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Unboxing and first look at the SAMSUNG Galaxy A27 5G. In this video I open the box, show everything included (phone, Type-C to Type-C cable, paperwork), boot the device and give a hands-on impression of build quality, display, cameras, battery and performance. You’ll hear the price estimate (~1,500 PLN / ~$400), display specs (6.7-inch Super AMOLED, 120 Hz, Gorilla Glass Victus Plus), camera setup (50 MP main, 5 MP ultrawide, 2 MP macro), battery & charging (5,000 mAh, 25 W), internals (Snapdragon 6 Gen 3, 6–8 GB RAM, 128–256 GB storage) and the IP64 rating. I also compare value against competitors like the Poco X8 Pro and share honest pros and cons to help you decide if this Galaxy A27 5G is worth it.
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0:00 Intro and quick non-sponsored note
0:18 Unboxing — what's inside the box
1:10 Booting the Galaxy A27 5G for the first time
1:36 Price check and market positioning (~1,500 PLN / ~$400)
3:35 Display details: 6.7-inch Super AMOLED, 120 Hz, Gorilla Glass Victus Plus
5:59 Camera overview: 50 MP main, 5 MP ultra-wide, 2 MP macro, video limits
8:12 Battery and charging: 5,000 mAh, 25 W
9:05 Internals and performance: Snapdragon 6 Gen 3, RAM and storage
10:24 Build quality, materials and fingerprint sensor location
11:48 IP64 rating and durability notes
12:29 Comparison with Poco X8 Pro — value and features
20:00 Final thoughts, verdict and recommendation
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0:01
Welcome. In front of me, I have the
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Samsung Galaxy A27 5G and I'll be going
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over unboxing along with a quick look at
0:10
the phone, its specifications, build
0:12
quality, and give you my thoughts and
0:14
opinions about it as I check it out
0:16
myself.
0:24
Okay. Now, just to quickly mention like
0:26
always, uh, I'm not sponsored by any
0:28
kind of brand right here. So, what I
0:31
will be saying about this device is just
0:32
strictly my own opinion and no one
0:34
else's. So, with that out of the way,
0:37
let's get into it.
0:42
Guess Samsung decided not to push pull
0:44
tabs anymore. It sound like they got
0:45
those figured out anyway. So,
0:49
inside we get the obviously the phone
1:03
Oh, there we go.
1:07
So, here's the device.
1:10
Boot it up.
1:17
There we go.
1:20
Now, inside of the box right here, we
1:22
also get
1:25
our paperwork along with a type-C to
1:28
type-C cable for charging. And that's
1:30
about it.
1:32
So,
1:34
let's move on to the phone. So, I do
1:38
want to quickly check something out
1:40
before I get any further,
1:48
which is going to be obviously the
1:50
price. Um, so this device is about
1:56
1,500 PLN, which is
2:02
Wow. That's uh at this point $400 US.
2:06
Damn.
2:08
Uh
2:09
okay.
2:11
So,
2:13
and any case, so we have 1,500 uh PLN or
2:17
roughly $400. That is already including
2:21
uh tax. So, that's pretty good.
2:25
And let's now get into it with that
2:28
perspective of price, which this is on
2:31
the lower end of prices. Just to kind of
2:34
explain this, it's not the lowest. Like
2:37
some cheap phones, like really cheap
2:39
ones, cost like a hundred bucks. Uh so
2:43
this obviously is like nearly four times
2:45
more to what those cost, like the
2:47
cheapest ones. Um, and it actually
2:50
competes with some other devices like
2:52
the Pocos.
2:56
Let me quickly check
2:59
how. Okay, this one is a little bit more
3:02
expensive.
3:05
Can I quickly check just so I have the
3:07
full understanding on the price that
3:10
we're looking at?
3:13
Uhuh.
3:15
And while I'm doing that, I'm actually
3:16
just going to pause the video. So you
3:18
don't need to
3:20
listen to me just do absolutely nothing.
3:25
Okay. Uh so I got it checked out and um
3:28
I'm first going to talk about this
3:30
device before I bring the other one in
3:32
so you have full understanding of what
3:35
are we looking at. So, for the price of
3:38
about $400, you get a
3:42
6.7 in display and size Super AMOLED 120
3:47
Hz refresh rate with a screen to body
3:49
ratio of 86.8% screen to body ratio. And
3:52
you can see we do have these uh little
3:55
bit oldl looking bezels at the bottom
3:57
specifically. And they're also not
3:59
symmetrical, which is something that
4:01
nowadays most manufacturers do. They
4:03
make them symmetrical so it looks
4:04
better. And these bezels usually are a
4:06
little bit closer to that 90% mark
4:09
nowadays. So, this is falling a little
4:11
bit behind. And uh I do want to give
4:14
Samsung props with their like S lineup,
4:16
which um I've been daily driving. Uh
4:20
their bezels on this phone, which I
4:21
won't be able to show just because my
4:23
actual screen protector
4:25
is uh making it a little bit thicker
4:29
than it actually is, but I'm still going
4:30
to just kind of demonstrate it a little
4:32
bit. So, there we go. just uh you can
4:36
see these bezels are absolutely
4:37
minuscule and these aren't even like the
4:39
full you can see at the bottom right
4:41
here these bez this bezel here looks a
4:43
little bit smaller than the one that is
4:45
on the sides that's the actual tempered
4:47
glass that has this like weird little
4:49
frame around it these bezels are
4:54
I believe about what we have right here
4:56
at the bottom all around. So, Samsung
4:59
has one of the like nicer kind of screen
5:02
to battery ratios. So, having a phone
5:04
like this one just kind of uh looks bad
5:08
considering this device came after the
5:11
one that I have right there.
5:14
Anyway, uh let's continue on. So, with
5:16
the display, we have no certifications
5:19
whatsoever uh labeled right here like
5:21
HDR Plus or or for instance Dolby Vision
5:25
or anything. Uh but we do have Corola
5:29
Gorilla Glass uh Victus Plus M level
5:32
five and well that's about it. Now
5:36
this display is a little bit
5:37
underwhelming but it's not bad. It has
5:40
everything that you would want from it
5:41
like the high refresh rate and it being
5:43
AMOLED display with relatively good
5:47
screen to body ratio.
5:49
Now, if we move over to the cameras,
5:52
which for phones nowadays, I would say
5:55
it's more of a personal preference which
5:57
one you prefer, how much processing you
5:58
want. I genuinely at this point don't
6:01
even like phone cameras that may be like
6:03
a wild take. But when I take a photo, I
6:08
want that photo to be taken by me, not
6:10
reimagined by AI. AI. I
6:14
You know what? Ultimate can shut the
6:15
up his ass. I I don't want that
6:17
garbage. But at this point, every
6:20
company uh and everyone on the planet,
6:22
including probably your grandma along
6:24
with the dog, uh is using the AI because
6:28
why the not? It's cramped down your
6:30
throat, so you might as well. Um, and
6:32
you might be even using it without
6:34
knowing it. Like when it comes down to
6:36
photos, photos use most phones nowadays,
6:40
as far as I can tell, use AI to upscale
6:42
the images to make them better. So
6:44
basically, companies are skimping out on
6:47
hardware and trying to make up the
6:49
difference with software in a way or
6:51
just AI. I hate that. You know what? At
6:54
this point, you can off with this
6:56
garbage and I'll just use a camera,
6:59
mirrorless camera for this and not
7:01
really touch the uh the phone's cameras
7:04
at all because I despise it. When I take
7:06
a photo on the phone, I want it to be
7:07
taken by me, not reimagined by AI.
7:11
Um but
7:13
um anyway, talking about these cameras
7:14
over here, we have 50 megapixel uh f1.8
7:18
wide sensor, 5 megap ultraide, and 2
7:20
megap macro. So uh that macro shouldn't
7:23
even be counted because 50 megapixel
7:25
wide one will capture better macro
7:27
photos than the 2 megapixels. So that's
7:30
kind of useless sticker camera. And you
7:32
can do 4K 30 in terms of recording and
7:34
also 1080p 30, which is a little bit
7:36
underwhelming. While the selfie at the
7:38
front is a 12 megapixel f2.2 wide sensor
7:41
that does only 1080p 30 frames. Uh you
7:44
can probably see there is no 60
7:46
whatsoever anywhere here which again for
7:48
this price
7:49
and considering it's Samsung it is a
7:52
little bit disappointing. Uh a little
7:54
bit kind of p price gougy. So
7:59
that's that. Now if you move over to the
8:01
internals, the phone uh again maintains
8:04
the typical Samsung logic which is uh uh
8:08
just get your customers and uh take them
8:10
from behind. Absolutely raw. No loop
8:12
needed. So 5,000 mAh battery uh
8:15
absolutely pathetic for a phone like
8:18
this. Um 25 watts of charging speed, an
8:22
absolute insult for current uh times
8:24
2026. This is unacceptable in my
8:27
opinion, even at a $400 budget phone
8:29
like this, which $400 isn't necessarily
8:32
that much of a budget. It's close to
8:34
like I would say mid-range. Anyway,
8:37
other than that, we have 6 to 8 GB of
8:39
RAM inside and 128 to 256 GB of uh
8:44
storage. Now, the storage is luckily
8:48
um which is kind of weird considering
8:50
it's Samsung expendable using Okay, come
8:54
on. using an SD card which you can see
8:56
right here. So at least you have that
8:58
benefit.
9:00
So uh one more thing to go over in terms
9:04
of the internals is the processor. Uh
9:06
the processor powering this is the
9:07
Snapdragon 6 Gen 3. Uh so again very
9:13
close to like the low end of processors.
9:15
Nothing super good. Uh not even close I
9:18
would say. So, for 400 bucks, again,
9:21
it's a little bit of a disappointment
9:22
what this device offers.
9:25
Uh, and this is we're just strictly
9:27
right now talking about
9:30
hardware, software as a whole thing. Uh,
9:33
and software is very
9:36
persontoerson dependent. Like you might
9:38
absolutely adore uh the One UI or you
9:42
might absolutely hate it. So,
9:45
I'm not really going to talk about much
9:47
of the software because it is what it
9:49
is. Every phone has its own kind of
9:50
version of it for the most part. Um, and
9:54
if you're going for the software and
9:55
that's really what you buying this phone
9:57
for, then what I will be recommending
9:59
doesn't really make much of a difference
10:00
because whatever I'll recommend will not
10:03
have one UI as it's not going to be even
10:06
a Samsung.
10:08
Uh but any case um there's also no
10:11
mention of what the kind of storage type
10:13
we have in here with that 128 to 56 GB
10:16
of storage which I can only presume it's
10:18
nothing great. That's why it's probably
10:19
like UFS 2.2. Uh so not good, but this
10:24
is just guess. Uh build quality also
10:26
nothing really like outstanding. We have
10:29
plastic frame uh plastic back by the
10:31
looks of it.
10:34
Uh let's see uh front. Oh no, sorry. The
10:37
back is actually GL glass as well. So
10:39
corner glass victus glass as well just
10:41
like the front. Uh so uh glass front
10:44
back plastic frame. Uh we have
10:46
fingerprint sensor on the power button.
10:48
Volume markers right above that which uh
10:51
again considering it's Samsung, it's
10:52
kind of surprising that we don't have
10:53
under display fingerprint sensor. That
10:56
is an AMOLED display after all. Uh at
10:58
the top we have just a I believe this is
11:00
a noise cancellation microphone and
11:02
nothing else. Then on the uh left side
11:05
we get that SIM SD tray. Now the phone
11:09
actually takes either two SIM cards or
11:10
one SIM card, one SD card because one of
11:12
the trays is interchangeable. And then
11:14
bottom we have that type-C charging
11:15
port, speaker and the microphone. And
11:17
well that's everything that there is to
11:19
the build quality. Uh some of the
11:22
shortcomings right here that I would say
11:23
is the fact that the phone has 5,000 mAh
11:26
battery which means that doesn't have
11:27
silicon carbon uh battery which is a
11:29
little bit of a drawback considering
11:30
we're looking at the price point of
11:33
$400,
11:34
a slow processor, a crappy memory and
11:38
pretty dated looking uh design along
11:43
with kind of poor build quality. Now one
11:46
more thing when it comes on to build
11:47
quality is the IP rating. So, we have
11:49
IP64 dust tight and water resistant. Uh,
11:52
but water resistant meaning water
11:54
splashes, not submergible.
11:57
So, with that out of out of the way,
12:00
hardware wise, this device falls short.
12:03
That's how I look at it. And, uh, the
12:07
reason I think this device falls short
12:08
is because competition exists and
12:10
competition is absolutely great. Uh it
12:13
just seems that Samsung hasn't realized
12:14
that that other other compet competitors
12:18
actually exist and potentially this is
12:21
due to the fact that uh stupid
12:23
like me uh for instance buy phones like
12:25
this
12:27
was the last time though. Um so let me
12:30
bring into the view not physically I
12:33
don't have the phone on me. Uh, the
12:35
Xiaomi Poco X8 Pro enters the picture
12:38
here. And that phone costs less than
12:42
what we have right here. I I want to
12:44
absolutely stress this. That phone cost
12:46
about 50 bucks less. And uh for about
12:50
$350
12:53
including tax, mind it, you get a phone
12:56
that absolutely embarrasses what Samsung
12:58
has made right here. And I'm going to
13:01
try to go as quickly as possible through
13:02
this, but IP ratings. that started with
13:04
that are better. We have IP69K which
13:06
means that it's submergible up to one
13:08
and a half meters for 50 for 30 minutes
13:10
and it's also uh pressure water jets
13:13
highressured splot you know certified
13:16
with dust tight and all that jazz. We
13:18
have AMOLED display that same thing that
13:20
we have here with a better screen to
13:22
body ratio meaning that these kind of
13:24
disgusting uh bezels at the bottom and
13:27
sides are much smaller on the other
13:29
device. uh and also it has a benefit of
13:31
having 68 billion colors uh 3840
13:35
Hz polar rate for touch responsiveness,
13:38
a Dolby Vision certification along with
13:40
HDR10 plus certification and peak
13:42
brightness of whopping 3 and a half,000
13:44
nits.
13:46
Um so we already have some uh benefits
13:49
right here just in a display alone and
13:52
keep in mind that phone costs less. Uh
13:55
but that's not the only benefit you get.
13:58
Next one will be the battery life and
13:59
just the battery size. We have 6 and a
14:01
half thousand millah battery which is
14:04
one and a half thousand more than we
14:06
have right here because the phone is
14:08
using silicone carbon battery because
14:10
unlike Samsung they decided not to be a
14:13
greedy and skimp out as much as
14:16
possible and buy the cheapest
14:18
possible on the market right now. Uh and
14:20
on top of that, unlike a Samsung which
14:23
has been uh failing in this kind of
14:25
aspect, the phone can charge at 100
14:27
watts. Great. It can charge four times
14:30
faster than what we have right here. And
14:32
again, it costs less than this. Um so,
14:36
let's be honest, Samsung is probably
14:37
still scared. They still probably wake
14:39
up at night just sweating, you know,
14:41
ball sweaty and all that jazz. Uh just
14:44
afraid that their phones might blow up.
14:46
But phones might not blow up, but their
14:48
earbuds now do uh and rings. So, that's
14:52
great. Um, so it seems like they're just
14:54
keeping the charging speeds low so their
14:56
phones don't again become a uh IEDs uh
15:00
in people's pockets.
15:03
So, um obviously Xiaomi improves on that
15:06
quite significantly by giving you bigger
15:08
battery and faster charging, like way
15:10
faster charging, which is fantastic. Uh
15:12
and again, we're not done yet. uh at the
15:15
lowest end and you're getting 8 GB of
15:17
RAM up to 12 as has at the lowest uh
15:20
six. So again, you get out of the box
15:23
more RAM and out of the box double the
15:26
storage as the phone starts off with 256
15:29
gigs of storage instead of the 128. Um
15:32
it also goes up to half a terabyte with
15:35
12 gigs and comes with UFS 4.1 which is
15:38
pretty good. Again, another improvement
15:40
there. Um, camera wise, it only has two
15:43
cameras at the back, which is a 50
15:45
megapixel f1.5, 26 millimeter wide lens,
15:48
and 8 megap ultra wide. Uh, but unlike
15:51
this device, uh, it can record 4K 60 and
15:54
1080p up to 960 frames of slow motion.
15:57
And the selfie uh is a 20 megapixel that
16:00
does 1080p 60. So it basically covers 60
16:04
on every basis right here unlike this
16:06
phone which doesn't even offer 60 frames
16:08
per second of video recording anywhere.
16:11
Um so for video recording smoothness
16:15
obviously uh this is shittier again it
16:18
costs more. Um so now if we move to the
16:23
last thing that I would say uh which is
16:25
like the biggest nail in the coffin for
16:27
this piece of junk is going to be the
16:29
processor. Uh the Poco X8 Pro comes with
16:33
a Demensity 8500 Ultra processor which
16:36
is closer to the higher end. The only I
16:38
believe next step for for Demensity is
16:41
the 9000 series which is like the top of
16:43
the top the basically the best flagship
16:45
processor that they have which is the
16:47
fastest thing that you can get
16:48
equivalent to something like the
16:50
Snapdragon 8 Elite. Um
16:54
now here or 8 Elite like Gen 5. So, uh,
16:59
basically what that device offers is
17:01
something closer to that 8 elite, not
17:04
the gen 5. Um, which is like the last
17:07
year's model of the flagships
17:09
processors. It's a fantastic processor.
17:12
This, if you remember, comes with a
17:14
Snapdragon 6 Gen 3. So, not only is it
17:17
like older generation, it's also one of
17:19
the lowest kind of you can get.
17:21
file.pokco which again costs less comes
17:24
with something that is at the tippy
17:26
tappy of performance. Uh so for
17:30
reference what that actually means for
17:31
you opening applications uh getting
17:34
anything done on the phone will be much
17:36
faster much snappier. Everything that
17:37
you do will feel instantaneous compared
17:39
to what we have right here. So again
17:44
it costs less and gives you way more. It
17:47
punches way above its weight.
17:50
So, uh, one last thing, build quality.
17:53
We have aluminum frame unlike the
17:54
plastic one right here. And I believe we
17:56
do have plastic back on that device. Uh,
17:59
and there is no wireless charging.
18:00
Neither does this one. So, okay. Uh, but
18:04
yeah, aluminum frame, plastic back, and
18:07
obviously glass front.
18:09
So, that will be a absolutely phenomenal
18:12
device if you are not hellbent on
18:14
Samsung and their One UI. If you don't
18:17
mind venturing to other brands, you will
18:20
get a phone that is insanely better than
18:23
what you get right here for less money.
18:26
I am genuinely surprised that Xiaomi
18:29
even sells them at this price
18:30
considering
18:32
anyone else sells would sell this phone
18:34
at like $7 to $800. Xiaomi is like,
18:37
"Nah, screw that. We're just going to
18:39
offer it for like half that price." And
18:42
if they can offer it at that price and
18:44
most likely still make a profit, it just
18:46
gives you a perspective on the market,
18:49
especially when it comes down to market
18:50
like from Samsung. Samsung makes their
18:52
own panels
18:54
like the AMOLED displays, those are
18:56
Samsung's. So, not only are they
18:59
manufacturing some of their own
19:01
components,
19:03
they have the audacity to price gauge on
19:05
those. While something like Xiaomi, for
19:07
instance, would need to buy uh the
19:10
displays from either Samsung or some
19:12
other brands, LG or whatever. I honestly
19:15
have no idea who they purchase the
19:17
displays from, but they don't make their
19:19
own. So, they need to buy it from
19:21
someone. And yet they still managed to
19:23
make the price low enough for that phone
19:27
to be super affordable and super good.
19:30
And just for reference though, obviously
19:34
Xiaomi will be doing some data gathering
19:36
like like most applications and all that
19:39
Um
19:42
but Samsung does the same thing. They do
19:44
give you odds. Samsung does as well. So
19:48
for kind of comparison,
19:52
Samsung seems to be like, you know,
19:53
trying to show that they're standing
19:55
outside of the crowd, but they do the
19:56
same like predatory as everyone
20:00
else. Just everyone else has at least
20:02
like Xiaomi has the uh decency to not
20:05
try to also you with the price as they
20:08
will be making enough profit from the
20:10
data that you generate that they will be
20:12
selling and it can be sure that
20:14
they will be selling that data as
20:16
companies do make an absolutely moronic
20:19
amount of uh money from just selling the
20:21
data that you generate using their
20:22
devices. I mean uh I believe Highense
20:25
was the one that uh which sells TVs
20:28
which uh generated what is it double or
20:32
triple the revenue from selling data
20:35
than they did from selling those TVs
20:37
that gathered that data. So should give
20:40
you an understanding on what the market
20:43
is all about really. And in in the real
20:46
truth uh considering we're looking at
20:48
such a moronic kind of prices for your
20:51
data being what you generate
20:54
I would argue that these sponsors should
20:57
be at this point free considering we're
21:00
the product that is generating them
21:02
revenue. Um but you know that's just
21:05
kind of um my upd.
21:09
Like I said, Xiaomi there absolutely
21:11
fantastic for what it offers. And um
21:14
when it comes down to privacy and all
21:15
that all that stuff, it's about the same
21:17
as everyone else. Um at least they have
21:20
the decency to kind of tell you that
21:22
they're going to be doing it. So that's
21:25
great. Anyway,
21:27
uh so once again, that was the X8 Pro.
21:29
And uh just to add, like I said, I am
21:33
not sponsored by Xiaomi or anyone else.
21:35
I just genuinely believe that device is
21:36
an absolute steal when it comes down to
21:39
value uh what you get in terms of
21:42
hardware uh to how much you need to pay.
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And this should be probably pretty
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obvious considering I did try to go over
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in detail like what the differences are
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and price differences as well. So
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anyway, that's about it. Now, if you
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