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Video review by our specialist shows what the kit and factory box of Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 look like. Hence, this video also shows what accessories the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 comes with and how to set it up during its initial launch! Have fun!
What does the kit of Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 look like? How to set up Samsung Galaxy Tab A8? What to do during the first launch of Samsung Galaxy Tab A8?
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In front of me I have the Galaxy tab A8 and today I'll go over unboxing along with a quick view on the spec sheet
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So let me just grab my little knife right here and pop it open
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There we go. Obviously we get our device right here, just pop it straight out
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I don't know why, but the packaging and just overall experience
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I don't know why, but the packaging and just overall experience. here seems really pitiful like the packaging is just kind of worn out as you can see right here
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The device of the back was dirty up, like smudged up. There's more trash here
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So it's not looking too great as the first experience here, to be completely honest
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And I don't see really a reason for that. move on so get rid of this it just got stuck to me so under here we get
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absolutely nothing now this looks like I used to have a place for a charger
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oh no there we go there is a charger so we have paperwork we got a charger
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type C to type A yep so just a typical thing that you'd expect I guess it's
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actually quite surprising that we do have a charger though don't expect too much
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It is a... what is this? That's a 7.8 watt charger. Wow, that's..
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That's pitifully disappointing. Anyway, let's just turn on the device. So while it's turning on, I'm going to quickly go into the spec sheet
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So, actually, let me first start off with the price, and that's probably going to give you a better perspective on what you might expect from the performance and just everything else
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The price is about 230 euros, so it will depend, I guess, when you buy it, if it's on sale or not
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So, but the general price is about 230 euros. And with that, you get a 10.5 inch display with a 1200 by 1920 pixels, so it's a fairly decent display
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it's a full HD. I don't think you need anything more on a tablet
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even at a big screen. So this is, I would say, good
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No, it is just a TFT LCD display, so nothing special in any kind of way here
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Additionally, it doesn't come with any kind of high refresh rate or anything like that, so just a typical 60
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which is another disappointment. Screen to body ratios of 80% and pixels per inch
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216. But like I said, that doesn't really matter. Now what doesn't matter is the stupidity of
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Samsung right here forcing me to log in to my Wi-Fi. For what reason do I need to do so? It's a
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grand spanking new device fully unboxed. Uh, why? Why do I need to connect to it? Why do you need to
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evaluate that the device is not stolen or something? It's out of the fricking box. Oh
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that absolutely frustrates me. And it frustrates me even more because once you do so, it's going to start checking for the freaking updates
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And the new devices that were released this year, like the S-22s and top S-8s
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haven't been doing too great at setting up in a relatively reasonable time
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And another stupidity here is the restart. Your phone, it's not a phone
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Oh my God, Samsung. Nees to restart to set up features and services from your service provider
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There is no SIM card. Why? Oh my god
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Now this should frustrate everybody because it is absolutely stupid. So yeah, amazing
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It doesn't take that long to reboot that device. I can force reboot it quicker for you if you need to
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Whatever. You know what? I'm just going to move on and let this trash do whatever it's doing because apparently
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Samsung has decided to completely go haywall here. So let's just continue and completely ignore the setup to be honest because it's going to
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take longer than anything that I can say about this device. And I'm pretty sure that it's going to be the case
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We'll see. So we're looking at the cameras at the back right here, a single camera, which is an 8 megapixel sensor
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And then in the front we got a 5 megapixel. Obviously you're not going to be getting this device for the cameras
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And it's a tablet too, so it should be even more apparent. So don't expect anything special or anything even average from this
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It's a budget tablet, so that's primarily what you should expect from it
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And in terms of storage, this specific model is the 64 gigabyte storage with 4 gigabytes of RAM
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You have a lower model, if you actually want to go with a lower model, though I wouldn't really recommend
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is the 32 gigabyte with a 3 gigabyte RAM. Now the reason why I don't recommend it, it's not because of the storage
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32 gigs is fine for some people, so it really depends. And let's see if we can actually expand it
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And yes, we can expand. Oh actually we do have a SIM card slot here
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So still, the reason for me to reset the device is stupid because there is no SIM card inserted
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What did it need to connect to what provider? There's no SIM card
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So yeah, we can expand it using SD card. So 32 gigs would be fine for a lot of people
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It can expand it further. I can obviously slap a SIM card as well to get mobile data
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though needing to reboot the device for that is stupid even though you don't have any SIM card in here by default, so yeah
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So yeah, like I was saying 32 gigs is fine, but the 3 gigs of RAM will be a little bit on a lower end
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Which I don't really recommend going for 3 gigs In this current time, it is going to be on a lower side, which will make the device
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Feel even more sluggish than it probably already does So I do recommend going for at least that 4 gigabyte just paying a little bit more
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You do get also the benefit of having more storage, but what I would consider to be more beneficial as the extra RAM
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Obviously you also have another, like a shelf here, which is the 128 gig storage with also 4 gigs of RAM
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Though this one I don't really recommend, you can expend the storage like half a terabyte with a, say
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SD cards, so having more built-in storage doesn't really give you any benefit if you have to pay more for it
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especially that it can't remove it or anything like that. So I think SD card might be just a better option here
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And we're going to be seeing this for a while here, I believe, let's see
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Will I actually be able to finish this in a reason? amount of time, it looks like it
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Well, there we go, we're getting our tablet ready. Oh wow, it actually looks like I might be able to finish this in a reasonable time
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because it wasn't actually looking for, or setting your device up for half an hour. Fantastic
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I love that the budget device has 230 euros sets up quicker than a S-22 Ultra
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Ultra. Beyond me how that is a thing, but oh well, same thing for you here
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So I know that I get to look at the device setup, which honestly I don't know how that really matters here
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I'm not really going to go into what's on here and camera test. It's not something that I want to test
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So let's just quickly finish up the rest of the things, which is, like I mentioned, 3 or 4 gigs of RAM
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We got a T618 processor right here, a built-in battery of 7,400 million hours, and a fast charging at 15 watts
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Oh, the audacity of calling this fast charging. Oh yeah. So, yeah, apparently you get fast charging at 15 watts, even though additionally I want to remind you that the charges that we got here is not even 15 watts
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it's half of that, it's seven and a half. So, amazing that we can charge it at 15 watts, which is already pitiful
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The charger that we are provided with is half of that. So yeah, that's extremely disappointing, even for a budget device in my opinion
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And I don't think there's anything else to say about this. It's running Android 11, 1 UI 3, so I guess what you would expect for me
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relatively new device from Samsung. Obviously if you're buying some kind of tablet
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no matter if it's budget or not, you expect to have the latest Android
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with the latest one UI from Samsung. And obviously you get that here
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But yeah, just to finish this off, other than the display right here, everything else is a little bit underwhelming
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For $2,000, for $200 and like 30 euros, I still think this is a little bit too much for a device
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that just stand on under the low. levers like this and in recent timing I will be completely honest I grew to
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this by Samsung the things that that that you have here that like some of the
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things are just so annoying and have no place like for instance opening up a galaxy store and being presented with a flippant ad right away on a device
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that you already paid and I don't have internet connection right now because I
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know I do have internet connection wait wait wait wait wait wait
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No, I first have to update it. Once I updated, I will get an ad
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But I guess on a cheap device like this, it's not really a problem, what I would consider
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but when you're paying, for instance, $1,200 for a S-22 Ultra, you expect there to be no ads
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You already paid premium price, and yet you're getting treated the same way as someone
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who basically spends like 200 euros on their... cheap tablet. So this is not really a dig-out like price differences. This is just a
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they got Samsung and they're them just trying to sell you anything anywhere. The entire like
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setup process when you try to skip signing into Google or not Google but Samsung account, it gives
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you this stupid pop-up, skip on all this. And basically everything that they show there is a
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plagiarism of what Google already offered for way longer, way better and already kind of
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comes feedback in with this exact device or any other Samsung device
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So yeah, I don't know, I used to like Samsung, they used to do good things
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They still have some neat features in their devices, but at this current time, I think
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like they're over, as though the devices are overpriced for what you get, there are other
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companies that provide the same kind of device in a way, but for cheaper
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So, Samsung is turning to something like an Apple. And I don't really like the fanboyism of a device just because the device used to be good, it's
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not anymore. Or the company used to be good and it's not anymore in terms of Samsung
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So this device right now, it's a budget device, but it's a little bit too high price for
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a tablet especially. It's offering just like the most minimum speculations. that you can expect from a device at this time and it is still coming in around 230
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euros that is too much before a device that offers this little so that is basically
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my my overview here personally if you're planning to buy a tablet quickly check obviously this
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will sound absolutely stupid the comparison but if I would be buying any kind of tablet I'd
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probably go for the Apple's the what was it iPad Mini just because it was an
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outstanding device and it wasn't actually that expensive obviously it was way
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more expensive than this but it offered significantly way more performance significantly way more of everything so that is something that I would
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probably personally prefer to just save up and buy if I don't need a tablet right now
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In any cases, additionally, what I can recommend instead of this, if you, for instance, want also Samsung
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go for like the older Samsung tablets, the S7 or even S6
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Those will work fantastically, even at current times, and you might be able to find them, as an example
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used or refurbished at reasonable prices probably possibly at a competitive price to this So that is what I would recommend you to look into instead of this If you can find anything else at a reasonable price then I guess you don really have a choice
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But like I said, I honestly, I would recommend saving up a little bit, even just a little bit more
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And even going for like a mid-range, because mid-range is a little bit more
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more balanced in the price. I don't know how to say it otherwise. At this point in time
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budget devices from like Samsung and companies like that, they're not really budget. You pay to be
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scammed in a way. Like, and it's not, it's not the only like company. Obviously
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Xiaomi does this too, where they will release a, what is it, like, a $100 or a $150 phone
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which is completely budget, I understand. But when you consider, consider the fact that you can buy an older device for way cheaper or about the same price
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as this budget phone and it will perform way better than what you're paying right now for
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as a new one. I start to like question what's the validity of like buying a budget device if for the same
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price you can get something way better that was a flagship before
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It's just old and isn't sold anymore. That's the only difference. So that's what I recommend doing
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here looking into other alternatives seeing if your budget allows you to go for something
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higher maybe or if there's any kind of older device even from Samsung at a higher higher shelf
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like the S lineups as the top S lineups but old ones which will like I said perform way better
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and one last thing that I'll mention is in certain cases I understand that some people will
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want to go with a budget for instance phone as an example I did an unboxing of like
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some I think a 53 Samsung and even though I okay so I guess welcome back I went through the entire unboxing and the camera
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ran out of memory so I'm just kind of gonna go over this really quickly
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you already seen hopefully the unboxing right there so let's just quickly
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go through it. I did go to the setup of this device which was absolute pain. The changes that
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Samsung has made through their setup are absolutely pitiful, where it takes too long to actually set up
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Now, it doesn't really seem like much of a problem, but when you're comparing to other devices
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which set up way quicker and have way more, were less restrictions over this one, it gets a little
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bit annoying and frustrating that apparently a premium one of the quotation mark better companies
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that produces devices like phones or tablets can't actually figure out how to do the damn setup
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So what I mean by that is you number one are forced to connect to Wi-Fi for any stupid reason
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that is. I have no idea I don't actually care what it is because it has no place
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I don't care if it's because of warranty or something like that. I can do any other device set up without needing to do that
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I can't do that here for some reason. What about if I, I don't know, wanted to set it up somewhere outside of my home
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and I don't have Wi-Fi connection? What am I supposed to do
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Without a Starlink? Another thing is once you choose a region, you need to restart the device
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Because of getting information from your service provider. It does have LTEK connectivity, but there is no card
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in there. So why do I need to reboot the device? What provider are you connecting to
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Exactly. The phantom one that isn't there? So that's another frustrating thing
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And once you do that, once the device reboots and comes back, it does the checking for updates
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for extensive time. Now, I'll mention that this budget device apparently can go through it
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quicker than the S-22 Ultra. Buffles my mind, but that's Samsung for you nowadays apparently
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So yeah. Now, once you get to a setup, you are presented with the Android 11 with a 1 UI 3
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So whatever you would expect from a device from Samsung, that's been released in a relatively recent time
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So basically the latest things you can get. So at least that's good. Now in terms of the display right here, we're looking at a, what is it, 10.5 inch display with a 1,200 by 1920 pixels per inch
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or not per inch, but resolution, pixels per inch are at 216 with an 80% screen-to-body ratio
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So, screen-wise, at least the specs that I just mentioned, are just common what you would expect
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And honestly, they're not that bad, but what is bad is the actual display right here, which is a TFT LCD display
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It doesn't get fairly bright, it doesn't get fairly accurate, it honestly looks kind of garbage
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And if I max out the brightness, which I've already almost was maxed out
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the max brightness. The environment here is dim. The camera is basically at ideal level
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To put that in perspective, let me quickly just get my phone and
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get rid of all the notifications, there we go. So right here we're looking at my phone
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which is right now at half brightness and I believe it's about brighter than this, though it's completely dark
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it's completely dark. I have an animal display so so take that. Well obviously I can
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brighten it up and you can kind of see how it differs. Like the white right here is
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being right now overpowering the camera setup. So it looks a little bit too bright on the
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camera. So there we go. That's kind of what you get. Obviously if you take this
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display outside into the direct sunlight, I doubt. you will be seeing anything on it
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So that is something that you want to keep remembering. If you're planning to use this device, I don't know
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If you want to go onto your patio, use it, I don't know, while you sunbatting
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Yeah, forget about that one. So yeah. Now that we get that out of the way, we can touch upon the cameras
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I'm not even going to flip it. The cameras are underwhelming here. It's an 8 megapixel and a 5 megapixel
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So 8 at the back, a 5 on the front. That's about it. You can't really do anything
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Outstanding with them, it shoots at 1080p, 30 frames max. So it's honestly what you would expect from a budget device
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And in terms of storages and RAM, we have couple versions, exactly three
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The lowest one, which is the 32 gigs and 3 gigs of RAM will be the cheapest one for obvious reasons
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And the one that I have right here is the second one, which is 64 with 4 gigs of RAM, which
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is what I would recommend picking up if you planning to buy this device but I don recommend buying this device And the last one is 128 gigs of storage but also 4 gigs of RAM which is one that I wouldn
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overly recommend just because you do have option to expand the storage using
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SD card in here there's no reason for you to pay for extra storage when you can just
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pop in half a terabyte of SD or maybe you already have one that you can use
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you can slap it in here and have everything that you have on that card any moment and
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Once you, I don't know, want to transfer it, all you need to do is just pop out the card, you don't need to back up anything or do anything like extra gimmicks
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You just take out the SD card and you're good to go. So that's why I recommend going for the 64 with 4 gigs of RAM
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The RAM here is more important over the storage, in my opinion
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because REM is one of those things that you won't be able to upgrade. And moving on to next part
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we have a 7,040 million power battery with a 15 watt apparently a fast charging
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if 15 watts is a fast charging I'm assigned with yeah I'm gonna leave that unspoken
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and if that wasn't that wasn't enough the charger that we get right here is a 7 and a
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half watts so half of what we can get right yep yep it's
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7 and a half. Actually, no, is it 7.8. So, a little bit over half
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So a 7.8 watt charger that you get in a box, even though the device can do 15
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Goodness, 15 watts is what it would consider trash. So the fact that they can't even meet that standard of trash
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with their charger is absolutely pitiful. It's absolutely baffling to my mind
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how this company managed to succeed when they're doing some stupid trash
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this. Now if you're considering my opinion here to be unjust you just
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paid for or maybe not just but you're thinking about maybe picking up this
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device where it can charge at 15 watts but the charger you get which you
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pay for is a 7.8 watt charger so to utilize what you've paid for in the
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tablet you need to get another charger to charge your device a little bit
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faster and mind you 15 watts is absolutely garbage my three-year-old phone which
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cost as much as this tablet right now can charge well twice as fast at 30 watts
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and at this point this device even though it was a flagship at one point
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cost as much as this if not less so yeah now that that is explained why I am so
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critical about things like this you can hopefully see where I'm coming from
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where older devices that are basically now way cheaper because they're old
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can outperform what you're paying right here because it's new. You don't really get anything new in here, though
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That's the problem. So, let's move on to... What is it there? Last part
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We got a fingerprint side-mounted. Where is it actually? Do we even have a fingerprint
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It does say that we do have a fingerprint on the side, but if we do, I cannot find it
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So the easiest way to find it would be just to go to the settings. Let's see
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Actually, I think we don't have a fingerprint sensor right here, so I think that is incorrect
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We have face recognition, biometrics. doesn't look like we do have
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doesn't look like we have any kind of fingerprint sensor. So this is incorrect
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Oh well. So, I think this would honestly conclude this device. I will mention if you're planning to pick up any kind of Samsung tablet
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do look into their older devices like the S6, top S6 specifically
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They have a light version and they have the standard one. hopefully you can, the light ones, brand new ones cost, I don't know, $300 or so
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and they are going to be better than this. If you can find, I don't know, I've refurbished one or maybe used one that isn't actually
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damaged in any way, just like a really good condition used one, I probably would recommend
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going for this one. Now, if you're going for a used one and you don't know really how to look for a used tablet
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I do recommend asking someone for help with this one, just because some of the one. Sometimes people can be absolute trash and try to scam you or sell you something that is faulty
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And if you're not sure what to look for when buying a used device from someone
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hopefully someone else can help you out with this one so you don't get scammed. But that being said, if you have an option to go for things like the S6 tub
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which is a older flagship from Samsung in terms of the tablets
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it comes roughly around the same price. If you can get it used, it should be basically the same price
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but it will be way, way better than what you get right here
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So that is what I would highly recommend checking out. Other than that, honestly, I wouldn't recommend going for this
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Considering that budget devices from any manufacturer right now are, in my opinion
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aren't really worth the money. There are certain exceptions to that. when buying, for instance, phones where a phone can have a higher refresh rate and some people
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really want the high refresh rate over like an older devices which are going to be more powerful
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but will run only 60 hertz. That is understandable and some people also want to utilize on the phones as an example 5 gigahertz
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which most of the mid-range budget devices nowadays come with 5 gigahertz so that is one of the
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things that some people will want to utilize but if you're not that kind of person or if whatever
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you're looking for it doesn't have those features anyway like for instance this tablet where it does not have any kind of high refresh rate going for a lower or older device but
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a higher one around the same price you don't lose anything you just gain so that's that's
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why I would recommend going for either use refurbished or even a newer one but like
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older flagship device and that being said don't buy this it's honestly not worth the money even though it seems cheap you can buy like I said
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use refurbished ones at the same price which will be a much better value for your
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money and if you found my rent here maybe recommendations helpful don't forget
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