Samsung glaxy A72





extremely popular it offered
great features on at a very reasonable
price this year we have a totally new
design
we have a 90 hertz refresh rate screen
we have a big battery again
so let's take a look at it and see if
the galaxy 72
actually has enough to convince many
users to buy it
probably maybe instead of a flagship
hello guys my name is vic with phone
arena and i got to spend
some time with the brand new galaxy a72
it's a specially
safely organized briefing by samsung and
this is what i learned
so this is the galaxy a72 in the violet
color
which looks very neutral very nice in an
understated way
you have four different color versions
so let's quickly mention them you have
the white one
you have a blue one the violet one and
the black one
and all of them are made out of plastic
the feeling is very smooth very nice it
doesn't catch any fingerprint smudges so
again that's also nice to have
you have slightly thicker bezels on the
front the punch hole for the camera
that's what the design looks like and
interestingly take a look on the bottom
of the phone and you will find a
headphone jack
yes headphone jacks are long gone from
flagships but on this budget galaxy a72
you still have it
and by the way for the first time in
many years on a budget
galaxy a series phone you also get water

protection
this phone is officially ip67 water and
dust protected
which means you get a peace of mind so
let's flip it to the front and look at
the highlight of this phone which is
as if any samsung phone the screen 6.7
inch amoled screen
beautiful rich colors 1080p full hd
resolution
sufficient for plenty full detail and
the big new feature 90 hertz fast and
smooth
refresh rate now keep in mind this is
the galaxy a72 4g version that we got to
test
we'll talk more about the 5g version
which is expected to be a bit better
but on this version you have a 90 hertz
screen and that makes a
big difference in my opinion this is the
biggest
upgrade if you are looking at the galaxy
a72
and comparing it to last year's a71 okay
speaking of the screen you have to make
some compromises this is a budget phone
not a flagship phone and
one such tiny little compromise is the
brightness i find the 800 nits of
brightness on the galaxy a72 sufficient
for most use but keep in mind that's
one little advantage for the flagships
by the way you can also set the colors
the way the colors look
on this screen you can go into settings
display and here you can set it to the
vivid mode which gives you those more
saturated colors that are more pleasing
or if you want more realistic or toned
down colors you also have the neutral
options
where things really get complicated is
if you start looking under the hood
because here you have plenty of
different
names of processors and chips and it can
get confusing really fast
so the chip that you have here is called
the snapdragon 720
g interestingly this new chip is just
very
very very slightly faster than the
processor
on last year's a71 4g model and in fact
it's not
even as fast as last year's a71 5g model
so it is a very modest upgrade compared
to last year's 4g model
and also you get 6 gigabytes of ram on
the a72
just like on the a71 so no
don't expect any huge differences in the
actual performance
the smoothness that you experience
likely comes
from the smoother and faster screen
refresh rate but in terms of
processors and silicon this is pretty
much the same phone with very slight
upgrades
and speaking of performance and versions
you have two different versions of the
a72 one ships with six gigabytes of ram
128 gigs of storage this is what we're
testing right now
the other version is a bit more powerful
and a bit more expensive
eight gigabytes of ram 256 gigabytes of
storage
and both of these versions also support
the microsd card slot
come on samsung you can put this in your
budget phones but not in your flagships
that's really interesting
that's really interesting so yes you
have a micro sd card option on the
galaxy a72 and you also have all the
bells and whistles that
samsung flagships have with one ui here
in the slightest iteration you have
cool neat little options like the
automatic ability to switch between
light and
dark mold in terms of security this
phone uses an on-screen fingerprint
scanner which gets the job done
but let's flip the phone to its back and
take a look at the most interesting
area of improvement here the cameras
first of all that camera island
compare it to last year's galaxy a71
what a difference
just a simple design touch on the a72
everything looks so much better you have
the raised camera bed around each and
every camera you have a metal ring
that again shows you that this is a
serious camera phone and kind of borrows
from those
samsung flagships the camera interface
is the same as on flagships
you can select between your main camera
your ultra wide camera
and yes you also have a three time zoom
telephoto camera here
optical zoom on a budget phone very nice
to have not all budget phones have it
and in the camera app you can go up to
30 times digital zoom which gives you a
pretty good level of magnification again
that you don't get on other phones
in terms of quality let's take a look at
one photo we shot on the galaxy a71 and
the a72
and what i noticed here is the colors
are a bit more lively
warmer look a little bit better but
we'll reserve judgement for our final
review which is coming soon
where we take a look at the camera and
other things in a greater detail another
thing worth mentioning about the a72 is
that it ships with stereo speakers so
you get that rich
stereo sound which is nice again nice to
have on a budget phone
so what about battery life battery life
is one of the areas where budget phones
actually have an advantage over
flagships
just take a look at the battery size
here 5 000 milliamp hours
on a budget phone that is the same size
as on the galaxy s21 ultra
that's crazy and samsung officially says
this phone has
two day battery life when have you seen
two day battery life on your flagship
i know i haven't but great battery life
is definitely a huge advantage that
budget phones these days have
in terms of charging this phone also
ships with the charger in the box
come on sensei how is it possible that
you include the charger in the box with
this phone
and not with much more expensive phones
out there i just don't know but
yeah the charger here is a standard 15
watt charger
but the phone actually does support 25
watts fast charging which will top up
that
5 000 milliamp hour battery even quicker
you have to buy that
faster charger separately finally let's
talk pricing
this is an affordable phone but
affordable budget phones
come in their different flavors and this
one costs 450 euro in europe oh the
price in the us is a separate topic
because
hear me out in the us this phone is
probably gonna launch in a 5g version
the galaxy a72 5g and what's probably
gonna happen
is the same thing that happened last
year last year samsung
introduced the 4g model early in the
year
and then introduce the 5g model in the
summer which launched in the us
so that's probably what's going to
happen this year again we have this a72
4g model and then we'll have a slightly
more powerful a72
5g model with 5g connectivity slightly
faster chip
probably 120hz refresh rate screen
that's gonna come in the summer
in the us for a likely price of around
five hundred dollars
so that's the scoop on prices that's the
a72
let me know what do you think about it
now this is an interesting device in my
opinion because it is so close to a
flagship
with just a few tiny compromises now the
bigger compromise is of course the
performance which doesn't
match a flagship and probably the camera
which won't be as good in the night or
in more challenging conditions
but just in terms of fluidity and
smoothness you get that fast refresh
rate
you have a decent variety in the camera
department fast charging and that
gigantic battery
which definitely make a strong case for
the galaxy a72
so let me know what do you think about
it is it a good phone
and should somebody actually consider it
against flagships would you buy such a
phone for yourself or maybe for your
parents
let me know your thoughts about the
galaxy 72 my name is vic this is phone
arena....thanks for reading


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