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so here's an interesting phone that you guys may not have heard of depending on which market you're in this is the a 70 from Samsung is interesting for a couple of different reasons now the reason I'm looking at it right now is because it recently became available in Canada along with other a series devices I have never seen in a series device prior to this this one the 7b is interesting to me in particular because it has some features that actually go beyond are actually a little bit better than the flagship Galaxy S 10 plus at a much lower price point this thing is around 500 bucks though some people have found it for less you're getting a 600 series Snapdragon processor 6 gigs of ram expandable storage it's got a triple camera set up on the rear it has a tiny little teardrop style notch a 4500 milliamp hour battery and 25 watt charging fast charging which is actually better than the s10 s10 plus it's the same charging speed as the 5 G version of the device which is of course way more expensive so let's crack into the box and take a look at what we're working with that's the device it's got a kind of cool huge thing happening on the back ooh look at that it's got this cool gradient situation it's that color shift you see this on sports car sometimes it's green it's blue it's purple it's everything it's every color in the rainbow course it's got the ultra wide on it which for me is a must apparently the construction is some sort of metal plastic hybrid considering the weight considering how slim it is it's very surprising they fit a 4500 milliamp hour battery in here alongside the snapdragon 675 you got to believe it's gonna be one of the best battery performers out there and it's gonna charge really fast with the 25 watt charging you still have a headphone jack as well down on the bottom USB type-c dual SIM card expandable storage so you could slap a 512 gigabyte SD card and I know a lot of people like that it's versatility in the phone so this mid-range part of the market is obviously heating up and Samsung they're not gonna leave it alone right they're not gonna just leave it up to Oppo and VEVO and oneplus they're gonna have their own play at that to the marketplace you have to type C cable and the 25 watt charge brick alright so we got the device set up now you can see the the beautiful display now this might surprise you you may not have noticed this display is actually bigger than the s10 plus this is six point seven inches no no hole punch instead you're left with the teardrop style notch sort of it's a small notch I will probably still prefer the hole punch well like when you consider the package deal the price the display size the fact that you still have AMOLED here two bigger battery and now you're like huh this is confusing I don't know do I want an s10 or maybe all I need is an a 70 I'll pocket a few extra dollars of course it doesn't have the top-tier Snapdragon so you need to take that into consideration but how many people are really maxing out their processor how many people are doing multimedia stuff like beyond the typical game this thing can run whatever game you're gonna throw it I mean you could play pop G on here no problem so I get it some people just want to have to talk to your performance but there are some advantages to the lower tier chip as well you may see some improvements in battery life and so forth so it's worth thinking about so it's got the in display fingerprint scanner which I assume is using identical technology to the s10 s10 plus you can see how it operates there these things they're imperfect right in display fingerprint scanners in general it's cool technology but it's not as fast this is sufficient this is fine I've been using fingerprint unlock but you can tell it's a second of lag there it's just it just takes a second longer it's worth noting let's go ahead and check out the speakers I'm a bit curious like where did they save the money on this alright we'll load up a little later video first Toronto Raptors world champion this grind is long in the playoffs you know I feel like I've been in AI feel like I've been in the playoffs for a while now watching this that's a lot of this place six point seven inches I mean these things they keep on growing people are obviously gravitating towards bigger screens and as the bezels shrink down in scale you can get these big displays without much trade-off the sound I don't know a pretty average in 50 states and Puerto Rico from 2000 it's pretty it's pretty clear that's maxed out well you think my oneplus is brighter this is a comparison 1 + 7 pro vs. the a 70 price-wise I guess we're kinda close in the case of the Samsung a seventy four seventy nine somewhere in that territory converted to USD 1 + device more expensive 669 this one has the curved glass pop-up camera and 800 series snapdragon so obviously it's a kind of a tough comparison but maybe you want Samsung maybe you want one UI maybe you want the big battery in here who knows it's up to you but you can see screen wise is kind of comparable we should do a speaker comparison to replies and just be like ugly hate it not buying it stuff like this well that makes sense when you're doing a really secretive product okay so mono sound just coming out of the bottom part of the device it's okay it's not as good as the oneplus device in my opinion screen wise though I put them in the same territory this one of course has the notch on it so you got to remember that if you find that to be offensive no pop up camera here we did have a pop up camera device in here that wasn't that expensive the red-meat k20 Pro that thing kind of blew my mind the spec list for money the value for money I think I maybe I call it the value champ alright what about those cameras are they as advanced as s10 who knows you kind of have a hard time believing that they would be boom alright ultra-wide that's quite wide and zoom so one of these cameras must be just for depth because we've only got the two options here there's no zoom here Samsung does a good job with the cameras but look at my hand makes it into the white is quite wide and then the the zoom you can see more typical focal range 32 megapixel selfie camera okay so let's do the beard hair test was what we do uh a wide and I guess a standard it boots into standard by default I'm gonna use the wide all it was tried they were trying to beauty me Jack you know that's a no-go you can't do it it's a no-go try to beauty me okay beard hair particles on the shirt remember the particle is shirt particle test little fibers ODIs hairs you know not the best I've seen it's good it's good I wish you had a little more contrast in it you know what can I say about this phone I think it's a cool package to be honest I wish it was available to more people in different markets here in the u.s. probably not seeing this device now that everybody's buying their phones outright I know this sounds strange to other parts of the world for a long time it was on subsidy you would get a tab people want to own their devices go to whichever carrier bring your own device that's what people are doing more frequently now so what does that mean is that cost shopping value for money comparisons are happening more frequently in North America and now there's a place for devices like this I consider this to be a value device what are you giving up is it that much I guess the construction it feels a bit cheaper with this hybrid materials you could say to yourself hey those cameras are not quite as good not quite as versatile you could say to yourself hey I want you to talk to your snapdragon also valid so I think it's a compelling package I think it's an interesting choice I think it's a galaxy device worth knowing about in relationship to the flagship the rest of the world they've been spoiled so many Series A Series India's got the M series from Samsung it's more Samsung love it's more Samsung choices it's the a seventy part of the a series definitely worth looking at for Samsung fans and pretty much everyone