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The Budget Samsung Galaxy J7 - Tested & Reviewed!
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May 29, 2025
Can you really get a Samsung Galaxy smartphone for free? And if you can, is it any good? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Samsung Galaxy J7 and finds that - surprise! - there's a lot to really like in this budget Galaxy phone. Check it out at https://www.ATT.com/
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it's a budget Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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but is it any good
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at this
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this is the Samsung Galaxy j7 now you
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could be forgiven for not having heard
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of the J Series because that's Samsung's
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budget line of phones the s9 the note
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they all get all the press but the J
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Series are actually pretty nice and they
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use a lot of similar circuitry and
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components so let's talk about this and
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talk about what it can do and I'll give
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you some examples of video and photos
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and you might be darn surprised just how
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good this is so first off it's built on
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a 1.6 gigahertz octa-core samsung exynos
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seven eight seven zero CPU whatever
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basically means that it's fast it's not
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as fast as a note 9 as you would expect
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but it's also a tiny fraction of the
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price it does have 16 gigabyte built in
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and you can put in a microSD card
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expandable to 400 gigabytes that's a lot
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of space on a phone why do you need 400
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gigabytes on your smart phone tell me
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tell me in the comments why would you
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need so much space it's weird it's also
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running Android 8.0 Oreo and some people
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have said that it's not going to be able
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to go to the next level but AT&T says
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yeah well you know we'll be running the
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version of Android on this phone based
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on what we have so I think it is
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upgradeable and frankly Oreo is the most
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modern recent version anyway so
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Bluetooth 4.2 has a 5.5 inch screen so
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it's not edge to edge there's no notch
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at the top or anything this is kind of
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an old-school phone design where there's
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actually stuff on the sides not only
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that but on the very bottom as you can
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see in this close-up there's actually an
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actual physical button and that button
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gets you to the home screen so if we're
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somewhere else and we push the button we
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go to the home screen so nice and easy
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on the side our two touch sensitive
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quasi buttons and this is all classic
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Android design one nice thing it has
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Gorilla Glass 5 so this is the very
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latest version and the very toughest
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version
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screen technology and I'll be honest the
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screen is not super high density it's a
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293 pixels per inch or PPI so that's
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pretty low compared to like the note 9
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is almost 600 which is why this is only
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running at 720 by 1280 but honestly you
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know I'll show you here we'll pull up
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something let's see here's a photo and
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we can zoom in a little bit and you can
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see it's a nice bright screen you know
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it's not super high resolution but 720
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by 1280 gives you kind of sorta HD and
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the camera actually can record in HD for
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video we'll get there in a second now on
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both sides of it this is kind of
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interesting both the front-facing and
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rear-facing camera are 13 megapixel
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cameras the rear-facing also features a
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4x digital zoom and as I said it can do
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HD at 30 frames per second now let's
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stop talking and let's have a couple of
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examples this first one is actually some
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video I shot and as you can see it's
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clear and bright and looks really good
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now this next one is actually a photo
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and you get you know the photos look
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really nice to round this out here's a
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front-facing photo using some of
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Samsung's goofy little stickers and
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overlays and all that sort of stuff I
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felt like I was in snapchat but I wasn't
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but again the photo is actually quite
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good underneath all of that strange
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effect so let's see the front-facing
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cameras in F 1.7 couldn't quite figure
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out what the rear facing camera is but
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it does have the built-in LED flash
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that's pretty standard stuff nowadays so
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battery 3300 milliamp hour battery this
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has some crazy battery life if you're
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used to these big powerful phones that
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eat through batteries then you're gonna
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really like this because it's a really
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power conservation and has 31 hours of
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talktime 76 hours of audio playback time
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32 days of standby time on a single
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charge and if you get this all the way
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to 0 it will take you two and a half
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hours using the included Samsung charger
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and Kay
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well for you to be able to actually get
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it back to 100% charge not bad
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six point three ounces so it's a little
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heavier than some of the other phones
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out there but this is not competing with
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the high-end this is not Samsung's
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attempt to death row in the iPhone 10 or
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something like that this is just a
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really nice budget Android phone that
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has a lot of really solid Samsung
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technology in it I'm really really
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impressed with the photos in particular
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and let me see what I was going to tell
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you about it if we do a quick tour the
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sides then we have let's see we have the
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power button and then on the top we have
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a tiny little hole that I believe is the
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microphone for phone calls volume up and
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down and on the bottom there's another
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tiny little hole and there's an audio
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jack so that's really nice you don't
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have to be stuck with only bluetooth and
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then it charges is kind of old-school
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probably the least nice feature the
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whole thing is its microUSB and
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personally I really hate microUSB I
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really like orientation free plugs this
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doesn't have it this is micro USB on the
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plus side you probably already have 25
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micro USB cables so this is just another
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device that can use them that's cool
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now you're gonna be pretty impressed
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with the price especially if you're used
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to like 999 dollars or 1099 dollar
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smartphones but before we get there do
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the samsung galaxy j7 it's a very solid
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contender in the budget entry-level it's
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perfect for a teenager or for Grandma or
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for anyone who's watching their pennies
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and doesn't really want to spend $1,000
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on a phone crazy right
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so from AT&T it's two hundred and sixty
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nine dollars flat out but you can
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actually get it with one of their
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payment plans and it goes to zero
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basically you can get this phone for
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free if you actually go into one of the
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AT&T plans and I'm not gonna quote you
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specific plans because they change all
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the time but go and check out on their
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website they also have it for zero
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dollars a month three
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Best Buy and AT&T so Samsung Galaxy j7
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this is a bit of a sleeper phone and is
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definitely worth checking out if you're
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looking for something that's not top-end
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not the fanciest most deluxe phone on
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the market but something that's
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extremely affordable and is not going to
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be something you're gonna have a huge
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issue with if you break it or lose it so
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this is Dave Taylor I think I'm gonna
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try streaming some TV so I will catch
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you in the next video
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