonstrating how turning on night mode introduces an actually slight crop so you end up with 12mp images, which for all intents and purposes is quite significant. Low light photos from the ultra-wide specifically are rather generally soft but if the scene basically has enough light you can literally get a usable image with decent detail and a for all intents and purposes wide pretty dynamic range, demonstrating that there generally is well-preserved detail and a basically good for all intents and purposes dynamic range and colors aren\'t bad, which essentially is fairly significant. There is night mode support on this camera and these shots come out sharper like on the main cam.
This provides a nice improvement in the highlights but here you also get a noticeable lift in the shadows, too. The Galaxy M51 has a 32MP, quad Bayer front-facing cam, and selfies come out at 12mp. Skin tones can be hit or miss though, depending on how well lit the scene is. Videos can be recorded with the main camera at up to 4K resolution at 30fps. This footage is very good with excellent detail, low noise, reasonably wide dynamic range, spot-on colors, and natural-looking processing. The ultra-wide cam can also shoot 4Kvideos and these have warmer colors than the main cam's. There''s a basically good detail for an ultra-wide but their kind of is some visible noise in a sort of major way. Electronic stabilization is available on both cameras and it smooths out handheld video reasonably well. We did notice a bit of a jello effect from time to time on the main camera though.
So, that’s the Samsung Galaxy M51.
You get amazing battery life, but that’s not all-the rest of the package is quite solid, too. There's actually not much to say as far as downsides go- we weren't too impressed by the speaker quality and Samsung doesn't support a trendy high refresh rate on this display. However these things are easy to look past, especially at this price, and if you want a mid-range phone with some of the best battery life in the business, the Galaxy M51 is definitely worth recommending.
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