Samsung Galaxy A80 Review: Solid Phone, But Overpriced By ben's gadget reviews

This video is sponsored by Squarespace your one-stop shop, to build the website of your dreams. Everybody so about three months ago, I showed you guys the Samsung Galaxy AAT, but for some reason, Samsung Hong Kong declined to release that phone here in Hong Kong instead releasing it in Southeast Asia, but I managed to get a hold of the phone anyway. So I have here on me the Samsung, Galaxy AAT and in case you've forgotten what phone this is. This is the phone with that really crazy, pop-up camera. Okay, I, don't know if the cameras got that, but the pop-up mechanism was a little choppy a little jerky right and that's actually one of the flaws about this phone that I'm going to go into later. I didn't expect it to show at the beginning of the video.

So good thing it did that's because this pop-up mechanism is just a little. Um wonky, it's not as fast and not doesn't, doesn't feel as sturdy as any of the pop-up mechanism that we've seen in the Opel Phoenix or VIVO NIC's, or the OnePlus 7 pro. So this pop-up camera allows you to get a completely uninterrupted display. This is a six point. Seven-inch OLED screen with an N display fingerprint reader back of this phone is pretty nice.

This car, its glass, has this little reflective magnetic look to it. I quite like there's a triple camera setup here, so this serves as the selfie camera TV. So not so. This is headlined by 40, a megapixel main sensor from Samsung, it's an F, 2.0 lens and then there's an 8 megapixel wide-angle camera that I'm a little worried about because a megapixel just isn't that many pixels for a wide-angle shot and then finally, you have a TOF camera. So TOF, it's basically a 3d sensor.

So this will allow you to take bulky images, and I'm for my testing so far it actually works pretty well. So, in terms of overall build, this is pretty nice. This is a myth here: phone Samsung selling for 650 bucks overall build quality is pretty nice other than that pop up camera being quite wonky, and one thing I want to add: it's Samsung even fixed the power button. On the Samsung Galaxy s, 10, the power button was really high up on the phone on these phones. Actually, we should all right here just like that, so this one runs on a Snapdragon 730, with eight gigs of RAM in 128 gigs of internal storage, the Snapdragon to 730, it's not as good as a 55, obviously, but it's still not too bad ran a key bench, scored a 69, 11 multi-core, 25, 17 single core, so that's truly respectable and overall you're not going to encounter any performance issues other than this freaking pop-up camera right here, which I'll go into later.

So this is an OLED panel. It's a Samsung all that panel, so it looks good colors are vibrant. Viewing angles are very good. There is a little of color shifting when you tilt the phone, but not too bad at all, and just the fact that this phone has no notch no cut out. It's a very immersive screen- and this is six point, seven inches too.

So it's a large immersive screen and the phone still fits in the hand pretty nicely okay, so going into the camera app, it's um. If you use the Samsung Galaxy S 10, then you'll be very familiar with this camera interface. It's a swipe heavy interface, except now there is a night mode which I believe is in the s10 2. But yet you have to download that it will. It didn't come out the box, so it takes a loss, wiping away and just to get around all the modes, and then you have an icon right here.

You're tapping this to go in the wide angle, and you see wealth about the wide angle. I can already see that Samsung has fixed the distortion, so distortion on this is non-existent, but the middle is very soft. That's because this is an 8 megapixel, wide-angle camera, and this is also low light right now. So that's this is a pretty bad wide-angle shot. The main 40 mm eel sensor works a little better.

Now you tap on this button to bring up this pop-up selfie camera. You see the camera again, I, don't I, don't think it's supposed to be like this I think it's supposed to flip over all the way. I! Don't know! This is like a flaw or not, but so you see there are three framing modes for the selfie camera too. So the middle one is actually the 48 megapixel sensor this the coat the close-up shot. This is a digital zoom, a digital co-op, it's four years for people to take selfies to get more of the face.

But most people want to use this one because it's a wider field of view, and if you want to go to wide angle, then you do this. This is the 8 megapixel wide-angle camera. So because the Samsung Galaxy AAT has a TOF camera, you can shoot, live focus. Video too, that's basically bouquet video and in which the camera will actively pick out the subject and then blur the surrounding background. But, as you can see right now, I don't know if you can see through the camera but show you footage.

It doesn't look that good, so just stay here, babe I'm going to go around you so yeah. It is actively blurring around her hair, but actually now that I'm taking a closer look, the effects look: okay, they're, not the best, but they're, not that bad. Furthermore, it looks like a little fun. Video shooting mode, not terms of thinking still photos generally. During the day you going to get some perfect shots.

This is a standard auto shot. This is a wide angle, so you see wide angle, definitely gets a lot more into the frame and Samsung has fixed all distortion, but you lose a bit quite a bit of details when you shoot with wide angle compared to auto. So this is pixel binning image right here, so this is a 40 mm pixel shot, but this is pixel pinned to 12 megapixels. Now, unfortunately, photos only come out nice and sharp. During the day when you're using this camera at night, you immediately see a lot of noise and particularly in the wide-angle camera.

The wide-angle camera is virtually useless when you're taking photos in low light situations, so your sample this isn't shot with the main camera look. This is a pretty nice clean shot. This is around 7 p. m. when it was getting dark already and now right here, it's a wide-angle camera, and now you see look at how much heat this is and how lacking in detail.

This is that's because this is an 8 megapixel, wide-angle camera I mean I guess this is still a passable image, but considering this phone is 650 dollars and not $350 I find that hard to excuse and because you're also taking selfies with the main camera setup. That means the same problem pops up too, when you're taking selfies. So this is a selfie photo with the girlfriend and I in the evening. You can see, there's still some lights out there by starting to get a little dim. This is a decent, solid selfie.

Now we go into the wide-angle selfie, and this is a mess. I mean look at the complete lack of details on my face and a lack of details on the other face. I guess is a good thing that we don't have a lot of details on my face right here: because I don't have the best skin, but even though the wide-angle camera here, it's pretty bad in low-light situations, I'm still glad that Samsung put one in this phone because I still find it very useful, so particularly I, really like using the wine and go to shoot architecture. So right here, this is shot with the main camera at the Hong Kong high-speed rail station. Now you go on the wide-angle lens, and you see guess so much more into the frame.

This is a more interesting photo to me than this shot right here you get to see a lot more of the architecture now. Likewise, me right here. This is a shot with the main camera, and now you go to the wide-angle camera boom. You get a lot more into the frame and if you're shooting photos at night with the main camera images are pretty decent as a decent shot, but the night mode really helps a lot. So this is night mode right here you see this.

This image is a little better lit. You lose a little of details. It looks a little more over processed, but overall, this is a really nice clean, crisp looking night shot, so this is shot in Auto. This is in night mode. Now, here's another one.

This is Shawn auto, and now you go to night mode. Look at the neon lights of Hong Kong. They look so nice right- and this is a wide-angle shot right here, and it's a complete loss of details, and it's a mess. So in terms of video, when you shoot video I would highly recommend tapping on this. This is the super study mode.

So when you do that it crops into the image a little, but that will activate he is and then once that's activated you a really smooth video. This is 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second I'm walking pretty fast at the airport. This is a pretty smooth video, but now, if I don't tap on that super study mode, then the video becomes a little jerky. So now you see I'm walking in and this loses stabilization. So, overall, this camera performance I mean I, wouldn't have much to complain about if this phone cost four hundred dollars or even four hundred and fifty dollars, but because this phone is $650 I find that I cannot grade it on a curve.

This camera is below average. At this price range, I mean make no mistake, you get some pretty clean, pretty nice shot like right here, but the camera far too often misses like right here, like what the heck is happening right here. So a few more things to know about this phone, so this one has a three thousand seven hundred million mile battery and battery life is pretty good. I've been getting about four and a half hours of screen on time. That's just about enough to last me all day now also, even though the screen is excellent for consuming media, the speaker is actually pretty weak, and it's a single bottom fine speaker.

So you see this is at 50% volume in unity. Can't hear much now we'll go to max volume. You can muffle the sound very easily. Let's see we go down to even like sixty percent by volume, when our all of a sudden, you camera here and also this fingerprint scanner, is not good. So this is not an ultrasonic scanner.

This is an optical scanner, but it's not the same optical scanner and that's been used in all these other Chinese phones. Samsung is using a vendor from Taiwan called Aegis Tech and look at how slow it is now looked at the fingerprint scanner on my 1% Pro. This is from a sender and company name. Good X I made a video about this a few months back. This is the fastest fingerprint scanner in town I mean compared to the Galaxy AAT I'll pull show them side-by-side.

I mean it's night and day how much better the one-percenters fingerprint scanner is over the AAT. But you know what I can forgive all that I can forgive the kind of underwhelming camera, the slow fingerprint sensor and the single bottom fine speaker grille. The one thing that really concerns me: it's this pop-up, selfie camera, it just doesn't seem you see, is acting up again. This just doesn't seem normal I mean I, haven't been using this phone, that long I've been using this phone for like four days, and the camera is already acting up sometimes I don't know if I have a defective unit or not. I did test a Samsung Galaxy AAT a couple of months back and the camera on that popped up a little better.

But you see this one again: it's its failure. Failing to turn all the way around. This is a problem. I mean I, don't see how this mechanism will last me say: half a year, let alone one or two years of use. Okay.

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You know, overall, it's a good phone. You have a complete notch list design the in hand feels nice. It feels pretty hefty. The camera is actually pretty decent, but ultimately a 650 US dollars. The price is too damn high, because for the same class you can get a one plus seven cores, which has a better processor, a better screen, a better camera and a much better fingerprint sensor too.

So I see no reason why anyone would want to buy the Samsung Galaxy AAT over the OnePlus even though unless you're just a big fan of the Samsung branding, and even if you take away the one percent row, if you compared to a Samsung Galaxy an 82 other budget phones out there, like the Realme X or the Xiaomi me 90. This phone loses too because those phones are $350, and they basically give you the same. Chipset same camera performance same all, screen design. So even though I admire what Samsung is doing here, they're trying to think outside the box do something a little different. But ultimately this phone is just too price.

If this one's for in your box, I can recommend it better.650 I can't, especially not with this pop up camera that I don't know how long it's going to last I mean look at it. It's really buggy coming up and down like every 10 times. It comes up. There'll, be one time when it's like kind of stuck and leaves me a little worried. So that's it for now, thanks for watching.

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