Samsung Galaxy A15 4G review

Android 14 and One UI 6 on top of Helio G99

The Galaxy A15 boots Android 14 with the latest One UI v.6.0. The phone is eligible for three major Android updates and an extra year of security patches via firmware upgrades.

Some of the notable One UI 6 novelties include a redesigned Quick Panel, better notification visualization, an improved and simplified camera app, and more powerful gallery and editing tools, among others.

The One UI 6 version on the Galaxy A15 is not a Core one, and it has almost all functions but Always-On Display and DeX support. The studio video editor is not present, either.

Everything else is typical One UI - lockscreen, homescreen, widgets and icons, theme handling, multi-tasking (available in both pop-up and split-screen state), default apps.

You can read more details about OneUI 6.0 in our Galaxy A25 review.

The Galaxy A15 supports FM radio, and it comes with a proprietary app. It requires 3.5mm headphones in the jack to use as an antenna, as usual.

The whole interface and system apps feel snappy enough and run well.

The Helio G99 chipset is what we'd consider a chipset with passable peformance for day-to-day tasks. It is a 6nm chip from MediaTek with a 2+6 core CPU configuration (2x2.2GHz Cortex-A76 and 2x2.0GHz Cortex-A55) and a Mali-G57 MC2 GPU.

The base storage version has 4GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB of UFS 2.2 storage. There are also two other 128GB versions with 6GB RAM and 8GB RAM, and one with 256GB storage and 8GB RAM.

It is quite interesting to see that the Helio G99 uses the same cores and GPU as the Dimensity 6100+ chipset; it's just the modem that is different to allow 5G connectivity.

The Helio G99 chip is the same as the Galaxy A24 from last year. In fact, we'd be remiss if we didn't point out that the Galaxy A15 is a 99% identical copy to the Galaxy A24.

Anyway, it's benchmarking time!

The Helio G99 chipset is on par with most othr hardware platforms in this price segment. It is only bested by the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 as part of the Redmi Note 13 Pro - but it's a higher-tier SoC inside a higher-tier phone.

It is a bit of a different story when it comes to graphics. The Galaxy A15 and its dual-core Mali-G57 are okay, but they are no match for the Mali-G68 inside the Galaxy A25 and the Adreno 710 inside the Redmi Note 13.

Finally, the AnTuTu tests put the Galaxy A15 around the bottom of the chart. It is not that behind the competition, obviously slower the Poco M6 Pro, Galaxy A24, A25 and the Redmi Note 13 Pro.

Of course, we did not forget the CPU and GPU stability tests, and the Galaxy A15 4G aced those. It scored 90% for CPU and 99% for GPU, which is great.

Overall, the Galaxy A15 has a good chipset that gets the job done rather well, and it can offer a good experience when it comes to casual gaming. Multi-tasking on the phone is possible and snappy, and overall, the UI is smooth and responsive even though it is not the fastest, nor should it be. The Galaxy A15 never got hot during our stress tests, just barely warm, and it never throttled as we established.