Samsung Galaxy A42 5G Real-World Test (Camera Comparison, Battery Test, & Vlog)

**The Dangers of Pounding Chicken Bites**

As I sit here with a burning sensation in my mouth and throat, I can confidently say that pounding chicken bites was not the best idea. The combination of hot sauce and spicy chicken was a recipe for disaster, and now I'm paying the price. It's like all we have is beer, which is not going to make it better. In fact, beer makes all spicy things worse, always.

I tried to think back to when I first started eating these spicy chicken bites, wondering if there was something about them that made me want to keep going back for more. Now, I'm not sure if it's the thrill of the burn or just my own stupidity, but I feel like I've lost control. The mayonnaise doesn't seem to be helping, and all I can think about is taking another bite. But do I really want to do that? Is the pain worth the temporary rush?

As I sit here, trying to cool off with a drink, I'm reminded of just how quickly things can escalate when it comes to spicy foods. It's like a ticking time bomb in my mouth, and I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to go back to eating these chicken bites again.

**The Camera Capabilities of the Device**

One of the other features that caught my attention on this device is its camera capabilities. The 48 megapixel f 1.8 half inch sensor with 0.8 micron sized pixels can take photos and videos in a variety of modes, from standard to macro and depth sensing. While I appreciate the options available, I have to wonder if they're truly necessary.

I looked at the ultra-wide camera on the device, which is 8 megapixels with an aperture of f 2.2. While it's certainly capable of taking wide shots, I couldn't help but think that a wider angle lens would be even better. And then there's the macro camera, which always seems like a bit of an afterthought to me. Why do we need two cameras when one could do the job just as well? But I suppose it's all about marketing and the desire to stand out from the competition.

The depth sensor is another feature that caught my attention, but again, I'm not entirely sure what purpose it serves beyond being a way for companies to claim they have more advanced features. And let's be real, who actually uses these sensors? Not me, that's for sure.

**The Battery Life and Real-World Testing**

As I reflect on my experience with this device, one thing that stands out is its battery life. Despite running 5G all day, the battery lasted until around 10:30 PM. That's a decent amount of time, especially considering how much video and photo taking I did.

I also took some time to test out other features of the device, including the front-facing camera and the phone's performance in everyday use. The camera on the front is quite good, and I appreciate the ability to shoot 1080p at up to 30 frames per second. But overall, I feel like this device gets a lot of things right without going overboard.

**Conclusion**

In the end, while this device may not be perfect, it's definitely a solid choice for those looking in its price range. The camera capabilities are decent, if not particularly exciting, and the battery life is respectable. But for me, the experience with pounding chicken bites has left a bad taste in my mouth – literally. If you're considering purchasing this device, I'd say go for it. Just don't try to eat too many spicy chicken bites at once.

**Additional Information**

For those interested in learning more about this device or its camera capabilities, I've included some links below to the best price and other relevant information. I've also included a link to my previous review of the 4A 5G, which may be worth checking out if you're in the market for a similar device.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is sponsored by visible morning another day another real world test today we're doing on the samsung galaxy a42 5g um which is one of a few mid-range devices that samsung has just launched i just actually realized the a maybe it's affordable i don't know either way if you're not familiar i'm gonna go through my normal day i'm using this phone as my actual phone my sim cards in it etc um and we're gonna talk about the things that i like and don't like about it as well as take photos on it and some of its competitors put those up on the screen so you guys can see how it does and we'll also check in on the battery by the end of the day and all of that while exploring a new hood today's hood is gonna be a a neighborhood just south of me here in brooklyn called bed stuy and well i've just looked on google maps and the fastest way to get there apparently is not a car it's not a train it's a bicycle i almost forgot to say it first things first coffee check our first stop is burley coffee now a friend of mine who actually just moved into this neighborhood literally like last week has come here a bunch of times already and told me to check it out i think it was a good call coffee delicious first off also it very much has this like neighborhood coffee shop vibe which i love they even sell beer and local art from some of the artists as well as local like maple syrup it's just it's it's cute now you might know bed stuy is where jay-z grew up in notorious vig um also claims it is his hood but you probably didn't know that it's also the largest collection of victorian houses in the entire country there are 8 800 houses all built between 1890 and 1900. in addition that it has a huge history of jazz that still is present today as well as a ton of live music at least pre-coveted times but it'll come back and a website i actually really like for their reviews of food called the infatuation actually said if you come to bed-stuy and don't get caribbean food that's like going to little italy and not eating any italian now as i mentioned this phone is part of samsung's new um mid-tier like more affordable lineup called the a series in fact the a51 which is the phone above this one from last year was the top selling phone by samsung in the entire world all of the s21s the s20 all of that no it was the a 51. a lot of probably comes down to the fact that a lot of people are sick of paying exorbitant prices for phones this phone starts uh at 399 and as always i'll leave the best price i could find at the link in the description below but for that you still get a super amoled screen which is a 6.6 inch screen with a teardrop instead of a punch hole but it's great i can see it outside in the daylight which is all i care about resolution is a little bit lower though it's at 720 by 1600 so it's not going to be as crisp compared like especially side by side to like an s series device but i don't really think you'd notice that much if they weren't side by side and compared to other devices in this price range it's not too bad also at that price you get 128 gigs of internal storage and a micro sd card slot to expand the storage which even the s series no longer really has we also have a 5 000 milliamp battery that we will test out today okay now we're in that historic area that i mentioned it's about five blocks long or so and it has a few streets included actually in 96 it extended from just the one street to include those other couple of streets as well but as i mentioned before it is the largest collection in the united states of victorian homes these were kind of all built between 1890 and 1910 for the growing you know upper middle class that was happening at the time especially this collection of i guess they're called row houses but they're just they're really pretty and like tree-lined streets and it's just very cute while we're here though let's talk a little bit more about the phone okay first gripe the fingerprint sensor it is it is not not good um it just it just takes a really long time it's like hold your finger there for a long time sometimes it doesn't recognize my finger i've reset it a bunch of times still it's just not great you can use a pin you can also use you know the face recognition that they have but of course with masks on that doesn't work very well either so just something that bothers me as far as the styling is concerned i mean it's a 400 phone so i don't expect much i do think from the front it actually looks pretty modern and a lot more premium than some of the other 400 phones that you can find the back though of course is a plastic samsung goes try to like differentiate it with this kind of banded design which i don't mind but yeah it's still because it's plastic it still has like a cheap feeling to it but again 400 one thing that it does have though that most 400 phones don't is 5g and not just 5g it is sub 6 and it also has millimeter wave now the millimeter wave here in the states can be used on specific carriers but coming this spring it'll be able to be used on our sponsor this video visible now visible powered by verizon with 5g included is actually a super fast network but you get the added benefit of not having to go into a store ever in fact they even support esim devices so if you have any sim device you can activate service from the comfort of your own home in 15 minutes or less right now that works on iphones but it is coming to android phones very soon the other big benefit about visible is the fact that it just costs a lot less it's 40 a month for unlimited everything and then if you add other members to your plan what they call a party pay plan you can get that down all the way to 25 a month which is crazy and i even did a speed test here in bed stuy and we're getting pretty good speeds if i do say so myself if you want to learn more about visible you can click the link in the description below and thanks again visible for sponsoring this video now let's go find some caribbean food so this is a double and apparently it's a common street food in trinidad and tobago it's called a double i found out because it's two barras which is like a flat fried dough and then it's filled with curried chickpeas all right my first ever double it's like really it's really chewy dough it's almost a little sweet like the inside is like it's almost like a curry it is it's pretty good she asked if i wanted a spicy i said yes he's got a kick this is good though two dollars too two bucks so for the processor on this phone we are using the snapdragon 750 5g which is qualcomm's kind of newer mid-tier chipset uh and that's paired with four gigs of ram i play the last one nine on it and it does good job it's not the smoothest or the fastest obviously but it plays just fine it doesn't really affect the gameplay and this is something i kind of feel with a lot of mid-range chipsets and mid-range phones you only need the top-of-the-line specs who play most mobile games as they're kind of aimed to the lowest common denominator right like the people who make these games want them to work on as many devices as possible they don't want you know you to have to have certain specs in order to be able to play it they want as many users as they can get so most games are just not that taxing based on that and so they run fine even on your less expensive devices i will say though they're like when navigating the home screen and opening the camera for example just doing other things every now and then there is a little lag the pole is yours it is definitely yours i'm just walking down the street it's like just you know the street and this person has chickens what like what all right now let's go meet that friend that i talked about who told me about the coffee shop that just moved to bed him and his girlfriend moved here from indiana which is amazing very excited for them but we're gonna go grab dinner at a place called peach's hot house and it's a place in bed stuy that's known for its nashville style hot chicken sandwich they also apparently have a extra hot chicken sandwich which is according to the internet terrifying cheers guys cheers hot chicken not extra hot chicken hot chicken messy sugar it's actually not that hot it's really good but we did get the extra hot but we're going to wait for that because if that's as hot as it sounds like it's going to be it might ruin the rest of this so we'll get to that oh it's very flavorful it's really good i would wait a sec yeah anything you all right no mild it's hot it's not right oh oh okay okay okay it's gonna twins there's a delay yeah it's it's gonna it's gonna think oh is it not enough you feel like you keep looking like you wanna take another bite yeah totally oh okay do it it's on the lips and it's on the tongue it does not let go and to be clear like all we have is beer which is not going to make it better i'm going to tell you right now no that does not make it no it doesn't beer makes all spicy things worse always yeah that was probably dumb okay now it hurts five seconds later are you just shoving fries in your mouth is that helping is the mayonnaise helping it's it's white like milk maybe it helps oh he's crying i think it takes about like 20 30 seconds to really kick in i'm feeling the beginning of it yeah it's building quick all right i'll do one more this is the dumbest thing i've ever done so you know how compounding interest works and pounding chicken bites that is now getting a lot harder than the first one oh it's yeah it's getting worse um no it'll get underwater hot chicken okay after our ridiculously hot chicken we decided to cool off at a bar down the street but this gives us a moment to talk about the cameras on this phone so first we have a 48 megapixel f 1.8 half inch sensor with 0.8 micron sized pixels that are been by default to 12 megapixels and 1.6 micron size then we also have an ultra wide camera which is 8 megapixels with an aperture of f 2.2 and beyond that we have a macro camera which i always think is ridiculous because we already know that you can use an ultrawide camera to get that same effect and a lot of companies do so and then we also have a dep sensor which is again something that just having two cameras on your phone is allows you to use those in conjunction with each other to get depth information so it always feels to me like macro and depth sensors are just kind of excuses for people to put more cameras it's now a quad camera system even though there's only really two cameras on here so i don't know for video we can shoot up to 4k 30 frames per second and then on the front of the device we have a 20 megapixel f 2.2 front facing camera in that teardrop notch now that is also capable of 1080p at up to 30 frames a second i just said bye to those two i'm excited that they're here glad they moved i think you're gonna have a good time and uh and bedside's cool it's a good excuse to come check it out but now let's head home and see if we can wrap this up okay calling it a night it is 10 31 p.m and we are at 16 and here's my screen on time and my usage for anyone who's curious about that overall though i think the battery life did a good job i took a lot of video a lot of photos also running 5g all day and it lasted all day i actually took it off the charger at about 8 30 in the morning so pretty good as far as the phone is concerned is it perfect no but it gets a lot of things right and it's it's that 400 price that kind of it's just in its own little world there's a lot of devices that are like a little bit more than that like like the 4a 5g the pixel is 500 and honestly i would choose that over this but that's an extra 100 an extra 20 or so right so if that is kind of your price range then i don't know this is a pretty solid choice if you had a little bit more to spend though again i could name a few others that maybe would be better but there you go let me know what you guys think in the comments below of this phone of this video the format i keep trying to make it better for you guys but always appreciate your feedback please let me know what you think also i will leave a link below to the best price that i can find on this phone and links below to all the places that i visited in case you're curious about that as well lastly quick reminder check out visible at the link in the description below and thanks again invisible for sponsoring this video but if you like this video please thumbs up it or share it greatly appreciate it also check out the rest of the channel if you see there please subscribe and ding the bell next to it subscribe so you get notified when i do new videos i have a bunch of other hoods that i've checked out i'll leave links to that as well for other real world tests feel free to check that out as well as always go regardless thanks for watching youthis video is sponsored by visible morning another day another real world test today we're doing on the samsung galaxy a42 5g um which is one of a few mid-range devices that samsung has just launched i just actually realized the a maybe it's affordable i don't know either way if you're not familiar i'm gonna go through my normal day i'm using this phone as my actual phone my sim cards in it etc um and we're gonna talk about the things that i like and don't like about it as well as take photos on it and some of its competitors put those up on the screen so you guys can see how it does and we'll also check in on the battery by the end of the day and all of that while exploring a new hood today's hood is gonna be a a neighborhood just south of me here in brooklyn called bed stuy and well i've just looked on google maps and the fastest way to get there apparently is not a car it's not a train it's a bicycle i almost forgot to say it first things first coffee check our first stop is burley coffee now a friend of mine who actually just moved into this neighborhood literally like last week has come here a bunch of times already and told me to check it out i think it was a good call coffee delicious first off also it very much has this like neighborhood coffee shop vibe which i love they even sell beer and local art from some of the artists as well as local like maple syrup it's just it's it's cute now you might know bed stuy is where jay-z grew up in notorious vig um also claims it is his hood but you probably didn't know that it's also the largest collection of victorian houses in the entire country there are 8 800 houses all built between 1890 and 1900. in addition that it has a huge history of jazz that still is present today as well as a ton of live music at least pre-coveted times but it'll come back and a website i actually really like for their reviews of food called the infatuation actually said if you come to bed-stuy and don't get caribbean food that's like going to little italy and not eating any italian now as i mentioned this phone is part of samsung's new um mid-tier like more affordable lineup called the a series in fact the a51 which is the phone above this one from last year was the top selling phone by samsung in the entire world all of the s21s the s20 all of that no it was the a 51. a lot of probably comes down to the fact that a lot of people are sick of paying exorbitant prices for phones this phone starts uh at 399 and as always i'll leave the best price i could find at the link in the description below but for that you still get a super amoled screen which is a 6.6 inch screen with a teardrop instead of a punch hole but it's great i can see it outside in the daylight which is all i care about resolution is a little bit lower though it's at 720 by 1600 so it's not going to be as crisp compared like especially side by side to like an s series device but i don't really think you'd notice that much if they weren't side by side and compared to other devices in this price range it's not too bad also at that price you get 128 gigs of internal storage and a micro sd card slot to expand the storage which even the s series no longer really has we also have a 5 000 milliamp battery that we will test out today okay now we're in that historic area that i mentioned it's about five blocks long or so and it has a few streets included actually in 96 it extended from just the one street to include those other couple of streets as well but as i mentioned before it is the largest collection in the united states of victorian homes these were kind of all built between 1890 and 1910 for the growing you know upper middle class that was happening at the time especially this collection of i guess they're called row houses but they're just they're really pretty and like tree-lined streets and it's just very cute while we're here though let's talk a little bit more about the phone okay first gripe the fingerprint sensor it is it is not not good um it just it just takes a really long time it's like hold your finger there for a long time sometimes it doesn't recognize my finger i've reset it a bunch of times still it's just not great you can use a pin you can also use you know the face recognition that they have but of course with masks on that doesn't work very well either so just something that bothers me as far as the styling is concerned i mean it's a 400 phone so i don't expect much i do think from the front it actually looks pretty modern and a lot more premium than some of the other 400 phones that you can find the back though of course is a plastic samsung goes try to like differentiate it with this kind of banded design which i don't mind but yeah it's still because it's plastic it still has like a cheap feeling to it but again 400 one thing that it does have though that most 400 phones don't is 5g and not just 5g it is sub 6 and it also has millimeter wave now the millimeter wave here in the states can be used on specific carriers but coming this spring it'll be able to be used on our sponsor this video visible now visible powered by verizon with 5g included is actually a super fast network but you get the added benefit of not having to go into a store ever in fact they even support esim devices so if you have any sim device you can activate service from the comfort of your own home in 15 minutes or less right now that works on iphones but it is coming to android phones very soon the other big benefit about visible is the fact that it just costs a lot less it's 40 a month for unlimited everything and then if you add other members to your plan what they call a party pay plan you can get that down all the way to 25 a month which is crazy and i even did a speed test here in bed stuy and we're getting pretty good speeds if i do say so myself if you want to learn more about visible you can click the link in the description below and thanks again visible for sponsoring this video now let's go find some caribbean food so this is a double and apparently it's a common street food in trinidad and tobago it's called a double i found out because it's two barras which is like a flat fried dough and then it's filled with curried chickpeas all right my first ever double it's like really it's really chewy dough it's almost a little sweet like the inside is like it's almost like a curry it is it's pretty good she asked if i wanted a spicy i said yes he's got a kick this is good though two dollars too two bucks so for the processor on this phone we are using the snapdragon 750 5g which is qualcomm's kind of newer mid-tier chipset uh and that's paired with four gigs of ram i play the last one nine on it and it does good job it's not the smoothest or the fastest obviously but it plays just fine it doesn't really affect the gameplay and this is something i kind of feel with a lot of mid-range chipsets and mid-range phones you only need the top-of-the-line specs who play most mobile games as they're kind of aimed to the lowest common denominator right like the people who make these games want them to work on as many devices as possible they don't want you know you to have to have certain specs in order to be able to play it they want as many users as they can get so most games are just not that taxing based on that and so they run fine even on your less expensive devices i will say though they're like when navigating the home screen and opening the camera for example just doing other things every now and then there is a little lag the pole is yours it is definitely yours i'm just walking down the street it's like just you know the street and this person has chickens what like what all right now let's go meet that friend that i talked about who told me about the coffee shop that just moved to bed him and his girlfriend moved here from indiana which is amazing very excited for them but we're gonna go grab dinner at a place called peach's hot house and it's a place in bed stuy that's known for its nashville style hot chicken sandwich they also apparently have a extra hot chicken sandwich which is according to the internet terrifying cheers guys cheers hot chicken not extra hot chicken hot chicken messy sugar it's actually not that hot it's really good but we did get the extra hot but we're going to wait for that because if that's as hot as it sounds like it's going to be it might ruin the rest of this so we'll get to that oh it's very flavorful it's really good i would wait a sec yeah anything you all right no mild it's hot it's not right oh oh okay okay okay it's gonna twins there's a delay yeah it's it's gonna it's gonna think oh is it not enough you feel like you keep looking like you wanna take another bite yeah totally oh okay do it it's on the lips and it's on the tongue it does not let go and to be clear like all we have is beer which is not going to make it better i'm going to tell you right now no that does not make it no it doesn't beer makes all spicy things worse always yeah that was probably dumb okay now it hurts five seconds later are you just shoving fries in your mouth is that helping is the mayonnaise helping it's it's white like milk maybe it helps oh he's crying i think it takes about like 20 30 seconds to really kick in i'm feeling the beginning of it yeah it's building quick all right i'll do one more this is the dumbest thing i've ever done so you know how compounding interest works and pounding chicken bites that is now getting a lot harder than the first one oh it's yeah it's getting worse um no it'll get underwater hot chicken okay after our ridiculously hot chicken we decided to cool off at a bar down the street but this gives us a moment to talk about the cameras on this phone so first we have a 48 megapixel f 1.8 half inch sensor with 0.8 micron sized pixels that are been by default to 12 megapixels and 1.6 micron size then we also have an ultra wide camera which is 8 megapixels with an aperture of f 2.2 and beyond that we have a macro camera which i always think is ridiculous because we already know that you can use an ultrawide camera to get that same effect and a lot of companies do so and then we also have a dep sensor which is again something that just having two cameras on your phone is allows you to use those in conjunction with each other to get depth information so it always feels to me like macro and depth sensors are just kind of excuses for people to put more cameras it's now a quad camera system even though there's only really two cameras on here so i don't know for video we can shoot up to 4k 30 frames per second and then on the front of the device we have a 20 megapixel f 2.2 front facing camera in that teardrop notch now that is also capable of 1080p at up to 30 frames a second i just said bye to those two i'm excited that they're here glad they moved i think you're gonna have a good time and uh and bedside's cool it's a good excuse to come check it out but now let's head home and see if we can wrap this up okay calling it a night it is 10 31 p.m and we are at 16 and here's my screen on time and my usage for anyone who's curious about that overall though i think the battery life did a good job i took a lot of video a lot of photos also running 5g all day and it lasted all day i actually took it off the charger at about 8 30 in the morning so pretty good as far as the phone is concerned is it perfect no but it gets a lot of things right and it's it's that 400 price that kind of it's just in its own little world there's a lot of devices that are like a little bit more than that like like the 4a 5g the pixel is 500 and honestly i would choose that over this but that's an extra 100 an extra 20 or so right so if that is kind of your price range then i don't know this is a pretty solid choice if you had a little bit more to spend though again i could name a few others that maybe would be better but there you go let me know what you guys think in the comments below of this phone of this video the format i keep trying to make it better for you guys but always appreciate your feedback please let me know what you think also i will leave a link below to the best price that i can find on this phone and links below to all the places that i visited in case you're curious about that as well lastly quick reminder check out visible at the link in the description below and thanks again invisible for sponsoring this video but if you like this video please thumbs up it or share it greatly appreciate it also check out the rest of the channel if you see there please subscribe and ding the bell next to it subscribe so you get notified when i do new videos i have a bunch of other hoods that i've checked out i'll leave links to that as well for other real world tests feel free to check that out as well as always go regardless thanks for watching you\n"