Lack of a 3.5mm headphone port is an annoying omission in the midrange:
A confession: I have learned that the iPhone 13's facial recognition facility can successfully identify me while I brush my teeth.
Samsung's Galaxy A54, by contrast, struggled to recognize my mug in most conditions. Ablutions defeated it, as did bright sunlight. My home office, lit naturally on one side of my desk and artificially on the other, confused its facial recognition powers completely. Wearing a hoodie gave me the kind of anonymity suggested by the worst clichés of infosec practitioners' preferred apparel.
The machine was unperturbed by indignities such as being bounced along during bicycle rides on cold foggy mornings, or being stood up in a hot and foggy bathroom to play streamed radio or podcasts. I always feel that midrange handsets like the A54 deserve a 3.5mm headphone port, because the kind of price-conscious buyer that considers these models may feel the need to acquire wireless headphones an unwelcome impost. Samsung hasn't included the port in this machine, but can at least point to the presence of a USB-C slot as an option for wired headphones. I found the machine behaved well when linking to non-Samsung Bluetooth buds.
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