as the mobile phone industry has continued to shift its attention to
india and china i have become more and more accustomed
to this sort of thing this
is the me 10 ultra and this
is my receive for it we had to buy this direct from
xiaomi in china through a contact over
there and then have it sent to another contact have that forwarded to another person
and then finally sent to us but at long last
we are getting our first hands-on with the world's first
120 times optical zoom device now as you might expect
there's no product page in english so i'm going to be using this
mobile version of the oh boy even the
product name is not quite right xiaomi 10 extreme memorial edition does
that sound like something like 20 20 10 to 20 20.
oh is it a 10 year anniversary phone cool cool cool so
it's got a lot in common with other flagship phones right now snapdragon 865
processor anywhere from uh eight gigs to
i think it's 12 gigs of RAM max 16 all the way to 16
and then we ended up with the 256 gig storage version but you can get it with
up to 512 gigs
of storage in line with the rest of its top tier specs it's got
an absolutely gorgeous finish
apparently a 120 hertz display
and it charges at 120
watts on flippin believable
wow is this thing ever thick here let me just pull out my daily driver
note 9. so you can see it's like a
chunky boy compared to the note 9. it does still feel good in the hand though
actually credit to the folks over at xiaomi who worked on the hand feel of this
it's extremely rounded on the corners here so when it rests in the palm of
your hand here it's not uncomfortable in any way like it doesn't dig in at all
let's go ahead and flip it open of course it's running xiaomi's software
which i in the past have not been a huge fan of but who knows maybe it's better in china
oh boy this is definitely a chinese-only
version of the phone uh yeah it's set to english but like i
agree i agree to everything yes thank you chinese government you may
have all my information okay here we go what wait what's that last thing what's this
you have got to be kidding me i'm on baidu pedia see a lot of you probably
don't know this but we actually have a billy billy
channel all the money that we make on it through ads and stuff is like
locked in china we have no way of getting it but hey
you know we just want to make sure that you know our chinese bros can
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wow listen to this listen to this
that is a thick boy
power adapter 120
freaking watts specific to the me turbocharged 10th anniversary edition
look at that camera bump that's not a camera bump that's a camera
camera mountain let's take a look at the
snapper so there's two 48 megapixel sensors actually sorry
i'm pointing to the wrong ones because one of them is just the main camera
and the other one is using a periscope style camera so that might explain why
the body of this thing is so thick and yet it only has a 4 500
milliamp hour battery to be clear 4 500 milliamp hours a lot
of battery but given the size and weight of this
puppy this one is using for that periscope style camera so all right you switch
between your zoom modes like that okay there you go so we're definitely
using the wide angle now sup brandon what's up andy that's actually pretty
cool yeah no i get it i get it so that's how it's able to capture like
literally a filming light bouncing off a reflector here without
losing all of the detail in the darks anyway so you can see
like andy's shirt folds and stuff like that okay
let's go ahead and try more zoom though 5x
oh hi there optically stabilized for sure but
wow that's bad
let's try a 10x shot right yeah this is the problem with benchmarks like dxomark
is they don't tell the whole story because just cause the like the main shooter for
example is really good under certain circumstances doesn't mean that
the rest of them are any good we actually had brandon go out and play with this camera for about an hour
yesterday to get some impressions i do want to get at least one shot with
the 120x zoom here though all right i got a picture that's got
some digital smoothing on it all right but hey i mean it's i can't even see that in
person oh that's pretty blurry was bella like
moving around a lot or they were both moving
okay all right you took a picture of a cat on a leash you are there for by
extension a cat leash person brandon the ship sailed wow neither of them
managed to look into the camera once here's brandon's dog look at her
isn't she cute that's pretty sharp that's actually not bad
how uh how how green was your grass
really though brandon definitely very different color qualities going from
one sensor to another you can really see it here okay andy checked the product
page in chinese the 12 megapixel is for depth sensing
for portrait mode and stuff like that assuming both of the displays are
reasonably accurate that's not terrible oh wow
yeah the pixel did a much better job of the sky in this one
like you can really see the difference in color between where the sun is
over the horizon here and where the sky gets darker and a more deep blue here
it's also way way sharper
over towards the edges of the image to their credit though
i think xiaomi's captured the warmth of the sun a little bit better
oh wait did i say xiaomi ah google
oh i forgot which one was which okay yeah so even when i was
accidentally looking at them blind uh the pixel looked better
still though for
like a like a chinese phone camera
not bad let's check out brandon's five
times zoom video
have a look at the stabilization here
that's not terrible actually
really that's pretty impressive then
there's a couple more things that i haven't had a look at yet
one of which is i don't actually know if it has stereo speakers but
there's no app store i guess we'll go on
billy billy it's got HDR 10 plus support dual sim so
much for my wi-fi 6 and my 5g it might just be a regional
problem like outside of china can baidu find
youtube apparently all right great
okay it's got an amplified earpiece speaker so you've got stereo sound
oh yeah and on the subject of battery and performance i can't show it to you
but apparently it charges 40 in just five minutes and charges
completely in 25 minutes with that 120 watt charger
that's freaking nuts what
the hell is this order of
oh that's a great feature
that is actually an outstanding feature so it moves the numbers around so that
you can't tell from the grease spots what your pin is i absolutely love it i love it that
should be standard here as well
not bad i actually really really like this wallpaper that it comes with by
default this is like mars or something check this out and it's like like what
are we looking at like a mountain or a canyon or something
i love it that's really cool oh we can try out the dark mode oh cool it changes the color of the
planet it's night time that's pretty cool
i like it and i like wrapping up this video at this point guys
thanks for tuning in thanks brandon for uh running around and taking those
pictures that was actually very illuminating so it's like okay i guess yeah
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