iPhone SE vs Pixel 4a vs OnePlus Nord vs Samsung A71 - BEST 2020 Budget Phone? By ZONEofTECH

Okay, so I got four phones right in front of me. I have the iPhone SE 2020. I have the Google Pixel 4a. Furthermore, I also have the OnePlus word and the Samsung Galaxy a71. Now all these four phones, they all cost between 300 or 300 pounds and about 400 or 400 pounds. I really want to see which one is it worth it, the most, which one is the mid-range king.

So in this video I'll be comparing everything from the design the display camera performance special features battery price to, let you guys decide which one out of all these four phones is the best one for you also. We have seven sections of this video and I want you to pick a phone for each of those sections and then, at the end of the video you'll, see which phone is the best for you based on you know the number of times you've actually picked that phone so without any further ado. This is the ultimate comparison between well the budget, slash mid-range smartphones, the best ones that you can buy today, so get those snacks ready, sit back, relax and enjoy okay, so starting off with the design. These four phones couldn't be any more different. You see from the front the iPhone SC has the most outdated design as it uses the exact same front as the iPhone 6 from 2014.

The pixel and the Samsung are very similar, as they both have extremely thin bezels and just a single camera cutout, the Samsung in the middle and the pixel on the left, and then the OnePlus is similar as well, only that it has a dual camera cutout on the front rather than a single one. Now I know design is indeed a personal preference, but from the front at least, I do actually prefer the Samsung Galaxy a71, the most oh, and in case some of you are wondering why we actually chose the a71 instead of the a51. Well, that's because the a71 has actually dropped in price, and it does actually have better specs than the a51. Okay, now take a look at the back and the build quality, and there are quite a few major differences between these phones. The galaxy a71 definitely feels the cheapest, so it has a full plastic back and a plastic frame surrounding it.

Then it's the Pixel 4a, which still has a plastic back, but since it's matte and the frame itself blends in with the back uh, it does feel far more premium than the a71 does. Then we have the OnePlus word, which uses a glass back, but a plastic frame uh. This one already feels so much better than the other two and then finally, we have the iPhone SC, which has a full glass back and also a full metal frame. The iPhone definitely feels the most premium, but we do have that six-year-old design on the front, whereas these other three phones, they all use a modern 2019-2020 design, but yeah out of these four phones um. I do actually like the OnePlus word, the most design wise.

We do have a very modern design from the front, while not necessarily sacrificing too much on the build quality. So this is my pick, but let me know in the comments which one is yours design, wise moving on to the display- and I have to say all these phones. They all have a very good display panel, there's like not a single phone that I wouldn't recommend because of how bad the display is they're, all very, very good. However, there are a few differences in terms of the display quality and just a few display features between these phones. The biggest difference, to be honest, is when it comes to the size.

So if you're looking for something small and compact, then the iPhone and the pixel are the best options they're about the same size. The Pixel 4a is only a tiny bit bigger, but the display size difference is quite noticeable, so the iPhone has the smallest display at 4.7 inches, while the Pixel 4a has the second smallest at 5.8 inches. The good news is that you can actually use both of these phones easily with one hand, whereas the other two are so much bigger and yeah. You need multiple hands to use these um. Just joking.

You just need too anyways. The OnePlus note comes with a 6.44 inch display, while the galaxy a7 t1 comes with the biggest display out of these phones, a 6.7 inch panel. Now, the second big difference between these displays is the display panel technology that they each use. So all of these phones, except for the iPhone they all use an OLED display. The iPhone still has an lcd, meaning that you have perfect black levels and essentially an infinite contrast on all these phones, except for the iPhone um.

The third difference is when it comes to the resolution and then the pixel density, so here the Pixel 4a actually has the highest pixel density at 443 PPI. Then it's the OnePlus at 408, then the Samsung at 393 and then the iPhone at 326. What this means is that, when you're looking at these displays up close, the Pixel 4a has the sharpest image, while the iPhone has the least sharp image. If you watch a lot of YouTube videos, all these phones, with exception to the iPhone, can play 1440p as well as 1080p YouTube content. The iPhone can still play 1080p kinda, but the display resolution itself is lower than 1080p, so we're not actually watching 1080p content here, but rather 720p at a higher bit rate.

Okay. Now. The fourth difference is when it comes to the color and how good these displays are for editing photos and videos, and here I actually prefer personally, the pixel and the iPhone the most I feel like they do have the most natural colors, but a one plus in the Samsung they're, both very good as well. Okay, now, the fifth difference is when it comes to the brightness, so we measured the brightness with a professional display calibrator and the iPhone SC measured in at 720 nits. The Pixel 4a at 710 is by the way this was on max brightness uh on the full screen white surface, the OnePlus at 560 nits and finally, the Samsung Galaxy a7 t1 at 550 units number six.

We have the refresh rate. So all of these phones, except the OnePlus word, they all have a 60hz refresh rate. The OnePlus word has a 90hz refresh rate, meaning that anything you do on this phone feels significantly faster and more responsive than on the other phones. Animations are 50 more fluid and using it in general feels so much nicer on the OnePlus compared to the other three phones. Now these were the big changes display wise, but there are a few other smaller changes when it comes to the display as well, which I do want to mention so, for example, the iPhone SC has a true tone display which can automatically adjust its color temperature to match the lighting conditions around you, essentially just making it easier on the eyes for when you're reading the Samsung and the pixel, they both feature an always-on display, and the pixel allows you to tap on the display once to turn it on, whereas on the OnePlus and the Samsung, you actually have to double tap and then on the iPhone.

You have to press the home button to even turn the display on which is not convenient at all. So overall um, I actually like once again. The OnePlus word's display the most, but the pixel is definitely on uh on the second spot. In my case, so yeah learn the comments which one has the best display for you now, just a bit off-topic guys. A few weeks ago we did a video on the best TV that you can buy for the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X.

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On the other hand, they have mid-range camera modules, each with four individual lenses which I'll get to in just a bit. So here's a quick comparison of the same shot on all of these phones. So, let's zoom in a bit and take a look at a detail and let me know which one looks the best: okay and this one we're actually going to zoom in at the exact same level, into the shot so yeah, let me know which zoom you like the most which telephoto module uh. You know some of these phones, the OnePlus and the Samsung. They do have a telephoto module now, the OnePlus and the word.

They also have an ultra-wide angle, module uh, which can give you shots such as this one. Now this is something that we do not have on the iPhone or the pixel. So again, only Samsung and OnePlus have this, and the OnePlus also has a 2 megapixel macro module. But I mean to be honest, this one's pretty bad, so I wouldn't use it. But you know it's its there.

Now when it comes to nighttime photography, the iPhone is really the only one that doesn't have a night mode, all the other ones do. So. Let me know in the comments which one of these shots looks the best in your opinion. Now, when it comes to video, the iPhone is the only one that can do 4k 60. , while all the other ones are capping out at 4k 30.

Uh by the way. This is how the video quality looks on all of these phones. So do let me know which one again do you prefer now moving on to the front-facing camera? Here's a quick test on all of these pay attention to the HDR processing and the overall sharpness. Now when it comes to the video uh with the front-facing camera and the OnePlus, word can actually record 4k, 30 and even 4k60, which is strange because it cannot do that on the back, while the other ones are stuck at 1080p, 30. Okay.

So I'm just taking a look at my results now, and I picked the Pixel 4a four times so in four shots I picked the iPhone and scene three shots. I picked the OnePlus word in three shots as well and the galaxy 71 in two shots. So that means that overall, my pick is actually the Pixel 4a. Even though we do not have an ultrawide angle, module uh, the night mode is incredible. Macrophotography is also just amazing on this phone and yeah.

It just cannot go wrong with the Pixel 4a when it comes to the camera. Obviously, if you care more about video, and you need 4k60, then the iPhone is a better choice, but keep in mind that the iPhone does not have a night mode on the front or the back uh, whereas all of these other phones do but yeah. Let me know comments which one did you guys speak in terms of the camera. Okay, now, when it comes to performance CPUs, the iPhone SE has the most powerful processor, the Apple A13 chip, which is really the exact same processor. That's inside the iPhone 11 Pro the most powerful phone on the market.

Now, all the other smartphones, they have mid-range processors with the OnePlus having the second most powerful chip, the snapdragon 765g with the pixel and the Samsung having the snapdragon 730 now ram wise. The iPhone has three gigabytes of ram while Samsung and the pixel. They both have six with the OnePlus. Having eight gigabytes of ram, unless you buy it from India, then it will have six. Now when it comes to storage, the iPhone has 64 gigabytes as the baseline, while the other three have 128 again.

If UID OnePlus from India, it will have 64. Other than that 128 everywhere else. Okay, so now, let's do a quick speed test. I have about 10 apps in front of me and let's see which one of these phones can launch all of these apps, the fastest okay. So starting off with a clock app now we have Google Chrome.

Now we have Google photos, and it seems like the iPhone is actually in the first place so far, uh Instagram, then Twitter, then we're going to go on YouTube and go to subscriptions and the iPhone is definitely the first. The pixel seems to be the second followed by the OnePlus and then the Samsung tech talk. The iPhone is first and next up. We have epic games, so we're actually going to launch four nights and let's see which one of these phones will actually launch it faster. I'm just going to speed up this section a bit, because this is a bit too slow.

Okay, so it seems like the iPhone has actually loaded up Fortnite, the first followed by the Pixel 4a, and then I think it's the OnePlus followed by the Samsung uh yeah. All these do take a bit longer to load. Now we do have Call of Duty uh mobile next and the iPhone has loaded this one. The first, then we have Google News and yeah. The iPhone is pretty much done in one minute and 20 seconds.

The other ones are still loading for tonight. Okay, I'm just going to speed up the whole video once again, because these loading times are nuts but uh. The Pixel 4a actually finished loading night, a second followed by the galaxy 71, followed by the OnePlus, and now when it comes to Call of Duty mobile, it seems like it's the Pixel 4a again, Google News and there you go the Pixel 4a finished in 1 minute and 56 seconds, while the Samsung Galaxy 71 finished in two minutes and six seconds, followed by the OnePlus word at two minutes and seven seconds. But now using these phones, I do have to say the OnePlus feel is definitely the fastest. That 90hz refresh rate makes a massive difference.

So, even though it is not the most powerful one using, it definitely makes it feel like one okay. So what about special features? Is there anything unique that each of these phones can do well, yeah, actually there are loads of unique features? For example, the iPhone ironically, has the highest number of special features. It has ip67 watt resistance up to 1 meters of depth up to 30 minutes as well as wireless charging, and none of these phones, not the other ones, have any of these features. The OnePlus word is indeed sealed on the inside, so it might be able to sustain some water damage, but it doesn't actually have any official IP rating, but while the iPhone and the pixel have a capacitive, pink pin reader pixel on the back iPhone on the front uh, the Samsung and the OnePlus, they have an in-display fingerprint reader. Samsung's one is okay, but the OnePlus 5t reader is crazy fast.

The Samsung, however, has a micros card slot. In case you want to expand that storage even further. Now, when it comes to the speakers, the iPhone and the pixel, they both have stereo speakers, while the OnePlus and the Samsung, they only have mono speakers. So here's a quick speaker test. If you hear about 5g the OnePlus word is the only one that supports 5g and now there is one more special feature which makes a huge difference on all of these phones, and that is the haptics, so the iPhone the pixel and the OnePlus they all support haptic feedback.

The typing experience, though uh, it's simply the best on the pixel, followed by the OnePlus, so the iPhone doesn't actually have any haptic feedback on the keyboard. Unless, of course, you do a trick, and you install the Google keyboard okay. So, overall in terms of special features, I got to give this one to the iPhone. You know we get water resistance, we get wireless charging, we get zero speakers plus those haptics. These are some very useful features to have.

So what about a battery? Well, the iPhone has the smallest battery capacity at 1821 million parts followed by the Pixel 4a at 3140, followed by the one plus at 4115 and then the Samsung at 4500. Now I haven't used any of these for long enough to be able to tell you guys that oh this one actually lasts you for longer, but I would actually put my money on that being the OnePlus word, especially if you set the refresh rate to 60hz. Oh, and all these phones support fast charging up to around 50 in 30 minutes, but the OnePlus supports up to 70 in 30 minutes, and it also comes with a fast charger, bundled in the box. All the other ones do as well, but the iPhone actually well. The iPhone does not so battery wise.

The OnePlus takes this one as well. Okay, so in the end, which phone is worth it the most well at the moment in the UK, for example, the iPhone SC costs 420 pounds, the OnePlus word costs 380 pounds, the Samsung Galaxy, a71 costs 360 pounds and then the Pixel 4a costs 350 pounds. Now, in terms of each of the previous categories, design wise, I picked the OnePlus word display wise. I picked the OnePlus word once again, camera wise. I picked the Pixel 4a performance-wise once again, the OnePlus word um special features wise the iPhone SC with water resistance, wireless charging, battery wise OnePlus, word and price wise the Pixel 4a, of course, because this one is the cheapest one.

Another thing that you should keep in mind when buying these phones is longevity. You see the iPhone SE since it's an apple product, and it also comes with the Apple A13 processor. This will be supported for many years to come. I would say, probably at least four years, if not even five now, Google does tend to support their pixel phones for quite a long time as well. But then the Pixel 4a comes with a snapdragon 730g processor, which is quite a bit on the lower end.

So I'm not sure how well this phone will actually age in terms of the performance um. I actually think the OnePlus word will age better, because OnePlus also supports their phones for quite a long time, and this one has a more powerful processor and then, on the last place, we have the Samsung Galaxy a71, which you know Samsung doesn't actually support their phones. At least they do support the flagships, but not so much in terms of the mid-range phones and this one also has a pretty weak processor, and it's already pretty laggy so yeah. This will not age up that well, yeah. Let me know comments which one would you guys pick and why so here's the thing, in my opinion, if you're looking for the best bang for the buck- and you know performance, wise and everything else, just go for the OnePlus.

It is far the best choice here now, if you're looking for a very, very good camera, um, and you're in the iOS ecosystem, go for the iPhone and see, if you don't really care about the iPhone or the pixel um, then just get the iPhone again. It still has a better camera overall, if you're an android user, and you definitely want an android, and you care a lot about a camera, get a pixel, and you know I'm not saying that a Samsung is bad. Probably if you, if you just want a big display, that's a great panel um, and you don't really care about a performance or anything else. Uh yeah just buy the Samsung. Let me know comments which one would you pick and why, if you want to purchase any of these, do consider using our links below their affiliate links, so they do support the channel.

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