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Samsung Galaxy A71 5G Ready Android Smartphone -- UNBOXING
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Jun 22, 2024
The new, affordable Samsung Galaxy A71 runs Android 10 and features a bright, vivid 6.7" Infinity Display and a quad camera, all for a budget price. Heck, through AT&T you can get it for as low as $10/mo. But what's actually in the box from Samsung and AT&T? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ opens up a Galaxy A71 box to find out... Learn more about this phone at AT&T: https://www.att.com/buy/phones/samsung-galaxy-a71-5g-128gb-prism-cube-black.html Or check it out at the Samsung site: https://www.samsung.com/levant/smartphones/galaxy-a71-a715/SM-A715FZBGMID/
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The Samsung Galaxy A71? Let's open the box and see what's inside
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Dave Taylor here, and I got another phone from AT&T today. This is the Samsung Galaxy A71 5G Ready Android smartphone
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So let's not talk about it. Let's open the box. First off, we need what everyone needs for an unboxing, a knife
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So I'm going to go ahead and cut the plastic on both sides. And it's a really sharp knife
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I have to be careful with this one. And we're going to see what's inside. Now, I will tell you as I open the box that the A71 features a 6.7 inch
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Infinity display that's a fairly low resolution of 2400 by 1080. But the screen itself is one of those Infinity edge to edge
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This is powered by, let's see, powered up. I always hope that it's going to actually have a charge and it does
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So this is powered by the Snapdragon 765, 2.4 gigahertz octa-core, 128 gigabyte of RAM
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It supports micro SD or TF cards up to one terabyte of additional storage
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Why you need one terabyte of storage on your phone is a little beyond me
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But if you do, this can handle it. On the back, it has a quad camera
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You can see in the close up, it's kind of an interesting layout. But the quad camera gives you 64 megapixel
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and 12 megapixel and five megapixel and another five megapixel. Actually, when I review this, I will actually go out and get some photos
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and some video. But the video, by the way, 4K UHD at 30 frames per second
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Nothing to cough about. Right. And then the forward facing camera, which is going to be the one that you'd use for selfies
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I know how important those are. That's a 32 megapixel camera. It's also really nice
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Now, battery is really worth noting on this one, too. 4500 milliamp hour battery, which gives you 36 hours of talk time
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I am thinking this is a charge every two or three days sort of phone. So that's really nice
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But meanwhile, as it says, let's go. So I'm going to go ahead and just see if I can at least
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we'll just agree to everything, because, hey, isn't this how you process
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your stuff, too, right? I have to hook myself up to one of my Wi-Fi networks
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while I'm doing that. Well, actually, I can't type and talk at the same time, but I should be correct password
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Then inevitably, the first thing is going to do is want to do updates, but it is running Android 10 and it is, as I said, 5G compatible
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There we go. It's connected. And those work on bands N2, N5 and N66
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Hopefully we will not need to worry about which specific 5G bands are available
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And I will say, yeah, checking for updates. I will say that AT&T is a little fast and loose where they'll tell you that you're
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like 5G compatible or 5G. What are the what's the word they use
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like adoption or early test or something like that. And what it means is that you are
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compatible, but you're not actually on a 5G network. But really, for full proper 5G, you're going to need a new phone because
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there are very few phones in the wild right now that actually have that circuitry
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This one does. Now, this is positioned as a more low cost phone
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So this is not up there as a million dollar phone. Mine comes with a SIM card
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Thank you, AT&T. But let's see what else is in the box. So one of the things I'm always curious
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about is whether they include any sort of audio. Right. Because used to be you'd get earbuds or something
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I don't think these do. Comes with a let's get started guide
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comes with terms and conditions, and this is a pretty bare bones box
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So it has a wall charger. It's USB-C. So props to them for that, which means presumably that on the end
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of this, yes, it's a USB-C charging and this is a USB-C to USB-C cable
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And then the only other thing in the box is this SIM removal tool
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which looks exactly like what you'd use to thread a needle. If you were going to do some sewing
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probably not a lot of you do a lot of sewing with a hand needle. But be that as it may
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if you did, you'd know what I was talking about. So that's it in the box
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It's really actually pretty austere. But it's enough because you do get this
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beautiful phone and it has a lot more stuff it wants me to sign in with
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I'm just going to skip everything and hopefully that will not be a disaster
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I'll accept everything. Oh, my gosh. I'll skip this. I'll skip this
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I don't want to review additional apps. Adding finishing touches. So accept, checking connection, skip
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Skip. Exit. OK. Accept. Wow, a lot of steps here and I deliberately skipped past all of them
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and now I'm supposed to sign into my Samsung account. Skip, skip
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We just need to Malu as part of this. OK, finish. Wait
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I have a fully functional Android 10 phone from Samsung and now you can see
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the screen size and it's it's a very nice, bright, vivid screen
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As I said, it's not super high resolution compared to the top end of the Samsung line, but this is not intended to be that
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So let's talk about the price. But before we get to the price, let me just ask if you can subscribe to my channel
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and find out I'm super candid and honest and straightforward. And I'll tell you the truth
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If it's good, if it's not good. So click that subscribe button. Thank you. Now, finally
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this is the Samsung Galaxy A71 from AT&T. And if you buy it through AT&T on their 30 month payment plan
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it is an extremely modest ten dollars a month. That's a pretty good deal
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Or if you have the money, I guess I should keep the screen on. If you have the money, you can buy it flat
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out as a single one time purchase of five hundred and ninety nine dollars
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And that is actually a pretty good price. This is a nice phone
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It's certainly very fast right now with the animation I'm looking at
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That suggests there's some decent processor power here. A very nice screen, very capable cameras
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I will do a full review. So do come back so you can check out examples of the video and photos
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and all of that sort of stuff. But as far as the unboxing goes, this is really the modern generation of smartphones
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You buy it and it's a relatively big box with relatively little in it
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And it's not going to be long before you don't get any charging devices at all
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And you will literally get the phone and a bunch of paperwork that tells you why
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everything you do is not their responsibility. So it's going to end up where these boxes
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are going to probably end up being like this thick. And that'll be OK, because honestly, the more they split things up
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the better it is for those of us that already have lots of cables, chargers and devices
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So with that, the Samsung A71 and I say catch you in the next video
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