Samsung Galaxy A71 (Dual Sim) Review - After 4 Months - BEST MID RANGE PHONE in 2020 By Michael Liu

Hey, what's up everyone, so in today's video I'm going to give a quick review of the Samsung Galaxy a71 and my experiences of using it for almost four months now this review is not going to be about the technical specs or any speed comparisons, or anything like that, but rather what this phone feels like on a day-to-day basis when you use it for about four months or so. First, I'd like to say that the phone's screen is absolutely amazing and for this price point, which is a mid to upper range smartphone, I don't think you're going to get a better screen than this. So getting an AMOLED, you know full 1080p. I think the screen resolution is 2400 by 1080 screen on this is you're really not going to get that anywhere else and though it's a 60 hertz display, it doesn't really matter because the 120 hertz on a lot of the screens nowadays is going to drain your battery life anyways. So in terms of screen, brightness clarity, everything like that you just can't get better than this phone now real, quick. The phone does come with a few things, so it comes with this superfast charger.

It comes with some headphones, not the nice AKG ones, but decent ones, and it comes with a charging cable. So the version I got is the international version, which means it has dual sim. If you watch any of my other videos, I did a comparison of this and the s20 plus and both of those are dual sim versions, because dual sim is very important to me. So the good thing about fast charging- and this is superfast charging, which means it's 25 watts- is you're able to charge this phone, which has a pretty big 4500 William battery from zero to a hundred in just about one hour now I never actually had to use this superfast charger. It's you USB c to USB, but I have USB charging ports all around my house and I just find myself topping it up only if it's convenient, but I never had to so.

That brings me to the next point. The battery life on this phone is absolutely amazing. Now 4 500 William hours for a fairly large screen. I think this is 6.7 inches or something it. It doesn't seem like much.

It seems like you know. If it was a 5, 000, William battery or 5500 William battery, it would be even better, but no 4, 500 William hours on this snapdragon 730 that basically sips power and the 60 hertz screen that also just sips power lasts. You are a good two days now using this phone for the past four months. I've noticed that this is one of the best battery life phones. I've ever used in the likes of you know iPhone pro max.

Even I remember when the iPhone 8 plus came out a lot of the Samsung Galaxy notes. This beats all of them, so this battery life. I think it's because it doesn't have a flagship chip in it. Uh, it's just amazing. So the next thing I want to talk about is the build.

Now a lot of people are slamming on this phone because it's not glass. Well, honestly, you can't tell that it's not glass, the back is glass, stick, which means it's actually plastic, but it has a nice. You know glow rainbow effect to it. If you have it in the light- and it has a nice checkered pattern, so the build quality of this phone, I would say, is actually one of my favorites. The main reason why I picked up this phone is because of how thin it is like just look at that.

It says it's 7.8 millimeters or something like that, but this feels thinner than the s20 plus. It definitely feels thinner than the s20 ultra, and it feels thinner than any of the new iPhone 11 pros so coming from the iPhone 11 Pro that was one of the biggest differences is just how thin and how light this phone feels in the hand and because it's not that expensive of a phone, and I've said this in my other review as well, you aren't afraid of using it without a case. Furthermore, it does come with a small protective case and the case on it that it comes with is actually really nice. Furthermore, it's nice and thin, and it's free, but something about this phone. You don't have to use it with a case and when you don't use it with the case, it feels absolutely amazing.

Now I'm not going to go too much into you, know the ports and all the sides of the phones, there's so many other videos on YouTube that you can watch for that. But I am going to talk about the headphone jack, so it does come with a headphone jack and even though, nowadays, you know a lot of us, don't use wired headphones. I would use it once in a while, but only if it was just a convenient thing for me to just grab and plug in most of the time I would use my Galaxy Buds or AirPods, but you know what having a headphone jack even on one of these mid-tier phones is actually really great. It has one downward firing speaker, and it doesn't have the surround sound dual speaker system. So that's kind of one of the cons of this phone is when you're watching any type of content, you're only getting the audio out of one side, and if you kind of have your finger on that area, you block out the audio.

So that's you know it's something that you have to get used to and if you play audio really loud, the speaker tends to crackle a little so, like I said, the battery life is amazing. On this phone and even though it is, it is just a 60 hertz screen. You know it's hard to notice the 120 hertz. If you don't have it right, you don't miss what you don't have so 60 hertz is fine. The screen is absolutely beautiful, and the battery life is amazing.

The next thing I want to talk about is NFC, so this phone does have NFC and NFC is very important for me, because I wear the galaxy watch active2, and I'm able to make payments using the watch, and I'm also able to make payments using a phone, and I really like how Google Pay works. So I know the a51 in a lot of areas doesn't have NFC, but this does. The a71 does have NFC. So with Google Pay once you set up all your cards, and you link everything it's better, I would say than even Apple Pay, because on Apple Pay, you have to swipe up, you have to face unlock, and then you have to tap it, but with this as long as it's on any screen. So as long as it's unlocked, you can be in a chat program or browsing the internet, and they ask you to pay you just tap it and right.

When you tap it, a payment prompt will come up on here, and it'll, say payment complete. So it's the easiest way that I've ever used for any contactless payment method is Google Pay, and this has that so the next thing I want to talk about is price. Now price is really important, because nowadays, you know with 2020 and Ovid and everyone's in lockdown and everyone's you know we're in a recession. We nobody has that much money anymore. So we're all looking on ways to save, and now they're coming out with these flagship phones.

I know the note 20 ultra just came out and all in all these other flagships that are 1000 plus us dollars, and here in Canada you know it's about 1700 or 1800 Canadian dollars. This phone is 500, bucks, Canadian, I think it's 300 U. S. , maybe 300 pounds and for 500, we'll just call it one third of the ultra phones and one half of the flagship phones. So you can get two of these for one s20, and you can get three of these for one s20 ultra or no 20 ultra now.

That does mean something, because how fast honestly do you need your phone to be you don't need it to be so fast in the sense that you need to run. You know four or five apps in the background, all at the same time, and you're switching between all the time. Let's be honest, most of us use our phones for YouTube and maybe some chat, apps and maybe the occasional photo, and maybe internet browsing, that's about it. So, between those things, this phone doesn't lag at all the only time it would lag is if you open YouTube and you, and you go back to the home screen and the YouTube goes down into the picture-in-picture mode. That processes kind of makes it lag just a little, but it doesn't make it lag that much it's noticeable and the other thing that makes it lag just a little is if you open the camera, and you try to snap some photos.

So when you do that, it's a little slow but not slow to the point where it doesn't. You know it doesn't work or something so overall, I would say even you know, on the camera mode, it's fine it's acceptable, and it's definitely usable the little cutout on the top is tiny. Now we all know the back has a bunch of other cameras. You can watch other videos about those, but it doesn't really matter how many cameras you have most of the time you're using the main camera. The main 48 megapixel camera has a macro camera.

It's fun to show off once and that's it. You're only going to open it once and all the other ones, the wide angle it's nice to have sometimes telephoto, that's all right, but the main you know the front camera is one that you're going to use a lot you're going to use it for a lot of video chatting selfies, and you're going to use it for the face unlock. So this does have a face unlock, and it has the fingerprint unlock in screen. So it's an optical reader which is not as good, I would say, as the ultrasonic ones in the s20, but it does work now. I've said this in my other video as well.

It works some times and I find myself. If I do a lot of work and my fingers get really chaffed, then it doesn't work that that well because, obviously it goes off of an image of your fingerprint. But if your hands are kind of nice and moisturized- and I was- I was sure to moist moisturize my hands before doing this video because it didn't really work in the last video, then it works quite often, and I would say on a normal daily basis. It works at least fifty percent of the time, if not more, so it's not horrible. The speed is pretty quick, and it gets the job done now.

The other thing is the face unlock. So when you raise it to your face, it will unlock to the home screen, and you can have an option where you can swipe up to go to the home screen, or it will always just unlock straight to the home screen. That's the option. I have, and it uses the front camera, but it doesn't use any 3d technology. It uses an image of your face.

So if you have a photo of your face- and you do that- it'll unlock as well, so it's not as secure, but it's good enough for most of us, I would say you can also set some trusted devices and trusted areas in this phone, and I think that's just a feature of android and the Samsung UI on here, where you can keep the phone unlocked if it's within the proximity of your watch or whether it's in the proximity of your home. So basically it can keep it unlocked based on GPS or based on a Bluetooth device nearby. So that's what I have it as and most of the time when I'm home, especially now during lockdown it'll, stay, unlocked all the time. So those both of those unlock features and then obviously, you have pin and stuff work pretty well. You can have both of them set up at the same time for all payment methods.

It's not like iPhone where you can pay using your face unlock because that's, I guess, secure enough to do so, but for this one you have to pay using your fingerprint, and you can set up three fingerprints in this and as long as you set up all three, so I have my left thumb uh my right thumb and then my index finger. So as long as you set up at least three fingers you'll be okay, one of them will have to work. You know if you're doing work around the house. Work using your right hand well go with your left hand and then do the fingerprint unlock. So I don't have a huge issue with those.

It's not perfect, not like the iPhone, but it's not a huge issue. Now, if you own this a71, and I'd, be very curious as to how many of you actually currently own this phone, or maybe you own the a51. If you do, let me know in the comment section below, because I'm very curious whether you think this phone is slow for everyday use. I don't. I think this phone is really zippy, but there are two things that I did to make.

This phone feel a little faster, and I think it made it feel substantially faster. So, as you can see now, I turned these off just for the sake of this video, but it has the animations right. So the first thing I did was: I turned off all animations, so you go into your settings and then on the search bar up here you just search, remove animations, and you actually have to type it in now. This is another thing any setting that you search on this settings bar is really slow to populate. I don't know why they didn't index it or whatever the reason might be, but it's just really slow to populate.

So you go to remove animations, which is under accessibility. You see it highlighted it, and then you just push that little toggle, and then it removes animations. Now everything feels a lot faster, so you press something and just pops up now. The animation is nice. If you have a really fast processor, so it doesn't lag at all, but sometimes if you're switching between a lot of apps- and this is another feature I use a lot- is if you double tap on the multitasking, it goes back to the last app that you use.

So if you do that with animations, it lags a little without animations, it's actually really nice and the next feature that makes it feel faster. Now I don't know if it actually makes it faster, probably not, but it makes it feel faster is. If you go to sounds and vibrations, and you go down into system, sound touch interactions. So you turn that on now, every time you touch something it makes a ticking sound and that ticking sound makes the phone feel a lot faster. I don't know if you can pick it up, but it makes just this tick, tick, tick, sound and because that sound every single time you touch the screen, and you try to open an app or you.

You know touch something like going to a website link or whatever it will make a tick before it loads and that tick tells you that it knows you've made that input. So I think I can there we go so here I'll, try to let you listen to it so right when you press something it ticks, and that just makes it feel a lot faster. I've used this phone for about a month without the tick, and it felt slow. But then I used the phone for about a month with the tick, and I was like wow. My phone feels a lot faster, so I highly recommend turning on the tick now.

Overall, this phone has been very pleasant to use. I've used it for about four months and I would probably continue using it if I wasn't such a tech nerd. So if I was just going about my life without thinking of the newest tech and everything that was sufficient in a smartphone for me, this is it so the dual sim great battery life, the great display the speed is enough. You know it's enough to play any game out there. The cameras are great, it's enough, so this is probably one of the best phones for me and at 500 bucks.

I can break three of them before I feel like I spent money on a know no 20 ultra, so I really think that smartphones have plateaued a little, and it's hard to make phones exponentially better, and this phone is good enough. Another thing I like about it is the edges. So the edges, unlike a lot of the flagships out there are not curved, so there's a tiny little bezel, but you would virtually you know you wouldn't be able to realize that it's even there, but the good thing about that tiny little bezel is, if you kind of have like fat hands like me, and- and you do this, and some of your you know hand goes over the screen that part right. There would register on the s20 and, if that's registering, I can't scroll if that's registering right, but on this phone, as you see it doesn't register. So, no matter how I hold it, it kind of just knows that you know it doesn't have palm rejection.

At least not as an option, because it's not supposed to have that issue, it doesn't have the curved screen and that's a huge thing like yes, maybe the waterfall affinity display whatever it's called is a nice feature, but they don't have the palm rejection down enough that it won't reject that, and if I take out my s20 plus real quick you'll, see that the screen does go over the edges a little, and because of that, if I have my palm on the screen like this a lot of times, it doesn't want to register. Sometimes it sometimes does it doesn't. But I realize that a lot of times it doesn't like to register. So that's another good thing about this phone now, like I said I use this for four months, but I'm switching I'm switching back to the s20 plus so for about the last couple of weeks. I've been using these two phones side by side, and I did a comparison on them.

So I'm not going to go into that in this video, but I started using these side by side so one day and one the other day and the only reason I would want to switch to the s20 plus- and this is the dual sim international Enos version- is because I want to experience just how fast the flagships can get and it is the phone is faster. You can't compare the latest snapdragon chip to a mid-range snapdragon chip, but this one is fast enough that you won't really notice a difference and the 120hz display on this, which is nice, but I never turn it on so right now. This is at 60hz it's on quad HD, which means I can watch YouTube in 1440p, which is nice, but I don't have the 120 hertz turned on because of the battery life and because of the xenon chip. If I keep the 120 hertz on for the s20 plus, then the battery overheats, it kills the battery life by about 20 to 30 percent and overall, the phone just doesn't feel as nice. So I turn off.

The 120hz display turn on the quad HD, and I've been using it like that. So, overall, if you're, considering this phone, whether you're coming from an a51, maybe an a20, a 21, a 50, this phone is substantially better and if you're coming from the a70, which was last year's version, this phone is also substantially better, like the benchmarks from the a70. Compared to this one are noticeably different, so any phone, I would say below a71- and this is pretty much the flagship now they're, not making the ones higher than this. So any phone below this, I would get this phone. I would even get this phone in the likes of the Pixel 4a, the one that just came out.

I would get this phone, it's bigger, it's thinner! It just feels nicer in the hands uh. You can make an argument for the OnePlus word I haven't played around with that phone. Yet I don't know, but overall, this phone is amazing if you're coming from any other phone below this get this phone. If it's a decent price, and you can get some decent prices, I'll leave a link in the description below as to where you can get this. I got mine on Amazon here in Canada.

I just checked that in the US you can get on Amazon as well the dual sim international version. It says it doesn't have warranty, but don't worry about that. I think it's fine. If anything goes wrong, they just buy another one right. It's only 500 bucks.

So that's my review on this phone. If you enjoyed this content, please consider subscribing and giving a like to this video, I'm very, very curious as to what phone you guys are using and if you're watching a video like this, and you're, not using you know one of the boring flagship phones out there. I want to know- and I want to know how it compares to this phone. If you already have this phone, and you have some complaints about it. Let me know as well, because I'd like to compare my experiences with your experiences now.

This phone has never heated up for me. It's never had any issues. So, for me, this phone has been solid, except the speakers are kind of iffy, but other than that the phone has been solid. So thank you so much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it, so I'll see you in the next video.

Source : Michael Liu