Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Smartphone prices are set to rise with the RAMpocalypse, so budget phones are looking more and more enticing. $200 for a new phone with years of promised updates sounds great, but when Samsung cheaped out on the A17 5G's RAM, they may have made a brutal error.

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0:00 Samsung has competition
0:22 Unboxing and design impressions
2:40 Sponsor - DeltaHub
3:08 Specs and LABS Performance results
4:22 Screen impressions and LABS luminance results
5:27 Speaker and camera impressions (also RAM complaints)
9:32 Overall thoughts and pricing
10:46 Outro