Galaxy A71 5G Review - Samsung, let's talk... By LabFreq

Hey young world: it's your boy, tremendous for lab freak back in the building with a review. Today we got the Samsung Galaxy 871 5g. I got the sprint version, but due to the new merger, the t-mobile version in the building. Now the packaging is pretty simple: it's not that uh grand it just includes the device. A wall, USB charger card terms, condition go get this unboxed bring it in okay. Let's show you what we got here, it's a nice! I don't know if it's glass or plastic and Samsung likes to call it but uh it has a nice design with subtle, grooves coming in from the bottom to the middle.

Then this is just the black prism color. By the way we got our four cam bass right here uh, I believe it's 64, megapixel wide camera, a depth sensor and an um something else. I'm not sure if I'm going to have to look into it. Let you guys know we're going to get this thing powered on. So let me get up in here right, quick, give me a second or two out of all campaigns, see ya, feels pretty sleek nice design.

I would say that these bands, this uh side band, is aluminum. It's not plastic, like the a71 is typically uh known to have the original one, the global version, but yeah it's its pretty uh yeah. As you can see, we got antenna bands at the top and the bottom so well. I don't think they uh plastic, then we'll need a plastic frame. We'll need an uh, a tin band, so yeah, let's get up in there, see what we got going.

Yeah, and we've been uh. I've been testing this device rather, for I say about two weeks, and it runs pretty smooth um it handles everything you know. A65 doesn't quite exactly match up on the um benchmarks is the 865, but I will say that uh it does do its diligence. You know it does. Do the job gets everything done.

Um I haven't experienced any lag. I played some rounds of pub g Call of Duty with my old lady. We like to uh multiplayer team up on them, boys put in work, and it seems to uh. It really doesn't give me any issues with frame rates, reliability, connectivity issues and um yeah. I just um yeah man, I mean I don't see anything wrong with the device in general.

I just have an issue with you know. Samsung has done a great job with the one UI system that they're uh made the settings handling everything a lot more uh suited for one-hand use, but man it's just this uh excessive app issue is in, and I wouldn't call I don't want to call it bloatware, but their customizations, the android things they've added in so many apps that I don't really feel like you know. I made this folder Samsung tools, folder for apps that didn't even come pre-installed, and you got Samsung photo. You got Bixby AR zone my files, which is your know, built-in file management app, which is your know, pretty essential. Samsung health, smart things, the smart switch.

Now smart things is a decent. I think I installed it. It doesn't come pre-installed, but it may it is. It helps you manage and keep up with all the um uh apps that uh our devices. I'm sorry, appliances in your house, TVs, microwaves, refrigerators, ovens and face with their smart, washers and dryers and Samsung makes to handle um like, for example, your TV.

I have Samsung 5 series, smart TV and I can control my uh volume power on. Furthermore, I can see all the different apps like the hulls and the Netflix and the uh prime videos that are installed in the channels and the things that I like. Oh my goodness excuse me guys these notifications off the hook and uh all the channels and shows that I watch on their respective um apps network streaming services and just chime in directly from the remote it's all integrated within the TV. So that's pretty cool. That's that's essential, but Samsung has a thing.

You know game launcher, galaxy wearable they have gallery, they have their own store, galaxy store and on camera you know, clock contacts, calculated uh calendar. I think they're necessary, but Google already has those apps made for android. So it's really no need for that. Uh! It's on internet app, web browsers, all messaging out, and then this is. This is on the first screen, not to mention that it has the app set aside for sound some things: uh Samsung apps.

I have to set a folder for third-party things like the Samsung video Samsung music, app shop, samsung pass voice recorder is, I don't know how I ended up in there, but I think it's been installed. Then everything else you see on the screen itself, with the section of Facebook and uh my sprint app was excluding these uh folder app folders app, yes, app folders or Samsung apps, and you have Google calendar for android. Google has its own camera, but I understand all OEMs have their own integrated camera app clock, app contacts, app calendar calorie, there are Samsung, and you know they could dial back a little on that man. That's one thing like their marketing is off the chain, but out of the two Korean uh South Korean OEMs, lg and Samsung man, I don't know why everyone racks on lg's uh launcher the way that they do, because it's really way closer to stock scale back than Samsung's, offering everyone always complains about lg, UX uh, but hey. I take that any day.

Uh lg has the Google feed to the left. I love you know the Google feed it is what I, as a default, will just tap on the g in the search widget to actually get and- and I just really um appreciate that more. I think that I normally would keep Samsung daily off just so I don't have to deal with it. It lags if sometimes it is takes up to me. I just take some resources' memory.

I don't it's just sick. These are the things that not this isn't the current and Samsung. But these are things when android was at five six versions. Seven- and you know, phones still had two gigabytes of ram or whatever the bagginess will come into play, because it's really not android. It's the customization or distros type of skin that the OEMs add to android that uh is in one way similar to Linux.

That actually takes more resources than android requires, which is one reason why pixel phones run so smooth uh, because google, except integrating some of their default apps, they run it runs. Uh is minimal, it runs the way stock. Android is meant to run but uh once the OEMs get the customers out, customizing android and adding their flavor and look and feel to give their devices a unique uh position in the market and offering or whatnot. Then that's when you have problems coming to play. You got OEMs like Motorola, that's known to stay close to stock, and I don't think you know.

Uh lg gets enough credit for doing that, because, with exception to some coloring here and there in the settings, quick settings and some of their apps that are lg exclusive, like quick memo and lg pay, which aren't all that you know excessive, and they are duplicate with the built-in apps that android already offers that they pretty much keep the UI stock as possible and why one UI 2.0 has come a long way to being streamlined and narrowing down a lot of issues with that Samsung will go haywire with storing everything, including the kitchen sink into the uh operating system on top of android. They came a long way with that, but I still think that these pre-installed apps man or something else- and you know the a71 itself pretty much- has all the features that the galaxy line is known to have. Until you know you get to hardware exclusive features like wireless power-sharing a hundred times zoom on the camera lenses and things that make you pretty much all the software offering itself Samsung um pretty much includes with the a71 as every pretty much everything that you see. Software wise in one UI on galaxy s, lines and no Galaxy Note line. Another thing I think is great about uh Samsung.

Are they give you value for what you buy? This device here is available for 5.99 in the US major carriers and even a lot from Samsung, but at the same time they give you a lot of in game, exclusives, uh, uh partnerships with um certain carriers and like right. Now you can get like 150 back, or it works for rewards if you get a galaxy a71 up uh, and that gives you a year. Free post makes unlimited uh, 25 dollar credit for your first purchase through Postmates or order through Postmates and fifty dollars in the galaxy store which you could use are in galaxy, rewards, which you can use anywhere like Samsung shop, uh like for headphones or case or whatever, for your phone or in the galaxy store for apps and games and such and um. If I'm not mistaken, you can integrate it with uh Samsung pay and, depending on what kind of debit services that you use through Samsung page, you can turn that into 50 cash. That's like almost uh, so that's 150, 175 worth of rewards you get when you get to Samsung a71 or any of the s20 series.

Things of that nature, so yeah Samsung's known, is good for that they do give a lot of cash back specials and reward programs with their devices, and they're good for that. So if you want to count that into the overall retail value and price of this device- and you can but yeah uh other than that- I really don't see anything wrong with the devices it runs like a traditional android. You would expect for it to go what you just need for it to do. It doesn't lag, it doesn't slow down, but it is doesn't glitch, but it does take. I think Samsung has figured out a way with their animations, with their apps launching to create an illusion as if an app is loading, but it really is.

It takes a few seconds for things to launch quicker than you, maybe on a Samsung device that has snapdragon 865. So it's not specifically exclusive to Samsung devices. It's just their skin and all of their pre-installed system features. You know they do take system resources. So that's one thing I think Samsung could still improve upon, but overall this is a pretty solid device, pretty good to go.

Um Samsung Galaxy a71 5g check it out. T-Mobile spread. I believe it's available for Verizon ATT as well, but you can get it online compatible for any carrier if you get it directly from Samsung. So yeah tremendous for live free once again take care till next time. This.

Source : LabFreq