The Galaxy A15 was the major upgrade of this series, bringing a high-res 90Hz AMOLED, 25W fast charging and more RAM. The Galaxy A16 continues improving...
Samsung is offering a whopping 6 OS upgrades for this relatively entry level model. Too bad though, they junked the 3.5 mm jack for this one.
So it got even bigger, they removed the beloved headphone jack and kept everything else basically the same? Even the same crappy G99? Man... I guess 6 years updates is nice, but even then this is a very, very mediocre "upgrade".
I could be wrong, but didn't previous generation of Samsung A series phones come with eMMC storage. I think this has UFS 2.2, so slight increase there as well.
But I agree that overall it's an incremental upgrade only. And base model of 4GB RAM might not hold in the long term. I had/have an entry level Samsung phone(A05 I guess), but that stutters much
Sadly the storage upgrade isn't gonna justify the total package here. These specs are really not going to live up to the promised 6 years. I think Scamsung just used the "6 years" as a slogan, where they can get away with selling bad hardware they have too much left off.