SpecEagle review · Samsung

Galaxy M12 review: Online-exclusive budget with 6000 mAh and 90Hz LCD.

Item: Galaxy M12
Rating: 52
Author: SpecEagle Editorial

SpecEagle Editorial·Mar 2021·$169

Overall

52/100

Class rank

#91 of 147

Tier

Budget

Buy?

Look elsewhere

The verdict, up front

Three-day battery for $169.

M12 chased the "endurance king" angle of Samsung's online M-series with a 6000 mAh cell that genuinely lasts three days. Exynos 850 is the trade-off.

01Display

66/100

66/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2021.

TypePLS LCD, 90Hz

Size6.5 inches

Resolution720 x 1600 px

02Camera

56/100

56/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2021.

Main48 MP, f/2.0

Ultrawide5 MP, 123 deg

Macro2 MP

Depth2 MP

Selfie8 MP

03Performance

50/100

50/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2021.

ChipsetExynos 850 (8nm)

GPUMali-G52

04Battery

86/100

At 86/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among budget phones of 2021 — 7 points above the cohort average.

Capacity6000 mAh

Charging15W

05Build

56/100

56/100 trails the 61-point cohort average for budget phones of 2021.

What works

Massive 6000 mAh — 3-day battery life
90Hz refresh rare at this price
microSD + jack

What doesn't

Exynos 850 sluggish
Heavy at 221 g
HD+ only

Cross-shop it against

Redmi Note 10 5G

$199 · score 70/100

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 147-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .