hey this is Dom from tech advisor and I'm here at Samsung's booth at CES 2020
now just before the show the company actually unveiled four mid-range phones which is
really rare for CES from Samsung Two, the note 10 lite and the S10 lite were
total surprises but what we've got here is something a bit more traditional for
the company we have the a 51 and the a 71 which sit right in the sort of mid
range of Samsung's lower-tier lineup if that makes sense let's run down what's
different between the two we've actually done a video comparing the note 10 lite
and the s10 lite and they're really similar phones for the most part so what
surprised me is that the 51 and the 71 differ quite a lot more so they kind of
pull apart in four main areas the first one is super obvious: size. so the a 51
is a 6.5 inch screen the a 71 is six point seven inch other than that they're
pretty similar they're both full HD plus they're both super amoled and they both
look really really good like the color quality on these is really fantastic
they look really really bright and vibrant and lush both screens really
similar quality you're basically on the same thing it's just that question of do
you want the slightly bigger one of the slightly smaller ones obviously that
affects dimensions across the whole rest of the phone otherwise the design is
really similar we'll see they've got very similar
looking camera setups more on that later these are two very different colors but
actually the colorways across the line is similar there's basically a white / silver
a black a pink and a blue they're not identical like the pink of the 51 is
a little different to the pink of the 71 but they're really close we'll also see
there's this slight sort of a panel effect on the back with sort of four
quadrants and coloured six I think and all the textured bits they pick up the
light in different ways this is very similar to what we saw in the a90 5G
which was sort of rectangular panels like that here it's at this kind of
angle its offset a bit I think it looks really really pretty
not everyone agrees I spoke to some other people who don't like how it looks
so your mileage may vary I think these look absolutely lovely
especially in these pink and blue colors these are gorgeous so
let's talk about the other stuff that is different core specs vary more than I
thought they would the a51 is running one of Samsung's own
Exynos processors the Exynos 9611 I've never actually heard of that before I
don't know what other phones that's in or if this is the first one but I don't
know how to... I'm guessing it's not gonna be super high power the a71
by contrast is using a Snapdragon 730 so that's still a mid-range Snapdragon
or like an upper mid-range Snapdragon so I would guess the 71 will be faster it
will be more powerful it's probably also going to be more power efficient because
that's something we've generally seen with Snapdragon versus exynos across
other phones the other thing that's different is RAM and storage vary the 51
you can start with 4 gig of ram and 64 gig of storage that's the lower specs
which isn't great and then goes up to 6 gig ram 128 gig storage whereas the 71
is all 128 gig storage you get 6 or 8 gig of ram so the 71 I think once you
factor in the RAM difference and the storage difference and the processor
difference I have a feeling the 71 is going to prove quite a lot faster in
actual day-to-day performance that won't matter if all you want it for is email
but if you are planning to use this for any gaming or actual productivity the
71 is gonna really pull ahead especially once you factor in the bigger screen
battery life is also a little bit different so not so much you get
4000mAh in the smaller 51 and you get 4500mAh
in the bigger 71 so 500mAh difference real-life usage
that's basically gonna be an extra hour or two I think unless you do see a
benefit from the extra power efficiency in the Snapdragon charging is different
too though the 71 has 25 watt wired fast charging the 51 caps out at 15 watt
fast charging so Samsung hasn't given numbers for how quickly it'll top the
battery up but again if you're wanting to like really quickly top your battery
up the 71 will probably do it half an hour faster or something like that so
that could be a deal-breaker for you if you want to be able to top your phone up
on the go rather than rely on charging overnight alright so the last thing is
camera setup which is mostly similar but there is a little difference and again
the 71 pulls ahead on the front selfie camera they may look
different but actually these have the exact same selfie camera specs
I'm not sure why you may notice actually the the the notch that kind of popped up
a bit so there's clearly some variation in what size the notch appears as and when it
appears in that size why it is bigger on the 71 for the most part I
don't know they're the same selfie camera back here they look identical but
they're not it's a flip of the front both quad camera setups what you're
getting beyond the main lens is a depth sensor a macro lens and an ultra-wide
lens on each of them those are identical no matter which one you get
exactly the same for those three lenses it's only the main lens when you're
gonna see a difference on the 51 you're getting the standard 48 megapixel lens
we've seen in loads of phones in 2019 just an F 2.0 48 megapixel lens should
be really good if you want those high megapixel shots the a 71 goes one step
further this is a sixty-four megapixel lens which I think makes the first 64
megapixel lens Samsung's put in one of its own phones it also drops down to an
F 1.8 aperture so take those two things together and the 71 is actually going to
pull ahead a lot both in terms of the color tone and the detail you pull out
and the just overall quality you're gonna get a lot more from the 71 for
that single point and shoot lens so for the versatility they're exactly the same
with one another so yeah these are two phones that in spirit are very similar
designs very similar quad camera setup very similar but once you dig into the
details actually on a lot of metrics almost every metric the 71 just pulls a
little bit ahead which means I don't think we have full pricing information
just yet but unless there's a big big pricing gap
or unless you really don't want the big screen I'd really encourage anyone to
make that jump up to the 71 because it is gonna pull ahead in almost everything
you do even if it's a little bit that will add up across the course you're
using the phone there's still more to come from us here at CES so stay tuned
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