Galaxy A34 video recording and camera technical questions....PLS Help!

[Gino76ph]

Hi there. I wanted to buy an old Galaxy A34 (8GB /256GB) but i have some technical questions that I wanted to ask and find out:

1. Does the main and ultrawide cameras have a shutter button (to take photos) whilst recording a video in

1080p 60?

4K 30?

4K 60?

Does the selfie camera allow you to do those as well?

2. Can I switch to a different video recording format (e.g. 4K 30 to 1080p 60) on-the-fly?

3.  Is there an "HDR" option in the camera settings?

4. Has there been any quality of life camera updates in the past few updates?

Or...do i get the newer Galaxy A35 for those aforementioned features? Or an older S23-series phone instead?

[imsam9022]

Seeing most your questions are about the camera again I would recommend the s23 it also just easier to buy accessories for if that concerns you.

[Ernest D]

S23 too expensive.

Maybe S22

[imsam9022]

Hmm...You can seem to find them on amazon for £509 new or £370 renewed.

[imsam9022]

I'm pretty sure most phones these days are wide and heavy. I've always found the battery charging is pretty fast but this maybe due to your charging brick and not having enough watts to charge at fast charging or super fast charging???

[Gino76ph]

The S22 is not for me. It is two year old and in my region it comes with the inferior Exynos chips.

[Gino76ph]

It may be £370 but the condition is always questionable. 

[Gino76ph]

Not all phones these day are heavy (heavier) and wide (wider) than last years device apart from Samsung.

Perhaps for the sake of being "modern" or "premium" or "better build quality" in my opinion Samsung unnecessarily put glass in the front and back (which are prone for breaking even with a strong case), a wider body which for the life me i don't know why and still put an anciently slow 25w in their devices. I know if a device is slow or fast in charging. It's written in the small print and in my 14 years of using Android phones.  

This company simply never listens to their customers. 

[imsam9022]

That's mainly because Samsung actually changes something every year may that be a bigger battery or a bigger camera module and more. An even if the weight has increased most people don't care and just adjust or get used to how it is. The back glass on Samsung phones are some of the strongest compared to other companies. You just can get everything the way you want cause everything is not perfect. Also I think you are using the wrong charger as you said 25 when you can get 45w which is super fast and charges extremely fast. And I feel like Samsung do listen to our opinions as if there is ever a break in the ui after an update they are pretty quick to solve this.

This may just be my opinion, but I have used Samsung phones and various other competitors in the last 15 years and have always thought they were the best.
Again this may all just be my opinion...

[imsam9022]

I mean if you dislike the company so much and disagree with what they do, why buy a phone from them?

[Gino76ph]

If you have used Android phones and various others in the last 15 years...

You would realize that using a faster 45w charger on a phone that can only charge for 25w is pretty useless?

You don't have to be a engineer to realize glass breaks easily when it falls from a  certain height?

Some people do care if a newer model is wider/taller/heavier. What is the point of it? To be more "premium"?All these incremental "changes" may mean we will come to a point in history that no one will be able to hold or even lift a phone easily. 

If Samsung do listens then tell me why 1. Still put 25w slow charging? 2. Why make phones wider/taller/heavier than last year? 3. Why still no vertical app scrolling? 4. Why remove the fast charging brick? 5. Why no pre-applied screen protector? 6. Why still put Exynos chips with  low battery capacity? 7. Why still no better way to hide apps (Yes...Secure Lock can be better but Hyper OS and Nothing OS does this best)? 8. Why is the sky blue?

You see I could go on about this. Updates seem faster than any other  Android OEMs. The questions we need to be asking is not just how fast the updates but the quality and usefullness of the updates. 

That's my 2 cents.