The recipe for buying a good phone is simple to disgrace: you take a top model and do not blow in a mustache. As our test showed ROG Phone 5 , This is a great approach, it works 100%. There is only a problem here: there is a lot of money, thousands from 60. I want to find a phone that will cost much cheaper – at least 30-35 thousand – and will offer no less than the flagship in no way. “No less” is a hefty bright screen, a full day of work from the battery, at least one, but really high -quality camera, and, of course, the opportunity to play normally. Design, Materials, 5G and records in benchmarks – the tenth business.
After studying different offers, I went to Galaxy A72. On paper, he falls under all requirements: he is praised in reviews and called almost the best Android For your money. How it really is – now I will tell. I spent a little more than a month and a half with the device and scored enough impressions.
Appearance, screen, control
I’ll keep silent about the package: I requested a sample directly at Samsung , And he arrived in a bag. Theoretically, everything should lie in a neat box and is equipped with a 25 W charging and a USB Type-C cable about a meter long.
In appearance Galaxy A72 – a regular modern phone. Rectangle, Gorilla Glass On the screen, the branded film, which begins to bubble in two to three weeks, and a block of chambers bulging behind. Material – plastic combined with glass: the entire case, the back panel, and even a brilliant edging under the metal are made from it. The latter, by the way, is either sitting on glue, or simply pressed to the case, but in any case it walks slightly – literally on a fraction of a millimeter, but it is felt.
However, this is the only flash of assembly: the rest of the case is more than strong, does not scratch, easily wipes, is not afraid of fingerprints and lies well in the hand. Of course, it is necessary to get used to the dimensions: with a screen of 6.7 inches, the length of the device reaches 16.5 cm, and the width is 7.7 cm, but with the wrong hand it was quite comfortable in a week, and after two I stopped notice Dimensions.
Since I touched the screen, I will immediately go to it. Here is an AMOLED matrix with a resolution of 1080×2400, which is more than enough so as not to notice individual pixels. Plus the display holds a frequency of 90 Hz, and this is already noticeable even in everyday life: the pages will hide with unusual smoothness. But I still have questions for the screen work.
Firstly, the color rendering is a little confusing. Amoled I have always been associated with bright, almost neon shades, and here the balance is set as IPS. From my point of view, this is even good (the eyes strain much less), but still a little strange. And secondly, brightness: in all specialized reviews it is frantically praised, but for what-I still have not understand. Candel 400 is offhand here, and they are only enough to work indoors or in cloudy weather. The panel “blinds” in the sun, and you need to get strongly straighten to see something.
As for the external strapping, there is a complete order. There is a slot for two SIM cards and Microsd on top. The latter, however, united: put the second SIM right away and the memory card will not work. On the right side – the power key and the volume swing. The latter is highly located: at least the length of my thumb is not enough to reach with ordinary grip.
And the USB Richyfox Casino sister sites Type-C and 3.5 mm Jack are located from below. Surprisingly, with so many holes, the phone was not afraid to issue an IP67 certificate. In other words, it is not scary to drop it into the toilet or get with it in the rain. And it is commendable – not every flagship receives this. But charging through the air A72, unfortunately, does not know how to. It's a shame, but the loss is small.
By the method of blocking there are all modern technologies: under the screen there is a print scanner, and the camera can recognize you in the face. All this really works, but speed and clarity are not impressive. The camera requires good lighting, and the print sensor can work once from the third or fourth. Personally, I held out with such clarity for a couple of hours, after which I returned to the usual PIN and a competently configured Smart Lock system, turning off the house of the house. Use the phone completely without a password, unfortunately, is almost unrealistic. The fact is that the screen often unlocked in his pocket, and the device begins to live its life without the knowledge of the owner.
With sound full order. Calls do not let out: I hear normally, and do not complain about my voice. I am surprised by the fact that the spoken speaker is also one of the main emitters. As a rule, the voice of the interlocutors sounds so -so to them, but in the Galaxy A72 – more than normal. The second speaker here is located on the lower edge and generally provides quite high -quality and, most importantly, loud stereo. As for the 3.5 mm Jack, the DAC is without delights: no problems, but its limit is 32 Ohms. However, for those who have been abandoned from the wires a long time ago, there is a Bluetooth version of the fifth version of AptX, Qualcomm Truewireless Technology and even LDAC. For other wireless technologies: there is a radio, WiFi 5, 4G and NFC with paying support.
Iron and performance
Now to the iron. It is clear that with such a price it is not about the top chip. There is inside Qualcomm SM7125 Snapdragon 720g : two nuclei Kryo 465 Gold 2.3 GHz and six Kryo 465 Silver 1.8 GHz. He is responsible for the schedule Adreno 618 with support for HDR10 and all more or less popular codecs. For equipment, the stone is also in order: there is WiFi to the sixth version (in the case of the A72 there is the fifth), and the support of cameras up to 192 megapixels, and video recording in 4K at 30 fps.
According to the memory kit, the phone can be found in two variations. On 6 or 8 GB of RAM, as well as on 128/256 GB of permanent memory. The difference in price is exactly 4000 rubles, that is, almost 10%. And this is not so much, if you remember how many maneuvers are taken for such maneuvers in Apple. By the way, we had a younger version.
In naked numbers, A72 performance is very average. 3DMark Wild Life – 1588 points versus almost 6000 in top chips. Geekbench Shows 1459 points. IN Genshin Impact On “low” settings, an average of 23 FPS with rather serious failures is released by 0.1%. IN PUBG on the "high" it turns out 30 fps without noticeable failures. IN Atom RPG – 25 FPS on the "low" preset.
In other words, you can play on this device, but you have to be prepared for brakes in serious games; Typical "mobile phones" turn on without problems. There are also no special complaints about the system. Android is peppy, and even after a month and a half, scoring the memory to the eyeballs and installing a bunch of applications, I cannot complain about the speed.
Yes, sometimes the device "dulls", especially if it warms up thoroughly. Once or two times all the time I had to reboot the phone due to errors on the screen and sound. But in general, this does not affect the overall impression: in everyday life the phone is fast enough and at the same time holds the charge normally. Three days, as I met in some review, there is no mention here, but the full day without charging is a reality. Naturally, this is without games, but with the active surfing of the Internet, audiobooks for 3-4 hours and a couple of navigator hours. As for me, more than adequate result. Some phones I have no half a day with this mode.
Well, the last thing I will tell about is cameras. Here the impressions are rather mixed. Modules as many as five pieces: one front and four on the back. It seems to be attractive, especially since there is a “width” from behind and a telephoto lens with a three -fold zoom, and even “macro”. The problem is that only the main module in the 64 MP mode and the “Shirik” are well removed here – everyone else is trifling with clearness, and flaws are visible even on the screen of the phone itself. However, again, the main camera clicks very decently. Of course, I do not reach the flagships, but I have no serious complaints, and neither daytime nor night shooting. The only point is that the speed of shooting in 64 megapixels is lame. If you have not caught the moment from the first frame, the second will have to wait a couple of seconds, which is sometimes critical.
In the end
I will summarize. In general, the Galaxy A72 is a really good phone, but to the title of "almost flagship", which is now actively handed to him, very far away. There is a dim screen, and, I would say, “decorative” additional cameras, and problems with unlocking sensors, and a significant drawback of performance in games. But as to the phone for every day for the Internet, social networks, YouTube, navigator, music, audiobooks and photos “without complaints” I have no questions to him. The device is really strong, and in a month and a half proved both its reliability and resistance to the dominance of software in memory. But on this I will not finish my search. In the near future, another apparatus will come to tests for ~ 30,000 rubles, but this time from Xiaomi.
Technical characteristics
CPU : Qualcomm SM7125 Snapdragon 720g Video : Qualcomm Adreno 618 Version OS : Android 11 (One UI 3.1) Display : 6.7 inches, Super AMOLED, 90 Hz, 1 ms, 800 KD/m2, Glass : Corning Gorilla Glass 5 Options subsystems memory : 6/128, 8/256 GB Cameras : 64 MP F1.8, 1/1.7 ”(Main); 8 MP, F2.4 (Tele 3x); 12 MP, F2.2, 123 (ULTRAWIDE); 5 MP, F2.4 (Macro); 32 MP, F2.2, 26 mm (frontal) Network : WiFi 802.11AS, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, GLONASS, NFC, Connectors : USB Type-C, 3.5 mm jack Battery : 5000 mA Dimensions : 16.6×7.7×0.84 cm Weight : 203. Price for August 2021 : from 32,000 rubles ($ 445)
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