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this is the ideal me according to

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the image professionals at xiaomi i'm

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not sure quite how this happened but ahead of the launch of the upcoming

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galaxy s21 which is going to be featuring snapdragon's

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new sd 888 chipset

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i have gotten my hands on the xiaomi me

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11 which is also featuring that same

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chipset so even though that other phone is under nda

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i am apparently at liberty to just crack this thing open

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try it out run any programs i want on it so i was

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not gonna say no to that opportunity we've got a

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crummy plastic case really nobody cares about that right now let's

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get this phone cracked open on the back

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it comes with a vegan leather uh backing material it's

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apparently slightly thicker than the regular i believe it's a glass backed

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one and it actually feels pretty good a little

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plasticky like it's clearly not regular leather but i'd say it's at least on par

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with what was it the note 2 interesting idea definitely an

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interesting idea it's got a 108 megapixel main shooter along with a 13

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megapixel ultra wide and an 8 megapixel telemacro

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whatever that means i consulted my photography expert here

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and brandon said i don't know maybe a macro lens with a long throw is that

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what you said do something like that so we'll have to have a look at that it's got an OLED

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display that has typical maximum brightness of 900 nits and

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peak brightness of 1500 nits so i'm expecting that to look pretty good

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for your HDR contents and all of that and more importantly it's got a 120

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hertz refresh rate for that smoothness and 480 hertz touch pulling

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so that's one of the things that affects the sort of

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responsive feeling-ness of the device a lot it doesn't look like it's actually

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running at 120 hertz right now though so let's go ahead and

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play around with that here yeah it's running at 60hz

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interestingly it does have support for variable refresh rate

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although i don't know what does or doesn't trigger that because i

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there's no settings in here for what you can do with it

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uh ai image enhancement

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super resolution there's gonna be all

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kinds of ai features phone manufacturers are gonna be building into this thing so

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let's go through some of the basics of the snapdragon 888 this model right here

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is available with either eight or 12 gigabytes of lpddr5 memory running at

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3 200 megahertz so the RAM in this thing is probably faster than what you're

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running in your desktop pc it's got integrated support for 5g now

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you guys might recall that last generation you actually had to get the 765g chipset

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in order to have 5g connectivity integrated into the device without the

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need for an external chip so the flagship chip actually had fewer

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features than that mid-range chip in a certain

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manner of thinking the snapdragon 888 does away with that

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completely so you've got a next-gen octa-core design

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so that's four high power four low power cores you've got 5g

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connectivity built in a new ai engine new GPU and of course

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it's built on a five nanometer manufacturing process from tsmc

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just like apple's a14 chips that they launched with the iphone 12 series what

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we want to know is initial impressions of speed now back

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in the old days we could make significant observations

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about the performance of a new soc just based on

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how the Android interface you know navigated like how smooth it was

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nowadays that doesn't really fly because it's already

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so freaking smooth from generation to generation that's just not where you're

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going to notice the difference but people also have much much more

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demanding use cases for their phones these days than they used to

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so let's start with gaming

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all right here we go for comparison we've gone with the rog phone

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is this two or three whatever the one with the snapdragon 865 plus

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processor this so this is kind of like a binned 865.

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wait a minute this thing not have Android 10

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much time has passed we did not find the rg phone 3 but that's okay because we

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did find a note 20 ultra so this is snapdragon 865 rather than 865 plus

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but that's okay we can live with that why don't we kick things off with a good

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old-fashioned geekbench 5. to be clear i'm not

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expecting this to be like a night and day performance difference

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mobile socs have already gotten to the point that desktop cpus did like

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10 years ago where it's like yeah we're getting improvements but don't expect

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them to be total game changers from generation to generation

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it's gonna finish the whole test like a solid

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five percent faster wow including absolutely

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blowing through the machine learning benchmark okay

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so single core performance improvement in excess of 10

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like getting dangerously close like 15

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and multi-core performance improvement of well over 20

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wow this is actually this is actually pretty huge

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speech recognition and machine learning both saw enormous improvements i mean

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that's like 40 45 better on the snapdragon 888

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and then i would expect the same is probably true in

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uh multi-core performance actually that does kind of make sense because it's not

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like each core has its own machine learning

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optimized you know chunk of it there's actual dedicated machine learning like

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ai silicon on the die obviously a lot of the way manufacturers utilize these

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improvements in performance though is not in ways that you the end user

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will necessarily notice like swiping around like i said

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before so you might see more advanced you know image

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processing algorithms for example it's not the kind

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of thing that you can benchmark but you know you'll have a

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still a responsive phone that is able to take better pictures with more heavy

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processing on them so this is our ultra wide angle

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that is pretty wide it's specked at 135

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degrees brandon you look so far away

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xiaomi claims that their that their

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video mode will put hollywood on notice so i don't know it's uh built-in support

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for HDR video capture the difference between the blue of your

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shirt and the blue of those tiles and videos not very much okay thank you this is a funny

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one the sound system is apparently tuned by harman kardon

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which if you guys don't know was acquired by

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samsung a little while back so that's just kind

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of a weird one to me yeah right whoa hey colin can you pop your head

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around the corner again for a second there actually sounds pretty good no the

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jutter that i was seeing in the viewfinder was not present in the recorded video so uh

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here i can show you guys what i mean as i was panning the camera around you you can

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probably see it now it's like really choppy can you can you

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tell yeah so that is not in the recordings so

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it's not great from like a user experience perspective

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time there's a few more things i did want to run through on this puppy starting with

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of course it's wireless charging capability so it can do 55 watt fast wired charging

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50 watt wireless charging and then 10 watt reverse charging if you want to

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throw your wireless earphones or whatever on the

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back of it in terms of i o something else i didn't cover at all yet

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usb type c for charging obviously there's your sim slot

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it does not have any expandable storage over on the left there's a whole lot of

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not much over on the top there's a whole lot of not much else is that

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no way i think it is it looks like an ir

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blaster on the top that is freaking cool and then finally

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over on the right you got your lock button as well as volume up and down what a good question brandon

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there is no charger included curse you

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apple for normalizing this stuff wow

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good job qualcomm for making a you know

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here i was saying incremental blah blah blah that GPU is

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a mess ton faster that is crazy

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it's like well over 20 faster love it

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so bottom line from these first impressions whether you are into this

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particular device or not snapdragon 888 looks extremely

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promising a couple things i didn't mention before that's a dual sim tray so

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it does support putting two sim cards in there and then

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finally i think i just didn't really comment on the display much

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uh it's basically borderless i think it looks absolutely fantastic

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this included beautification is just oh

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man what is it with chinese phones and like completely smoothing out people's faces

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by default i don't need to look that smooth this is

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the ideal me according to the image

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professionals at xiaomi and i think

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that's wow i look like a doll

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isn't that scary look at that skin that's not in my

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skin at all thank you guys for watching

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