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Samsung’s next budget 4G phone, the Galaxy A18, is starting to take shape thanks to a fresh leak from reliable tipster Roland Quandt. He’s shared the colour options and storage configs, and it looks like a solid but evolutionary update rather than anything dramatic.
According to Quandt’s post on Bluesky, the Galaxy A18 4G will come in three colours: light blue, black and silver. Storage choices will be 128 GB and 256 GB. Exact RAM options beyond the 4 GB unit already spotted in testing still aren’t confirmed.
CAD-based dimensions put the phone at roughly 164.4 × 77.8 × 7.84 mm, or 9.74 mm if you include the camera bump. That makes it just a touch thicker (about 0.34 mm) than the Galaxy A17, while keeping almost the same overall footprint. The front should stick with a 6.7″ 90 Hz Super AMOLED display and the familiar Infinity-U (waterdrop) notch for the selfie camera.
Around the back, the triple-camera setup is very similar to the A17, though the pill-shaped housing sits a bit more flush with the panel. Speculative camera hardware points to a 50 MP main sensor, 5 MP ultrawide and 2 MP macro, plus a 13 MP front camera, basically matching the previous generation. A 5,000 mAh battery is also widely expected.
Under the hood, the 4G version is expected to use MediaTek’s 6nm-based Helio G99, the same processor Samsung has used in its affordable A-series 4G phones since 2023, after moving on from the 12nm Helio G80 used in the Galaxy A14. A Geekbench listing for the upcoming 4G model showed the octa-core chip (two 2.2 GHz cores and six 2.0 GHz cores) paired with 4 GB of RAM, scoring around 744 single-core and 2,064 multi-core. This is pretty much identical to the Galaxy A17 4G. The same listing also showed Android 17 with One UI 9.
A separate 5G model is expected later and may switch to a Qualcomm chipset, replacing the Exynos 1330 used in the A17 5G, but the 4G version looks set to arrive first. Overall, the Galaxy A18 4G seems focused on continuity, offering the basic functionality you’d expect from an Android phone with a large display, including video streaming, some social media, basic web browsing, and online payments. It may not be particularly capable, but it should be reliable. Official confirmation and pricing should arrive in the coming weeks.
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(Source: Ronald Quandt)
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