Hey guys this is variety, stick and welcome everyone to my unboxing video for the Samsung Galaxy a52 available through metro by T-Mobile and T-Mobile without any further ado, let's find out just before we head to the unboxing, I want to make sure you guys understand the pricing, especially if you are metro by T-Mobile customer. First, if you're willing to buy the phone as international unlock variant, the phone is available for 500, and I will search the best offer. I will leave links in the description box for the prices I could find cheaper on this device. Now, if you are metro by t mobile customer or willing to be a metro, YT mobile customer, the best price, if you switch your number mean you have to have current active service through cricket Verizon, for example, as foreign carrier, and bring your number over, and you will get the phone for 199, that's 300 off, which is good deal now. If you are metro, YT, mobile, uh, customer and willing to upgrade your phone, you will get the phone for 399 100 off from the retail price. Now, if you want to start new metro by T-Mobile, uh number start a new activation, you should get the phone for 250 and this is a good price.
In my opinion, you get half of price, but there are some restrictions we'll apply from metro by T-Mobile. You guys make sure to check your metro by T-Mobile local store for more details, now also good to mention the phone comes with four different colors. The one that available through metro by T-Mobile is going to be on the black color, but if you're non-metro by T-Mobile customer wanting to buy the phone as international or unlike variant, the phone should come black white, blue and purple. And now, let's get straight to the unboxing- and here is the box itself and, as you guys, can see very typical Samsung box, it feels cheap in the hands. Some are the modern information, the amount of gigabytes, so these 128 gigabytes by the way- and I highly recommend going with the uh eight gigabytes of ram the one developed through a T-Mobile and metro byte mobile.
Only six gigabytes of ram and nothing else, fancy on this box even doesn't have the metro by T-Mobile or T-Mobile logo anywhere around in this box, and this should be the five g variant. The a52 and there should be also the same processor there's now much difference between the international and the US virgin should come with snapdragon 750 and, as I said, it will be the amount of ROM it's going to make a difference and the amount of memory as well. So you can go also with 256 gigs, 8, gigabyte or 6 gigabytes of ram. So here is uh. We've taken the box, and this thing got stuck right here and here's supposed to be a phone case.
If you get the international version, but only comes with some manual instruction guides and the sim ejector tool and one of the best thing I like about this phone, it will be the display it has 120 hertz frequency and the display is full high definition.1080P super AMOLED and its infinity display uh screen to body ratio 85 and the phone is adapting 20 by nine for the aspect ratio which is uh nice, in my opinion, also uh. Let me go ahead and remove the plastic, and we can talk more by the way since we're talking about the phone and the build construction of the phone, it will be plastic and the glass on the front, gorilla, glass, 5, and its infinity display very thin bezel, as you guys can see. I like it already. It feels so nice in the hands and also feels like the Samsung Galaxy s20 and the s21 as well. It has this camera hub, as you guys can notice, and that back of the phone is plastic, but it feels so creamy and that seems to me a matte finish black, so I think the fingerprint it won't be printed on the back of the phone.
Also, another important thing we want to talk about since we're talking about the belt construction. The phone is ip67 rated, water and dustproof. That's very good addition to this phone and the frame of the phone. It is going to be a plastic, so it's not metal. We have a stereo speaker this time around fast charging with the c type, which is the in the box.
It should include 25 watts of fast charger from Samsung. This is 25. According to Samsung it charged 50 within 30 minutes and from 0 to 100 within hour and 25 minutes, which is very fast and the battery by the way 4500, which is decent uh battery size. In my opinion- and this is the USB no headphone no phone case game with the phone and the last thing we're going to see in the box, it will be the sim card where you can activate the phone and seems to me nothing else in this box. Let me set this on the side and trying to power off the phone now.
This phone should have the fingerprint inside the screen. I also I want to test this out. We have the sim tray right here. We have the volume up down keys, all located on the right side, and we have the power key, and here is metro by T-Mobile logo and here's the front camera. It's very tiny pinch, camera, 32, megapixel and since we're talking about the camera, we have four camerae on the back of the phone start with the main sensor: 64 mega, pixel, camera wide lens, and also with.
If you record video, there is optical image stabilizing, which is nice, and we have 13 megapixels for uh, ultra-wide or 12 megapixel ultra-wide, and we have 5 and five depth and macro for taking like a close-up pictures and portrait and by the way, since this one doesn't have telephoto lens. That means you we can go up to two x zoom, so other than that the picture will be a crop, and this is one of the main problems with the camera. I mean, if you want to zoom, it's not going to give you the best zooming, but I'm looking forward to testing the camera more in details in this video. So I'm going to spend time with the phone, and we'll back to you with more information. Now let me kick off my impressions with the design and the build construction.
No doubt the phone looks beautiful and the phone's similar in the lock of the Samsung Galaxy s21 and the phone feels also nice in the hands and solid and premium, despite the fact that the phone made out of a plastic frame and a plastic pack, and as I said, the back of the phone is matte finish and the fingerprint doesn't show much on the phone. I feel the back of the phone is very dust magnet, but overall not that huge of the deal. Now I have a question since this phone um, it's a mid-range Samsung phone with 500 price tag. They could have at least done a glass on the back and the frame metal, because we've seen phones from Motorola and Xiaomi cheaper in the price, with better build construction. Also, is it great to mention this phone is rated ip67 against water and dust we've seen fawn came before from Samsung the a51 the a71 last year.
They were not rated against water and dust, and this is something nice to see in the new mid-ranger Samsung phones. Now another fact you should know that this phone doesn't have the QI wireless charging, so you cannot use a wireless charger to charge the phones up now. Another thing also about the fingerprint that's built in screen and you guys can see you have to unlock the phone through the fingerprint inside the screen and those for me doesn't work the best I have noticed the fingerprint inside the screen and not the fastest, and it's not the accurate one as well now. For that reason, if you're willing to use a face, unlock it's available in this phone is through the front facing camera. Also, it's not the most secure thing to do face unlock through the face camera, but if you don't want to use the fingerprint at least you have another option now the size screen is 6.5 inches back to the aspect, ratio of the phone and the screen to the body ratio.85 of the phone is screened, so the phone feels like very small in the hands compared to the size of the phone. If we consider this is 6.5 inches, which is, it should be a massive and huge phone, but it doesn't feel that big in a hand. Now, if you ask me what you like the most about the Samsung Galaxy a52, I will tell you the display, I believe Samsung has done a great job, taking this display to the next level.
Now the brightness level is high, the color are so saturated and 120 hertz, refresh rate will give you very smooth experience, especially for browsing and playing video games, and you're going to feel it runs like a better now for the audio quality in this phone. We have dual speaker one too far from the bottom, one from the front and honestly, the sound and the quality of the audio is decent, and it's loud and overall, I don't have any complaints. So let me just play some music for you now, overall speaking about the battery performance exceeded my expectation and you guys need to know, people use the phone differently. Some people use the phone to use GPS more than other people. Some people like to play video games.
Some people like to watch videos. Some people use the camera applications, so this will affect also the battery performance differently. From my usage, the phone lasted me 12 hours, the screen on time. I was watching videos play video games and capture some pictures. Maybe for you, it's going to be a different experience, but you guys can expect from 9 hours of screen on time to 12 hours and, generally speaking, about the hardware performance.
The phone has snapdragon 750, and I didn't have any problem with this processor. Six gigabyte of ram, I would say, is decent and the performance as we expected from phone within range 500 dollar, most of the time I was spending time playing. Video games, I play uh crush run. I didn't have a problems uh, it was running smooth with no frame. It drops or whatsoever same thing with asphalt, 9.
My experience was amazing. Uh, the game, playable fine, no problems at all, even playing street fighter, which doesn't require a lot of graphics. Also, my experience was great playing all these games. Generally speaking, uh the phone was snappy, I haven't noticed any lags or problems as far the hardware in the phone, in my opinion, is good, 128 gigabytes. I feel this is a plenty of storage and I don't have any complaint also about the internal storage on the phone six gigabytes of ram.
I would say by the time, if you want the phone to last longer, since you have the option to go with eight gigabytes ram, I always recommend going for higher numbers for the software and the operating system. As the time I'm recording the video. The phone has the latest operating system, android 11 with one UI 3.1 and honestly Samsung- has done good job. Keeping the UI snap in performance with a clean look, also Samsung guaranteed three years of software update and security batches up now, despite the fact that I personally prefer stock android over any custom UI, but I would say, custom UI from Samsung, it's very reasonable and decent. It has a lot of features as well.
You can take advantage of one of the newest feature. The phone has edge screen. This has technically some shortcuts. In addition to this, it has a menu button, so you can also go as menu, and you will see all the applications, and you can customize this uh edge, screen or edge shortcuts. In addition to this, now, you can search your phone by hashtags.
You can put hashtags in whatever you are looking for from the search in the main menu, which is a great addition for the Samsung UI. Now I won't be able to cover every single aspect about the software. For that reason, I normally make dedicated video for all the software tips and tricks, so you guys interested leave this in a comment below and encourage me by smashing the thumbs up button for this video. So that way, I know you guys want to see video like this now, what I think about the camera in this phone overall speaking, the camera is good, especially when you take pictures during the night. I believe the camera is aggressive, and it came up with the great pictures on the low light situation, which is most of the phones struggle when there's no enough light.
Also, the video recording was good. If you ask me, the image stabilizer helps a lot for more smooth footage, but unfortunately it doesn't work. If you push the resolution to 4k now, the camera is capable to capture slow motion and super slow motion. Unfortunately, you won't enjoy that feature unless, if you record outdoor during the day, lack of light is not going to help you to have the best super slow motion, footage lacking the telephoto lens. The phone won't give you the best experience for zooming, but at least you have 5 megapixel depth sensor, help you to go up to 2x zoom, and also you have white ultra-wide and up to 2x zoom without affecting the quality of the image.
Now, if you decide to go up to 10x zoom, the picture will be corrupted and the quality will be affected now. The front facing camera is 32 megapixels, and it does the job degree to take selfie pictures, because I believe, a lot of people they're not going to use the front face camera unless, if they're going to take a selfie pictures. From my experience with the camera, I have taken a few pictures even using the portrait mode, and all these pictures came up very nice now. If we take a closer look to the camera application, we're going to see this camera application is very rich with so many features and tools and one of the nice tools. I like the optimizer key right here, which is help you to take the best pictures without you adjusting any options.
Now, if we go to mode here, we're going to see so many uh modes over here professional panorama, food night mode, macro portrait and super slow motion and slow motion, and, as I said night mode, you can take very nice pictures. This phone is very aggressive, especially for low light situation. Macro is something fun to do. You can take so close. Close-Up pictures and portrait as well is something nice to blurry the background.
Now, overall, the camera is decent in this phone. I like the front facing camera. I, like the portrait in this phone, and also I like the night pictures, and I feel the phone doesn't struggle when you have low light situation and that's by itself give the camera advantage long story short Samsung. Galaxy a52 is a solid phone with 120hz, refresh rate 5g connectivity and a great hardware performance good battery lifetime, and the phone is rate dip against the water and the dust. Despite the fact, the phone made out of a plastic, but the phone still feels premium and doesn't feel cheap in a hand that was very much it for that video.
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