Samsung Galaxy A11 Complete Review - Watch Before You Buy! By TechDaily

What's going on guys, my name is Wade with tech daily and in this video I'm going to be doing my full review on the Samsung Galaxy an 11. Now this might come as a surprise, but I actually think out of the entire a series lineup so far this year. This an 11 is the phone that might just attract the most attention and here's. Why? Last year, in 2019, Samsung came out with the 10, a 10 s and a 10 e and all of those phones, but particularly the 10 e, were some of the best-selling smartphones over all around the world and including here in the US. In fact, the a-10 II is even one of the best-selling smartphones in 2020 through the first half of the year. That means that everyone, with any version of last year's a-10, will likely be looking at possibly upgrading to the a11 and that people, even this year, are still looking to buy a simple, affordable, smartphone to incorporate into their daily lives and I do think.

The new a11 has the potential to be that device. Once again, I obviously have a lot of thoughts on this phone, so I won't waste any more time. Let's just go ahead and jump right into it and see what the a11 is all about. First off: let's talk about price since I. Think that's going to be one of the main deciding factors for people considering this phone right now you can pick up an unlock to an 11 from places like Amazon for as low as a hundred and forty dollars.

This phone has actually been out for a couple of months now and the price has started to come down if you're in the u. s. A number of wireless networks and prepaid carriers have also started offering this phone for sale. Verizon, for example, is listing the 11 of this count of a hundred and thirty bucks with AT&T having this phone as a free device. If you want to switch to their network anywhere, you end up looking, you should likely pay no more than around a hundred and fifty dollars for the a11, but you'll probably be able to snag it for even less.

In my opinion, that's a pretty solid price for a phone like this and I think it's going to fall well within a lot of people's budgets and by the way, if you guys, are interested in doing some comparison shopping of your own, or maybe you want to buy this phone for yourself. I'll leave some links down below in the video description to where you can get this phone at its cheapest. Current prices so be sure to check down there. So you don't miss out on any good deals right away. I think the first thing people are going to notice about the a11 is its size at 6.4 inches. It offers a slightly larger display than last year's a 10 and a 10 s, which is great.

So if you wanted another big screen, smartphone you're in luck, in addition to the increase in size, we also get a slight design change this year, as well with an infinity Oh camera cutout in the top left corner. You do still get a sizable bottom chin there towards the bottom, which I wish was a little slimmer but all-in-all. This is a design that's updated for 2020, while still indicating that it is a budget, smartphone, and I guess I can't really complain. The thing worth considering, though, is that, while a big screen is great, the sheer size of this phone won't necessarily work for everyone. Like I, said it's a big device and with that you sort of need to figure out if it's comfortable for your hand personally I do find it somewhat manageable.

It's a bit of a stretch at times, but I realize I might even have a little bigger hands than some folks. The extra two-tenths of an inch in size increase from the a-10 isn't going to be noticeable if you're coming from that. But if you're used to anything less than say a six inch, smartphone, maybe try this device out in stores. If you can first or draw out the dimensions at least on a piece of paper, so you can get a clear understanding of what you'll be working with to me, though, a large screen on a budget phone like this is still a pretty big plus, and it's certainly one of the selling points. Now.

The actual display itself, the screen technology, isn't anything too special. It's pretty much. What we've seen before it's a 15 60 by 720 resolution, PLS TFT panel, which basically just means LCD, and it packs in around 268 pixels per inch. This is comparable to what we saw on the 8 10 and a 10 s last year. So if you are hoping for an upgrade, you don't exactly get that here, but with the actual viewing experience, I don't have any complaints at this size while it isn't the sharpest screen in the world at 720p resolution.

I think it still looks good so long as you're viewing your content from a normal distance. If you want to go ahead and stare closely at the screen and try and pick out the pixels, it's something you can do, there's no hiding that given the resolution, but you have to consider the price point here. Everything else, including the colors look good. The screen gets plenty bright and I. Think Samsung does a nice job with their own sort of version of LCD.

All in all, it is a good viewing experience for most people like I've, said already. The big thing you'll likely appreciate is just how much screen real estate you get with a phone like this watching movies or shows, or just browsing through social media on such a big screen is really pretty nice, regardless of the resolution, and that big screen size paired with the budget price point make it a great combination. Taking a look around at the rest of the phone you'll see that the 11 certainly isn't trying to hide the fact that it's a lower-end device, but I think the phone does still look good. This light, blue color looks particularly nice, and it's not something you really see on some other smartphones, the fit and finish of that all plastic. Build is of a little higher quality and the actual material with that sort of glossy finish looks and feels nicer than it is its a good-looking phone in my opinion, and in a couple of months I've had it so far, it's held up quite well, even without a case.

I do actually consider plastic to be a bit more durable than glass in the event of a drop anyway, and I only have just a few minor, barely noticeable little scratches from normal use on the plastic housing. Also, physically, the a11 isn't really missing anything. Either. You've got a headphone jack charging via USB-C, which is a must-have even for a budget phone plenty of camera lenses and a fingerprint sensor around back I like that, this phone has a physical rear, mounted fingerprint sensor, I think the lower end phones should keep this set up for a while. It's simple it's easy to use it's fast enough, but, most importantly, secure both for unlocking the phone and using for other purposes.

The a11 does also have faced unlock, which I always have enabled as well, since it 2 is a quick way to get into the phone and, while the week and unlock sequence isn't as fast as some other devices, it's more than good enough for me by the way that awkward corner camera placement I feel like didn't, really affect anything either, which is good inside the a11 packs. The specs that maybe weren't exactly what some people were hoping for, but I think there's still enough to work with, just depending on how you might want to use this phone. It's powered by the Snapdragon 450 chipset, which on one hand, is a bit older of a processor now, but at the same time it is what we got in last year's a 20s along with a number of other devices. So it's kind of like getting last year's slightly higher end phone specs in this year's budget phone, and it is still a Qualcomm chipset -. After all, you have the option of either 2 or 3 gigabytes of RAM, which, if I, have to pick something to change.

That's probably it is more RAM would have been better and for storage. You get 32 gigs built in with the option of adding in an SD card. If you want to which I absolutely recommend you do here. Is the an tutu score for the a11. For those of you who like to see some numeric values, but in the real world use some Android 10 feels pretty good.

Even with these specs and for the most part, navigating the UI and flipping through the apps is a non-issue. Everything feels fairly smooth. The only sort of blips or hiccups I did come across where, when you want to close out of some of the more intensive apps you are using, it sometimes took a second for the phone to catch up or revert to the home screen, but with a second or two of patience, the a11 did catch back up. You have to keep in mind to that this isn't a workhorse sort of phone. Well, you can push through app after app all you want with only 2 or 3 gigabytes of RAM.

Not a lot is really running in the background anyway, that leaks not staying current, and I would say that this isn't a phone. You can push all that hard. It's certainly not for power users, it's mainly the kind of phone where the things you'd want to do are the simple, easy stuff, like phone calls text messages a bit of social media, maybe Google Maps or website searches. Now, if you want to take it a step further with gaming, you totally. Can you just have to keep your expectations in check, launching and loading? Something like asphalt or Call of Duty takes a good chunk of time, maybe a full minute or Beyond just to get to the main menu, and when you are in game, there are certainly going to be instances of lag or frame drops it's not perfect, but 95% of the time it's good and obviously just in general, the games are more than playable.

Realistically there isn't anything, this phone can't do. It is still a 20/20 device. After all, it's just a matter of understanding what this phone really is. It's a lower-end device and there's going to be blips and hiccups and instances of lag every once in a while. That's just how it is given the specs, especially if you're trying to do a lot, but all in all I, don't think the specs are a total negative.

If you're going to be using this phone for mostly easy stuff anyway, if you're hoping to multitask and game and run your phone into the ground all day every day, then this just isn't the device for you. When it comes to battery life, I actually found the 11. Does a nice job making it through the day. The four thousand William capacity is a good size, bigger than average really and paired. With that lower resolution screen and less powerful specs, you get the right combination that yields longevity, most importantly, with the USB Cat the bottom and a 15 watt charger included in a box, you get juiced up fairly quickly, ? well, I, wouldn't necessarily call the a11 an outright champion when it comes to battery life.

You do still get a device that pushes through the day and then some pretty easily, and that's certainly more than good enough. Finally, in regard to cameras, while Samsung did put in some effort here over last year, once again, this is just where you kind of have to be realistic. With your expectations, the new triple lens setup includes a 13 megapixel main lens 5 megapixel ultra-wide and 2 megapixel depth sensor and up front. The selfie camera is an 8 megapixel, F 2.0 aperture shooter. Now, as far as the software and features you get just the basics, obviously the wide-angle lens is handy, live focus, shots are here, there's panorama and even some pro controls for manual adjustments and the foam shoots 1080p video both around back and up front.

You miss out on things like night mode and a few other features. But realistically this is the setup and software features you can expect with a phone like this now in practice, the a11 can actually take pretty good shots from time to time, but there are a few things worth considering for whatever reason. In my opinion, I found the results to be a bit lacking in color, perhaps overexposed, maybe which contributed to the image feeling lightened up nothing that can't be changed with a quick edit, though there's a surprising amount of detail in most shots as well, which is great and I, actually found the selfie camera to be better than expected again a bit pale and void of color, but nothing too terrible. Like most budget phones, the real issue comes with low-light and nighttime shots. The quality quickly falls off, and you don't really get a ton to work with, but looking past that I think if you just need to take some pictures with the a11 you can do so comfortably, but with how good smartphone cameras are on other devices nowadays, I do think some folks may feel like they're missing out taking pictures and videos with the a11.

So here are my final thoughts overall I do think the a11 is an interesting budget option now to be totally honest, do I think it's as good as the a10 lineup was from last year, not exactly, but that's only because the bar has been raised. So much higher in such a short time last year's A Series phones were just that good, and it was obviously tough for Samsung to follow that up with any crazy huge updates. However, I think the a11 still does offer a lot and the minor changes this phone did receive may be good enough for some people to upgrade I still consider it a great value all in all, but given the huge lineup of a series phones this year, I might just consider something like the 821 or a 21s instead, just because those phones likely offer the kinds of upgrades you could be looking for. So there you go. That's everything you need to know about the new Samsung Galaxy a11, if you guys have any questions at all about this phone or have any thoughts of your own.

Do. Let me know in the comments down below I'd love, to hear your thoughts, of course, but hopefully you guys did enjoy this video be sure to follow tech daily on Twitter and subscribe the tech daily YouTube channel. If you haven't already, and I'll see you guys later.

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