**Samsung Galaxy A6 Plus Review: A Letdown from a Promising Device**

The Samsung Galaxy A6 Plus is a device that had all the makings of a great smartphone, but ultimately falls short in several key areas. The phone's quality is shaky, with rear camera capabilities limited to 16 megapixels at 4:3 aspect ratio. When attempting to take a 16:9 image, the sensor has to be cropped down to 12 megapixels instead, resulting in a loss of resolution.

The camera app also features additional tools like Bixby Vision, which allows for live text translation using Google Search. However, this feature is not as effective in India as it is in other regions. Excavation works relatively well, but the feature is limited to basic tasks such as translating text and finding similar objects. Purchases and other features do not work well in India yet.

The front-facing camera is another highlight of the device, featuring a 24-megapixel sensor that produces good results. The selfie mode also offers a wide-angle lens for capturing more of the surroundings during selfies. However, it's surprising to see 1080p video recording on the front-facing camera, especially at such a premium price tag.

The phone itself is quite slippery and heavy, weighing in at 188 grams. This makes it feel substantial in the hand, but may be a concern for those who prefer smaller devices. The display is nice to look at, with great viewing angles, vibrant colors, and low black levels. However, the corners are not as curved as they appear on other Samsung devices like the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus.

One of the notable features of the device is its face unlock functionality, which works well in low-light environments. The fingerprint sensor is also surprisingly fast and responsive, making it a convenient option for security purposes.

Despite its impressive display and camera capabilities, the Samsung Galaxy A6 Plus is a letdown from a promising device. With specifications that don't even compare to devices priced at 10-15 thousand rupees, it's hard to justify such a high price tag. The phone's poor performance and hardware limitations make it less desirable than other options in its class.

The battery life of the device is relatively good, with about 6 hours of screen-on time reported during testing. However, this may not be sufficient for heavy users who require long battery life throughout the day. Overall, the Samsung Galaxy A6 Plus seems like a mediocre device that fails to deliver on several fronts, making it less appealing than other options in its class.

**Design and Display**

The phone's design is perhaps its most significant letdown. The massive forehead and chin make the device look less premium than expected. While the display itself is nice to look at, with great viewing angles and vibrant colors, the corners are not as curved as they appear on other Samsung devices. This makes the device feel less luxurious in the hand.

The display is a Super AMOLED screen, which provides excellent color reproduction and low black levels. However, it's unfortunate that this device does not have an edge-to-edge design like some of its competitors. The display corners are rounded to give the phone a premium look and feel, but this feature is not as effective in practice.

**Performance and Hardware**

The Samsung Galaxy A6 Plus is powered by a mid-range processor, which fails to deliver on several fronts. The phone's performance is less than expected, making it less appealing than other options in its class. With specifications that don't even compare to devices priced at 10-15 thousand rupees, it's hard to justify such a high price tag.

The device also lacks features like 2K video recording on the front-facing camera and improved multitasking capabilities. These omissions make the phone feel less capable than other options in its class. Overall, the Samsung Galaxy A6 Plus seems like a mediocre device that fails to deliver on several fronts, making it less appealing than other options.

**Software**

The phone runs on Android 8.0 Oreo, with Bixby as the default virtual assistant. While Bixby is a capable assistant, it's not as polished as Google Assistant or Samsung's own Bixby Routines. Disabling Bixby and using Google Assistant instead can provide a more seamless experience.

The phone also features face unlock functionality, which works well in low-light environments. However, this feature does have some limitations, making it less effective than other options like 3D facial recognition. The fingerprint sensor is surprisingly fast and responsive, making it a convenient option for security purposes.

**Battery Life**

The battery life of the device is relatively good, with about 6 hours of screen-on time reported during testing. However, this may not be sufficient for heavy users who require long battery life throughout the day.

Overall, the Samsung Galaxy A6 Plus seems like a mediocre device that fails to deliver on several fronts. With poor performance and hardware limitations, it's hard to justify such a high price tag. The phone's design is also less than impressive, with a massive forehead and chin making it look less premium than expected.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys what's up this is Bharath you're watching I again and Sampson recently launched a few phones in the Indian market in their so-called budget segment today we're going to be reviewing the new Samsung Galaxy a 6 plus and seeing whether it's gonna be worth your money so let's quickly get started while the galaxy a6 starts at 21,000 90 the galaxy a6 plus that we have here starts at twenty-five thousand nine hundred and ninety this is a metal built phone with a unique design and while samsung says that this does have an infinity display and it does have an eighteen point five is to nine aspect ratio but it is in no way an infinity display something similar to what you see on a samsung galaxy s 9 or an S 9 plus so therefore all they're doing is giving you a sort of long aspect ratio but not the kind of infinity display that you would get on their higher-end devices the back of the phone is also unique in several respects it does have a dual camera setup that you would see on their newer devices also the layout of the cameras is much like the samsung galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus you also have the fingerprint sensor sitting below the camera in an identical layout as that seen on the s9 of the s9 plus also you have the LED flash almost in the same location what I don't like about the design is these hideous antenna lines that go across the back on the top as well as the bottom and in a attempt to make the symmetry look better the antenna lines in the center connect with the camera which makes it look really awkward the design so to speak is not the latest or the most modern design and the phone is quite hefty weighing in at a whopping 188 grams this weight is actually more than the s9 Plus which is the larger phone in their flagship segment Samsung has added a separate trace 4 SIM cards as well as micro SD card so you'll be able to pop in two SIM cards and simultaneously a micro SD card up to 256 gigabyte the front camera 24 megapixel F 1.9 snapper which is absolutely fantastic and we're going to be checking that out in depth in this video as well so before we get started with talking about the performance and the other aspects of the device for those who don't know the specifications let's quickly do a run-through so over the front you get a six inch Super AMOLED display with a to-220 by 1080 pixel resolution this gives it an eighteen point five is to nine aspect ratio and a four hundred and eleven pixel per inch pixel density now all the buttons are on screen despite there being a pretty hefty sized chin on the bottom of the device the company continues to use microUSB for charging the device which is also somewhat of a disappointment you do continue to get a full 3.5 mm headphone jack which is pretty fantastic the location of the speakerphone is next to the power button and it may not interfere when you're playing games or watching video especially if you are holding the phone in a comfortable position the audio might get disturbed if you hold the phone with your fingers in this manner now like I mentioned over at the front you do have a 24 megapixel camera on the a6 plus whereas on the back you get a 16 megapixel camera with an F 1.6 aperture and a 5 megapixel secondary camera with an F 1.9 aperture this allows you to get life focus on the device you also get a fingerprint sensor just below the cameras and you also have a 3500 milliamp hour battery running everything is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 which is an octa-core 1.8 gigahertz CPU and a Adreno 506 GPU inside 64 gigabyte of storage and 4 gigabyte of RAM now since the device is running Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 which is quite a low-end processor you shouldn't expect a lot of performance in terms of benchmark so as we expected it gets a really low score of 70,000 on apps like antutu and even on Geekbench it gets a poor score of 749 on single as well as 3880 4 on multi-core tests which leaves a lot to be desired from this phone in terms of performance and day to day usage so if you are expecting to do high-end gaming or lots of multitasking on this device think again but there are a few saving graces on this device it does run Android 8 out of the box finally and it also comes with Samsung experience 9 which makes this phone sort of up to date but the problem with the Samsung devices is that the next update will not come up until the Samsung Galaxy S 10 is launched next year so basically you'll be sitting on Android 8 and later versions of it until the company decides to launch a next big flagship you also get Samsung experience 9 which is basically what you see on the Galaxy S 9 a little cut-down version of that so a lot of the processes and apps are not available but most of the operating system looks identical to that it's extremely fast and responsive despite being a really low end processor and the device at first instance looks fast and responsive in day-to-day usage basic things like messaging making phone calls etc seems to be responsive as well so if you want to get by in day to day usage the phone will work as a good smart phone but if you're trying to get this for higher-end things like gaming or multitasking then definitely something that you want to keep your hands away from another saving grace for this device is the cameras the cameras work really well especially the live focus on the a6 plus you'll get really good depth effect and of course you can control the background blur which allows you to get a lot more detail in your images and you can also control the way your images will finally look what's also great about this is that you can adjust the background blur after the fact which will allow you to change around the way the image looks in case you added a lot of bouquet and in a later time decided to reduce the amount of blur in the background to get more information in the image for video the phone will capture a maximum of 1920 by 1080 at a price of 26,000 this seems really disappointing also we don't find any sort of image stabilization so the video quality comes out really shaky the rear camera will capture a maximum of 16 megapixel shots with that - at 4 by 3 aspect ratio the minute you need to get a image at 16 is 2 9 you'll need to come down to 12 megapixels instead of the 16 megapixels of the sensor because it'll crop out the sensor to give you a 16 is to 9 aspect image the camera app also gets additional features like Bixby vision which will allow you to translate text live using Google search so things you've seen on the galaxy s 9 will be available on this device excavation works relatively well but not in India as much so you can use it for basic things like translate and finding similar objects but that's about it purchases and other things don't work really well in India yet the front-facing camera is also pretty good with the 24 megapixel sensor you also get a front-facing selfie focus that allows you to get a good amount of bouquet in the background of your selfies you also get a standard selfie mode which is pretty wide-angle camera in the front giving you a lot of detail around you as well and then you also have 1080p video for the front camera which is again strange because at least at 26 thousand rupees we would have expected 2 K video from the front-facing camera but we are not getting it the phone in itself is also rather slippery so I do recommend using it with a case it's also quite heavy at 188 grams it's quite a hefty phone and you can feel the weight the minute you hold the phone in your hand the display in itself is nice to look at it's got great viewing angles it's a Super AMOLED display so the colors really pop and the black levels are really nice and low and the display is nicely visible indoors as well as outdoors the display corners are rounded to give it that premium look and feel but you do have a massive forehead and a chin much larger that you see on the samsung galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus and unlike their real infinity displays this one does not curve to the sides so you do not have an edge on this on the home screen you also continue to get bixby on the left I would recommend disabling this because it sort of gets in the way and I would recommend that you use the Google assistant as your primary assistant you can enable this by pressing and holding on the home button and that will become your main assistant once you start using your voice commands the phone does have a face unlock and also has a really responsive fingerprint sensor face and lock we've seen faster iterations of it also it's not the more secure face unlock that you see on devices like the galaxy s 9 or the iPhone 10 for that matter but it is a standard Android face unlock and it works pretty well again in low-light environments it will not work so it is recommended that you also register a fingerprint the fingerprint sensor is one of the fastest that we've seen it's really responsive and it works really well it is surprising that in 2018 Samsung has launched the a6 plus at such a hefty price tag of 26,000 rupees with features that don't even compare with devices that are fifteen thousand rupees so phones that are 10 to 15 thousand please offer up more capability than this device they are nicer to look at in my opinion and they offer better features than by two specifications what Samsung is missing is the ultimate mix of performance and hardware you know which this device does not seem to offer it does have good cameras a good display but a poor design and poor specifications on the inside you do get Android aid and a pretty responsive operating system but if you are expecting to do gaming or multitasking on this device you should look somewhere else the battery on this is a 3500 milliamp hour battery and it will last you a pretty good day with about 6 hours of screen on time is what we got from the phone samsung galaxy a 6 plus seems to be a good option for those who have been living under a rock and are not aware of the recent launches of devices some phones from last year may offer a better performance than this device is definitely a letdown from the company it's really well built it's got a great display but apart from that it's got nothing else on the inside and if you are looking for a good specification and performance monster you have to look elsewhere this was our quick review of the new samsung galaxy a 6 plus if you have any questions or queries drop them in the comment section below if you haven't already guys hit that subscribe button and stay subscribe to team I again to get more reviews in a timely manner hit that Bell notification icon as well there's been about nine well I will see you guys in the next onehey guys what's up this is Bharath you're watching I again and Sampson recently launched a few phones in the Indian market in their so-called budget segment today we're going to be reviewing the new Samsung Galaxy a 6 plus and seeing whether it's gonna be worth your money so let's quickly get started while the galaxy a6 starts at 21,000 90 the galaxy a6 plus that we have here starts at twenty-five thousand nine hundred and ninety this is a metal built phone with a unique design and while samsung says that this does have an infinity display and it does have an eighteen point five is to nine aspect ratio but it is in no way an infinity display something similar to what you see on a samsung galaxy s 9 or an S 9 plus so therefore all they're doing is giving you a sort of long aspect ratio but not the kind of infinity display that you would get on their higher-end devices the back of the phone is also unique in several respects it does have a dual camera setup that you would see on their newer devices also the layout of the cameras is much like the samsung galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus you also have the fingerprint sensor sitting below the camera in an identical layout as that seen on the s9 of the s9 plus also you have the LED flash almost in the same location what I don't like about the design is these hideous antenna lines that go across the back on the top as well as the bottom and in a attempt to make the symmetry look better the antenna lines in the center connect with the camera which makes it look really awkward the design so to speak is not the latest or the most modern design and the phone is quite hefty weighing in at a whopping 188 grams this weight is actually more than the s9 Plus which is the larger phone in their flagship segment Samsung has added a separate trace 4 SIM cards as well as micro SD card so you'll be able to pop in two SIM cards and simultaneously a micro SD card up to 256 gigabyte the front camera 24 megapixel F 1.9 snapper which is absolutely fantastic and we're going to be checking that out in depth in this video as well so before we get started with talking about the performance and the other aspects of the device for those who don't know the specifications let's quickly do a run-through so over the front you get a six inch Super AMOLED display with a to-220 by 1080 pixel resolution this gives it an eighteen point five is to nine aspect ratio and a four hundred and eleven pixel per inch pixel density now all the buttons are on screen despite there being a pretty hefty sized chin on the bottom of the device the company continues to use microUSB for charging the device which is also somewhat of a disappointment you do continue to get a full 3.5 mm headphone jack which is pretty fantastic the location of the speakerphone is next to the power button and it may not interfere when you're playing games or watching video especially if you are holding the phone in a comfortable position the audio might get disturbed if you hold the phone with your fingers in this manner now like I mentioned over at the front you do have a 24 megapixel camera on the a6 plus whereas on the back you get a 16 megapixel camera with an F 1.6 aperture and a 5 megapixel secondary camera with an F 1.9 aperture this allows you to get life focus on the device you also get a fingerprint sensor just below the cameras and you also have a 3500 milliamp hour battery running everything is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 which is an octa-core 1.8 gigahertz CPU and a Adreno 506 GPU inside 64 gigabyte of storage and 4 gigabyte of RAM now since the device is running Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 which is quite a low-end processor you shouldn't expect a lot of performance in terms of benchmark so as we expected it gets a really low score of 70,000 on apps like antutu and even on Geekbench it gets a poor score of 749 on single as well as 3880 4 on multi-core tests which leaves a lot to be desired from this phone in terms of performance and day to day usage so if you are expecting to do high-end gaming or lots of multitasking on this device think again but there are a few saving graces on this device it does run Android 8 out of the box finally and it also comes with Samsung experience 9 which makes this phone sort of up to date but the problem with the Samsung devices is that the next update will not come up until the Samsung Galaxy S 10 is launched next year so basically you'll be sitting on Android 8 and later versions of it until the company decides to launch a next big flagship you also get Samsung experience 9 which is basically what you see on the Galaxy S 9 a little cut-down version of that so a lot of the processes and apps are not available but most of the operating system looks identical to that it's extremely fast and responsive despite being a really low end processor and the device at first instance looks fast and responsive in day-to-day usage basic things like messaging making phone calls etc seems to be responsive as well so if you want to get by in day to day usage the phone will work as a good smart phone but if you're trying to get this for higher-end things like gaming or multitasking then definitely something that you want to keep your hands away from another saving grace for this device is the cameras the cameras work really well especially the live focus on the a6 plus you'll get really good depth effect and of course you can control the background blur which allows you to get a lot more detail in your images and you can also control the way your images will finally look what's also great about this is that you can adjust the background blur after the fact which will allow you to change around the way the image looks in case you added a lot of bouquet and in a later time decided to reduce the amount of blur in the background to get more information in the image for video the phone will capture a maximum of 1920 by 1080 at a price of 26,000 this seems really disappointing also we don't find any sort of image stabilization so the video quality comes out really shaky the rear camera will capture a maximum of 16 megapixel shots with that - at 4 by 3 aspect ratio the minute you need to get a image at 16 is 2 9 you'll need to come down to 12 megapixels instead of the 16 megapixels of the sensor because it'll crop out the sensor to give you a 16 is to 9 aspect image the camera app also gets additional features like Bixby vision which will allow you to translate text live using Google search so things you've seen on the galaxy s 9 will be available on this device excavation works relatively well but not in India as much so you can use it for basic things like translate and finding similar objects but that's about it purchases and other things don't work really well in India yet the front-facing camera is also pretty good with the 24 megapixel sensor you also get a front-facing selfie focus that allows you to get a good amount of bouquet in the background of your selfies you also get a standard selfie mode which is pretty wide-angle camera in the front giving you a lot of detail around you as well and then you also have 1080p video for the front camera which is again strange because at least at 26 thousand rupees we would have expected 2 K video from the front-facing camera but we are not getting it the phone in itself is also rather slippery so I do recommend using it with a case it's also quite heavy at 188 grams it's quite a hefty phone and you can feel the weight the minute you hold the phone in your hand the display in itself is nice to look at it's got great viewing angles it's a Super AMOLED display so the colors really pop and the black levels are really nice and low and the display is nicely visible indoors as well as outdoors the display corners are rounded to give it that premium look and feel but you do have a massive forehead and a chin much larger that you see on the samsung galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus and unlike their real infinity displays this one does not curve to the sides so you do not have an edge on this on the home screen you also continue to get bixby on the left I would recommend disabling this because it sort of gets in the way and I would recommend that you use the Google assistant as your primary assistant you can enable this by pressing and holding on the home button and that will become your main assistant once you start using your voice commands the phone does have a face unlock and also has a really responsive fingerprint sensor face and lock we've seen faster iterations of it also it's not the more secure face unlock that you see on devices like the galaxy s 9 or the iPhone 10 for that matter but it is a standard Android face unlock and it works pretty well again in low-light environments it will not work so it is recommended that you also register a fingerprint the fingerprint sensor is one of the fastest that we've seen it's really responsive and it works really well it is surprising that in 2018 Samsung has launched the a6 plus at such a hefty price tag of 26,000 rupees with features that don't even compare with devices that are fifteen thousand rupees so phones that are 10 to 15 thousand please offer up more capability than this device they are nicer to look at in my opinion and they offer better features than by two specifications what Samsung is missing is the ultimate mix of performance and hardware you know which this device does not seem to offer it does have good cameras a good display but a poor design and poor specifications on the inside you do get Android aid and a pretty responsive operating system but if you are expecting to do gaming or multitasking on this device you should look somewhere else the battery on this is a 3500 milliamp hour battery and it will last you a pretty good day with about 6 hours of screen on time is what we got from the phone samsung galaxy a 6 plus seems to be a good option for those who have been living under a rock and are not aware of the recent launches of devices some phones from last year may offer a better performance than this device is definitely a letdown from the company it's really well built it's got a great display but apart from that it's got nothing else on the inside and if you are looking for a good specification and performance monster you have to look elsewhere this was our quick review of the new samsung galaxy a 6 plus if you have any questions or queries drop them in the comment section below if you haven't already guys hit that subscribe button and stay subscribe to team I again to get more reviews in a timely manner hit that Bell notification icon as well there's been about nine well I will see you guys in the next one\n"