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finally on hands with the nubia x and i gotta say i am really impressed by a lot
of aspects of this device given that this is from a brand that i've personally never actually been hands-on
with before so everyone's got a different sort of
concept for how we move towards an all-screen phone whether it's a foldable
device or a pop-up selfie camera or facial recognition scanner or whatever
the case may be their solution is the one that i actually personally think
makes the most sense with the technology we have today they just went and put an
OLED display on the back of the phone so instead of having to have a dedicated
selfie camera at all you just use your rear camera in order to take a selfie
you go ahead and hit that selfie button and boom now you're on the OLED screen
on the back oh i'm in pretty mode you know what i'm gonna go i'm gonna go full
not pretty yeah we all knew that wasn't gonna be pretty anyway
then you go ahead flip it back around and there it is now the cool thing is
that it would have been a lot of added cost to put a 5.1 inch OLED display on
the back of the phone just for the sake of taking selfies but they've actually
built some really interesting other functionality into it as well
if you were into it for whatever reason you can actually switch to it and use it
as the primary display of the phone just by flipping it around you can
configure that to not happen automatically though if you want so you can put a add a gesture where you just
press these two buttons and it'll switch it around or you can actually set it up
instead of in mirror mode to be in a mode that they're calling multi-tasking
mode so obviously this is a bad example but i went to launch a game and i think
it was looking for a data connection it didn't work it's okay don't oh hey it
did work so here you can have a game running on your primary screen and then
you can flip it back over and go yeah i got to reply to a quick message but you
don't actually have to do that drag down minimize your game whole thing and you
could use it for really like any number of things that is an absolutely
incredible idea another thing that you can do is you can configure it as an
additional input so you can set zones here that you can use as for example
this is also a gaming application as triggers for firing a weapon or whatever
the case may be that's pretty neat too
so as shocking as this feels to me
it's actually more than just a gimmick as far as i can
tell now i'm not crazy impressed with the quality of the rear camera so we're
not necessarily solving the problem of taking the best selfies ever by putting
the screen on the back of this particular phone but the overall fit and
finish of this thing is just surprisingly good and the specs are
great too so snapdragon 845 up to eight gigs of RAM uh 512 gigs of storage uh
they're quoting six hours of screen time six hours of continuous use with a 3800
milliamp hour battery yeah that's right a 3800 milliamp hour battery and there's
even one more cool thing that is kind of up oh why did nobody else ever think of
this thing you look at the front you go okay there's no room for a fingerprint
sensor there obviously it's not in screen unfortunately at this time you
look at the back and you can go oh well there's no fingerprint sensor there
either so they've done a side fingerprint sensor like we've seen i
mean sony's done that in the past that's not particularly new but this is new
they've put it on both sides so i initially thought oh it's ambidextrous i
can do it this way or this way and use my thumb every time but what they're
actually using it for is to increase the security of the device so it now checks
not just one fingerprint but two fingerprints so that you can instead of
having a what is it whatever it is like one in a million or one in a hundred
thousand or whatever the chances are of an accidental fingerprint match
now it's checking two fingerprints increasing the device's security
pretty freaking sick finally we've got a feature that's
less futuristic and more of a throwback but definitely one i'm happy to see
it's got an ir blaster on it hell yeah so there's going to be the
guys that are like huh what's that who cares and then there's going to be guys
that are like yeah ir blasters yeah it's
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tech tips it's really responsive too especially
compared to the foldable phone earlier it's like fidget
gyroscope screen switcher doodad