Samsung Galaxy A32 5G Phone from T-Mobile By Man Cave Media

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So today a friend of mine got a new Samsung phone, and he was nice enough to hand it off to me to do a review. So let's check it out all right, so my friend is kind of a cell phone connoisseur of sorts he's constantly buying new phones, mostly to uh just play around with and kind of you know, check out the new tech and see what's out there, and so he got this phone from T-Mobile. I believe and uh he's not going to use it as his primary phone, so he was nice enough to hand it off to me to do an unboxing and a review. The phone we are checking out today is the Samsung Galaxy a32 with 5g. Let's see it is black 64 gigabytes, that's the only information we got on the box.

Really! Oh, here we go now. It's just package contents all right, not much info on the outside of the box. It's black and it's 64 gigabyte. All right. Let's see what else we can find out quite a strong sticker.

They got there goodness all right in the box. This looks like just some paperwork yep, let's see, yeah just some paperwork kind of flimsy packaging, get it together, Samsung all right. You have the phone itself pretty nice. Three camera setup almost looks like it's. Going to have a matte finish to it.

We'll get the plastic off in a moment a sim card from yep. I was right T-Mobile. We will not be putting that in today, uh USB-C, cable and see how big are you? A 5 volt, 2, amp charger, yeah, pretty basic, run-of-the-mill Samsung charger, oh, and they do include a sim tool of them all right. Let's square this stuff away here, don't need any of this paperwork yeah, even though this is not Samsung's flagship device. I'm kind of disappointed about this unboxing experience.

I got to say, because I mean you can buy the cheapest iPhone available, and it still has that that nice uh apple unboxing experience, whereas this is kind of like eh. They phoned this one in for sure all right, very nice, actually um. So it looked like it was gonna, be a matte finish, but it's not it's an it's very glossy, very uh yeah fingerprint magnet. Oh my, and it says it's black, but actually it looks more like a grayish color, which is pretty cool. As I mentioned, three camera setup, headphone jack, that's very important, see if uh see is we got any charge on it, looks like the fingerprint sensor is also on the power button.

That's cool, see if she's got a charge on it, all right, we're in business. Oh, it's been a while, since I've had T-Mobile whoa all right so the screen I mean first impression the screen's pretty nice, but it is definitely uh, definitely not bezel-less. This kind of reminds me of my pixel 2 XL. It's got quite the bezel on it's got quite a chin down here on the bottom, so yeah, it's nice and bright, go through the standard setup here, I'm just going to put it on my Wi-Fi next good old android updates. Now they did include a sim tool, but I don't oh there.

It is sim tray, let's see if uh, while it's doing its thing here, let's actually see if this has expandable memory, that's something that uh don't copy, that's something that Samsung is known. For and honestly I mean no knock against people who really love Samsung devices but, in my honest opinion, that's the only reason to stick with Samsung. Um is, if you skip all this, skip, no account setups new steps skip now. What I want to see? Oh, it does look like it does, have a spot for a SD card, that's cool, or is that just a full-size sim can't tell I'm super blind. I think it's just actually a micro sim and a full size him so no no skip the Samsung account skip.

Don't have that. No all right! Finally, finish trademark Samsung sound there. So one thing that I am looking at right now: wow this screen is really sensitive. I barely tapped that I didn't actually do not want to go there, but it's uh. It's already picking up my smart things.

That's weird! Oh, it's got a! It's got a little of feedback on the home button. That's pretty cool, clear! Okay, so I want to make sure we weren't on mobile data, because I didn't want to uh, uh. Do anything with my friend's account, so just checking to make sure that so, let's go to settings, see if I could find out some more about this guy all right. One thing that I noticed about this that I don't like that I've come to love so much about my pixel phone is to wake up the phone. All I have to do is like wave my hand over it, tap the screen.

I forget what they call it there's a name for it and this clearly doesn't have it, or it's not turned on, and I'm looking through the menu items here- and I am just so not familiar with this Samsung overlay. Oh, there is an update available, but I'm just like yeah. This is so far from stock android. Now I know a lot of people like this, and you know I'm not I'm not knocking it. It's just I'm not used to it.

It's all. Furthermore, it is I've gotten really used to a stock android and still, in my opinion like once you go stock android, you don't go back so I'm thinking what I'm going to do. Is I'm going to put my sim card into this phone and take a page from unbox therapy's book uh if you're not familiar with the YouTube channel unbox therapy, it's a perfect channel for watching unboxing videos of products that the average does like you and me can't afford. But he often does this with cell phones, where he'll, he'll put his personal sim card in a phone and use it for, but he'll use it for like months and then do a review. I'm going to go for a week and see how it goes, and then we'll come back, and I'll, I'll.

Do my final review and give you my thoughts on what I think first impressions for the price point yeah. If you can get it on sale, it's better uh! This is just first impression. The screen is very meh um I mean the overall build quality of the phone is very nice what you would expect from Samsung. I don't like this fingerprint magnet on the back here. Uh, it's just not cool the three camera setup.

I mean I'll play around with that. Some more and I'll do a little comparison. It's kind of unfair to compare it to my pixel 4, which is arguably the best camera uh, the best cell phone camera on the market. So but I'll still do a little comparison on that, and we'll come back, and we'll revisit so sit tight, it'll be just a few seconds for you, but it'll be a week for me: stick around all right, and we're back uh, so it has been exactly five days. Uh I've been using this phone non-stop ever since the first half of this video and well, the verdict is not good uh.

I mean I'm gonna really try hard to find some good things to say about the phone. The screen itself, I mean the colors are really vibrant um. I do like the way the screen looks um. I got really used to the high refresh rate on my pixel device, so this feels kind of this feels kind of old school. It feels like my pixel 2 XL and for the price.

I don't think it's worth it for what my friend got it for like he correct he corrected me. I thought he got it at a discount. He actually got it for free through T-Mobile. So if you're able to get this phone for free, then I mean it's fine. Don't pay for this phone if you are hard up for a phone, and you're already in the Samsung ecosystem, and you really want to stay in the Samsung ecosystem, then I can see like try to get this phone for free or at a steep discount.

Don't pay retail for this guy. But if you are looking for a phone, you don't want to pay flagship pricing um, but you want something a little more modern. Let's say you know it's been three or four years since you've upgraded, and you're just looking for something a little newer, but you don't want to flagship, I would say: go stock android and get a Pixel 4a or even a Pixel 3a like if you're, okay, with the bezels on this guy you're, going to be okay with the 3a, because it's very similar, and I think you'll enjoy the stock android device a little more again. This is coming from a non-gaming user. I've been a pixel user for a lot of years and just trying to fumble through this uh this UI, this overlay that they put on it's just it doesn't work well for me, I don't like it.

If much prefer the stock android experience over this. So I mean I know there are people out there that, like it, I have a co-worker who's in the Samsung ecosystem. She loves her phone. I have another co-worker who used to be in the Samsung ecosystem, and he used to love his phone. He recently switched to apple uh, so I mean I know people will like it, but if you can't afford the flagship device, I would just stray away from Samsung men unless you absolutely need to be in that ecosystem, and you absolutely cannot afford a flagship device.

So usability I mean my experience was not great. If you have more than three things open at one time, this thing really starts to stumble over itself. It can't get out of its own way. I blame that solely on the processor uh. This does have four gigabytes of ram, so I was a little surprised to see it struggle the way it does uh but yeah when, when you have too many things open it does it struggle a lot, so four gigabytes of onboard ram, you would think, would be sufficient, but it's not in this case, and so like I said, I blame that mostly on the processor um call, quality was fine.

Photos are fine. It actually takes a pretty decent photo. This coming from a pixel user pixels again, in my opinion, have the best cell phone camera on the market. So it's not really fair to compare it to something like this, but for the price point and for the market that they're shooting for the quality is okay, like it's not terrible. What else uh yeah I mean when you don't have anything open, it is kind of snappy, but it just it slows down so much when you start opening up, apps and trying to your know, perform more than one task it just it struggles um.

I do like that. It has a fingerprint sensor in this uh in this covered world that we live in now I really miss a fingerprint sensor, it's nice, that it has one and uh like most Samsung devices, uh it's nice, that it has the headphone jack. I also missed that a lot and from what appears to be the expandable storage. That's also big uh. I miss that also, but I mean other than that.

There's not really much. I can say about this phone. That's good, build quality, uh the build quality like the fit and finish it. I mean it's a well-built phone. I really, I really hate the back.

Furthermore, I really hate this fingerprint magnet uh material, this glass back, because I know that it's not a real glass back phone, it's plastic, so they could have done this in a matte finish. Maybe it would have even been cheaper to do it in a matte finish over the gloss, because that I mean that sucks, I hate how you know you can't even handle the device you wipe it down and as soon as you grab it full of fingerprints, it's terrible! I, like the feedback. You get from the buttons on the screen, that's pretty cool uh, but other than that you know I. I can't, I can't in good, conscious, recommend this phone unless you're able to get it for free, and you absolutely need to be in the Samsung ecosystem. So yeah, that's the uh, the Samsung Galaxy a32 5g.

In a nutshell, do I recommend it? No, if you really love Samsung, and you can't afford the flagship, then it might be for you but honestly my opinion and my recommendation would be to go with a pixel device or save your money and get a flagship, Samsung device stray away from this guy. Okay, that's all I have for this one. Thank you again for stopping by. Please smash that like button. If you enjoyed this video, I hope you have a great afternoon and like always thank you for watching.

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