this is so ridiculous so this video is gonna have a couple of
firsts uh it won't be the first time that i've just like read off of a
product review guide because i don't know anything about the product but it
will be the first time that i'll have a juiced up edition phone
it will be the first time that i'll be showing off a fingerprint sensor
under the screen of a commercial product and it will be the first time that we
have shot an entire video on a
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so vivo is a phone brand that we've never really checked out before in the
past but there are a couple of things about this guy that are actually
pretty interesting so first of all this is the first phone that i've yet to get
my hands on that has qualcomm's new snapdragon 660
a i e processor in it so it's a i and like
experience engine
it was engine all right so let's fire this up it's running the fun touch os
which i think has to be the best name for an Android skin yet
and the first thing that you're going to notice about this thing is that
screen to bezel ratio they have actually
cracked the 90 barrier thanks to their use of a notch
which you can feel however you do or don't
feel about it it's a thing it's not going away and thanks to their use of an
under screen fingerprint sensor which also lets you not have the fingerprint
sensor on the back which some people like but i'm not personally a fan of
it's actually kind of amazing how few features you have to give up with like
these more value-oriented phones now
like it doesn't have wireless charging or anything but it at least has nfc
that's if i could find the antenna anywhere yeah
does it not
connect it to the usb port
nope apparently still a thing no nfc
so this is it this is the big moment
add fingerprint four-digit password oh
wow they've got security questions what was the name of your primary school and
but central elementary
whenever the fingerprint sensor is active and it's under the screen right
here you can't see it pretty much at all
you're going to have this this blue and greeny kind of light up
better recognition with a slightly deeper press
okay well it didn't get me that time
okay
so it's pretty slow compared to some of
the more modern not under screen fingerprint sensors that we've become
used to it's especially noticeable when you compare this to uh shoot what phone was
that recently that i checked out where you could just swipe your finger down
the sensor right the s9 and it would register the whole thing
this is this is pretty tedious
wow this thing is actually not that cheap so rumored pricing is around 36 000
indian rupees which would make it about 540
us dollars so it's not up there with like flagship phone pricing but it's
actually not that inexpensive here this is our first chance to take a look at
this functionality in action you see that
the OLED screen lights up bright that gives the sensor under the display
enough illumination to read the identifying ridges on your finger
okay let me try it again so ran for oh that's nice so it's got an OLED display
so that means that it can have just the fingerprint pixels active so you can
actually wake the whole thing without pressing
that's not bad you know what here why don't we just do like a a fingerprint
sensor speed test let me grab a couple of other devices and
uh here what do you want to start with do you
want to start with like the other like chinese brands or should i start with
like something kind of more flagshipy like the s9
chinese brand okay so here it is next to the mix 2s
oh how do i the sensors are on either side okay you
guys are gonna have to take my word for it i'm pressing it at the same time one two three go
not bad it's not far off all right
pixel 2 xl
faster but not worlds faster like we're not talking iphone 6 here
uh is this embargoed i actually don't know uh
mate 10 pro
galaxy s9
iphone 10 my face id is broken so
no fingerprint sensor why did they take it off
right because they didn't have apparently the technology that
vivo has i should do a video where i try and get
apple to fix it get started face id is not available
trying it later doesn't work by the way
so like any modern phone one of the big features is the camera
so i'm just going to be testing the stabilization while i walk down the
stairs and i'm also giving you guys a look at the stabilized rig that
brandon's using to shoot this i don't know if i'm at the bottom yet how close
am i i don't know okay i'm at the bottom got this uh so
i've got an iphone 10 compared to the vivo x 21 here
hi taren i'm lacking stability with this door oh the iphone 10 handles that
backlight a lot better in spite of the ai camera features whoa
that's not helpful but thank you anyway so i actually really like taking test
pictures here because you've got this these really bright colors you've got
this nice blue sky and then you've got these hard shadows and that's something
that even with HDR is quite difficult
for smartphone cameras to handle so now i want to see how it handles
lower light i mean that really is the main
difference for cell phone cameras these days is
how they handle processing the image as opposed to
the sensor is really getting a lot better generation by generation
it just crashed huh i never thought i was going to
capture that on camera since after i've done my review i have
had a few just random hard resets like that
and i asked samsung about it and they were like no no idea what you're talking
about so this thing's got all kinds of tech
that you might not expect on sort of a mainstream performance phone and it uses
micro usb what year is it
does it have wireless charging i guess i could consult my
doodad here so the glass back is for looks
um and for feel and it actually does look and feel pretty good uh was not to
enable wireless charging anyway
oh man that end screen unlocked that is so cool
i gotta give them credit the specs to price ratio
pretty impressive if that's correct because it's got 128 gigs of storage so
you can take a lot of those photos and six gigs of RAM
so overall impressions here are decent like obviously it captured the image but
it lost a lot of detail in the darkest parts of the scene here that was
retained by all of the other cameras
even if xiaomi didn't do a great job of their color science here you can tell
these greens are like these are like neon bushes and then as
for low light the pixel 2 xl and the s9
plus were the ones that got the color closest and then the iphone 10 the mix 2s
and the vivo x21 all kind of land all yellow and have a
lot of processing and noise artifacts yeah the x21 was the worst in the low
light scenario and the construction doesn't really
stand out either it's well balanced in the hand i've got to give them credit
for that and this curved glass back actually both looks and feels better in
person than the camera is probably capturing but i do have to say the way that
they've joined the front panel assembly here to the
rear casing uh is pretty last gen you
can see a very noticeable ridge between them
with all of that said though the screen
looks fantastic it really does feel like a giant display floating in your hand
the cost is very reasonable they ship it with an included screen protector and
lo and behold they weren't able to make it waterproof obviously that's not
anywhere in the rating but it's got a headphone jack
so for the price i'm actually liking this thing a lot even though this was
far from an in-depth review
i've yet to see where they're going with the whole ai processor aspect of it
it's supposed to optimize both battery life in terms of
giving less resources to stuff that you don't care about and more to stuff that
you do as well as helping with the camera but that's something that's going to
take time to continue to develop
it wasn't giving us the audio quality
on the subject of audio quality that i might expect
the speakers on this do leave a lot to be desired
synchronizing audio in post is fine for future films but it's a nightmare
they get loud so that's not bad but i've actually come to expect now a powered
secondary speaker up here so you get a little bit of stereo effect at the very
least man that screen looks good though i love
ultra wide displays which is why it's all the more a mystery why this isn't
stretching to the edges i'm gonna have to find something else
for that man this display looks good for like a
value phone though isn't that crazy
even got p3 color space support
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