The Galaxy M35 was launched on 17 July 2024, and the M series is also known as an affordable Samsung phone’s series. On comparing the phone with its predecessor, there are some hardware and design changes. Also, the most important thing in the phone is having a long-lasting battery. The phone comes with a 6,000mAh battery capacity, which lasts up to 8-10 hours on continuously common and gaming usage, so let’s find out more about the phone through this blog.
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Galaxy M35 Design and Display
The M35 comes with a pretty basic plastic back, and the color options are less attractive than the Galaxy A35. the back camera module design is minimal, it is also quite chunky, weighing more than 220 g. On the front, the bezels are also thick, so the M35 overall is not a good-looking phone for sure, and you also don’t get any form of IP rating. And the good thing is that you get a Gorilla Glass victus Plus for protection.
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The phone comes with a 6.6-inch Super AMOLED punch-hole display with 1080 x 2340 pixels resolution. It has good color calibration. The touch response is also good. The typing experience is good. You don’t get an in-display sensor on this device. The phone comes with an HBM brightness of 1000 nits that helps it to get fairy bright for outdoor visibility and can be super dim during nighttime.
Galaxy M35 Performance
The M35 smartphones come with the Exynos 1380 chipset. The Exynos 1380 chipset is not good enough for multitasking, but for normal uses like scrolling apps and using Facebook and Instagram, then it’s responsive enough. The 120Hz refresh rate is fairly smooth too, with no lags or stutters, and it also has a vapor chamber cooling solution, so you will not face any heating issues during normal usage.
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However, the app opening is a little bit slower, and when you try to play games on it, you will not get the best experience, so you can play some popular games like Pubg, COD, and Freefire in smooth graphics with extremely high frame rates, and the average FPS is around 48, but you will notice lags during game play.
Galaxy M35 Software and Camera
The phone runs on Android 14, One UI 6.1 OS, and the software is clean with very little bloatware, no ads, and an effortless experience. The company offers 4 years of OS updates and 5 years of security patches, which is impressive for a budget phone.
You get a triple rear camera module on the back, a 50MP wide-angle lens with PDAF and OIS, an 8MP ultra-wide lens with an f/2.2 aperture, a 5MP macro lens with an f/2.4 aperture, and a 13MP front camera. The Samsung optimization and processing, the photos come out really well from this phone. The dynamic range and white balance are also decent, and the way it processes greens and blues is really impressive.
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However, the details on the photos are not that great. You will notice photos to be a little soft when you zoom in, and you will also notice photos are getting no noisier during low light. The portraits and selfies are also well optimized. It produces a nice skin tone, and the background blur and exposure management are really good too. You can record videos up to 4K at 30 fps from the main and front cameras. Although OIS is disabled, software-based EIS works to stabilize the videos to some extent, but the 1080p ultra wide-angle video is not coming good enough with low details and a higher noise level.
Galaxy M35 Battery
Samsung M35 features a6000mAh battery capacity with 25W wired charging support. The battery is much larger than the 5000mAh industry standard, so even on heavy usage, such as watching YouTube videos and playing some games, it lasts up to 8-10 hours easily on continuous usage. Also, when the phone is on 15-20%, it lasts a couple of hours easily. The charging support is not enough fast because of the 25W charging support and the larger battery capacity. You can use any other 65W charging support so that your phone charging will complete quickly.
Galaxy M35 Price
The M35 base variant, 8GB+128GB of storage, is priced at ₹19,999, and the 8GB+256 storage variant is priced at ₹21499. And the mobile is available on e-commerce websites like Amazon, Samsung, Flipkart, and also on other partner offline stores.
Verdict
Overall, the Galaxy M35 is the best Samsung budget phone under 20,000. The chipset is not good enough, but if you want a battery or camera phone, then you can go for it. Also, you are getting 4 years of OS updates and 5 years of security patches by the company, which is quite impressive. Also, when Android 15 comes out, it will be the first budget phone to receive that update.
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