How nice it is when someone thinks of you and your needs. That's why I mention in the title of this post that "the best gift is the one you need", for me that makes it more special.

A few days ago my husband surprised me with a gift. It was a new phone, the Samsung Galaxy A03. I was very excited because for a long time I wanted a phone with a better camera than the phone I already had. To take pictures I always asked my husband to borrow his phone, he has a Hisense F8mini, it's not a very advanced phone but I really like the way it takes pictures. Although he lends it to me willingly, I knew I needed a new phone, because he is not always at home.

So he took the initiative to get me a better phone. I am really grateful for that gift because to be honest, I would hardly have made that expense a priority. At first I thought, where did my husband get the money? But he told me that he bought it on credit at the Claro phone agency, where they let you pay for it in easy interest-free installments. I thought that was great because since we live a simple life, a phone out of the blue could destabilize us financially.

I loved the gift, even though I don't know much about phone brands and the quality of phones. But compared to my previous phone, from my point of view this one beats it by far. It has more storage, more Ram memory and of course a better camera.

I will show you some differences between my previous Alcatel phone and the Samsung:

ALCATEL	SAMSUNG
Modelo: 5001J	Modelo: Galaxy A03 (SM-A035M)
RAM: 2.0 GB	RAM: 4 GB
Versión de Android: 9	Versión de Android: 11
Almacenamiento: 16 GB	Almacenamiento: 64 GB
Números de SIM: 2	Números de SIM: 1

The good thing about the Alcatel phone is that it had the possibility of placing two lines or SIM Card, because in my case I have Claro and Tigo, but as the Samsung phone was purchased in a Claro agency is only allowed to place a SIM and that is Claro. Another thing I will miss is the fingerprint detector, because with it I could access the bank application faster.

I would have liked to do a photo comparison between the Alcatel and the Samsung, but the day my husband gave me the phone I lent the Alcatel to a friend who needed a phone while she buys hers. But anyway I will share some things I liked about my new phone, especially about the camera.

The camera has a lot of features, they may be very everyday but I confess I have never had a phone with some of those features before.

When I go to the "more" option, among the options there is one that says Deco Pic, where I can find decorations like glasses, hats, animal costumes in case I want to take a funny picture; also some stamps like brands to add them in the picture.

I still don't understand the Pro option. There is also the function to take panoramic pictures, the food option that serves to focus on a special element, also the night option and hyperlapse where the photos are like a gif.

You can also add a watermark to the photo with the phone's brand name. Something I liked was to place lines of thirds, which I know will help me to take better pictures.

Exposición de la foto

Photo exhibition

Something that caught my attention is that when I enter the camera and want to take a picture I can regulate the explosion without having to edit the photo later. I can just move my finger on the screen of the phone to the right or left and the exposure is regulated to our preference.

Zoom en la foto

Zoom in on the photo

Many times when we have to take a picture from a distance we want it to look close, for that we must zoom the camera, so we can capture what we want. However, when zooming in, the photo may not look good or with the same quality. There are other cameras that achieve this better.

I wanted to show you how the zoom looks on this Samsung phone. In my opinion, the first enlargements don't look too bad, but at the maximum level you lose some of the image and it is not so well defined.

Editor de fotografía

Photo Editor

I really liked the photo editor that comes with the phone. Usually we download applications to improve our photos, but the functions that brings the editor seem very good. In it we can improve brightness, exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, hue and temperature. In addition to other more common functions such as crop, add text or stikers, rotate, flip or change the perspective.

Filtros

Filters

I also found the filters quite interesting, and great to use. Among them are: antique, nostalgia, grays, dusk tint, wash, drawing, pop art, vignette, sepia and more.

The truth is that I do not know the quality of the phone and that is why I share some details that it has, to know your opinions and suggestions through your comments.

I am one of those people who do not give much importance to how advanced the phone is or how expensive it is. I prefer that each device fulfills its function according to my needs. My husband always wanted me to have a better phone than the previous ones so that I could get more out of it both in my work and as a writer.

I am very grateful for this gift because I know that I would not have bought it so easily on my own, I would have bought a phone for my husband first. I hope to be able to take nice pictures for my personal use and some to share with you. It will be easier to learn.

Thanks for reading my post. I'd love to know in the comments how you like this phone.

_{Recursos utilizados en la publicación: / Resources used in the publication:
Imágenes: Todas las imágenes son de mi propiedad, tomadas del teléfono Hisense F8mini, y los captures desde Samsung Galaxy A03. La primera imagen fue editada en Canva. / Images: All images are my own, taken from the Hisense F8mini phone, and captured from Samsung Galaxy A03. The first image was edited in Canva.
Separador: elaborado por mi/ Separator: elaborated by me.
Banner: pixabay by Sponchia, editado por mi / edited by me.
Links: creados por mi, recurso utilizado / created by me, resource used pixabay by OpenClipart-Vectors
Editores: / Editors: Canva, PowerPoint, GIMP, XRecorder, YouCut, Conversor De MP4 A GIF.}

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