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Welcome! In front of me is a
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Samsung Galaxy Tab A. Now this is the 8-inch model from 2019
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And today I'll go over unboxing along with the overview of the device
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So let's just pop it straight open and get straight into it
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Nothing interesting in here. Obviously the device itself in a nice little fabric
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We'll get a charging cable, which is a bit dated. Now I don't remember, I think in 2019 USBCs were already dominating the market, but apparently
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this device being a budget tablet, decided to ditch it and include the micro USB plug to USB
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which you know I don't like that one bit. Yep. Now moving into the charger that is right over here
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We get a... what is this garbage charger? This is... Oh, oh wow. That is terrible
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That has got to be the worst charger I have seen in the past decade
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So, this is a... And brace yourself for this. 7.8 watt charger
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This is a margin better than just plugging it into your computer
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So honestly, save the environment, don't include a charger like this, don't even produce charges like this
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We all have computers. We can plug our device a computer, which by default
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it will provide us with 5 watts. I think I can live with just a 2.5 watts less
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Right? Oh, no, 2.8 watts less. So yeah, just don't include charges like this when they're so garbage and trash
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Then outside of the completely abhorrent charger, we get some paperwork and nice some inject tool and, well, honestly, that's about it
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So not much more to mention here. get rid of this and get the actual tablet here and just pop it open whoop there we go
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power it on come on oh well I'm not pressing the power key I'm pressing the
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volume button so there we go and hello tablet can you there we go
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so this is an hend device which probably the name should suggest
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resolution here is a completely garbage at 800 by 1280 so yeah this is quite bad it's a
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TFT panel so again this is nothing special it actually fairly bad now honestly the panel that here I haven seen it yet so we see it once that actually boots fully in
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But overall, ATFTR, just kind of like the back-in-a-day kind of thing
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Also, 71% screen-to-body ratio and 189 pixels per inch. So I'll just quickly change the language right here
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So the device, as you can see, not the fastest thing out here
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Come on, a little bit quicker would be nice. So honestly, if you're getting this right now in like 2021
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do yourself a favor and don't. There are way better devices nowadays
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out there and that will outperform this and honestly an 8 inch display is
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nothing really significant you can get phones that come close to this
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honestly with a smaller footprint than this thing has like these basals could
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amount to an entire phone screen on nowadays basically so yeah it is quite
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dated to be honest in terms of design and the how it performs and yeah I
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wouldn't recommend it if you're planning to buy it right now. Let me max out the brightness
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Well, there we go. So this is maxed brightness on here. It leaves a little bit to be desired
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It is kind of overblown on the camera which makes it look a little bit brighter than it actually is
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But yeah, that's just an illusion how the camera is set and honestly it's right now okay
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It's not even like bright, it's just okay. an indoor environment which makes this I presume be unusable and direct sunlight
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And that is to be expected it is a TFT panel right here which
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Yeah, I wouldn't expect much brightness out of it and also like viewing angles usually on TFT are kind of bad
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But honestly here it looks Looks okay which makes me think that it's actually not a TFT
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I think this is actually an IPS display, if anything, not TFT
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But that's kind of what I'm seeing right here on a spec sheet that supposedly is
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but honestly looking at it, it looks more like an IPS. So just keep that in mind
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But the resolution looks trash, and I can actually see it. And I'm not the person to pixel peep on things like that
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but I can see the pixels from where I'm sitting right here
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I can see like the edges, for instance, of the icons being a little bit jagged
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So yeah, the resolution here isn't anything great. But moving on to the camera, there's only two different ones and they're not all at the front
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So at the back we have this little thing and this is a puny 8 megapixel camera that annotes at 1080p 30 frames Honestly don expect much It a tablet with really budget specs And then at the front we have another camera
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This is the one right over here. This besides it is actually a sensor for how much light is in the room
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And it basically uses that sensor to brighten or dim the display
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But this camera right here is just a puny. 2 megapixel camera. So honestly I am gonna turn on the camera even though I truly don't want to see the results
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But I feel like I just gotta do it. Yeah, so... Oh, that sound. Hmm
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Okay, so there is just the single photo right here. Let me flip the camera and take a second. selfie
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Oops, whatever. I guess I can go through here
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So here we got the plant and honestly the picture is overblown
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There is too much brightness in it and just the actual sheer quality of it
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it's usable I guess it would be the correct word it's not great but it's also not bad
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which I guess is the best thing I can say about it I'm moving on to the selfie this is
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just bad like it looks like it's going through some kind of pixel blender and just
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makes it all a mush. There is zero detail in here. Like you can see that everything that
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should be a detail is just a blur. Um, so it's pixelated and it's also grainy and it looks bad
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It looks really bad. So yeah, there's front one two megapixel. Trash, absolute trash
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Okay. Now moving on to the last part of this overview. We're going to touch upon just a specs
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of it, which basically we're going to start off with the factor. It comes with a Snapdragon, 429
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So nothing really special right here. At least it's not Exenos. I guess that's the benefit here
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I truly hate Exenoses, especially considering I'm from Europe. So all the Samsung devices that come out here come with their trash exonus while, you know
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the good Snobragon stay in US because why would we all have the same product when we pay
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the same price when we can have an inferior product paying the same price
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But anyway, so this one comes at least with a snapdragon, although that'd be not a very
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powerful snapdragon actually, just kind of bad one. It also has a 32 gigs built-in storage
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2 gigabytes RAM expendable storage by an SD card 5 million battery with this a poor end 7 watt charger so that just insulting honestly to be included with the device and a fairly compelling price of
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130 euros so the price here is probably the best part of it at 130 euros there's
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not much not many other devices you could go for. I know
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that there are like the mate pads or mate pads one of those mate mate or whatever but
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yeah the pads from our Huawei those are priced similarly they also run Android
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10 which I assume this is on Android 10 actually let me just quickly check about
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tablet and we've got where is the info software info there we go Android 10 there we go Android
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10. Now it is not the newest Android, just keep that in mind. I think right now we have Android 11
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on rolling out on like majority of the phones and Google is already I think on the works or close
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to release for Android 12. So this would make this device be basically two Android behind in this case
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But still nice that it actually uses Android 10 instead of something even older
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And apart from that, there's not much more I can say about it
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It looks like it has Samsung's one UI, which I guess is also a good positive right here
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The price is fairly compelling, considering that Samsung, they tend to overprice their devices, I would say
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just because, you know, they have the same tendencies of Apple syndrome
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so make it more overpriced because Samsung, no other reason. But in this case, I would say that this seems to be competitive
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priced to other tablets. The charger I would really like to see a better
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charging here. That'll probably make this tablet a little bit better. And honestly
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when you're getting a tablet I would probably recommend you to go for
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something around like $200 instead of the 130 that this one cost. You'll get
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far greater processor and those better display. Basically everything better this one seems a little bit it is basically cheap and she basically has all the specs of such a
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device as you'd expect but personally if you're planning to use this on a daily basis
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do yourself a favor and go a little bit higher have that better processor and better RAM this will
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just make the experience of using such a device far more enjoyable than trying to use this
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one especially when you load it up with apps I presume it's gonna start chugging hard
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and that won't be very enjoyable so do yourself a favor and go a little bit
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higher that is just my recommendation but that being said if you found this
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