Samsung Galaxy A10 vs A11 Comparison! Worth The Upgrade? By TechDaily

What's going on guys, my name is Wade, with tech daily and in this video we're going to be comparing last year's Samsung Galaxy a 10 to this year's new Samsung Galaxy, an 11 to see if it's worth the upgrade I've actually had my an 11 for more than a month now, and in that time, I've sort of gone back and forth whether it really brings the kinds of changes to warrant an upgrade. I'm. Definitely going to go over that in this video. Also, if you're even vaguely familiar with the series lineup, you might already know that there's actually three sorts of versions or variations of the 810 from last year, this regular 810, the a-10s and the 810 II, which is kind of a different phone all together for the purposes of this video we're just gonna, be focusing on the regular a10 to keep things simple, and I'll probably have another couple of videos where I talk about the a-10s and 8ne separately. So enough talking, let's just go ahead and jump right into it and see what these phones have to offer and hopefully, by the end you can decide if upgrading to the a11 is something that makes sense for you to start off. Let's talk about pricing and availability last year when the a10 first launched it retailed for anywhere between 120 and 140 dollars, depending on where you ended up buying it from and for the most part, this was a phone that was actually primarily available in India and Europe.

This year the a11 launched at a little higher price, around 150 or 160 dollars unlocked, but this time around it is more widely available, even for US customers and actually since being released. Now the a11 has come down a bit in price. Amazon has this phone for sale for as low as 240 dollars? Obviously the price is going to be one of the perks for these phones. There are some of the cheapest devices. Samsung sells, and it's great to see them still offering something affordable this year with the a11 and if you guys, are interested in doing some comparison shopping of your own, or maybe you want to buy one of these phones for yourself.

I'll have some links down below in the video description to where you can get these phones at their cheapest. Current prices so be sure to check down there. So you don't miss out on any good deals. Physically, the a10 and a11 are sort of close, but there are a few design cues that separate them and I think more than it's really going to come down to personal preference with their size. Jumping to the 11 gives you a bit bigger of a device to work with the 810 is a 6.2 inch phone, while the new a11 bumps things up to six point. Four inches I personally found last year's a 10 to be fairly comfortable in the hand and, while the larger, an 11 isn't significantly bigger, it's still noticeable, and it might not be as comfortable for some people on the bright side, you are getting a big phone for an inexpensive price and if you like, watching your content on a big screen, this is a great setup, but most of that extra screen size is in height.

The a11 is about a quarter of an inch taller and stretching your thumb to reach every corner of the screen can be a bit tough. At times. The other design change, you'll notice, right away, is in display setup. The a-10 has a center set teardrop notch for the front camera. The a11 gets this sort of upgraded infinity.

Oh camera cutout, with an offset placement in a left corner which is kind of an interesting choice. The a11 certainly looks more modern, but in the end it doesn't really matter where the camera is it located. One thing I do just want to point out, though, is that larger bottom bezel it's hard to tell, but it is actually a bit bigger on the a11 as weird as that seems so. Samsung didn't push the limits on screen to body ratio and in the end they might have even made it a little worse with some extra bulge down below around back, because these phones are budget devices we're dealing with an all-plastic build. There is no noticeable changes from the a-10s, the a11 as far as the material, the color and finish, are a little different.

Obviously, but it's the same glossy hard plastic. That honestly looks and feels. Ok, there's nothing too cheap here, but it's still all plastic. Nonetheless, taking a look around at everything else on the left, both phones have a sim and SD card tray on the right. You've got similar power and volume buttons on the top of the a11 is where it's headphone jack is located.

Now the a-10 has its headphone jack down below, and the a11 now has USB-C, while the a-10 had micro, USB you'll also notice that the a11 now has its single speaker located at the bottom as well on the 810 speaker was on the back towards the bottom, which is just a terrible placement. So I'm really glad to see that Samsung made that speaker adjustment on this new, an 11. Also, on the back you'll see the 11 gets some new cameras which I'll get into in a bit, but the 11 also has a rear-mounted fingerprint reader as well. It was sort of interesting to see the a10 not have a fingerprint sensor at all. Adding that back to the a11 was the right move.

The placement is good, it's fast and accurate, and it's really something that should be kept on all budget phones. In my opinion. In addition, both phones also have faced unlock. You can utilize as well and interestingly enough, for whatever reason the a10 actually is a little faster in unlocking at times it's not by much, but in the side-by-side comparison you can kind of tell the difference there in regard to their displays the actual size. Isn't the only thing that's different here.

The a10 screen is an IPS LCD panel, with a resolution of 1520 by 720, with a pixel density of around 271 pixels per inch. The a11 is a pls TFT display, which is Samsung's own LCD technology, and it's six point. Four-inch screen offers a similar 15 60 by 720 resolution and 268 pixels per inch now to be totally honest in comparing these screens side-by-side. I can hardly see a difference if anything. Maybe last year's a10 is a bit more saturated, a tiny bit more colorful than this year's a11 for whatever reason, but that's pretty much it with this screen size at 720 resolution, both phones are gonna, show some pixels from a normal viewing distance, but in general I think it's still a decent experience.

You get a big huge screen to watch your content on for not a lot of money. That's sort of the deal here with the a10 and even more so with the a11 going with a bigger screen. You don't get anything too fancy, and you aren't getting an upgrade over last year, aside from the slight bump in size, but in the end I don't really have any complaints. The a11 offers a decent budget, viewing experience just like the 8 ended, and you really can't ask for much more than that with these phones like I mentioned earlier. The only important change that was made has to with the out loud listening experience.

Changing the placements of the speaker from the rear on the a10 to the bottom on the a11 was the right move. I always found myself accidentally covering the a-10s speaker with my hand, and if you laid it flat on a desk or table the sounds sort of got distorted. So we speaker placement is perfect now with the a11, just as it should be when it comes to performance, while the a11 is still a budget phone with budget specs. We do get some slight upgrades over last year, but an interesting configuration option change that is certainly worth noting with the 810. This phone packed Samsung's own Enos, 78-84 chipset, paired with the Mali g71 GPU, 32, gigabytes of built-in storage, with the SD card option and a choice of either 2 or 4 gigabytes of RAM.

With a new, an 11, you get the snapdragon 450 chipset the same 32 gigs of built-in storage, with the option to go with an SD card, but Ram options of either 2 or 3 gigabytes. Now, both of my phones here are the 2 gigabyte models, so things are a bit more comparable. Really. What we're looking at is the difference in processor speeds, more than anything and I. Think in this side-by-side comparison, the a11 is a bit quicker at times, especially as you push the phone harder now.

Is this a huge upgrade over last year? No, but with being a budget phone, a nice refresh is always good, and I think the a11 is more than usable. The big downside really with the 11 is just the fact that you can't bump things up to 4 gigabytes of RAM you're stuck with 3. If you want to get the higher-end model and in 2020 for a budget phone I, just don't think that's enough if you're going to be paying more. Fortunately, like I said even 2. Gigabytes of RAM paired with the Snapdragon processor is fine.

With the a11 and last year's a10 I thought was pretty ok ? anyway. At the end of the day, these are the kinds of phones for folks who just want something simple and easy to use, mainly for texting phone calls, web browsing social media and some other late 3rd party apps sure you can still play games on them ?, but you have to keep your expectations in check. This year's an 11 is not anymore higher-end than last year's 810. It's still just a budget phone with budget specs with just a slight refresh in its abilities. Now, when it comes to battery life, this is where you might get a more noticeable upgrade.

Last year's 810 had a decent size to 3400 William battery, but the new, an 11 now packs a sizable 4,000 William battery. That's a decent jump up and makes the 11 a powerhouse and lasting through a full day of use and then some further more migrating over to USB c4 microUSB means you'll get faster charging speeds as well with the 15 watt, fast charger, and really this all just means that the 11 gets the power and battery upgrades it deserves. I have no complaints here, and I think this setup is solid. The final big upgrade the 11 gets over last year's 810 has to do with the camera setups, and this I think is where Samsung spent a majority of their time. The a10 offered just a single 13 megapixel rear lens, but this year's an 11 gets a triple lens setup.

With new capabilities it has a similar but upgraded 13, megapixel main lens, a 5 megapixel ultra-wide lens and a 2 megapixel depth sensor with the new lenses. You get plenty of additional shooting modes on the 11, including decent, live, focused portrait shots and the very useful wide-angle for capturing more in a single shot. Beyond that, most everything else remains the same: HDR pro controls panorama at 1080p video, but in the end I think the hardware upgrades and shooting mode editions are worthwhile on the 11 and it sort of finishes this phone out. It's the complete package now that Samsung focused their attention and offering I think the perfect three lens setup up front. It's a similar story with the hardware upgrades the a-10 had a 5-megapixel selfie camera, while the 11 now offers an 8 megapixel lens, but surprisingly, in practice, I actually found the 11 to really miss the mark with selfies I.

Don't know why, but the 10 selfies just look more colorful, more detailed, a bit soft, maybe but certainly the more attractive picture, and you can see that, with my hair, the 11 almost loses out on all the detail. All the 810 picks it up. I'm, not exactly sure what the deal is here. The 11 just looks darker and the shadows seem to miss out on the detail. I've tested the 11 out quite a bit now with selfies and I just found the new camera on this phone to be kind of bad.

Whatever change Samsung made is not a good one. Unfortunately, so if selfies are your thing, just keep that in mind? So here are my final thoughts. If you couldn't tell already I really think the a11 is well worth, the upgrade the bigger screen is nice to bump up in specs is something to consider. The bigger battery life is certainly worthwhile, and the rear camera upgrades really finish off this phone with that being said, though, Samsung's a series has a ton of great phones to choose from this year and maybe going to the a21 or a 21s might be even better, but if you do still really want to save some money, jumping to the 11 is a solid choice for sure. So there you go.

That's everything you need to know in upgrading to the 11 from the a10. What do you guys think is the a11 worth the upgrade? Let me know what you think in the comments down below I'd love to know your thoughts, of course, but hopefully you guys did enjoy this video be sure to follow tech daily on Twitter and subscribe to the tech daily YouTube channel. If you haven't already, and I'll see you guys later.

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