Samsung Galaxy A73 

samsung galaxy a73 5g one of samsung's latest and greatest a series

smartphones in this blog i want to share with you some of my personal

experiences i've had with the a73 after around three days of personal use and share some insight on whether or not i can personally recommend this galaxy a73

to whoever may be watching this video so let's get started starting with the price i personally paid 500 for this phone which i know is quite pricey for the a series but you are getting a ton here for that price which i'm gonna get into during the course of this blog and prices on these a series phones always drop over time so i'll leave some links down in the description if you want to check out the latest pricing for yourself whenever you may be watching

this blog so then what is it that makes the a73 so exciting well to put it

simply the a73 has been initially at least one of my most favorite user

experiences i've ever had with any a series phone but there are some

questionable downsides with this a73 that i'm going to jump into but for

right now the things that make me so excited about this a73 are the processor the display the nice refresh rate large battery and just great overall user experience so starting off with that processor snapdragon 778 g all i can say about this processor initially here is

that it is just buttery smooth it is a very good experience as far as a series

phones go a good way to illustrate this is just putting it side by side quickly with the galaxy a53 so this is packing a different processor than the a73 there's a exynos processor in this a53 doing some general navigation things it's just a bit choppier in my experience whereas

on the a73 it is honestly very smooth there are still some stutters here and there it's not an s22 ultra by any means

but as far as average day-to-day use goes and just having an enjoyable

smartphone experience for those who can appreciate that it is definitely being delivered here on the a73 5g and along

with that good processor we have an excellent display here this is a 6.7

inch 1080p 120 hertz amoled display this is pretty much cream of the crop display as far as samsung goes this is a screen

size that has been used on many samsung phones in the past and it's one that

i've personally been very much drawn to it is on the bigger side so you are

going to feel it a little more having a large screen paired up with that good

processor makes this great for gaming just great for watching youtube content you have a dual speaker setup on this phone this screen also gets very bright it goes up to 800 nits so i love having

a brighter display that's been something i've really been valuing on phones lately so that you can use this outside

in direct sunlight and not having any issues seeing your display something that also really surprised me with this

a73 which was also a positive aspect of the a53 but is even more so better on this a73 is the weight so getting the

trusty scale out here we can drop the a73 on here we're at about 180

485 grams or so let's drop the a53 on here for a quick comparison

so it's 188 grams 189 grams so it's very weird to me that we have a larger phone same battery capacity and it's a lighter

weight that 180 gram amount is much lighter compared to some of the other samsung phones i've recently been using

galaxy s22 ultra here drop this on the scale

228 grams so even though there's only a 0.1 inch screen size difference between these two phones you're getting what is

a significantly lighter phone part of that definitely has to do with the build

materials on this phone so we have a plastic frame on the side and a plastic backing but as far as design goes very nice design the design of these a series

phones is definitely stepping up you compare it to the galaxy a71 so this is

two generations ago you can definitely

see the improvements in the design here this just pops out so much more they're

definitely matching it more with their higher end s series phones so here's the

galaxy s 22 plus you can see they're going for this kind of shiny siding and

then the matte finish on the back which

i think is a great combination of course the s series is much sturdier we have an

aluminum frame but that's not to say that this phone isn't durable at all

some people may prefer to have a plastic

phone so that they don't have to worry about the back glass breaking or

cracking or anything and we do have an

ip certified water resistance reading on this a73 so you're not going to have to

worry about anything happening to this

phone if you get caught out in the

elements but how has the battery life

been on this a73 happy to report that

the 5000 milliamp hour battery initially

at least has been holding up more than

well enough for me personally in my

usage now this use case i know that the

majority of the usage is from watching

youtube which doesn't consume nearly as

much battery as other applications for

what it's worth four and a half hours of

screen on time over the course of a day

i ended up with 48

battery left in another day of my usage

we have a full day used here we had

three and a half hours of screen on time

so not using the phone as much we ended

up with 53 battery and the majority of

that battery was used on a trip that i

took for two hours so 16 being used for

two hours of using google maps something

that is kind of odd to me is eight

percent used on the always on display

usually for me personally always on

display uses about five percent battery

but it seems to be eating up a few more

percentage points so that's something

that i will keep an eye on check back in

on during my 73 days later review but

something i definitely want to point out

is one hour of youtube only taking 5.8

of the battery it's just absolutely

crazy to me excellent battery life but

with all those positives there are a

couple negative points that i do want to

bring up and i'm just going to call them

head scratchers because at this point i

don't understand why samsung adds and

removes so many various features from

these a series phones first and foremost

being the lack of a headphone jack so

the a73 no headphone jack a 53 no

headphone jack galaxy a13

this one does have a headphone jack one

step above that the a23 this also has a

headphone jack so for whatever reason

now on these higher end a series phones

they are removing the headphone jack i

have no idea why it's just a feature

that i feel like a lot of people could

benefit from also another questionable

thing for me personally last year's

galaxy a72 had a three times optical

telephoto lens and now that's just

completely gone on this a73 but with

that said there is a very good camera

experience aside from that on this a73

and i've really been enjoying the ultra

wide lens in addition to a 108 megapixel

primary lens video side you can film up

to 1080p 60 i like to film in 60 frames

per second just looks smoother but you

can film in 4k 30. if you wish to we

also have the depth sensor which does a

great job of blurring out your

background and focusing on your subject

in this photo here for example and

there's also a macro lens which does a

slightly better job compared to the

lower end a series phones as far as

looking more crisp and more clear and

overall i'm very pleased initially at

least with the camera experience here

but with that said the lack of the

headphone jack and the lack of the three

times optical zoom i can live with it

because i've just been really enjoying

the light weight large battery large

display smooth refresh rate great

processor 25 watts super fast charging

dual speaker setup water resistance

rating you're getting a lot of things

packed into this a73 and it's definitely

worth mentioning that we do have a micro

sd card slot still intact again it just

adds up to what has been one of the most

enjoyable a series phone experiences

i've had to date and overall i think

this is a device that you should

definitely keep on your radar but i'm

curious to hear your thoughts on the

samsung galaxy a73