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the galaxy a 20-17 range offers flagship features from the galaxy s7 at a lower price point where should you buy them what's up guys is not with our hands on the galaxy a series 2017 this year's handsets don't overhaul a lot from previous years with Samsung opportune to borrow specific galaxy s features to improve the overall experience the first of these is the design with all three galaxies a models borrowing the curved 3d glass ray and mineral bezel from last year's flagships all three models also borrow the galaxy DNA with ip68 certification for waterproofing anomalies on display microSD card expansion and a long lasting battery that's the similarities but the difference is also crucial with varying specs across the galaxy a3 and a5 that we have here as well as the galaxy a7 which isn't coming to the UK the a3 and a5 spot what something is calling an advanced camera with the a3 offering a 13 megapixel where an 8 megapixel front camera while the a5 has a 16 megapixel camera on the front and the back both come with F 1.9 aperture and the galaxy a5 also has phase detection autofocus for lightning fast focus times one particularly useful feature is a floating shutter which allows you to drag the shutter button anywhere on the screen in a bid to solve this problem of clamping your thumb when trying to take a selfie the camera also has a swipe UI so you can swipe up or down to flip between the cameras swipe left to change modes and swipe right to change effects both handsets are powered by a quad core Exynos processor with the a3 sporting 16 gigabyte storage and to gigabytes of RAM while the a5 features 32 gigabytes of storage and 3 gigabytes of RAM both hands has come with USB C port as well as a fingerprint sensor which is builded into the home button beneath the screen the a3 is powered by a 2,350 milliamp hour battery while the a5 has a much beefier 3000 milliamp hour battery available in four colors black sky gold sand blue mist and peach cloud these handsets offer a touch of the flagship Galaxy S experience at a much more affordable price point at 279 pounds for the a3 and 369 pounds to the a5 in the UK they both have pretty stiff competition they do offer a glimpse of the overall galaxy's experience for half the cost or less so what do you think of the galaxy a 2017 series and do you plan to buy them let us know in the comments below head over to Android AFRICOM and check out the full hands-on don't forget to subscribe and stay tuned as we're your source for all things Android