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The Samsung A07 4G is an entry-level Android smartphone in the $100 price range with some decent specs. I present some of its core features and specs and also answer the question of whether it supports eSIM technology or you will need to use an eSIM adapter.
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Samsung Galaxy A7 4G has just begun
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hitting the markets around the world.
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It's an entry-level smartphone with a
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significant improvement over its
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predecessor.
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The A series have some of Samsung's
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bestselling smartphones year after year,
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and the Galaxy A7 4G looks like it's
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going to do well this year. Why do I say
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so? The display is a basic 6.7 in LCD
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unit, but now it has 90 Hz refresh rate.
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The battery is still a 5,000 mAh unit,
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and it still charges. on paper at 25
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watts. We're going to test that fast
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charging and see whether this one lives
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up to expectations. As we found out from
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last year, the Galaxy A6 did not quite
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live up to the expectation of 25 watt
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charging. What I believe is really
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special about the Galaxy A7 is the fact
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that it has a Helio G9 chipset on the
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inside. This is a big boost over the
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chipset in its predecessor. And the
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Helio G99 is snappy on this device. I'll
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give you an insight into that in another
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video. There's a 50 MP camera at the
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back. There's an 8 MP selfie camera in
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once again a water drop notch. Samsung
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has refused to embrace the punch hole.
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We're still stuck with a water drop
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notch in the AO7. It's a dual nano SIM
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device. The question does it support
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eim? No, it does not. You cannot use an
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eim in this device without some
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workound. If you really want to use an
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eim here, do get one of those eim
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adapters from a third party provider
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like fivear or x eim or some of the
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numerous others out there that allows
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you to use an eim in a non eim
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smartphone. I'm leaving a link up here
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for you to click to a video I did months
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ago showing you how that works. And it
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really doesn't matter which of the EIM
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adapter providers you choose. They work
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pretty much the same way. This is an
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interesting device. I love the fact that
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the Helio G99 is quite snappy inside
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this. I have played around with it quite
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a bit and yes, it is snappy. It is
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impressively snappy for an entry-level
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smartphone. There is IP54
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dust and splash protection here. So,
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it's not full water protection in sense
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that you should not let this drop into
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water, but perhaps you're walking out in
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the rain or there's a splash or there's
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a spill. This guy will hold up quite
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well. IP54 is quite good for an
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entry-level device. There is a
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fingerprint scanner in the side power
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button here. And it's narrow.
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It's slim. This is only 7.6 mm. And it
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weighs only 184 g. I love that. Of
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course, being plastic helps with the
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weight, but I love lightweight phones.
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184 g is around what I call my cut off
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mark for lightweight. If a phone is 186
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gram, I consider it not lightweight
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anymore. This is 184 g. It feels well in
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the hand. What about software support?
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Samsung has included a promise of 6
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years of major Android updates for the
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Galaxy A74. That's a big jump from what
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the AO6 its predecessor had or has.
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Samsung is giving that guy only 2 years.
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Some worry about how these devices will
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run 6 years after with software updates.
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Yes, I have thought about that too. In
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the case of the A7 because of how snappy
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that it actually feels, I don't have
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that worry. I have handled some Samsung
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smartphones in the last one year and I
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felt in 3 years with apps getting more
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bloated with Android itself getting more
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bloated
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will these devices actually hold up.
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I don't feel that way about the Galaxy
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A7 4G. I really do feel this guy will
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hold up fine. But hey, that's just me
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sharing what I feel. We'll have to see
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how it all plays out. But it's nice to
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have that promise when you get to that
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bridge and you feel your phone is not
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running as smoothly as as you want after
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a few years. You can always upgrade it
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or change it. This is a Galaxy A7 4G. I
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have an unboxing video out already. Go
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watch it. I am going to do a full review
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as well in which I will share my
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experience and thoughts with the phone
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as a whole. Thank you for watching. I'll
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see you in my next video.
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