Still a lot to celebrate.
This is a lot of phone for the money
and I'm gonna tell you all about it.
This video is sponsored by Honor.
So really, Honor's deal has kind of been the same
ever since the brand launched
and it's all about sort of more phone for your dollar,
which isn't to say that you like get more phones,
although, I mean, if it's, you know,
a quarter to a third of the price of a flagship,
I guess you could actually get more phones for your dollar,
but most people probably wouldn't do that.
They would just buy one.
And anyway, I don't know the exact price of this yet.
So I do know the price of the 8X Max, maybe in the yen,
but how well that translates into US dollars
is yet to be known.
So it's probably somewhere in the 250 to 350 US dollars
range and what you get for your money is looking pretty good
because especially if you're into the whole phone
as a fashion statement thing,
with the Honor 10 and with the 8X,
they have put a lot of work
into making their devices really stand out,
which is kind of funny
because you think about how upset Apple was
all those years ago about,
oh, everyone's ripping off
the plain black rectangle visual design of the iPhone.
And then now, you know, whether it's red or blue or,
you know, kind of iridescent colors or whatever it is,
phone manufacturers are going out of their way
to not look like a plain black rectangle.
But viewers of this channel are probably less concerned
with what it looks like
on the outside and more concerned
with what's going on on the inside.
First, though, I should probably mention
the AI camera from the Honor 10 is back.
So even though this uses a lower spec Kirin processor,
the AI functionality,
which is to say the intelligent battery saving
and object recognition,
so whether it's a landscape or an animal, person, food,
whatever the case may be, that is back.
So they'll be trying to optimize the image based on that.
We've got a rear fingerprint sensor.
Then back around to the front.
So what's kind of cool about this particular processor,
so this is the Kirin 710,
is that it actually uses almost the same CPU cores
as the 970.
So it's still got an octa-core processor
with four stronger ones and four weaker ones,
but it does have a downgraded GPU.
So how much that translates to actual performance, though,
I mean, hey.
What's better than just firing up an actual game
and seeing how it runs?
So I'm gonna whip up PUBG here and see how that goes.
The way that I see it,
your player should always be naked
because it is the mark of how well you're doing in the match,
how much good gear you can steal from other people.
I'm actually so glad that the trend to,
if you have to have bottom firing speakers,
instead of having it on this side,
where you're much more likely to be cupping it
with your palm,
I'm glad that the trend is to put
them on this side now.
Oh, speaking of which,
there's a headphone jack,
if you're into that sort of thing.
It uses micro USB for charging,
and then there's a bottom-mounted speaker there.
Oh, I think there's someone to fight up here.
Oh, this sucks.
So I'm in the red zone.
Oh, is someone shooting at me?
Oh, dang it.
Where's this loser?
Why not kill me?
Did I get him?
I wanna run this guy down.
Where he at?
It's actually pretty loud.
Oh, I was heavily injured by bombs.
Oh, I'm still...
Why do I...
Whoa, why is it all that green gas
that comes out when I die?
So while gaming isn't necessarily a focus for this device,
it didn't get crazy warm,
and it was playable,
even if not the smoothest frame rates.
So not a bad showing for something
that's really more about beefy CPU,
and less about GPU.
Also, expansion options are a nice touch here.
Check this out.
So we've got micro SD expansion,
which Honor says is good
for up to 400 gigs and two SIMs.
And unlike some other devices out there,
none of them are combo slots.
So you can install all of those things at the same time.
So I'm going to throw my SIM
and my 512 gig micro SD in here.
512 gigs, it's only rated to 400,
but yeah, we'll see what happens.
Oh, I was worried there.
It said unsupported SD card on the notification.
Check that out.
But then you just have to format it.
Hopefully there's nothing important on it.
So even though the official support is only 400 gigs,
once again, our 512 gig card is supported.
Dang, so you can change the default location,
internal storage is currently blah, blah, blah, et cetera.
All requires a restart,
but you can actually change the default storage location
to your SD card.
That's pretty cool.
Probably not necessary,
since it comes in either 64 gigs or 128 gigs,
but it's nice to have the option
if you're a total data hoarder.
So now the next thing I wanna see
is their face unlock uses AI now, apparently,
to adapt for changing conditions, to lighting,
changes to kind of the face you're making.
So what I wanna do is see if we can throw it
for a bit of a loop here.
So under normal conditions,
okay, that was pretty quick.
You can tell from the lock at the top here.
Okay, yep, cool.
Now, why don't we do this?
Why don't we like kill one of the lights
or a couple of the lights, actually?
Let's go ahead and boom, unlock.
Okay, no problem.
So you can see it.
Oh, nevermind.
I was gonna say it takes a little longer,
but it didn't on that one.
Okay, now it's time to start making some faces.
Got it.
Took it a little bit that time.
Ah, got that one pretty easily.
Not bad, actually.
Now, of course, facial recognition is less secure
than some other, I don't know,
unlock methods, including a fingerprint scanner,
but it does have one of those as well.
Something I'd like to see, actually,
if anyone from Honor's watching,
is a combo one, like a multi-factor.
So face scan and fingerprint scan,
it would be harder to defeat
if you had to pass both of them at the same time.
So one of the other key features
they're really touting for this thing is the AI camera.
And one thing stood out to me,
and that's that apparently they're using multiple shots
and their artificial intelligence engine inside
in order to sharpen,
and stabilize low light shots.
So as you guys can see,
we're in a fairly dim area of the set.
So we've got most of the lights off for the WAN Show.
And you can see it's actually taking more shots.
That's why that message comes up.
It's taking more shots after you take your initial picture
in order to try and sharpen it.
Here's an interesting thing.
So here's an iPhone XS Max for comparison.
Of course, remember,
this costs three to four times as much or whatever.
But it does manage to retain more sharpness
in the image overall.
And I'd say the color is closer to true life than this.
This goes for more of like a vibrant poppy look.
But there's certain elements like that hive text,
for example,
that still managed to come through really well
on this camera.
So the Razer logo actually has more separation
on the 8X than it does on the iPhone XS.
See that?
Object and scene recognition is back.
So it identified that it's overcast
and optimized the conditions for that.
You can see the sky still has
some blue in it.
Maybe more than is actually there,
but it all depends on what you're after.
And then also that we're taking a picture of a car.
And you know, I'm actually curious.
Do you think it'll recognize my car as a car?
Hold on, I'm gonna blank it out.
And then let's see.
Does it still know that that mess is a car?
Oh, rip.
Come on, baby.
It's like, no, no, this is not a vehicle.
Nobody should drive this.
Ouch.
Every, I was testing this before we turned on the camera.
There's like other cars behind.
So see, check this out.
New car, car.
Pella's car, also car.
See, Pella's car, also car.
Dennis's car.
Hold on, let's blank it out.
It's not a car.
But that, that's a car.
Drove that thing for years, okay?
So one of the big things that honors touting with this phone
is how close the 19 and a half by nine aspect ratio is
to a cinematic 21 by nine aspect ratio.
It's like, wow.
So you do still end up with black bars,
but not nearly as big as you'd otherwise be dealing with.
And yes, I'm one of those freaks
who watches with subtitles on, whatever.
There's another really cool thing.
I don't remember exactly how they're doing it,
but you can see they're actually not that far off
Apple's chin bar, even though they can't yet.
I don't remember if it's a patent or an exclusive.
They can't yet use the same tech
that Apple's using in the 10 and the 10S.
So you end up with very little bezel to speak of.
And you're watching cinematic content.
So really there's no surprises with the 8X,
but that's not necessarily a terrible thing.
So what you're getting is a whole lot of phone for the dollar.
So it's got four gigs RAM, 3750 milliamp hour battery,
which with their power optimization from my experience
should give you a heck of a lot of battery life.
And of course, strong CPU,
even if it's kind of a middling GPU
and all for a very reasonable price.
Thanks to Honor for not only sponsoring this video,
but also giving away two Honor phones to two lucky winners
in the hashtag cheer for Honor 8X giveaway.
So just post what you love about the Honor 8X
to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram
using hashtag cheer for Honor 8X,
and they'll select two lucky winners
to get a brand new Honor phone.
So that's pretty much it.
Thank you to Honor for sponsoring this video
on the Honor 8X.
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