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Feel like you have to spend a thousand dollars to get a good smartphone, whether it's from Google, Samsung, or Apple? Then you're going to love the Samsung Galaxy A15 Budget Android Smartphone. For under $200 it has quite a few features of its more expensive brethren but at a price almost anyone can afford. Tech expert Dave Taylor puts the Galaxy A15 through its paces, sharing tons of photos and videos along with a discussion of all the key specs and features.
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https://www.att.com/buy/phones/samsung-galaxy-a15-5g.html
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An incredibly affordable Samsung Galaxy phone. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. This is the Samsung Galaxy A15 Android smartphone
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And you are thinking, hmm, never heard of the A series. I've heard of the S series and I just reviewed the S24 plus
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beautiful phone, super expensive. The thing about the A series is that these are the entry level
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phones from Samsung and it's super interesting to check these out because they've done so much
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right. There's so much technology that's trickled down to even the most budget phones that
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it's a remarkable achievement. I will show you tons of photos and videos and we'll talk about
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all the pros and cons. Now let's start with some of the tech behind
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this because you probably won't have heard of some of these like the Media Tech 6835
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CPU you're like Media Tech I've never heard of them but they produce an alternative
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lower cost CPU and it's still an octa core with two CPUs at 2.2 gigahertz
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and six at two gigahertz this features 5G plus 4G LTE plus GSM and a whole
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bunch of other global protocols you can use this as you travel
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the world. It is affordable that if you lose it, it's not an absolute crisis. Your connectivity
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is another issue, but still, from an affordability perspective, this is really pretty sweet
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Bluetooth 5.3, the screen itself is a 6.5 inch FHD plus super AMO LED at 2340 by 1080. So 1920 by
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1080 is HD. This is a little bit more than that offering 16 million colors. So no, it's not the most
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up-to-date, super-dense, super bright screen. But you know what? I've watched videos on it. I was
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watching some sports on it and I have been just enjoying the phone for the last week or two
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And I had no issues at all with the screen It really pretty darn nice Now it features the usual array of cameras So on the back there are three cameras There a 50 megapixel a 5 megapixel and a 2 megapixel camera
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And on the front is a 13 megapixel camera. So very nice
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In terms of memory and specs, it comes with one option, 128 gigs
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And then there's 4 gig of RAM in the unit for its own processing power
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And you can drop in a microSD for up to one terabyte of additional storage
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not included in the original purchase price, but honestly, microSD cards are really inexpensive for large capacities now
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so that's a really nice option. Battery-wise, it's 5,000 mill-amp hours, which gives you up to 39 hours of talk time
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This thing runs about two days on a charge in my experience
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and it's fast charge capable, so when you plug it into a nice high wattage charge
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it can pick up a lot of charge in a very small amount of time
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I think it's like 50% in 30 minutes. Android 14, Samsung 1UI6.0
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So it is the full Samsung experience. So in a lot of ways, it's very similar to having something super fancy like that S24 plus
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but at a remarkably lower cost. So 6.3 inches by 3 inches, by 3 tenths of an inch thick
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It is seven ounces. Honestly, if you pull this out, especially if you have it in a case
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which you should, because even the least expensive phones are still somewhat fragile objects
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So put it in a case. But you pull this out with all your friends with their fancy new phones
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and they're not going to know you don't have another fancy phone because it's just another huge screen
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that gives you Android. So super easy to work with. I will compliment Samsung
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Their eco score on this is 19 out of 20, so they're almost
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perfectly nailed it and that's something that's important because you don't really want to own a
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phone that's actually hurt the environment a lot just to be assembled so we can discuss that in the
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comments if you'd like feel free to leave a comment let me just show you real quick what's in the
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box and then we'll switch to those demos because there's lots of cool stuff now in the box not a lot
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this is the AT version i should say AT loan me this phone for this review thank you AT So it comes with an AT Quick Start Guide It comes with terms and conditions
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It comes with a USBC to USB charging cable because on the bottom is a USBC charging port
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And everyone's favorite, a tiny SIM removal tool. Honestly, they should just put a paperclip in the box and just let us bend it because that's kind of fun
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But that's everything in the box. And that's the phone super quick
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Let me give you a tour of the edges. On the bottom, you can see there's a 3.5 millimeter AUX port for plugs for your headphones or earbuds
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Hallelujah. I really miss that on the more expensive phones. And that other one is a cutout for a speaker
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On the left, you have that microsim tray. You can put in your own memory to expand it
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On the top is a tiny dot. And on the right hand side is volume up down and power
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And that's pretty much everything. And so let's do demos. We'll start with this photo at 0.5 zoom, then one at 1x zoom
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2x zoom, and 6x zoom. Now let's check out a couple of close-up photos
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And you can see pretty good detail here, especially for hand-hound. held. Here's a panorama, a selfie in portrait mode, and here's probably the most disappointing
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set of photos. These are night images, and it just caught the image, but it didn't add anything
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or add any light as the more sophisticated cameras could. Now let's switch to video. So first off
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here's video at 0.5 zoom, video at 1X zoom. 2x zoom, 5x zoom, slow motion, time lapse, and a selfie with the built-in microphone
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So this is the Galaxy A-15, and I'm pretty darn impressed with the camera setup
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As you seen it does a good job with a variety of different speeds and styles of photography And this is just the selfie camera and it an overcast day and obviously it very dark behind me
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but it's trying to figure out, and it's not a good job of sort of balancing the very light portion and the dark portion
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and my face. So you have this demo. With the exception of the night photography
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I think that the cameras are pretty darn impressive. I was really very impressed by just about everything
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that I tried here. And when I tell you the price, you'll be like, wow, that's actually pretty impressive for that price point
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So that's an important factor to consider with this, which leads to the question of
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all right then, dude, what's the price point? But before we get there, I'm going to invite you to subscribe to my channel, a click or a tap on that subscribe button
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Great. This, as you now know, is the Samsung Galaxy A15 Android smartphone, and it is $19999 full price
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or you can buy it in installments through AT&T for $2.99 a month times 36 months
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So, I mean, if you can't afford $3 a month for a better phone, then you might need to reconsider
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why you have a smartphone in the first place. Anyway, you can learn it all
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about it at ATT.com. I have to say I am very impressed with what
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get Samsung's done here with this low price entry level budget Galaxy phone. It gives you like 95% of the feature set of the sort of
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core feature set of what you get on one of their high end phones, but
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at an insanely lower price. I mean this is like 90% less expensive
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which makes you wonder why are you spending $1,200 on your phone
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Hmm. Anyway, that's a topic for a different video. That's all I got on this one and I hope to see you in my next video
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