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  • Today we're going to be durability testing the Samsung Galaxy A80 – a mid-range motorized

  • smartphone that both raises and flips at the same time. Things are getting pretty crazy.

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  • Now it's time to see if the Galaxy A80 can withstand my durability test. Let's get started.

  • [Intro]

  • Samsung says that the A80 is built for the Era of Live since it has that ability to raise

  • and flip the rear cameras over and around the front, which lets the user then use the

  • higher quality camera for selfie situations. The last rising camera phone I tested, the

  • Oppo Find X, snapped in half and died. So it'll be interesting to see if this rising

  • phone with what looks like the same mechanism will die as well. I have my doubts, but this

  • peachy colored Angel Gold A80 seems to be full of confidence.

  • [Phone] Let's get started.

  • [Zack] If you insist.

  • Right off the bat the phone feels pretty heavy, and even without activating the camera, the

  • top half of the phone can be manually slid up, but then retracts itself back into it's

  • shell automatically. We've seen quite a few mechanical pop up cameras. Most have just

  • a single lens that pops up like the One Plus 7 Pro. Some have a pizza slice like the Oppo

  • Reno, or a flip around camera like the Zenfone 6. This A80 though could be the most complex

  • version we've seen yet with both a rising feature and a spin around motion that both

  • activate simultaneously. It rotates all 3 rear cameras around to the front in one fluid

  • motion. Technology is pretty cool. Analyzing that little flip-a-roo mechanism from the

  • inside is going to be super interesting.

  • If I try to manually rotate the camera backwards while it's in the popped up position it auto

  • triggers a retract and brings the whole thing back down. I think it's a super unique contraption,

  • but it's only worthwhile if it's durable and can last, which is what we're going to find

  • out today.

  • If the camera's extended and I bump the top with my finger, it will automatically retract.

  • And then if I hold the camera shut while trying to extend the camera, it makes noises akin

  • to the dial up era. If you don't know what that means, you can ask your parents. [Dial

  • up sounds]

  • We'll bring the triple cameras up so they can watch us commence with the screen scratch

  • test. I have a set of Mohs mineral picks that tells us what different minerals are made

  • from by the different levels they scratch at. Level 3, as you can see, means the screen

  • is made from plastic. In this case, we're talking about the preinstalled screen protector.

  • We also discover at this point that the camera cannot retract itself when laying on a flat

  • surface. I assume it's because the flipping and rising motion are all attached to a singular

  • motor and if the camera can't do it's flippy thing, then the top can't retract. Interesting.

  • Trying to extend the camera on a flat surface and we get the same results. No flippy means

  • no extendy.

  • Continuing with the scratch test.

  • Now that the screen protector's removed, we know that since this phone is using tempered

  • Gorilla Glass 3, we shouldn't start seeing scratches until a level 6. And that is indeed

  • the casescratches at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7. Pretty normal. Keys,

  • coins, and razor blades won't do any damage to the surface of the screen. The display

  • does look pretty awesome though. No notch and barely any bezels. Even the earpiece looks

  • like it's completely gone, just like we saw with the Note 10. I'll pop up the mechanical

  • camera with it's 8 megapixel ultra wide camera on the left, the 48 megapixel main camera

  • in the center, and the 3D depth camera on the right side next to that single LED flash.

  • The surface of the camera is made from glass. No scratches are made with my razor blade.

  • The cool thing to do on a lot of phones these days is to add an under screen fingerprint

  • scanner, and the A80 is no different. With an onscreen fingerprint scanner down near

  • the bottom of the phone, I'll take my level 7 grooves and scratch up the surface of the

  • glass after my fingerprint is set to simulate years worth of heavy abuse. And it looks like

  • even with all that extra damage, the Galaxy A80 is still able to recognize that fingerprint

  • and unlock the phone pretty much every single time.

  • The sides of the phone are made from aluminum and have a thin protective piece of plastic

  • surrounding each of those sides. Extra protection is always a good thing. The volume buttons

  • are both made from metal, as well as the side of the pop up camera which is built into the

  • frame of the phone. The top of the camera unit and the bezel of the screen are also

  • both made from metal. Samsung is going all out with premium materials.

  • Cruising around to the bottom side of the phone we find no headphone jack. But we do

  • see a 25 watt fast charging cable USB C port, and a SIM card tray with no expandable memory.

  • This mid-range phone appears to be losing extra features, just like we see on the major

  • flagships.

  • Flipping the phone around to the back, we can see the same trio of cameras that we tested

  • on the front. And if we manually pull the camera upwards, we can see the rising shaft

  • of the camera is made from plastic. It took us a while but we found some. The back panel

  • also feels like plastic but is actually Gorilla Glass 6 and unscratchable by my razor blade.

  • It leaves the Samsung logo unscathed. Not too shabby. I mean personally, I think phones

  • should be tools with as many features as possible...like a Swiss army knife. Even if you don't use

  • every feature, it's still good to have it. So I feel like this Galaxy A80 is geared towards

  • techie people who care the most about the camera, but also like having a unique looking

  • conversation starting smartphone. Which I totally understand when most phones these

  • days look like they're all following the same cookie cutter design.

  • I held the lighter in place on the 6.7 inch 1080p AMOLED display for over 30 seconds with

  • no damage to the screen...which doesn't mean a whole lot of anything. I just started burning

  • phones 4 years ago and can't seem to stop. Speaking of not stopping, let's keep going

  • with this camera. Trying to pull the camera directly out of the top of the phone is pretty

  • fruitless. It's in there pretty tight. Banging it around on my desk doesn't do a whole lot

  • either. Even direct top down pile drives leaves the slider intact. Still in the tracts it

  • originally arrived in. No extra grinding or glitches...yet.

  • Some cellphone pop up cameras have a fall detection feature where if the camera detects

  • a fall while the camera is protruded, it'll auto retract in the air on it's way down.

  • And it looks like the A80 kind of does the same thing. It does a weird little half retract

  • and then stops. Kind of bracing for impact. I tried going a bit higher up for the last

  • drop and got the same result. Kind of strange.

  • One thing I thought of when I first saw this phone was a stencil. You know, when you can

  • push the letters of a stencil cut out? With this camera being only attached on either

  • side, I wanted to see if I could pop it out of the frame...like a stencil. But even when

  • pushed from both the back side and the front side, the spinney camera stays intact inside

  • of it's little housing. It's got some movement, but it's still very sturdy.

  • I imagine that other things on this phone will start breaking before the camera mechanism

  • does. Even after all this abuse being forced in and held out against it's will, the camera

  • is still moving strong with no grinding noises, complaints or other weird noises. I'm impressed.

  • Remember though that the Oppo Find X, which has the same slide up top design that this

  • phone does, completely died during my bend test. The frame of the Oppo Find X was too

  • flexi for the screen to handle and the screen broke completely. So let's hope this sliding

  • A80 is a bit stronger. With the first flex from the back we don't get a whole lot of

  • movement, just a very minor back panel separation. Bending from the front though is a whole different

  • story. The back panel is no where near contributing to the structural integrity. It leaves the

  • phone frame to fend for itself. Even with that major flex the display appears to be

  • intact still. The back panel is doing nothing to help the phone stay solid. But also, nothing

  • is permanently breaking. At least now we know where to start for that tear down video.

  • Overall I'm a fan of companies trying new things. So thumbs up to Samsung for coming

  • up with a unique motorized camera design all of their own, and making it sturdy enough

  • to survive my durability test. We'll be taking this Galaxy A80 apart to review it from the

  • inside. So hit that subscribe button and let me know in the comments what pop up camera,

  • if any, you like the most. We've reviewed quite a few.

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