Samsung Galaxy A31 - Hands On & First Impressions! By Kevin Breeze

What's going on everyone, this is Kevin here coming at you with my hands on in first impressions, video of the Samsung Galaxy a 31. So let's get started, so this is the Samsung Galaxy a 31 one of the latest devices from Samsung in there a series line. Now this phone is available. Factory unlocked. This is the international variant of the phone and, at the time of me, recording this video. You can get this device for around 250 dollars.

Now take a look at the link in the video description to see the most up-to-date pricing because I'm sure, as time goes on, the price of the device will go down. But here is the box. You can see here that we do get kind of an ugly sticker on the front, I'm, not sure if every a31 that ships gets this sticker I certainly hope not, and whoever is responsible for putting these stickers on these boxes. Please don't do it anymore. Because stickers really don't come off and if you do try to peel them off, there is like a really nasty residue, so just don't put the stickers in the box anymore.

Just put a promo sheet in the package or something I don't need to have this ugly sticker in the front of the box. But anyway, at that point aside, this is the prison crush white variant of the phone. You can also get it in prison, crush black and prison, crush blue, but overall there's not much else on the actual box itself. So we'll open this up here, and I did already set up the phone for the sake of saving time, but we'll put the phone off to the side for now, and we'll see what else is included here. So we do get kind of a little box, and in this box you have a variety of different items.

So we have some literature here, so we've a Quick-start guide in both English and Spanish. We also have a warranty card so good stuff, and we have a clear plastic case now. What's awesome about the a31: is that there's already a bunch of different accessories available for purchase, so you're going to have no problem, finding good quality cases for this phone, which is really fantastic, but it is cool, though, that we do get kind of this cheaper thin plastic case included for free. Now here are the rest of the contents in the box, so we get an adaptive fast charger. So that's really nice.

We also get a SIM card removal tool. We get some 3.5 millimeter headphones, and we get a USB cable. So you can use this, of course, for charging and data transfer. But here is the actual Samsung Galaxy, a31 itself, and I've got to say: I've been really excited about this phone, and you'll see why now this device features a very large six point: four inch display. The display itself is Super AMOLED.

It's a 1080p display we're getting a PPI of 411 we're getting a 20 by 9 aspect ratio and an 84.9% screen to body ratio. So, despite this phone not being too expensive, it really is a beast. Now you can see the display itself is super sharp. Looking this is probably one of the best displays that I've seen on a device in this price range and I just think it looks really fantastic. Here's the phone up next to the Samsung Galaxy s, 20 ultra for reference, so the ultra is a larger device, but tell you what the 831 is pretty big.

So that's a good thing because you'll be able to see content on this display there. Clearly, it's going to be a great phone for watching video content, especially and, if you're really into social media. It's going to be a great experience here as well, but we'll talk about that more in a whole, separate video, of course, but I just want to. Let you know that this phone has an excellent looking display, I'm very impressed now, you've probably noticed already, but this device does have a notch for the front-facing camera and on the bottom of the device. We do have a little of a thicker bottom bezel.

So combining this thicker bottom bezel with the fact that the display on here is 20 by 9 means that we're getting a very tall and narrow device. That's for sure, and I know that the notch is a little more of an old-school feature, something that's kind of going away in 2020, especially with phones like the 71 and a 51 having the hole punches for the front facing cameras, but I still think that the phone does look really nice overall and of course, you are gonna, be saving some money going this route verses, VA 51 now as soon as I can, I will be buying the 41, and I'm really curious to see how that compares. There are so many phones coming out in the series, but that means a lot of awesome content for all of you to watch now. The front-facing camera on here is 20, megapixels, and I'm, really looking forward to showing you what the results from that look like in my full review, video about the phone. This is the 128 gigabyte variant of the device, and, if that's not enough storage for you, we also get SD card expansion.

Now, there's no wireless charging with the galaxy, a 31 as you'd imagine, but we do get a fingerprint sensor, so you can use the fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone, which is really awesome. We also have face unlocked with the device as well and on the back of the phone. We have a quad camera setup, so we've a 48 megapixel main camera, an 8 megapixel, ultra wide-angle camera, a 5 megapixel depth, sensing camera and a 5 megapixel macro camera. So I'm really excited to take some photos with this device and show you the results from that. But I have a good feeling about the cameras on here because it seems like in general, all of Samsung's.

A serious phone typically do take really great photos and videos. Now you do get portrait mode with both the front and rear cameras on this phone, so that is really awesome as well. Now, internally, with this device we're getting four gigabytes of RAM, and we're getting the MediaTek hello p 65 processors. Now, if you're not a fan of MediaTek, you should definitely rethink things a little, because the company has been putting out some pretty decent processors in the last year, especially their Hello line of processors, so I've actually never used device with Hello p65, but I have used the Hello P 60 and the Hello P 70, and I've liked both of those processors. So I do have a good feeling about this processor too.

In so far from my experience of using the phone, things have been decently fast. Of course, you're not going to be getting flagship level performance like you would get with the Ultra, which has the snapdragon 865, but for what you're paying here it is going to perform very well now. One of the limitations of the processor is that video recording with the phone maxes out at 1080p, with both the front and rear cameras. Unlike many of the Enos processors, such as the one that comes with the 51- and here is the 51 by the way, because the 51 can record 4k video with the rear camera, which is really cool and impressive and by the way I know I'm all over the place of this video. But here is a side-by-side between these two phones, and you can see that we do get a slightly larger display with the 51 at the Spence of having a smaller bottom bezel, so again, stay tuned for a future video where I really go into detail.

Comparing these two devices but overall so far, I am very impressed with both phones. Now another cool thing about the Samsung Galaxy, a 31 is that we're getting a five thousand William hour internal battery, so they're a beefy battery, and you can recharge that battery quite quickly with the 15 watt Bosch charger. Now the software run here is Android 10 and at the time of me, recording this video. The phone does have the March 1st 2020 security patch. So, let's hope that Samsung does continue to roll out those security patches, but this phone has all the different goodies that you'd expect to find with Samsung's 1ui 2.0, such as the app edge on the side of the device and many other things. Q I will be making a tips and tricks video about the phone in the future, so stay tuned for that as I'm sure you'll learn a lot about the device from that video, but now that we've gone over the specifications of the phone, let's take a closer look at the hardware.

I already talked a lot about the front panel here, like I said you know we do a little of a thicker bezel on the bottom, and we do have a notch at the top, but overall I think it's a very sharp looking phone I am very happy with the display, of course I like that. It's 1080p it's super sharp and cleared, and I'm really glad that we still do have a 20 by 9 aspect ratio. Now, taking a look on the left side of the phone, we just have a plastic band running around the side of the phone, and we have the slot for the micros card and SIM cards. This device is dual SIM, which is really awesome, then, on the right of the phone with a power button and volume button, then, on the top we've the noise-cancelling microphone and then of the bottom, with 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. We have the USB-C port for charging and data transfer.

We have the microphone, and we have the speaker, then, on the back of the device with the camera module and that's pretty much about it. You can see that the design on the back of the phone is really cool, looking kind of a rainbow tint on the back as well. So all in all a very nice looking phone now I did run and do two benchmark tests with the phone and I got an overall score of 149, four, three four. So a pretty decent score for a phone in this price range, maybe not the best I've ever seen out there, but certainly adequate for the majority of smartphone users out there, but I hope you've enjoyed this hands-on in first impressions. Video about the Samsung Galaxy see a 31 I'm very pleased with the phone I think it's a very solid device, and yet another excellent entry in Samsung's growing a series, but I'm really excited to make way more content about this phone, and let me know which devices you'd like to see me compare this to you.

But this is Kevin here. This is the Samsung Galaxy. A 31 and I will see you in the next video.

Source : Kevin Breeze