Galaxy A7 (2018) review: Samsung's first triple-camera phone.
Samsung's first triple cam.
A7 (2018) was the first Samsung phone with three rear cameras — main, ultrawide and depth — and an early adopter of the side-mounted fingerprint sensor that later flagships embraced.
01Display
80/100At 80/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among mid-range phones of 2018 — 8 points above the cohort average.
02Camera
66/10066/100 puts it above the 63-point average for mid-range phones of 2018.
03Performance
60/10060/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2018.
04Battery
66/10066/100 trails the 70-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2018.
05Build
68/10068/100 trails the 71-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2018.
- First Samsung triple camera
- Side fingerprint ahead of its time
- Vivid Super AMOLED
- 3300 mAh average
- Exynos 7885 mid-tier
- Android 8.0 dated at launch
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 85-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .