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Samsung Galaxy S23 FE UNBOXING!
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Aug 9, 2024
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Welcome and follow me as I Samsung Galaxy S23 FE and today I'll go over
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unboxing of it and a quick look at the device. Anyway let's just get straight into it. I did grab a knife but it looks like it's
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absolutely redundant considering I do have the pull tabs right here. Thank you. So in here we will have some paperwork and our charging cable
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Okay that's the side with paperwork. Oh wait there's also the cable. So right
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here. So anyway I'm not gonna really take that out we all know how a cable looks
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like. Then we get the phone and well that's it. There we go. So now that it's out of the box let's turn it on. Come on
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There we go. Now looking at the color of it. Jeez it looks... the colors recently
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have not really been hitting a spot at least in my opinion. So most of the
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manufacturers do have like these faded colors like they're basically like JerryRig described it. Sunburned. So yeah this just kind of I don't know
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doesn't hit the correct spot for me. But obviously it's preferential so if you
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like it that's fantastic. Now next thing we can now see the display so let's talk
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about it. Now this is a 6.4 inch display running a resolution of 1080 by 2340
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pixels. So it's basically a 1080p resolution. It is also an AMOLED display
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running at 120 Hertz refresh rate with HDR 10 plus certification and a peak
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brightness of 1450 nits. So it can get pretty bright and it also will have nice
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contrast ratios with the AMOLED display and also a fairly nice smooth just
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experience considering it is running 120 Hertz. So everything here at least in
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terms of the display is pretty good. One thing that I personally don't think
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it's too good it's the bezels right here. Now they might not be as big as some
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other devices but it just kind of looks bigger than I think it should because of
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the silver frame of the device and then the black borders. So it does create this
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distinct kind of separation and I think just in terms of perspective it makes it
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look like a chunkier device or chunkier bezels than what it actually has. So I
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think it might have been just a bit of a mistake to do this. But like I said it's
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just aesthetics. I do like the device to have minimal bezels. Obviously this
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doesn't look like it but it is boasting a 83.2% screen to body ratio. So it's not
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as good as some devices. It's also not super bad but it is on a lower end in
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terms of like current day standards. Now let's talk about the internals. So this
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device comes with the Samsung's Exynos processor. This is the 2200 processor. It
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also has an 8 gigabyte built-in RAM with 128 gigabytes of storage or 256 gigs of
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storage with no expandable storage unfortunately. Which I can showcase. Saying showcase I'm just gonna showcase literally nothing or the lack of a
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feature. But I guess it's Samsung so I might as well. So here we go. We do have
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the dual SIM support and no SD card at all. Now continuing on the battery in
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here. Even though this is a 6.4 inch display it is only at 4500 milliamps and
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that is on a well I would say lower end considering what would be the standard
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nowadays which is something along the lines of 5000. And in terms of charging
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speeds this device actually picks up in terms of charging speed compared to some
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other devices but it's still on a lower end at only 25 watts. Now they do
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advertise that it can charge your device to 50% in 30 minutes. So there we go
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It also supposedly has wireless charging. Let me just kind of make some space with
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my coffee in the box. Yep so it does. Now I don't really have a way to showcase
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this. It's a little bit off the screen and my Qi charger is literally mounted
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under this desk. So obviously there's just a little mark on my table for this
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But hopefully you did hear the sound. It did start charging. And in any case so we
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do have wireless charging. Though it's not really rated or displaying how fast
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it will charge. Now sticking with the charging speeds and all that stuff the
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reason I'm pointing this out a little bit more in depth is because this device
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isn't necessarily the cheapest. It is about 500 bucks and it comes with 25
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watt charging speed. Now for at least this one it's not as big of a middle
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finger as some other Samsung devices. So as an example I'm gonna bring my phone
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here. So there we go $1,800 device and it charges actually slower than this
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garbage. So this charges at what was it 23 watts I think. $1,800 device. And it's
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basically charging as fast as budget phones. So yeah I have basically zero
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respect for Samsung in terms of charging speeds. Understand they're probably trying to prevent their devices from blowing up but hell if you can't make a
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good battery that doesn't blow up maybe you shouldn't be selling shit. That's
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just kind of my opinion here. Anyway continuing on out of the battery realm
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let's talk about the cameras. It is a Samsung so they usually try to push the
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envelope with cameras. Though this is their FE lineup so don't expect that
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you're gonna be getting as good of a photos as for instance the S23 Ultra or
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other devices. This is the more toned-down version, the cheaper one. It is basically over $500 cheaper compared to the S23 Ultra. So you know tone down the
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expectations. But with that being said the cameras right here at least the main
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one is a 50 megapixel f1.8 24mm wide lens with PDAF and optical
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image stabilization. Then we got an 8 megapixel f2.4 75mm telephoto lens PDAF as well optical image stabilization and 3x optical
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zoom. And then below that we have a 12 megapixel f2.2 123 degree ultra wide
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lens. Now with those cameras you can shoot videos at 8k 24 frames 4k at 30
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and 60 frames and obviously 1080p same thing with slow motion of 120 and 240
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and if you drop your resolution to 720p only you can shoot slow motion at 960
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frames. Now moving on to the front selfie camera this is a 10 megapixel f2.4 26
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millimeter wide lens that can record at 4k 30 and 60 and 1080p 30 and 60 with
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gyroscopic electronic image stabilization. So there we go. Another thing here which isn't necessarily probably visible is I'm
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pretty sure it comes with under display yep fingerprint sensor. So you do have
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basically the sensor right there. We do have our power buttons and volume
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buttons on the same side right here on the right side. At the top we have the
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SIM tray, microphone, some antennas right here. Actually just here and this is just
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the little sticker that is on here to protect the edges. And then okay there's
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the second antenna and another one. Whoa no. Yeah no. Anyway then we have our type C charging port, speakers and that's
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about it. So there we go that's the device. So it's basically another one of
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those Samsung FE versions where they do cut on costs a little bit to try to give
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people a little bit more reasonably priced device with still decent specs
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And outside of the fact that Samsung has been notorious for giving the shittiest
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value for your money I don't think this is necessarily that bad. I will check one
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part because this is the Exynos processor right. So I have no clue. I
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would actually compares to some other processors that aren't Exynos. Exynos in
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the past hasn't been necessarily the best processor. So I want to see how it
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compares to Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. That's what I will be comparing it to
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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. And the reason for this comparison is is because at this
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price range there is a probably a better value for the money device. Let me just
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quickly make sure. So what I'm what I'm probably about to recommend it's going
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to be F5 Pro. So I want to check the price first before I say anything
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Yeah that's cheaper. Oh it's actually even a better processor. So that being said if
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you don't mind Chinese brands I have been kind of recommending this device a
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lot because there are two versions of it and one is a little bit higher tier than
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the other one. So it's the Poco F5 and F5 Pro. The one I will be comparing to this
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one is the F5 Pro which is going to be better than this device. And it is running
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a Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1. So the overclocked basically last generation
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Snapdragon. And it is going to be a better processor that is going to be
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faster. Now based on the NanoReview.net where they have benchmarks for these processors at least the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 not a plus version of it
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compared to the Exynos 2200 which is in this device they are about the same
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Though in CPU performance Exynos falls a little bit behind with a score of 64
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compared to the 71 of the Exynos. And that is basically also the kind of
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common trade right here that it does fall in the rest of the benchmarks like
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gaming performance couple points behind so it's 87 to 90 battery life 86 to 87
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and NanoReview score 87 to 80 or 78 to 82. So outside of the CPU performance
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alone it is going to fall behind not by much in other aspects just the CPU
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performance alone is the bit slower portion. Now with that being said the
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reason I recommend the Xiaomi Poco F5 Pro even though it's a Chinese brand it
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is still being sold and basically I believe US as well hopefully I think but
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it actually costs less being at about $440 so it is cheaper than this device
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while offering you big bigger battery better specced device faster processor bigger megapixel camera though that doesn't always translate to better
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photos something that you will need to look into if you're if this will
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actually interest you to check out this device. But also the resolution of the
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device will be higher the display size is bigger the display type is the same
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but it's running well actually the display is very similar it does boast a
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68 billion colors though which this device I don't think did but other than
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that refresh rates display type supports like HDR 10 plus brightnesses are
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basically the same. The only difference is the Xiaomi has a actual higher
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resolution display which will result in a sharper image on your device so
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obviously might be interesting to some people. And storage types will be faster
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right there cameras like I said maybe hit or miss that's something that you
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might need to check out but one last thing that I'm gonna point out charging
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speed of the device or with a bigger battery it comes with a 67 watt charger
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in the box unlike this and it supposedly charges that bigger battery to 50% in
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half the time which is 15 minutes so that's why I'm kind of comparing these
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two devices it is a clear winner Poco F5 Pro compared to this one so I would
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recommend picking that one up unless you are kind of already stuck in the in the
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Samsung ecosystem and you have a bunch of other Samsung devices so it makes it
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you know easier to backup restore them and do all that stuff then obviously
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you probably will be interested in this and probably nothing else but if you are
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open to some other suggestions I highly recommend checking the Poco F5 Pro as on
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paper and well in hand it's going to be a better device the only place where it
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might not be better will be the custom skin experience Samsung does add a
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couple more features to their OS so we do have things like the little sidebars
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right there for apps on Samsung and we have some other features that some
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devices or a lot of devices don't have if it's not made by Google then and it's
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basically implemented by Samsung it's probably going to be only found on
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Samsung and some some companies do copy some of these Samsung ideas like the
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sidebars and all that stuff so just something to point out now I do also
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want to say the OS for Samsung is pretty good but their hardware hey I feel like
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if you're planning to for instance unlock the bootloader on this device and maybe load it up with some custom OS right here then yeah altogether skip
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this device Samsung has never been good for loading up custom OS's because
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Samsung wants you to you know use theirs so they can gather data on you and if
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you try to you know diverge from their vision of selling you overpriced device that isn't actually yours they punish you by for instance disabling cameras on
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your device so if your bootloader is unlocked not even like flashed and you
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know you're not using different OS you just have it unlocked you use things
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like the Samsung what is it their security Knox use the Knox I you don't
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have the cameras and certain features for instance like bank applications will
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basically cease to work because the device is now apparently not secure so
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just something to keep in mind if you're planning to do a little bit more with
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such a device anyway with that being said hopefully you found this video
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helpful and if you did don't forget to smash like subscribe and thanks for watching
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