Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Why Is EVERYONE Buying This Phone?!”.
Flagship phones are outrageously expensive. It’S clear that people are done shelling out a thousand plus dollars year after year after year, but I mean you do still need a phone, ideally one with a decent screen and camera and at least 128 gigs of storage for apps and pictures. Well, I don’t play a ton of mobile games. No one likes their toilet time, interrupted by stuttery gameplay. So the answer is obviously to pick up a mid-range phone.
There are an overwhelming number of options. What the heck is everyone else buying. Okay, this is weird Samsung’s. A53 only has 3 000 reviews, but it is at the top of Amazon’s best sellers with an impressive four and a half star rating. I mean I knew the a series was wildly popular, but Samsung’s marketing and their review program, especially in North America, is so focused on note and fold and S series that I have to confess I have never actually been hands on until now. I guess it’s time to find out just why the advertisement friendly words – all of you are buying this phone and what is this hello? Oh, you want to sponsor a video how about this one thanks, Govi govi’s new AI box, smart light uses their AI algorithm to allow customized lighting effects that are reactive to in-game actions, to bring you out of monitor immersion, like you haven’t experienced before check out the Link below to learn more to describe the size of the a53 I’d, use the words right sized it’s easily handleable, but you’re not going to be squinting at it.
It’S a really good middle ground. It came out in mid-march of 2022 and it’s got almost all the major features you could want: decent storage capacity with MicroSD expansion, a 64 megapixel camera with Optical image, stabilization to keep your shot steady, a 120 hertz Super AMOLED display with up to 800 nits of Brightness for good outdoor viewing and HDR content and even 5G Network capability, we’ve got the base model with us today. Just like the rest of you, I mean the thing that stands out to me. First and foremost, is just how good the build quality feels it wasn’t that long ago, that budget phones, even mid-range phones, had gigantic bezels around them or really cheap feeling materials. But this feels great, if you told me this cost 300 more, I still wouldn’t bat an eye.
It doesn’t have a three and a half millimeter headphone jack, which is a real bummer, but it does have an amplified earpiece speaker, meaning that you will get stereo sound out of it. There’S no stupid Bixby button. I consider that a feature – and I guess I never mentioned it before, but the screen is six and a half inches.
Let’S talk cameras now, since for most people their phone is their primary way of saving precious memories from top to bottom. On the back, we’ve got a 12 megapixel Ultra wide, a 64 megapixel main camera and a 5 megapixel depth camera the little guy on the top is a 5 megapixel, F, 2.4 macro camera, bringing us up to a total of four sensors. On the back of this thing and on the bottom is our light or Flash selfie why the front-facing selfie camera is 32 megapixels and oh, I guess I was turned to the side that time but other than the a little bit overdone smoothing.
Then again, I’m old. I kind of need it now. I’D say the quality is pretty darn good and thankfully it doesn’t take up a ton of space on the screen.
As for the back, it might not be technically the best camera, but man I have a hard time finding anything to complain about. It is absolutely all that you need to capture the moment, which, for me, is really where the bar is. As for the display, I advocated for years that at these sizes anything over 1080p class is just wasted, cost and wasted power. I mean it’s over 400 pixels per inch for crying out loud and it looks great. The blacks are OLED deep and the 120 hertz refresh rate makes the phone feel and look smoother than pretty much any of the competition at this price point more on that later. By the way, however, that comes with a caveat just like on a PC there’s not much Point having a high refresh rate display unless the hardware can keep up with those frame rates and while the menus and navigation and simple games look great, there’s no Snapdragon 8 Gen, whatever processor in here so don’t expect top tier performance and gentian impact or other more demanding mobile games.
Of course, none of that affects consumption of movies and TV shows, which look amazing, though, of course there is more to life than looks. Let’S just do a quick audition of the speakers here, crab rave crab Rave. Let’S do it. Oh my God ads.
This is my version of Adblock. I will look somewhere else. Hey the Creator still gets paid. I will sleep perfectly tonight. You didn’t like these good Sound Stage, though I haven’t gotten to the drop. Yet I think you judged it too harshly you’re right, there’s not a lot of bass but good, Sound Stage, good Clarity, good volume and, while I’m not putting much stock in the support for Dolby Atmos. If scruffy Dan broke a string on his guitar around the campfire, you wouldn’t be a monster for pulling this out. Another area that impressed us was the battery life thanks to both its mid-tier processor and whopping 5 000 milliamp hour battery.
The a53 boasts up to two days on a single charge and that is not in crap tier monochromatic display mode, disabling, all the processor cores or whatever that’s with regular usage, auto brightness and Wi-Fi on around the clock – and we know this is true because ploof, the Writer for this video is one of you. He actually bought this phone and deleted it for a couple of months only selling it because a colleague offered him a free side grade and he likes his S10, but has actually not been happy about certain aspects of it. Particularly going back to Nightly charging when you do need to charge on the a53, it supports 25 watt fast charging, getting it back to full in a flash. Now, obviously, that battery life is going to degrade as the years go by. But if you start from a really good point, well, even degraded, it should be a good experience. You know what else is like that.
Our new Henley shirt from LTD store com. It starts great and well obviously, it’s going to wear a little it’s clothing, but it’ll last a really long time. Trust me bro now for the fun part: what’s the catch here, given its lower price point of 350 dollars, that’s down from 450 at launch, it’s kind of hard to complain. I just really like this thing, but it’s my job, so I’m gon na do it. Let’S start with the clearest drawback, the processing power, as I alluded to before the GPU in this thing, is a Mali g68 now for the average person that doesn’t make the experience awful or even bad, it’s a lot faster than his predecessor, but it certainly could be Better, what will affect pretty much everyone in everyday use, at least eventually is the CPU like a flagship chip chip. The exynos 1280 has an 8 core CPU, but those cores are running significantly slower and while ploof didn’t encounter any slowdowns over time with his phone, he doesn’t load up his phone with random apps and games and he only used it for a few months months.
So he didn’t have to deal with that slow down that tends to come from multiple generations of software updates. If customer reviews are anything to go by, though it might even be a problem today, in fact, looking through the one to three star ratings for this device, complaints about processing power are a clear pattern for one star. Some people simply got lemons uh, one hated on Samsung support. Several people were upset about the lack of an included charging. Brick, that’s fair enough, even if it looks like this might be the new normal. Honestly, though, I’m actually more annoyed by the inclusion of a type c to type c cable, I mean, if you’re not going to give me a brick, okay, fine, but this is a mid-tier device.
What are the odds that the brick that I already have with my old mid-tier device is a type c brick read the room. Samsung? Did you guys not have USBC bricks? Another Common Thread was the allegedly terrible call Quality when using this phone via Bluetooth in your car. Allegedly. I take calls in my car all the time and that’s doesn’t make any sense.
I’M gon na have to try that you sound fine, but are people I’m walking? Are people complaining about what comes through from my side or the other way um? I think it was coming through from on my side. I don’t know you sound fine to me. Yeah you sound cool, I kind of wonder if they just had a bug at some point. Uh, maybe I mean there were quite a few reviews but yeah it’s possible that new software updates was kind of fixing. It’S been out for almost a year. I don’t know what to tell you it’s fine, at least with this car.
I’M not saying you imagined it once we move up to the two and three star reviews. People start complaining more about the text-to-speech feeling a little sluggish, so processing again, a lack of memory resulting in apps freezing, momentarily lack of dual SIM support, though there is an international version with dual SIM, so it seems like they might have bought the wrong model. Poor facial recognition, we found a couple complaints about this in the four and five star range as well, but they don’t seem to really be bothered by it. I guess because it’s still a five-star review and then another big one is the unresponsive fingerprint scanner.
The good news is that a lot of these features might not matter to you that much particularly dual SIM support and a good hack for Samsung’s poor fingerprint recognition is to register the same finger multiple times. They are just a little bit slower than the competition. Funnily enough, most of the four star reviews complained about bloatware, but from my point of view, it’s really not that bad, especially if you don’t sign into a Samsung account during setup. We did a regular installation with just a Google account and honestly like what this that’s. It I don’t even know if I would actually get rid of anything that was pre-loaded on this device, but this is an unlocked device and it’s possible that some of these folks are leaving reviews with their carrier bloated versions and then ah, the rest of the complaints. At this tier were pretty focused on the lack of wireless charging, which is kind of valid at this price point.
What is interesting, though, is that, in spite of all these complaints and shortcomings, y’all seem to pretty much love. This thing, 5 Star reviews made up 64 of all reviews with another 20 being 4 star. I mean I can’t think of just about anything in this polarized world. That 84 percent of people agree is damn good.
So what do you guys love? Then? Expandable, storage, decent camera, really decent camera great battery life, nice display 5G, but we’ve talked about all that the biggest one is the value plenty of you guys are paying between 3 and four hundred dollars with many remarking that they either came from the thousand plus dollar Flagship scene and just didn’t want to do that anymore or they never had one and wanted to avoid shelling out big bucks in the first place. Interestingly, we didn’t see too many comments from people who appreciated it being affordable without locking into a carrier contract, but that was a major factor in blue spying decision. So I think it’s worth mentioning also worth mentioning is the main competitor for this model. The Google pixel 6A, while they’re both the same price both now and at launch. The 6A only has 650 ratings total. So it’s clearly less popular.
But that doesn’t surprise me that much given that Samsung is a bit more of a household name than Google is at least when it comes to phones. As for how they differ. Well, the camera on this one may be technically better. Actually, in some ways, Google software is so darn good that the pixel 6A ended up taking first place in mkbhd’s blind camera test. So if that’s all you care about, then maybe go for the pixel. But if you care about just about anything else, like a smooth display La the a53 walks away in just about every other category, meaning the herd mentality approach might not be a bad one. If you’re shopping for a value phone, oh and if you’re into the herd mentality, did I mention that everyone is checking out this message from our sponsor any desk. Any desk is a remote desktop application that works for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Chrome, OS and even Raspberry Pi. You can leverage any desk for any of your remote Assistance or work needs experience. Super low, latency paired with an easy to use interface to control.
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