Samsung Galaxy M31 comes with a Super AMOLED panel. It’s brightness peaks to 547 nits, and it's arguably one of the best in the segment. After all, this is what Samsung does so well.
Next, when it comes to design, The Galaxy M31 has an Elegant looking design, not too flashy nor fancy, it just looks elegant which some people might like. It does attract fingerprints & unfortunately, they didn’t even include a case in the box. Another point that’s worth mentioning is that the weight of the phone is impressive considering the fact that it has a 6000mah battery.
A few things I do not like are, I'm not a fan of this oval-shaped fingerprint scanner, yet they continue to put the same thing after so many iterations. Speaking of the fingerprint scanner, It is quick in unlocking the phone and even the face unlock is quick and it does unlock immediately in pitch dark conditions as well which is impressive. But I would recommend using the fingerprint scanner because it is more secure.
The most impressive part of Samsung Next when it comes to Performance, the impressive aspect is its memory management. Memory management is excellent. Usually, memory management on Samsung phones is not that great especially when you compare it with other phones in this segment but this time they improved it. They made a great choice by Including 6GB RAM for the base variant. When it comes to Gaming, it’s not the best in this segment. I made a dedicated blog talking about the gaming performance of Samsung Galaxy M31.
When it comes to battery life, no other phone in this segment offers this level of battery performance. It lasted me for 2 days and I think the only way you can kill the battery in a day is probably by playing Pubg all day. The provided charger takes 2 hours 40 minutes to charge the phone from 15-100%, which is probably the only disadvantage of having such a huge battery.
Now let’s talk cameras, the low light selfie is good, it’s got a good amount of detail barring some softening in certain areas, apart from that it takes pretty good low light selfie. Moving to the Daylight selfie they’re really good, especially the wide-angle selfie has no exposure issues whereas if you look at the standard selfie the sky in the background is a little overexposed. But with portrait selfie you’ll get an average image as there’s no HD selfie available and this is the problem because even if they'd selfie is available for a standard selfie, it’s not the default option, I mean you can switch to it, but why does Samsung want its users to take average selfies. I know it just takes a swipe to switch to higher resolution selfie but why not put that as default? Let’s be honest, Whoever from the Samsung’s team decided okay let’s go with it has probably no clue what he is doing. The reason why I’m ranting about this is that there are so many people who have complained that an entry-level smartphone takes better selfies than the M31.
Moving to the rear camera under low lighting conditions, There’s noise even in the highlights, I mean I understand if there’s noise in the shadows but there’s noise even where there’s ample amount of light and this applies with the shots taken in night mode as well. So yeah the M31 is absolutely struggling in low light scenarios. But in daylight, this is where the GalaxyM31 shines, The colors are vibrant and sometimes look boosted to my liking, I personally like natural-looking images, but some people might like these images so it comes down to personal preference. Pictures taken Indoors is the same as well. A wide-angle image is wide enough and on par with most phones in this segment. When it comes to 64MP image, The only issue I found is, it doesn’t have a great dynamic range, especially for this sunset image. Moving to macro shots, It’s just terrible. Is there any other way I could describe it? M31 is absolutely struggling. Next, let’s talk about the video capabilities of the M31. Video looks beautiful and also can shoot in 4K, which many phones don’t. Moving to the video from the rear camera, The 1080p footage is too stable. I don’t know for me it felt like the footage is too stable and I’m probably the only one who’s complaining that a video is too stable. Do I even qualify to be a Youtuber? 4K footage is shaky no matter how hard I try and dynamic range is not great on the video side of things which would’ve been nice if they worked on it.
So who should be buying the Samsung GalaxyM31? Well, let’s see, Do you want a Gaming phone? Then M31 is not the phone for you. Do you want a camera-centric phone? Then the M31 is not a great option. Do you want a great display? Then yes the M31 is arguably the best option in this segment. Do you want a phone with great battery life? In that case, no other phone is better than M31. But what’s the point of having great battery life when the phone is average at doing everything else? You can probably have great entertainment experience thanks to the Super AMOLED display & huge battery. But apart from that, the M31 is mostly average in all other departments. But if you want a phone that is the best value for your money, then Poco X2 and Realme X2 are two of the best phones in the midrange segment. So check out my Poco X2 and Realme X2 review blog and I'll see you in that blog.
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