Galaxy A14 review: Budget Samsung with 90 Hz display and headphone jack.
A genuinely usable sub-$200 Samsung.
Galaxy A14 nails the budget basics — big battery, headphone jack, microSD and 90 Hz. Performance is the trade-off.
01Display
60/10060/100 is one of the weaker display results among budget phones of 2023 — 6 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
58/10058/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2023.
03Performance
50/10050/100 trails the 53-point cohort average for budget phones of 2023.
04Battery
78/10078/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2023.
05Build
64/10064/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2023.
06Value
78/100At 78/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among budget phones of 2023 — 9 points above the cohort average.
- Headphone jack present.
- 5,000 mAh easily lasts a day.
- 90 Hz refresh at budget price.
- microSD slot.
- Heavy 201 g build.
- Helio G80 is slow.
- LCD instead of OLED.
- Only 15 W charging.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 232-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .