Samsung Galaxy A12 Unboxing & First Impressions!

Hey guys, how's it going? In this video we're going to be doing an unboxing and I'm going to give my first impressions on the Samsung Galaxy A12. This phone is on sale at the time of this video. I'll have links down in the description if you want to check it out for yourself. The price is just $180 or you can pay a little more money to get better specs. My phone here has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage for $190. So this is the follow-up device to the Galaxy A11 which came out in early 2020 and this has been a really good phone. I've been happy with this phone for the price, but now for the same price you're getting the Galaxy A12 which has improved battery, improved RAM, a larger screen, a better camera system. There's some other goodies as well we'll talk about throughout the course of the video, but let's go ahead and check out the Galaxy A12. This phone comes in 4 different color options. We have white, this black color here, red, and blue. Alright really excited to check this one out. On top we have our phone, put that off to the side for a second. In the box here we have a pair of earbuds here. These are the cheapest earbuds Samsung offers in any of their phones, but it's nice that they offer them. We have a Type-C to Type-A charging cable. We have a 15W fast charging brick, great to see a charger in the box. Have a SIM ejection tool. Alright the star of the show here, 6.5 inch display, quad camera setup, fingerprint sensor on the side. I absolutely love this, we'll get into more detail on that later. Now let's go ahead and check out the Galaxy A12. Wow, I'm already loving the look, the feel, the design of the Galaxy A12 over that of the Galaxy A11. This A11 is fine, but it has this glossy finish to it. The A12 has a matte finish, also has this cool ridged design on here. So very nice, and it has a nice solid feel to it, it doesn't feel like it's going to fall out of your hand. This gives you a little bit of extra grip. On the back here you see we have a quad camera setup, opposed to the triple lens setup here on the A11, and we'll get into those cameras a little bit later in the video, but taking a quick tour around the phone itself, we have our volume buttons on the top right here. We have our power button here on the side, with that fingerprint sensor built in, absolutely love that. On the left here we have our SIM tray, which happens to be a dual SIM setup in addition to having a micro SD card slot, nothing else on that left side. On the top we have a mic, and on the bottom we have a headphone jack, type C port, and our single bottom firing speaker. Overall here, feels like a really solid phone, it is a bit heavier because we have a larger battery in the A12 over the previous generation A11. This is a 5,000 mAh battery, opposed to the 4,000 mAh battery, but let's go ahead and jump into the Galaxy A12. Alright so our first difference right off the bat here is on the Galaxy A12, we have a 6.5 inch display, opposed to the 6.4 inch display on the Galaxy A11. Here on camera it really doesn't look any different in terms of that screen size. The reason that there is a bit of difference is that the A12 is just a little bit larger in size, so you can see that size difference there at the top, it's just a little bit taller, and as a result it has a slightly larger display. But here's a look at that 6.5 inch display, we have a decently sized chin on the bottom here, but overall nice rounded bezels, and we have a teardrop design for the front facing camera here, but it doesn't look as aggressive as some other teardrop designed Samsung phones that I've previously reviewed on the channel. So I'm happy about that, it really doesn't look like it's going to be all that much intrusive, but I'm going to go ahead and put my information in the phone, and then we can take a much more detailed look at what seems to be a pretty good phone here for the price. Alright so it's actually the next day, but I've been using the Galaxy A12 for a little bit here, and I've been really enjoying this phone so far. So starting with the biometrics, getting into the phone, the fingerprint sensor on the side built into the power button, I absolutely love this feature, it has been working great so far, it has yet to fail on me. Every single time you just lay your thumb right on the sensor, you are right into your phone, you can also just press the button, and that'll also just get you in with your thumb on it. There is also facial recognition, which also works quite well, you can see it gets you in every single time. So love getting into this phone super quick. Next thing I want to jump into is just general use and navigation of the phone. Just going around your home screen and stuff, it's really not going to be that bad, it's pretty smooth, but you have to realize that this is a $180, $190 phone, so there are going to have to be some compromises, and probably the biggest compromise is just generally navigating the phone. So you can see here that it just is just a little bit sluggish when you're going through certain things. Certain animations won't be as smooth and crisp, so just kind of scrolling through here you can see, just looking at the comments and stuff, it might take a split second for some things to load, or when you're done in a certain app and you want to exit out, it might just take a split second longer than some other phones. But honestly, at the end of the day, for general use, as I was just generally using it last night for the better part of it, it honestly didn't really affect my overall experience all that much, and when you factor in all of the other features that this phone packs, it is definitely still worth it in my opinion. One of those things being the 6.5 inch display. So for a phone this inexpensive, getting this large of a screen, I'm loving this display, and I love it.