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Welcome. In front of me is a Apo A38, and today I'll show you an unboxing along with a quick overview of this device
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So, anyway, let's just jump straight into it. just paperwork. So I'm going to throw that to the side
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And we get the phone. Then we have something that Samsung doesn't seem to know what to do it, which we have a..
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What is it? Let's quickly check the wattage of this if I can actually read it
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and find it obviously oh there we go it's big letters on the side
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so it's a 33 watt superfook charger pretty good and obviously a cable type 8 to type C
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and that's everything in the box okay so let's boot up the device
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quick mention the screen the display right here already has a screen
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protector pre-applied it's a plastic one but still better than nothing is it going to boot up
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There we go. Now, in a second, you'll see the display, which I will start off with
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So that's a 6.56 inch display. Unfortunately, it's running only at 720 resolution, so 720 by 1612 pixels
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It is also an LCD IPS display at 900, 90 hertz refresh rate
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So the display right here, to be completely honest, is a little bit underwhelming
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um low low resolution or kind of subpar resolution uh refresh rate is
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is higher but it still kind of mediocre and peak brightness at 720 nits is also nothing really like super great
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so all the specs right here are just kind of subpar at least in terms of the
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display itself so based on that we can probably I guess that
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Apollo didn't prioritize display right here but maybe some other aspects so
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we'll see that in a second so moving on and to camera, so let's flip it over. We have a dual camera setup, and by the looks of it, they also
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didn't prioritize in camera department. So the main one is a 50 megapixel F1.8 wide sensor
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PDAF, and then with all that, we have a 2 megapixel although we have a 2.4 depth sensor
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which is a shit camera and doesn't give you any kind of additional benefits. So technically we only
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have one camera. Then at the front, we have a 5 megapixel wide sensor, and with either front or back
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you can shoot maximum 1080p 30 frames. So again, nothing really special here
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So let's go into the internals. Maybe that's where we have a little bit better specs
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So inside, we have a 5,000 million-power battery. So that's actually pretty good
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That can charge out 33 watts, which is also pretty good. We have a Helio G85 processor
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and 4 gigabytes of RAM with 128 gig. gigabytes of built-in storage. And that being said, I'm going to quickly check..
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Let's see. G85, right? Yep. Okay, so I'm kind of checking how it compares to something like a
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Snapdragon 8, or not 8, uh, Snapdragon 695. And just to mention this, the price
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difference between these processes basically double. and the performance is in certain cases a gaming performance is double CPU performance not really and then some nano score whatever that is whatever So yeah in terms of gaming it going to be underwhelming
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If it underperform by basically 50% of over the 695 processor, and obviously you're not going to be getting any kind of significant GPU performance out of this
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Now, in terms of actual CPU performance for handling tasks, It's a little bit below the 695, Snobragon, so it should still do okay
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It won't be really like chugging super hard. Let's actually finish up the setup or not because apparently I need to connect to Wi-Fi for some stupid anything reason
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So it's a brand new device that I need to connect to Wi-Fi. How about no? So anyway, let's just now talk about the build quality and features
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So plastic back. No surprise. plastic frame, again, no surprise there. This device I didn't mention is coming at about 160 euros
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So it's not the cheapest out of the cheap devices, but I would argue that it kind of underperformed over anyway
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So then we get a same mounted fingerprint sensor that doubles as a power button, volume buttons
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On the other side, we have our tray, which has two different SIM card
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and one dedicated SD spot. So that's pretty good. Then at the bottom, we have a headphone jack
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charging port, microphone, and speaker grill. And at the top, we got nothing
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So there we go. I don't think I missed anything. So let's quickly go over the pros and cons of this device
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And I'm going to start off with the cons, which I would kind of say it's a little bit more than the pros
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So display right here is a little bit underwhelming. Even at a budget device nowadays
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I think I would be expecting at 160 euros a 1080p resolution at least Or not least Just not at least I not really looking for more than that but uh 1080p resolution would be good on here um camera wise we have just a single camera
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which i suppose will probably do the job correctly uh the other one is just a shed cam so that's
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like i'm gonna i'm gonna critique that every time i see it it's a useless camera that we get to pay for
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as uh customers uh amount of RAM at four gigabytes it's a little bit low uh
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in current times. Would we like to see something more like a 6 gigabyte option here
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or at least give me the option to purchase a little bit more expensive version that comes with 6 gigabytes of RAM
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And I think that's about it. Now in terms of pros, I think the battery here and the fact that we have a charger
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and it charges pretty quickly at 32 watts, that's a massive pro for this device
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If you want to top up your device quickly, obviously very important
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important to some people. So, yeah, this will be tapping up your device really quickly
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The fact that we have expendable storage, though, at this price range, it's not really surprised
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And, yeah, that's about, about it. Not much, not many pros here
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So, anyway, like I mentioned before, the device comes at about 160 euros
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To be completely honest, I would... I feel like it's a little bit too high-priced for what it offers
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but to some people, for instance, inclusion on charger and fast-charging device will be good enough
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and basically what they're looking for. And obviously if you're getting this device as a deal for like some contract
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with a mobile service provided, then obviously this will be probably even cheaper
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And at that point, I would say it's a decent device to pick up
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if you're looking for a budget one. Now, without being said, if you found this very helpful
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