{"id":258888,"date":"2025-12-30T23:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258888\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T23:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:44:07","slug":"samsungs-200-galaxy-a17-brings-googles-circle-to-search-to-its-lower-priced-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258888\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s $200 Galaxy A17 Brings Google&#8217;s Circle to Search to Its Lower-Priced Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"u-speakableText-p1\">Samsung&#8217;s $200 Galaxy A17 5G, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-welcomes-galaxy-a17-5g-galaxy-tab-a11-galaxy-ecosystem\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced Tuesday<\/a>, appears to be a smaller hardware refresh for the company&#8217;s lower-cost phone &#8212; bearing many similarities to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/samsung-galaxy-a16-comes-to-us-at-200-with-6-years-of-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy A16<\/a> that it will replace. However, Samsung notes that the A17 will have access to several AI features, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/circle-to-search-is-one-of-my-favorite-ai-tools-shame-its-not-on-the-iphone-yet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">Google&#8217;s Circle to Search<\/a> and Gemini assistant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p2\">Even though both of those AI features are becoming common on all phones running Android 16 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/moto-g-play-2026-review-lite-mode\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">Motorola&#8217;s sub-$200 phones<\/a> also include them), the Galaxy A17 might become one of the broadest ways that Circle to Search and Gemini reach new audiences. That&#8217;s because Samsung&#8217;s $200 phone is typically one of the few non-Apple devices to consistently top sales charts in the US, for instance, the $200 Galaxy A16 currently ranks fifth on <a href=\"https:\/\/counterpointresearch.com\/en\/insights\/top-5-smartphone-model-share-8-countries\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Counterpoint Research&#8217;s<\/a> list behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/apple-iphone-16-and-16-plus-review-little-improvements-add-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">Apple&#8217;s iPhone 16<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/apple-iphone-17-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 17<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the Galaxy A16, the A17 will have a 6.7-inch display with a 90Hz refresh rate, an IP54 rating for water and dust resistance (can withstand splashes but still avoid submerging the phone) and is powered by Samsung&#8217;s Exynos 1330 processor. The cameras are also the same, including a 50-megapixel wide camera, a 5-megapixel ultrawide camera and a 2-megapixel macro camera. Around the front is a 13-megapixel selfie camera.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy A17 will also include a 5,000-mAh battery, 25-watt wired charging, 4GB of RAM with 128GB of onboard storage, the option to expand with a microSD card and will receive six years of software as well as security updates. That support period is quite notable for phones sold in the $200 range, as most phones that cost $200 get two to three years of updates.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy A17 goes on sale in the US starting Jan. 7, and will come in blue, black and gray models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s $200 Galaxy A17 5G, announced Tuesday, appears to be a smaller hardware refresh for the company&#8217;s lower-cost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-258888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115811179823291002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}