all right well i don't always
uh chill on the weekends but when i do
i'm always bound to end up working on a video
kids are being kind of loud okay let's take this outside so this thing
just arrived at the office i'm actually supposed to be going camping today but
i'm gonna have to see i've got all my camping supplies
that uh maybe i can actually maybe i can use
here to somehow facilitate this video ah
yes here we go so
i was packing to head over to the campsite when
uh yeah that seems
oh no yeah that'll go there
when someone messaged me from the office to let me know that the vivo next just
arrived complete with its product review guide which basically has
all the information that i have about this phone because i haven't really been
following it other than
that i know that this is the fully
bezel-less phone that vivo has been working on slash teased over the last
little while and another thing that i know is from having talked to at least one other
phone manufacturer the original idea behind this was that it was only going
to be a concept at least that was their understanding of
it but then vivo turned around and
actually produced the thing
so i mean yeah initial impressions here this is nice this is something that i've
seen more with the chinese brands than with the uh western ones it actually
comes with a like a thin plastic body protector so you can take that off if
you want but it doesn't appear to be designed such that you're you have to
take it off so you can leave that on there until you know dbrand decides
whether or not they're going to support it with a skin or whatever the case may be
uh at the top we've got a headphone jack
that's nice to see i'm surprised they managed to do a full body and a
headphone jack and then this right here is the little
trap door that hides the selfie camera because when the entire front of the
phone
is an uninterrupted display there's no room to put like a camera or
uh face id sensor or anything like that
and this is really impressive okay so this button let's hold on let's
just go ahead and unlock it oh wow they sent the uh they sent the review samples
like kind of pre-set up i guess uh i wonder if they're taking these back
i'm not sure so we've got an ai button over here but that doesn't seem to do
anything at the moment spec wise right that's notable so this is using qualcomm
snapdragon 845 processor it's got eight gigs of RAM this particular one has 256
gigs of rom so this is basically completely maxed out in every way but
the the notable thing here is it's using the ai engine version of the snapdragon
845 so i haven't actually seen a phone that's using this variant
of that particular processor yet so one of the things that phone manufacturers
are really pushing um when they've got this ai tech built
into their chip so this is true of honor with their
chiron processors and uh who was it
ah oh right i think it was honor too
with the honor 10 where they were using an ai version of a
600 series snapdragon don't quote me on that one but what they're mostly using
it for is battery life optimization so maybe we can find some settings in here
i'm not actually that familiar with vivo's power consumption ranking
interesting okay that's kind of neat i'm not that familiar with vivo's Android
skin and then the other thing is in the camera
so this is cool something we're seeing more and more of so uh oneplus supports
this on the oneplus 6 i've seen it on another phone that i can't talk about
yet and then i'm also seeing it here but i actually kind of like vivo's approach
so gesture-based navigation it's on the iphone 10 as well obviously
for your back button you just swipe up the one side um i'm
sorry i have no idea for home you swipe up the middle and then again just like
the iphone 10 you swipe up and hold if you want to get to the multitask
interface but what i like here is that they've gone and they've put these three
subtle lines here so that there's no confusion about it but you still get
pretty much the full screen experience all right now i brought a bunch of
phones out can you see okay like can you even see what's on the screen okay cool
so ed actually drove to my house to help me shoot this so i brought a bunch of
phones out we've got the samsung galaxy s9 which i'd say is sort of the
the last of the very thin bezel but not
entirely bezel-less phones at this point now that we've seen the industry trend
going the way that it is i've got a pixel 2 xl which i apparently didn't
boot up before we started yeah yeah the bootloader's unlocked i
know whatever and then just for lulls i've got this
budget phone that i'm actually working on a review of so this is the alcatel 3v
and what's interesting to me about this one is that it actually has
not that far off of a screen to body ratio compared to something like a pixel
2 xl so even the budget phones are
really making up a lot of ground compared to what would have been a
flagship premium device like what six months ago
it's actually amazing i was having lunch with luke yesterday and he pulled out
his pixel xl his pixel 1 xl
and he put it up to me to show me something
and i thought that he was showing me a screenshot
because it looked like sort of the screen of a phone within a
frame and it took me about three heartbeats to realize that no phones
just had bezels like that so it's one of those funny things like
upgrading to an SSD where you don't necessarily put in an SSD and go
wow my computer sure faster but then you take it away and you go wow
how did i ever live with this and i mean okay it's a little less extreme than an
SSD but it is one of those things that you definitely notice after the fact
so all right pixel 2 xl not exceptional
galaxy s9 uh at a different angle yeah sure here why
don't we come over here can you see it a little better all right let's go ahead and bring up a
browser so that we've got something that's a little bit higher contrast so
galaxy s9 with the edge edge to edge display does a pretty darn good job now
let's go ahead and pull up the new vivo phone
for comparison here it is it's really heavy wow
that is pretty incredible
so one of the little tricks that they've used is you can see how small the chin
bar is that was something that again my understanding was that we weren't going
to see on a non-apple device for a while
so what apple did in order to get the chin
bar of the iphone 10 so small was they actually folded some of the electronics
that are tied into the screen under it
using a flexible OLED display so
you can see here that oh man i am totally going to drop one of these if i
keep this up are they all unlocked there we go so you
can see here that apple still has the
skinniest bottom bezel compared to the s9 and even to this full screen one so
actually it no yeah okay thank you so actually it looks like no apple's patent
still hasn't patent or it might not be a patent it might just be an exclusivity
deal on the completely like folding
underneath electronics hasn't run out yet but
other manufacturers are getting pretty darn close i guess that's why we've got
a slightly bigger chin on it than the
other bezels the other ones are all pretty much equal though
now i'm probably going to follow this up with a full review actually you guys can
let me know if you want to see that or if you're just like actually you know what i don't care who cares about vivo
then i guess you can feel free to leave a comment with that too but uh
one thing i do want to do before i end this sort of one take
classic unboxing is i do want to take a couple pictures just to see
where we're at here iphone 10 is probably a good point of comparison
these are such good conditions it's an overcast day that it's not really uh
it's not really going to be that challenging for either of them you can see there's a fair bit of like fisheye
effect in the lens there's more distortion than i would necessarily
expect even on a cell phone camera
so here there's some but apple's either correcting for it or they've got a
slightly less wide angle lens looks like it is a yeah it is actually a
touch less wide that's why we're getting a little bit of that fisheye effect also
colors look pretty warm
uh yeah sure whatever
try making your photos beautiful what are you saying
ouch
oh uh wow that is actually
okay now obviously i'm not looking at it side by
side next to anything else but uh nope yeah i am not impressed with
the amount of detail on that front shooter so far
hmm all right whoever's calling me not right now
but look at that i mean it is like it is like just holding a
window into something like to a so much greater degree
than the s9 that i'm pretty blown away
right now like do you remember those digital picture frames that they would sell at
the best buy and you know they were like 45 bucks or whatever and you were just
like yeah this is kind of a cool concept
except that they're like 60 bezel and then they've got like this
little tiny screen in the middle of them this is like the opposite experience of
that that is unreal here i'll get i'll get
you in the shade so you can like so you can actually see can you see better now
screen turned up that's crazy hey
pretty good man like particularly for something like playing games watching
movies actually that's a good idea why don't we just fire up uh
oh it's a chinese phone i'm willing to bet it doesn't even come with youtube
of course not no play store no youtube that's what i get for just you know
starting but fortunately i've got baidu and tencent and taobao
so okay that might have to wait for the full review i guess i'm probably going
to have to do that but then the next thing i want to do is
i want to see that selfie camera pop up
look at it go oh wow
hey ed that is that's actually
far from the worst selfie cam i've actually seen
i mean yeah it doesn't look great but that's a very is there a sound effect
okay now hold on there is
are you can you hear that here here here here
sounds like like a space age like freaking
i don't think that's entirely actually the uh the motor noise
but uh it's pretty good that's pretty cool uh oh so you make it go down just
by like going somewhere else so if we look back at this picture
give it a second
there it goes that is pretty cool now i mean i have my
doubts about the durability of a mechanism like this but i will say to
vivo's credit it's pretty nice that they've managed to
integrate the uh rear camera into the regular rear of the phone and that they
don't have a little thing that pops up for that because i mean personally i use
that a lot more than i use the front one and so my concern about it immediately
breaking is uh significantly reduced the other big cool piece of tech in this
phone is it's got a built-in um
in-screen fingerprint reader so i'm actually going to turn the display off
so we can try and get a look at where it is on the x21 if you looked at it
just right you were kind of able to find it
but it actually looks like they've improved it yet again they're iterating
really fast on these and i can't see it at all now
that's incredible yeah yeah it's on screen so here we'll
just set one up uh hold on a second oh
i don't know if it has a oh man
blah blah blah input methods needs to connect to the internet okay that's okay
if you guys have seen the x21 video you've seen how it works
but uh
yeah no i cannot see it at all
so i think that's pretty much it it's heavy
really heavy the screen looks absolutely incredible
initial impressions of the camera are not great
but there's plenty of time for me to you know try it under different conditions
and have it really impress me and i don't know anything about pricing
yet so stay tuned for the full review of the
vivo nex
subscribe do i do an outro with these classic unboxings
i don't know i just cut it