Top Reasons Why People Like Samsung Galaxy A8S - Review.
Top Reasons Why People Like Samsung Galaxy A8S - Review.
This right here is Samsungfours Galaxy A8S review itfours a new phone that was released only about a week ago in China and it is Samsung fours first phone to have a
hole in the screen so itfours following that new trend has a 24-megapixel front-facing camera with an F 2.0 aperture the screen on it is not one of those really
high-end ones from Samsung so itfours, not an AMOLED panel or Super AMOLED itfoursjust an IPS and overall itfours an above-average screen when I compare it to the likes of
saying the u-20 that I just reviewed this phone right here is powered by the Snapdragon 710 that four a mid-range chipset my version has 6gigabytes of RAM in 128
gigabytes of storage nonexpendable so letfours take a look at what you get in the box you get a type C 2 USB cable in white you get some earphones
to say the budget kind of cheaper ones but it does have a remote it at least so you can control the audio through that and then we get Qualcomm
quick charge to charges so itfours 9 volts max itfours, not the 12 volts 1.5amps that you normally get with Qualcomm quick charge 3 which the chipset supports then we
the job as your first case straight out of the box so the rear of the phone is made of glass it is very slippery that fours probably why they
included that case in the box there before got a rear fingerprint reader a dual-tone single-tone LED flash actually I thought it was jewel but on closer inspection, it seems
to only have just the single flash in there and a three-camera set up on the rear so we have the main sensor which is 24 that fours the one
with a blue around it and then the one at the top is the 10-megapixel sensor up the top of the phoneyoufourll find the dual antenna Lions the frame the
housing around it feels a lot and looks a lot like the Samsung Galaxy S 9 itfours this the same kind of DNA theyfourre sharing theyfourre the same style and
therefore, of course, a secondary mic theyfourre used for noise cancellation on the right-hand side you will find the volume up and down and power buttons they are made of
metal and they have a good feel to them and they also do not rattle around on the left side al Juhl nano-SIM tray it does have a rubber gasket
around it and then a button that is to Bixby and then along the bottom you can see the two antenna lines a single loudspeaker so the earpiece does not
house a secondary loudspeaker in it doesnfourt has that function the type Cport and then our main microphone so this is why Samsung included the type Cheadphones because there is
no 3.5-millimeter headphone jack on this sadly now with a keen eye you would have noticed that the white isnfourt quite uniform here around the top of the bezels and
most importantly around that camera too youfourll notice that itfours not perfect itfours, not a perfectly white and when you have a solid color you will see the difference there
that it has this shadow around it so itfours slightly darker around the edges and itfours just not uniformed but itfours not as bad as for example the view Twenties
screen as you can see here so on the right of the screen that is the a8 s and now we have the honor of u-20 on the left you
can see itfours even worse and we get an added little bit of light leakage right on that corner just there you can see where tours extra bright and you
can clearly see here the difference in the bezels again on the left itfours the view 20 and the Samsung galaxy a8 s is on the right of the screen
with a larger top bezel and the border that is around that front-facing camera is also quite a bit larger there so to me overall this build quality is very
good itfours, in fact, better than the one up view 20 this one here just
a little bit more refined the II just feel a little bit better in handles it as a slippery phone and Ifourm pretty sure itfours gonna be very fragile too
with that glass on the rear so you should use that case really when you get it straight away out of the box to save yourself from any damage now
the screen has larger bezels as I pointed out versus the view 20 when you have a look at them side-by-side you can clearly see that the view 20 their
yes it does have slightly smaller bezels but the better screen overall is actually the Samsungfours here and Ifourm probably not a surprise to people but Venus ants onscreen it
would be a little bit better slightly brighter itfours about a hundred UX brighter at 530 versus the 430 approximately that you get on the honor view 20 the gamma
is also much better here itfours about 2.2 which is almost spot-on maybe 2.1 but that is really good itfoursan IPS panel so it doesnfourt quite look as good of
the course as the premium out there which will have deeper blacks but the blacks on this as you can see what Ifourm looking at and even what has been displayed
on the video watching, they are quite deep so this is good therefore another positive of the screen over I feel itfours, not a bad screen that has gone with
yes it does have a little bit of that and uniformed color distribution with the whites with solid colors just around you can see there and then of course as
I pointed out around the camera but besides that itfours really not a bad screen at all and a good brightness of that 530 Lux under display settings you will
also, find this which I particularly like this is the screen zoom so you can change the scaling and the font size to your own personal preference itfours good to
see a lot of manufacturers are now including this option because we have many phones you just never had this choice at the time of my review here the phone
is shipping with Android 8.1 I was really hoping that this was going to have Android 9Ifourm pretty sure it was advertised having Android Pi it has a security patch
level of December the first so itfours only a month out or so so thatfours not bad at all also comes with very few bloatware apps just this right here
and a lot of people probably won four even consider this as bloat so thatfours it which is really good considering most of the Chinese phones I review they are
crammed packed full of so many extras you have to uninstall but not here so Ifourve got a slightly different icon set here the way they curve got it looking
the UI and Ifourmnot to go into a lot of detail you curve got Samsungfours Galaxy sorry Samsungfoursknocks on here Bixby their AI assistant Samsung pay you to curve got
all that sort of stuff on there if you like it thatfours all been covered by many other people insomuch detail comfort really need to go into that what matters
to me and probably you to its performance does it perform well well not reallyitfours very average that performance here and this kind of surprised me because Fourie used other
phones with the Snapdragon 710 and I found them to be ok but this seems to just need a little bit more tweaking optimization Ifourve got the60 gigabytes of RAM
version so with 8 gigabytes that may perhaps be a little bit smoother but youfourll notice here even recent apps itfours just not as smooth as it should be itfours
running below at times 30 frames per second you just see a few animation stutters here and there when youfourre going through your multitasking when youfourre exiting outer apps itfours
not as fluid as it should be for this chipset I know itfours not a high-end chipset wefourrereaching its limits here when you
do push it really heavy you will see that even sometimes when I was installing an app at the same time and also using the keyboard Ifourm using Googlefours G
board at the moment I even noticed some lag with that which was really disappointing to see that should not be happening to your answer to a score that comes
both the random reads and writes are also very good now GPS works ok the reason why I say ok I did notice so when I was moving around that
the accuracy would often jump up to 6 7 and even 9 meters and it would four use all of the satellites that were around now most mobile phones will
not lock on to every single satellite but this one just compared to other phones seems to use a lot less anddoesnfourt seem quite as accurate as it could or
should be Wireless speeds and the range no issues here itfours performing as it should itfours quick the wireless and also the range is very good no problems with that
you might have just seen when I swiped as well look at that animation stutter that is actually pretty slow when it was doing that now itfours better but it
is something that youfourll see often with this phone is just that random sort of lag and stutter and these are the LTE speeds there so 21 up and down
it all depends of course on your carrier but no issues using this phone here in Spaingood reception this phone also has Googlefours Widevine level one so this means Netflix
will run in resolutions over standard definition so this is Goodnow Ifourve been using the phone and plugging it in and that keeps resetting my battery stats of course but
it is looking very good and my testing Ifourvebeen able to do for example one hour of Netflix or Amazon Prime streaming youtube and youfourre only losing about 8% battery
life so just looking very goodthatfours looking like you found to be able to get at least over 10 hours of on-screen time with us which is great now to
fully charge this battery which is the 3400milliamp hour battery youfourre looking at just over two and a half hours I meant ours, not the fastest but itfours still find
the kind of speeds we are getting now to demonstrate the face unlocking which is fast but not as fast as other phones Ifourll just quickly demonstrate see how long
that took so that was about a second or so itfours not bad sometimes it can be a little slow it all depends on I guess the lighting conditions or
things like that so overall the performance of it is good thatfours decent itfours just not gonna be the fastest out there the same goes for the fingerprint reader so
the fingerprint reader on the rear here you need to just touch it and itfours always then it unlocks that only takes about a sick and so that is very
quick which is great itfours a deal I just touched it and it was one second or under one second about half a second audio quality so no 3.5-millimeter headphone
jack so for some people thatfours going to be a deal-breaker but you can use bluetooththerefours a way around it they do have that included headset in there now the
voice call quality I find to be quality so no 3.5-millimeter headphone jack so for some people thatfours going to be a deal-breaker but you can use bluetooththerefours away
around it they do have that included headset in there now the voice call quality I find to be on the content youfourre looking at the loudness is gonna be
okay butherefours that sample so gaming performance we know the Snapdragon 710 is not a high-end flagship chipset itfours a mid-range er but itfours, not a bad one the GPU
has got enough power to run all your latest games with fluid frame rates and theyfourreall gonna be playable you can have no issues there so this is pub key
on the high frame rate setting the HD setting letfours to see how it runs motors to get a couple of kills without any issues and the frame rate is
keeping up that you see a few little stutters and some occasional little lag as you expect but with the HD setting the high frame rate you can see that
it is quite fluid itfourssmooth and well you can see a bit of lag just then see that little bit of starter comes into play but overall this is very
playable you could, of course, lower the settings if youfourre concerned about that lag and of course how could I not mention this look at this big massive border we
get on the left-hand side because of the camera now this seems to happen with just some games will fully stretch out but a lot of content it will do
this so this is something that Samsung is going to have to address with software Ifourm sure they can just stretch it right out as everyone else does perhaps because
this phone currently is not supported by pub key looking now the stock camera app so this is pretty straightforward itfours exactly like other Samsung phones itfours very similar to
my Samsung galaxy s 9 plus that I have is my main phone but before got this edit option here so thatfours similar to when you swap over to the
two x lens on the Samsung galaxy s line plus but theyfourvejust done it differently with the icon there so youfourre showing you got like a wide shot then the
one that goes in so itfours a two-time zoom itfours using that 10megapixel lens and then I start off if you curve seen x 2 and then you are able
to go and just zoom right up if you want to now swipe up or down on the screenyoufourve got all the different modes here so you curve got the
beauty modes andyoufourve got life focus with the blurred backgrounds that you can change afteryoufourve already taken the shot pro mode not a lot of settings in here at all
on the rear camera is very hit and miss of reminds me of the old Xiaomi phones they should have gone with a sensor I feel with dual-pixel phase-detection and
not just phase detection but anyway here are some samples from the cameraherefours a sample from the front-facing camera so we get a fixed focus heretherefours no autofocus on it
a little bit of a crop, in fact, no no crop really with this it can shoot in an odd resolution with the screens 19 by 9 aspect ratio something
like twenty thirty-eight by ten eighty-eight max res and you can see that there is no electronic image stabilization with the front-facing camera so itfours gonna be a little bit
rocky the audio quality I find to be good and the image quality as well as good itfours fine I donfourt really have too many complaints to find it itfours
okay itfours not too soft itfours not too sharp and having the fixed focus means we donfourt have that focus issue with it pulsing in and out like I do
with my Galaxy S nine-plus, therefore, video now with the a8 s and you can see it does not have any electronic or optical image stabilization in 4k if you
turn on 1080p then it is smoothed out quite nicely it does an okay job you will notice that the focus I have been having issues with it that it
has four really been that good it can be very slow so itfours not there we go itfours locked under my hand now and sometimes it can be off like
now and there we go itfours got it again and overall pretty disappointing quality here if only they could really enable that electronic image stabilization herewith 4k would make it
a lot more usable they Mikefours the whatever the mic slave feel is acceptable itfours fine itfours not bad and overall if you use a Steadicamor a gimbal or something
like that then you can get usable 4k quality from thisitfours just that focus at times does annoy me and this at the front-facing camera in low lights you can
see it gets a lot more grain and the frame rate seems to be okay the viewfinder that when you are using the front-facing camera gets a huge amount of
lag because itfours constantly always trying to brighten things up low light not amazing quality before seeing a lot more green as expected this is very challenging conditions for any
smartphone camera at least the frame rate is keeping up their okay guys so we have a very decent build on this it feels premium in hand itfours very similar
to say the Samsung Galaxys8 the build quality so good there the screen is not perfect itfours an average screen it has IPs and they curve made some compromises really
I feel with it and with the hole that they curve put in there hopefully when we have the flagshipswefourre going to have a much better screen than this one
but of course, that ones from Samsung wefourll be using their Super AMOLED panels the front-facing camera can produce in the okay photo you get the portrait photos and things
like that and overall it as good the face unlocking is fast for the most part just like the fingerprint unlocking very quick there itfours running Android 8.1 itfours not
the latest version of Android and it doesnfourt has the latest security patch either so hopefully, Samsung is going to up their game with that and releases some new patches
bring us up to android Pi but also effects and improve the performance of this which I find truly to be super disappointing on this because I have used snapdragon
17 mobile phones before this one is running choppy you run into lag and Ifourve even saw as far as lag with input when youfourre typing so I want to
put something in and Google search and I was installing something at the same time there was a noticeable lag everything sort of froze up for a second and then
the text all appeared again and that to me is completely unacceptable considering the price of this here the camera quality is also a letdown and will often overexpose on
the rears using with my photo of the camera what the sorry the clock tower therefrom the cameras that it overexposed it a little bit there the focus can be
all over the place, it has very poor focus Samsung, in my opinion, should have gone with one of their 12-megapixel dual pixel phase detection autofocus cameras this one has
only phase detection autofocus and very hit and miss and video it can be a real pain the video quality so we donfourt have in 4k any electronic image stabilization
the microphone quality is definitely good itfours fine itfours a lot better than the likes of the honor view xx that I have only just recently
reviewed but I feel that if youfourre going to be spinning the same kind of amount of money that both of these phones cost that you probably want to go
for the view xx pro so make sure you check out my review of that one which is right up here and let me know down in the comments what
do you prefer a teardrop notch a wide notch normal not CH or do you think that this is the way to go with the hole in the screen that
before starting to see now should we have more phones with holes in the screen is this the best option or do you think pop-up cameras or sliders is the
way to go let us know in the comments and thank you so much for reading review bye for now
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