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Welcome. In front of me is a Samsung Galaxy A12 and today I'll show you how to go
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through the setup process of the phone. So when you put it up for the first time
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you'll be presented with the welcoming screen right over here. So let's stop on the arrow right over here and then select our desired language. Now I'm
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going to go with English obviously. Now actually let's go up go English
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step on next and then on the next page we have Connect to Mobile Network
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Now this is the page where you could insert your SIM card if you wanted to but this step is completely optional
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and you don't have to The moment you're ready to answer your SIM card
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you can do that at any moment and the phone will work just fine
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the moment you do so stop on next right now and I have to check out some info to get started
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so obviously we need to agree you to the first one, which is the end user license agreement. You can also tap on the details to
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read what you're exactly agreeing to. But yeah, at the end of the day, you do have to agree to it
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Now, the rest of them are only optional, so you don't actually have to check them all on. You just need
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this first one, and from there, can tap on next. There we go. And here we have the Wi-Fi connection
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So, and here you can simply choose your Wi-Fi if you have one near you that you can connect to
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If you don't, then don't worry, you can simply skip it at least right now
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I believe if you are actually setting up the device for the very, very first time, for some odd
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reason it is required for you to connect to it. Obviously this device has been reset, so I can skip it
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Now, in my opinion, it should have been the other way around, but yeah, if you're setting
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it up for the first time you are literally required to connect to Wi Or you can just insert a SIM card and use the mobile network Now for this one I going to skip And by skipping I do miss out the option to have my date
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and time be set automatically and also the ability to log into Google account, along with
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restoring my device from a backup. But all of those things can be done later on throughout the
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settings, so you don't have to worry. So we have copy ops and data. So it looks like I could still
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do it even though I'm not connected to Wi-Fi for some reason. I'm just going to select don't copy at the moment. I do want to set it up as a new device
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And then we have the date and time, which is actually set correctly
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Okay, so I don't have to do anything. But if you wanted to, you could just simply tap on those
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as an example of time and choose the correct time by just tapping on the wheel right here
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Let's top on next. Now have Google Services. So we have things like location scanning and send
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user-end diagnostic data. Now, each one of them does something a little bit different. So, for instance
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location is used by things like Google Maps to basically determine where you're located on the map
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And that is also used so you can use maps as a GPS navigation
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Now it's also being used by some trash apps, for instance, the Xiaomi smart home appliances, which
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for some reason, a thermometer that you connect via Bluetooth needs your location because why wouldn't
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every thermometer needs your location, right? So, yeah, that's one of the downsides here
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Now, another one below that we have allowed scanning, so it just allows the device to scan for signals
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things like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth devices around it. And then send the user in diagnostic data
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Obviously, gathers data on how you use the device and sends it to Google so they can, quotation mark
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improve the usability of the device and in reality selling data. So, let's stop on accept
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You could deselect all of them I should mention so if you don want any of those just simply turn them off But anyway on the next page we have protect your phone So we have a couple ways of protecting our device That be a face recognition fingerprint pin pattern or password
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So if you want face recognition or fingerprint, you are still required to set one of the three below ones
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So pin pattern or password. Same goes for the face recognition. So both of those because they could be
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Something could change that you are not allowed or able to unlock your device
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You are still forced to set this one up one of the three below ones
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So you actually have always a way to unlock it Because as an example with the face recognition
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If you get beat up well your phone might not recognize your face
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Same with fingerprint you might just simply catch your thumb or something like that
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On while doing some stuff and you have a no more access to your device. So that's why you are still forced to set up pin pattern or
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password on top of that. Now you can skip it all together or you could go with only pin pattern or
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password, one of those and not set up either fingerprint or face recognition. It's completely
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up to you. I'm just going to skip it though. So skip anyway. And from here we have
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get recommended apps. So if you don't want any of those because let's be honest a majority of them
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have a Google alternative, which already comes installed on here. So things like Samsung notes, we already have just simple notes
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Samsung members, I don't know what that is. So don't really interest me
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Samsung internet browser, we have Chrome, so obviously not needed. And voice recorder
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I actually have no idea if there's a voice recorder, so I'm going to keep it. So let's stop on next
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And here we have option to sign into Samsung XVI. account And this is where the Samsung starts to throw their trash at you continuing this trend So you could sign in and get access to their premium applications
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that are only accessible on Samsung, but let's be honest, all of them are basically a copy of something that Google already made
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And just to put that to the test, while this list is really short
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This is embarrassingly short. So unlike the Galaxy S lineup, there is way more things that you get
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here but apparently they didn't even bother with this one so just simply going over all of
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those galaxy store has an alternative that comes pre-installed at the any kind of Android
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device which is a Google store or Play Store so this is just complete garbage right
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here find my mobile yeah Google comes with find my device it has come with it for
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decade now I don't have Galaxy themes yeah have you heard of the play
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Play Store in its entirety. That's a great substitute for this. And then we have Samsung Cloud
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Google Drive doesn't exist, apparently, in Samsung's eyes. So, yeah, all of those are simply substituted with just Google
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And let's be honest, in my opinion, Google has way more versatility
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Now, there is maybe an argument to the security. I do not know about the security of either of those
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Obviously, Google gets hacked sometimes, but pass some Samsung rule as well
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So, anyway, I'm just going to skip this because I'm not interested in trash
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And from there, it's all done. So let's click on finish, and we should have access to our home screen
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Any moment. There we go. So that is how you would set up your device, and if you found this video helpful
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don't forget to hit like, subscribe, and thanks for watching. You know
