Samsung Galaxy A51 - Complete Review! By Kevin Breeze

Is, the Samsung Galaxy 851 a good phone to buy well in this video we're going to find out hi everyone. This is Kevin here coming at you with my Samsung Galaxy, a 51 review. Now I'm really excited to create this review, because Samsung did an excellent job, designing this device. It's pretty much almost like my dream, smartphone in fact, I can't think of too many ways they could have made this better than they did, and I'll be going through. The reasons why, throughout this video now, if you are looking to buy, this I will be leaving a link in the video description. In fact, I'll be leaving two different links, one to where you can get it on Amazon and then also a link to get it at B&H.

Now those are links to buy it if you're located in the US, but this is an international phone, so you are going to get great GSM compatibility. You all around the world now in the u. s. This device is currently retailing for three hundred and twenty-nine dollars so a little more expensive than some of the devices that I typically cover here on the channel, but at the same time it still is offering a lot of value for what you're paying now I'm expecting that this spring, this phone will be making its way over to various carriers in the US. So I'm certainly excited for that, and I'm sure those carriers will offer a ton of different promotions to kind of bring the price of the phone down.

But at the moment this is the only version of the galaxy, a 51 that you can buy and that is the international factory unlocked GSM version of the phone. So it's great, if you're located anywhere around the world, they use the GSM carrier, especially in the US, if you're, using AT&T, T-Mobile Metro by T-Mobile cricket or other smaller GSM carriers, like mint mobile I've personally been using this device with Cricket Wireless, and it's worked really well later on in the video I'll show you a performance test of this device with cricket, but it has worked extremely well now. The Samsung Galaxy 51 features a 6.5 inch display with an infinity Oh at the top. So, unlike the galaxy, a 50 which featured a water drop notch, this device does have the Infinity, oh and I personally, prefer it another nice thing to of this infinity. Oh, is that's actually tiny.

You can see how tiny it is, and it's really amazing that they were able to pack in a 32 megapixel front-facing camera in that punch out now the display features Corning Gorilla, Glass 3, it's Super AMOLED and features a resolution of 1080p. In addition to that, we're getting a 405 PPI and a 20 by 9 aspect ratio. I personally, like that aspect ratio a lot because it really does maximize the screen real estate that you get while still making the device they're easy to hold. You can see: I have no problem, holding the phone with one hand and of course, if you are holding it kind of towards the bottom here, it is tough to reach the top of the phone, but for using in social media applications like Facebook and Instagram. It's great because you'll be able to see more of your feed and then, when you're, watching videos with this device, it does make it either.

Immersive experience now also make sure to check out my videos comparing this device to the 850 and then also the 820, but one of the things that I did notice is that despite this phone featuring Super AMOLED as the display technology, it's not quite as contrasting as those other devices. Now that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it seems like Samsung, did tone down the saturation a little with the galaxy a 51 it kind of makes it look more natural anyways. So I actually don't mind that. But you can see here how crisp and clear the display is. It looks fantastic, and it looks like the kind of display that you'd find with a flagship devices like the Galaxy, S, 10 or Galaxy Note 10 7 take any compromises when putting a really great-looking display in the galaxy a 51.

Now there are several storage configurations available for the device. Now this configuration is the 128 gigabyte version of the phone now with 128 gigs you're. Also getting 6 gigabytes of RAM, and that is the version I will be linking in the video description. I believe you can also get it with 64 gigabytes of storage, but then you get less RAM at just 4 gigabytes. The Samsung Galaxy 851 does not feature wireless charging, but we do get a fingerprint sensor built into the display.

So I'll show you how that works right. Now, it's very quick, responsive and accurate and in fact, compared to the fingerprints that comes with the galaxy, a 50. They did make some improvements with making it more accurate. Now, one of the most exciting features with the galaxy, a 51 certainly has to be the camera module we're getting four different cameras with the device. So it is a quad camera setup we're getting a 48 megapixel main camera, a 12 megapixel ultra wide-angle camera, a 5 megapixel depth, sensing camera to assist with the live, focused portrait mode, and we're getting a 5 megapixel macro camera.

So that's right: we are getting a macro camera with this phone and that's a unique feature and something that we're gaming compared to the galaxy 850. In addition to that, the actual megapixel count for the main and ultra wide-angle cameras is also higher compared to the galaxy 850 and later on in the video I will show you a quick side by side but also check out my separate comparison, video where I really go in depth. Now you can access that macro camera by going over to the more tab here, and then you'll see macro right there, but essentially with macro. You have to be 3 to 5 centimeters away from the object, so you can see that I can get a perfect close-up of this box, and I'll pull up the photo right here and there you go. Look at that.

Look at how crisp and clear that is, and it's almost like a microscope in a sense that you're really able to get extremely close to whatever you're taking a photo of now later on in the video I will show you some photo and video samples from the device. But I did take some pictures using the macro camera of a leaf, and it's really awesome how much detail you can see. Then the main 48 megapixel camera looks perfect too. It's almost up to a flagship level of quality seriously, though it really doesn't leave you with anything to be desired. As far as the quality goes, as it really does look awesome, then, switching over to the ultra wide-angle camera, you can really fit a ton of content here in the frame.

So that's excellent. Then, of course, there's live focus which will blur out the background you do have the ability to manually adjust the blur, which is great and then the front-facing camera looks perfect too I. Have it on the live focus mode right now, but I'm going to switch over to the normal mode, and what's cool about the front-facing camera? Is that there's actually a little of a wider setting too? So it makes it just a little wider, not as wide as an ultra wide-angle camera would be, but you can see the difference there that it certainly does fit a little more content in the frame there compared to the standard front-facing camera mode. But that really comes in handy if you're trying to take a group selfie. So I'm really happy that Samsung did implement that with the Galaxy a 51.

Now in my first impressions, video many people are asking what this little bump out is on the top right side of the device. Some people thought it was some sort of defect or a notch. In fact, what this is that when you swipe over you get instant access to whatever apps you choose to put here, so this is called the edge screen, and it's a really useful feature, and it's nice how you can access that from any application. So a nice, quick shortcut there I recommend customizing this and putting your most used. Apps in this section, it'll make it really convenient, but getting back to the specifications of the Samsung Galaxy 851, like I mentioned a little ago, we're hitting 6 gigabytes of RAM with this version of the phone, and we're getting the Samsung Enos 6 9 1 1 processor, now I did run the an tutu benchmark test to see what score we get, and you can see here with the Galaxy a 51.

We got a total score of one seven, seven, five, nine four, with a CPU score of five seven, one, zero, four, so a very good score. There you're going to get pretty nice performance with that score. It's certainly not up to a flagship level, but it is significantly better than what you're getting with the Galaxy a 20, and it's also slightly better than what you're getting with the Galaxy 850, which features the Enos 9 6 1 is 0, so they're awesome score there. What I recommend doing is downloading the an tutu benchmark app on your device that you're currently using and then compare that score to this score. Another awesome surprise with the galaxy a 51 is that we get 4k.

Video recording with the front and rear cameras like I mentioned earlier later on in the video I, will show you some photo and video samples. So you can see for yourself how good the video quality is, but spoiler alert. It actually looks perfect and the microphone quality with the galaxy. A 51 is one of the biggest surprises. It has a perfect internal microphone.

So that's great if you're doing any sort of narration when you're recording videos now the device features a beefy 4000 million power internal battery- in fact that's a larger internal battery than what you're getting with the Galaxy Note 10-4 the note, but really awesome for the Galaxy a 51. Another awesome thing is that the phone is compatible with 15 watt fast charging, so you can quickly charge up the phone now. The software on here is Android 10. It does feature Samsung's skin. So if you're used to that already from Samsung, then it's going to be very familiar, so really cool.

The phone does ship with the latest and greatest version of Android, and I'd. Imagine that the phone will get updated later on to Android 11, since Samsung has promised to upgrade the Galaxy a 50 to Android 10, eventually, I, don't know when that's going to be, but I think it's going to happen in probably the next three months or so. But if you go with the galaxy a 51, then you're going to have the latest version of Android right away, but I really do like the hardware of this device. I already talked about the front panel here, it's really nice how good of a screen a body ratio you're getting I like that this bottom bezel down here was certainly shrunken down compared to the 50, and you're really getting an awesome screen of body ratio with the galaxy a 51 and again like I mentioned earlier. They made the Infinity, oh tiny, and it doesn't really get in the way at all.

So I, really like that approach better than a pop-up front-facing camera. Now taking a look on the left side of the device, we have the slot for the micro SD card and SIM card now, based on the version of the phone that you get, the slot is gonna, be a little different and what I mean by that is that this is the international version of the galaxy 851, and it is a dual SIM now what's really cool. Is that not only is it dual SIM, but you're getting dedicated slots for both SIM cards and an SD card, because sometimes the second SIM card slot is shared with the SD card slot. So if you do decide to go with two sims, you can't put in an SD card, but with the way that the galaxy 851 is designed you can put in two SIM cards and one micro SD card at the same time take a look on the right side of the phone. We have the power button and volume button, then on the top of the noise-canceling microphone and then on the bottom of the phone with the speaker, microphone, USB, C, port for charging and data transfer, and we have a 3.5, millimeter, headphone jack. So another great surprise.

There, then, on the back side of the device. We have that quad camera set up with the flash, and then we have a really material in the back, which is known as glass. Stick, it's like a combination of glass and plastic, but I really like the way it looks, and I'm huge fan of this color. But the phone is offered in a variety of different colors. You can get it in prison, crush black white, blue and pink, but again we're getting a very quick and accurate fingerprint sensor built into the display.

Here so I really appreciate that and what's cool is, is that with this design it almost looks like a mini Galaxy Note 10 with it, but you're also saving a ton of money, so I don't even see a reason to get a flagship phone when we have great options like the Galaxy. A 51. Now here is the box of the phone Canaan. Now keep in mind that, based on the specific version of the device that you buy, the accessories that are included might be a little different, but you can see on the front of the box. We have a picture of the phone itself now opening up the box.

We have this little box within a box. Furthermore, we get a SIM card removal tool that comes with the phone, so that's very cool, but then also another surprise is that this phone came with a case now. This case is nothing too impressive and there's a lot of accessories already available for the a51, but it is cool at least to see that we do get a clear plastic case included in the box and if you do want to get something that is a bit more protective, then it's a good temporary case until your main case arrives. We also get a Quick Start Guide in both English and Spanish, and a warranty card now keep in mind that not every version of the phone comes with a case included I'm, not really sure which one's doing which ones don't I know that some people commented on my first impressions, video that their galaxy, a 51 did not come with a clear case. So I don't think it's a dealbreaker one way or another, but cross your fingers that yours will come with a case.

So here is the box that the 51 comes in. You can see with a picture of the phone right here on the front, also a 51 right there and then Samsung Galaxy a 51 on the side. Now, let's take a look and see what all is included, we get Quick-start guides in both English and Spanish, as well as a warranty card and my galaxy. A 51 came with a clear plastic case included in the box. Now, based on some of the comments that I've gotten on my other a51 videos.

It looks like some phones do not come with the case, so I'm not sure which ones do and which ones don't. It depends on where you're ordering it from, but I'm glad to see that mine didn't come with one. Of course, this is a very simple and basic case that doesn't provide a ton of protection, but still nice to see that it is included. What's especially awesome about the 851. Is that there's already a bunch of different accessories available on Amazon and other places online? So you're going to have no issues finding a bunch of cases screen, protectors and other various accessories for the phone now also included in the box is an adaptive fast charging wall adapter we're also getting some basic headphones here.

These are 3.5 millimeter headphones, and we get a USB cable for charging and data transfer but nice to see that it is included here in the box, but that's pretty much everything that you're getting so not a ton of accessories, but still pretty cool. At least that I did get a free case included now, like I mentioned earlier in the video I've, had a great experience so far using the Galaxy 851 with Cricket Wireless, so super easy to get it set up. Literally, all I had to do is put the sim card in the phone and talk text and data immediately started. Working I didn't even have to adjust the APN settings at all, but I'm now calling my iPhone 11 hello, hello, hello, so calling works really well. Everything is really clear.

With that sending text messages is nice and quick here, I'll send one back, and you can see it's really quick to send messages back and forth. So just know that if you use Cricket Wireless you're going to have a great experience using it with the Samsung Galaxy 851. Let's now do a data speed test you can see down below it says AT&T Wireless and that's because cricket is owned by AT&T and I got speeds of 8 megabits per second down in 7.57 up and that's perfect, because cricket is supposed to offer 8 megabits per second data speeds and I know: that's not really that quick, but that's what they offer. So the 8:51 does a great job handling cricket. Another great thing too, with the a51 is that it supports 5, gigahertz Wi-Fi, so I'll show you a speed test right now, and I actually pay for 150 megabits per second down and about 15 up, and you can see here with the download I'm, certainly getting everything that I'm paying for so the speeds here, just as good, if not better than what I get with my main computer.

So if you are paying for very good Wi-Fi speeds and just know that you're going to get those speeds with your 51, and it's not going to slow anything down and then the upload is pretty much what I typically get on my computer as well. The galaxy a 51 is a great device for watching YouTube content and really any video content you can see here. I was able to crop the video in to fill up the entire display, and it really is a very immersive experience. In addition to that, the speaker quality with the a51 is really loud and clear. So I'm really happy about that to you, but you can see how good everything looks here.

Excellent colors and the Infinity oh and left side here really doesn't take up too much space at all and is hardly intrusive, so I think it's a better approach than having a water drop notch. That's for sure, and you can see the two bezels on the left and right sides are pretty much about the same, maybe slightly thicker with the bottom bezel here on the right side, but the screen of body ratio with the galaxy 851 is amazing. Now, if you want to, you can crop down to the normal aspect ratio if you wish, so you can see that that looks perfect as well with the foam. So in general, this phone is a beast for watching video content. Now, if you like to use Instagram, you're gonna, really like the Samsung, Galaxy 851 and there's multiple reasons for that, the first reason is that, since the phone does have that 20 by 9 aspect ratio, you can see a lot more content in your feed, but also the display itself is really clear.

So you'll be able to see your various IG photos with a lot of clarity, and then you can zoom in of course, if you want now, the actual scrolling here is really smooth too. It's almost like flagship style performance with the 851 when going on Instagram, which I'm certainly a big fan of now. If you do want to take photos and videos, everything looks perfect, as you can see here and then, if you want to view your stories, you can quickly go through those there's, no problems either so using an Instagram with the galaxy 851 works really well. Let's now take a look at some test photos from the Samsung Galaxy 851 overall I'm very impressed with the quality from the cameras now the device. Of course, has the quad camera setup and the main camera the 48 megapixel camera has excellent quality, in fact, I think for a lot of people they might have trouble seeing a difference between the quality with the photo is taken by the 51 compared to a flagship device like the galaxy s 10.

The pictures really do. Look that good now, I think where the flagships certainly do better is with low-light photography compared to the 51. But as long as you take pictures in well-lit environments, you're going to get perfect results with the 51. Another nice thing to you is that the pictures from the ultra wide-angle camera look perfect. I was also surprised to see that the clarity with the ultra wide-angle camera is nearly as good as the main camera, because, typically a lot of device manufacturers do mostly focus on the quality from the main camera and then don't focus as much on optimizing ultra wide-angle camera, or they use a cheaper lens for the for wide-angle camera.

Now, there's no doubt that, since the ultra wide-angle camera is 12 megapixels compared to the 48 megapixel main camera. There are some downsides to using it as far as the clarity goes, but I was able to take some great pictures with it and I certainly think the way that they implemented. It makes it very usable. The macro camera is a really nice feature to see as well with the 51 I. Don't know if there's that many real-life situations where you would need to use the macro camera, but I certainly don't mind having it as a feature, and it does take nice.

Looking fascinating. Pictures I wouldn't really recommend using the macro camera in indoor environments, but if you are taking pictures outdoors, especially of nature and taking pictures of leaves and tree bark and things like that, that's really where the macro camera shines. You get live, focus mode, of course, with the depth sensing camera and that works really well too. So, overall, the cameras that the galaxy a 51 are certainly one of the biggest highlights and I. Think it's really the biggest new feature of this phone brings to the table, and it really is a nice improvement compared to the photo to video quality from the 850.

Definitely let me know what you think of the photo quality in the comment section below, but let's now take a look at some video samples from the device hi everyone. This is Kevin here coming at you with a video quality test from the Samsung Galaxy, a 51 in 4k. This is with the main camera right after this I'll do a sample in 4k using the wide-angle camera. But let me know what you think of the quality from the device: here's the close-up on this tree and here's a front video with 4k. So let me know what you think so: yeah really impressive from what I can see through the viewfinder at least so really awesome.

Here's a 4k video sample with the Samsung Galaxy, a 51 using the ultra wide-angle camera. So let me know how you think this compares to the main camera and, if you think it's better or if it's not better now here is the galaxy 851 up next to the galaxy, a 50. So technically, this phone is the successor to this phone, and you can see side-by-side here. Both devices do look really nice. Now, the 50! Certainly has a more saturated display and I personally prefer having a little less saturation with the 51 I feel like they kind of overdid it with the 50, but regardless both displays, look perfect, and they're, both of course using Super AMOLED technology.

Now there are some major design differences, though, between these two devices, the first thing that's different is up top here. So with the 51 we are getting, the infinity Oh display and the Infinity Oh up top and with the 50 we're getting a water drop notch. Another difference, too, is that it seems like the corners with the 51 or a bit more squared off compared to you the corners on the 50 and that's going to give you a little more screen real estate. Another difference is that, on the bottom of the two devices, with the 51 we get a smaller bezel, which is certainly an improvement I'm, a big fan of now pretty much all the other aspects to the designs of these two devices are very similar, but the camera modules are a bit different. We're, of course, getting the macro camera with the 51, which is the feature that the 50 does not have.

So we have this square camera module here with the 51 which is similar to the camera, module design that you get with the Google Pixel for an iPhone, 11 I. Think both phones look really nice, though, and even though I prefer the design of the 51 compared to the 50. The 50 still looks really nice, and I do like the design of it. A lot now, one of the biggest improvements that I've noticed, especially with the galaxy a 51 compared to the galaxy. A 50 is the fingerprint sensor.

That's in the display. They made a lot of improvements, making the fingerprint sensor more accurate with the 51 and in fact, when I was setting up the 50 and adding, in my thumb, print I literally made about six or seven attempts to get my thumb to register with the phone. But after a while with each failed attempt, the phone would reject my thumbprint and that's after this phone has gotten quite a few software updates. Now come paired to the 51 I was able to quickly add in my thumbprint with no issues at all it successfully registered with the first attempts, and that's really the way it should be, so it looks like Samsung must have implemented some major improvements with their fingerprint technology with the Galaxy a 51. Now here's the Samsung Galaxy a 20, another phone- that's been very popular here on my channel, but you can see in this side by side.

The two devices are actually very similar in size and the h1t features a lot of design similarities with the 50. So I will have a dedicated comparison. Video with these two phones, but you can see here we have the 20. We have the water-drop notch with this device and then on the back. We just have a dual camera setup and then there's a fingerprint sensor on the back as well.

So the designs of these two phones are certainly a lot different, but the age 20 is also quite a bit cheaper, you're going to be saving a hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars with the 20 compared to the 851. Now, I'm, certainly looking forward to the age 21 getting announced there too soon, hopefully and then getting launched, and when that happens, I will be getting that phone to compare it to the galaxy, a 51 so make sure to subscribe to my channel. So you don't miss out on that content, but of course, at the 51 you're getting much better cameras, you're getting a macro camera too, and then you're getting much better performance as well with a significantly better processor compared to the age.20 you're, also getting a lot of extra RAM as well. So is the Samsung Galaxy 851 worth it. Well, if you haven't noticed yet from watching this, video I do like the smell and quite a bit and there's a good reason for it.

I really can't think of anything with this device that I don't like. Maybe the only thing that I wish it had been wireless charging, but for the price I certainly understand why it doesn't have that feature. Samsung really did a great job, designing the galaxy, a 51, and it's pretty much a zero compromise budget phone. It does everything very well, so I think it's a great value, of course, I'm sure some people in the comments are going to wish. It was a little cheaper, but I would say for the price.

Furthermore, it's well worth it now. If you do want to save some money, then you can certainly go the route of the a20 instead and if you do decide to go that route. I have plenty of videos on the channel about this device, so certainly check all those out, but I hope this video helped. You decide whether to buy the Samsung Galaxy a 51 again, if you want to learn more about this product, take a look at the links in the video description to see the most up-to-date pricing and where you can buy it, but I hope you enjoyed this video. This is Kevin here, make sure to follow me on Instagram and Twitter at Kevin, breeze, TV and I will see you in the next video, oh also make sure to subscribe, but take care and have a great day.

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