The Samsung Galaxy A40 is a mid-range

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developed and manufactured by

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. Running on the Samsung's

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-based One UI 3 software, the device was announced on March 19, 2019. It was released a month later in Europe on April 10, 2019. The Samsung Galaxy A40 is a more compact variant of the

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, being sold only in markets where the Galaxy A30 is not available.

Specifications

Hardware

The Samsung Galaxy A40 has a 5.9-inch Super AMOLED 'Infinity-U' display with an 85.5% screen-to-body ratio. It has dimensions of 144.4 mm by 69.2 mm by 7.9 mm and comes equipped with an Exynos 7904 chipset, 3100 mAh battery and a microSIM and dual nano SIM slot which supports

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. The device is only available with 64GB of storage and 4GB of RAM and is expandable to up to 512GB of external storage via the

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card slot.

Camera

The A40 is equipped with a dual rear camera arrangement with a 16 megapixel, f/1.7 aperture sensor as the main camera and an 'ultra-wide' 5 megapixels camera lens with an f/2.2 aperture as the second camera. The front camera is 25 megapixels. The A40 has a rear-mounted

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as well as video recording. Maximum video recording resolution is 2336x1080 pixels (Full mode). Audio recording with internal microphones is stereo. Audio recording with external USB microphones is supported but is mixed to mono.

Software

The device runs on the

operating system, with Samsung's

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skin.

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has released One UI 2.0 with Android 10 for Galaxy A40 in April 2020. Samsung has released One UI 3.1, based on

, in late March 2021.

Variants

All variants of the Samsung Galaxy A40 are dual-SIM. *SM-A405FD - Unknown *SM-A405FM - Russia *SM-A405FN - Europe, Ukraine, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan *SM-A405S - South Korea (SK Telecom) SM-A405FN is manufactured in Vietnam.

References

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