This $95 Android phone has features my $1,000 flagship still doesn’t — and I can’t explain why

The Samsung Galaxy A06 is not a good phone.

I want to be clear about that upfront, because this article could easily be mistaken for one of those budget phone vindication pieces — and it isn’t. The screen is HD+ at 60Hz, the MediaTek Helio G85 chip is slow, and the camera produces the kind of images you’d describe as “fine, for the price.” It launched in August 2024 for around $95, and it shows.

So, you might wonder where this article is going. It’s that the A06 packs in a whole load of features folks are crying out for on much more expensive smartphones in 2026: a headphone jack, removable storage, an FM radio, and so on.

All this on a phone that costs less than my headphones, and all the features that are notably absent on my smartphone that costs around 16x more — all for seemingly less.

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