Samsung Galaxy A72 vs. A71 Comparison! Should You Upgrade? (It Depends...) By TechDaily

What's going on guys, my name is wade with tech daily and in this video we are going to be comparing the new Samsung Galaxy a72 to last year's Samsung Galaxy a71. Now this video is gonna, be a little tricky, maybe even a little confusing, because while there's just one new version of the a72 out right now, there's like three or four different models of last year's a71 and if you're, just looking for a straight answer to the question, should you upgrade well? It depends on which a71 you have right now it depends on what features and specs you value in your smartphone. It's not exactly a black and white sort of decision. Unfortunately, these phones aren't really a direct comparison, but I'm still going to try to do my best in this video to go over what's new and what's changed on the a72 and how it compares to all the different a71 models that exist and hopefully, by the end, this will still help you out in some way to start things off. I just want to give you a broad overview of what we're working with right now, like I mentioned, there's just one new a72 out. This is the 4g LTE international model, there's no 5g variant, at least at the moment, and nothing specific to the US right now with the a71, though there's a standard, 4g LTE a71, that's the most direct comparison to this new a72, but there's also the a71 5g and there's even an a715g ultra-wide band.

So that's where things get confusing, but the difference in all those a71 models is actually pretty simple. They have different processors and obviously either have 4g or 4g and 5g support and that's kind of it, the rest of the physical traits of the phones. The major features like the screen and camera and everything else. That's all gonna, be the same. So like ninety percent of what I go over here in this video with the comparison is going to apply to any given a71 you might have things are just going to differ a bit when we get into the specs and performance, so hopefully that makes sense, but right off the bat.

Let's just talk about what's new physically with the a72 compared to what we saw on the a71 last year. Obviously, both these phones look very similar they're, both 6.7 inch devices. That's the screen size. They remain the largest devices in the series lineup and side by side. You can hardly tell a difference in both size and design, at least from the front.

They both have the center hole, punch, camera cut out, though it has actually gotten a little smaller on the a72 across the bottom, there's a bit of a chin on both phones, but you can probably tell that black border around the display on the a72 is also a little thicker. The screen to body ratio has shrunk on this new phone. Fortunately, it's not that big of a deal but something I did at least want to mention, and around back you can see that we do get a complete redesign on this new a72. Both phones still have a plastic, rear, housing and polished frame, but the a72 gets that flat matte finish now and ditches this shiny glossy rainbow. All in all, I like the refresh design.

I do think it makes the a72 look a little more premium. Also in the hand, the a72 feels quite different as well. It's thicker, it's heavier it's more squared off and boxy, compare that to the slim, sleek, curvy feel and tapered sides on the a71, and it almost seems like you're holding a brick in comparison. But honestly, I do kind of like how the a72 feels a bit more substantial in the hand. Also, the new a72 has an ip67 water and dust rating that wasn't offered on any a71 last year, and I think that's a great addition to this device.

Taking a look around at everything else. On the left side, there's nothing on either device up top is where you'll find the same: sim and SD card trays on the right once again identical power and volume buttons and down below the same headphone, jack and USB charge port. The bottom facing speakers are also off to the side there on the a71. This was the only speaker on the device, but on the new a72. This phone now has a secondary speaker in the earpiece for stereo sound, and this is just another great addition to this phone.

The out loud, listening experience on the a72 is so much better. It's louder, it's more crisp and clear and here's a quick, sound sample, so you can compare. But here I am around back. The camera. Setups have changed just a bit both in their physical look and in the capabilities, and I'll talk about all that in just a second up front.

Both phones have their in-display fingerprint reader, and with this I originally thought the a72 might have been a little better, but actually speed wise side by side. It's the a71 that tends to get to the lock screen. First, I don't believe anything was outright upgraded on the a72. It isn't like the new ultra-fast sensor on the s21 or anything like that. You have to still hold your finger there for a split second or more every time, but either way it's fine, just not necessarily an improvement in comparison, and it's kind of a similar story with face unlock as well.

For whatever reason my a71 can. Wake up and get to the home screen just a little faster than the a72, which is sort of interesting, so with the biometrics and unlocking it doesn't seem like the a72 offers any real noticeable improvements. So one last thing I want to talk about before we get into the specs and performance, and that would be the display. This new a72, of course, now offers that 90 hertz high refresh rate option- and this feature, I think, is just a fantastic addition to this phone. I realize it's not necessarily a measure of true performance, but with the 90 hertz enabled this a72 feels fast, fluid incredibly smooth, and it's an experience that I think most people will notice.

Furthermore, I think adding this to the a72 makes it far more competitive in the upper mid-range space, especially in 2021. Now you don't have to enable it if you don't want to use it. Turning off motion smoothing in settings brings you back down to the same 60hz experience you had on the a71 models, but all in all, I do think a high refresh rate screen on the a72 is a great addition and might just be one of the biggest features overall that entices people to upgrade the rest of the display, the actual specs and the viewing experience remain relatively unchanged between these two phones. All versions of the a71 have the same setup here, a super AMOLED plus panel, a resolution of 2400 by 1080 packing in around 393 pixels per inch, and while we dropped the plus distinction on the a72, all the rest of the specs, the resolution, the pixel density, that all remains exactly the same as last year and in fact the viewing experience for the most part looks to be almost the same. I think the color profiles differ slightly.

You can see that whites and blues look a little different across each device. The a72 seems to show a little better. It's also a bit brighter as well 800 nits of max brightness. Overall, while it maybe isn't an outright improvement in the actual viewing experience, I think this display paired with 90 hertz once again just makes this phone an incredible value like Samsung's, a series phones have been known to be, and it's a fantastic viewing experience anyway, with a bold, bright, crisp large great looking screen for everyday content: consumption. Okay, so we know the a72 has a fresh new design with water and dust resistance.

We know it has stereo speakers a 90hz display and all that is great. It's definitely an upgrade over any a71 you might have, but now, let's dive into the internal specs and performance, because this is where things maybe aren't so clear with the a72. It's simple: this is a 4g LTE device, it's powered by the Qualcomm snapdragon 720 g chipset, and you can configure it with either 6 or 8 gigs of ram and 128 or 256 gigs of storage with the a71, starting with the base model. The international 4g LTE version that phone actually has the snapdragon, 730 or 730 g inside, depending on where you live and similar six or eight gigs of ram options and 128 or 256 gigs of storage. With this comparison, the processors, in my opinion, are actually super close and I don't really see much improvement or difference here.

The a71 5g obviously has 5g support, and it's powered by the Enos 980 chipset 120, gigs of storage and 6 or 8 gigs of ram again. But in this case, while the Enos processor is 5g, capable, I consider the a72's snapdragon 720 g to be the better option for everyday performance here. You'll just need to decide if giving up.5G is maybe worth it. Finally, the a71 5g ultra-wideband that phone is powered by the snapdragon 765 g, chipset, 128, gigs of internal storage and eight gigs of ram. In this case, I consider the difference to be a little more clear.

It's the a71 5g UW that seems to have the better internal specs and, coupled with that, 5g support, it's quite the difference to say the least. So those are the actual specs compared and what I have to say about all that is this. Unfortunately, the a72 just didn't really get the internal spec boost. I think we were all hoping for it isn't objectively, more powerful than any a71 in the lineup. It isn't noticeably quicker performance wise and I don't necessarily consider it more bang for your buck when it comes to how capable the device is, and in fact, if you have a 5g version of the a71, it's almost like a downgrade in a way if you're swept up in 5g, I don't know when or if a 5g version of the a72 will launch.

If that happens, we'll have a whole different discussion, but for now, if specs and performance and 5g support are all factors in your decision-making, I don't necessarily think the a72 lives up to what you might want, which is kind of a shame, especially considering all the other improvements and upgrades that this phone received with that being said, there is one more internal spec worth talking about here and that's the battery. This new chunkier a72 has a bigger battery stuck inside it. It's a 5 000 William capacity compared to the 4500 on all the a71s last year. So that's great to see now I realize the 90 hertz display may eat into that extra capacity a bit, but you can disable that if you want to in order to get the most juice out of the day- and in that case it will last longer than the a71. Just in general, though I consider the bigger battery paired, with even the maybe more power hungry display to still be an improvement anyway.

Finally, let's talk about all those cameras. Unfortunately, here it's a pretty straightforward comparison: all the a71 models had the exact same setup, a 64 megapixel main lens 12 megapixels, ultrawide, 5, megapixel macro and 5 megapixel depth sensor with the new a72. It's actually a pretty similar set of lenses.64 megapixel main lens remains: there's the 12 megapixel ultrawide and 5 megapixel macro, but we now have a new 8 megapixel telephoto lens for portrait, shots and optical zoom. This, I think, is a great addition to the camera setup. Not only do you get improved zoom capabilities, but potentially better portrait picks as well.

Most everything else, though, when it comes to shooting modes and capabilities, looks to be about the same here in the app the selfie cameras by the way appear to be identical as well: they're 32, megapixel shooters on both phones, but while the camera specs, maybe don't reveal too many huge upgrades. I think you'll find that in practice the a72 tends to produce some different and perhaps noticeably better results to me, the pictures look a bit more detailed, they're, less soft they're, more vibrant, they're, less pale and whether that be a color balance shift or processing difference or whatever else. I think there's just potentially enough of a difference here to consider these results and upgrade on the a72, but I am looking forward to putting the cameras to the test in a more dedicated camera comparison video to better analyze these results. So all in all, I think it would have been pretty easy to call the new a72 a solid upgrade over last year's a71. If it weren't for the somewhat confusing decision to put kind of a disappointing processor inside the phone, it isn't the major performance upgrade.

We were looking for, but I think if you can look past, that the rest of the a72 as a whole gives you a lot of great new stuff, and I suppose, if you want to just wait for a rumored, a72 5g, you could do that as well. But for now I think you'll really have to weigh what's important to you in a smartphone what you have right now and what you might gain or give up in going with the a72. So there you go. That's pretty much everything you need to know about the new a72 compared to last year's a71. What do you guys think? Are you going to upgrade? Let me know in the comments down below I'd love, to know your thoughts, of course, but hopefully you guys did enjoy this video be sure to follow tech daily on Twitter and subscribe to the tech daily YouTube channel.

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