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that's really natural bokra it's so cool

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today we are looking at something that you unfortunately probably can't buy

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because it's exclusive to Japan but I wanted to check this phone out anyway

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because on a hardware level it's really cool and it's likea first smartphone the

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lit lights I think lights phone one

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let's see what's in the box oh it goes from a white box to a

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black box with a little red like a logo

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okay here's the phone we'll look at that in a second Sim removal tool and oh we have a

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case and what looks to be a type c to type a adapter and then

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there's this rubber case oh and it has a little Leica logo so even when you put a

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case on this phone you never lose your Leica logo that's important guys or you

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can tape it oh yeah just a lot of Leica users

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tape their um logos because you don't want people walking on the street

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knowing that you have a Leica which is like $10,000 just strapped to you so the

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price of this phone is roughly $1,700 USD it's not exact because it's actually

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a Japanese yen conversion it's actually a rebadged version of the shark Aquos R

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six which is also only available in Japan and a couple other choice markets

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but the cool feature of both of those phones is that this phone and the sharp

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have a 1 in sensor on the camera body

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just like the Sony Xperia Pro I that I

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checked out recently now unfortunately for the pro I something that we actually

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weren't able to mention in the video at the time that we made it was the 1-in

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sensor in that phone doesn't actually use the entire sensor I'm not 100% sure

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if this phone uses an entire 1-in sensor

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but I think it does okay so let's take a physical tour of the phone on the right

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we have a volume rocker an assistant button and then power and lock and then

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you actually notice on the phone it's nural on both sides for grip which is a

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nice touch on the bottom we have a headphone jack type-c a speaker and mic

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on the top we've got a is it dual SIM let's see no but it has a single Sim and

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a Micro SD expansion which apparently is up to 1 TB which is pretty solid I

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really like how it feels in the hand we've got a gorilla glass matte black

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silicone feeling back if you've ever used or held Al Leica this feels like it

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is very inspired by the design of their cameras because you have that

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cylindrical smoothness to the entire

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phone and then it's a black and silver finish with the obviously lovely like a

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red badge and then we have a lens cap guys a lens cap on a smartphone camera

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it sticks on magnetically you see

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that it's kind of silly like that they

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have this I mean I get it cuz the camera bu is like almost as thick as the phone

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guys like look at that the case Andy do you see this aesthetically

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even though it's a thicker phone and it's kind of on the bigger side I really

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like it so far now this phone is $1700 us and what do you get for that

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well it has a Snapdragon 888 obviously the one-in sensor that we're going to

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test in a second a 6.6 in EXO OLED 1 to

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240 HZ variable refresh rate display but it feels like pretty good for variable

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refresh rate this phone kind of has a weird resolution it's 2730 X 1260 with a

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2,000 nit Peak prus 12 gigs of RAM and a

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5,000 mAh battery so you can start to

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see with all those things that kind of adds up to a lot and that's probably why

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they're charging 1,700 USD but the biggest selling feature of course is

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this 1in sensor all right let's open the camera app now like I has said that it's

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a pretty simple app that lets you just completely

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focus on taking photos honestly it looks like a pretty

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standard smartphone camera app so we've got yeah 3x2 20 megapixels we're using

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the full thing um no inbody image

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stabilization so it's all electronic image stabilization for the photo and

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video when you go from 1.0 to 2.0 it

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zooms in digitally but when you go from 7 to 1.0 it just shows you grid lines I

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think of what it's taking let me see that photo let's see yeah okay

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interesting the 7 is the full sensor and

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the 0.1 is just taking a crop of that

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full sensor image so the camera in the Leica if I haven't gone over it already

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is the sumon 1.9 19 mm asph which stands

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for aspherical the quick explanation of that is that the lens is sharper than a

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non- aspherical version of this design take a photo here and I actually have an

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iPhone and a pixel 6 Pro Leica has a very interesting mode that they've added

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to the camera app called light looks and

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it's a black and white version that

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they've kind of color toned it it looks good like right off the bat it has that

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feeling that you get taking a black and white image on like a like a monochrome

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camera it has like the depth guys I know

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it all feels vague in description but Leica is a feeling brand they want to

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emit a feeling in the use of their cameras in the looks of their images and

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the vibe of that is what they're trying to translate to this phone now also I

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realize in the camera app there is an m.

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photo mode and if you go to the settings for this mode that is where you see the

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format where you can save JPEG and RAW and it has a little balancing so you

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know if you're kind of off-kilter so I just realized that on top of leica's

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version of the camera app there's also Al the lights camera and that's just a

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really simple camera app that gives you a focus Point middle grid frame

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autofocus Gallery button and then a shutter that's it so I think this is

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what they meant by an experience that is

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completely uninterrupted by any of the stuff that you could do with your camera

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and it's just to focus on taking photos why don't we have a look at how the

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speakers sound and how the display looks

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even though they're stereo one of them is front facing it's not good um okay

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let's take a look at the display so just looking at the HDR quality of this

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display it looks pretty good yeah the

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display on this thing is pretty awesome and even though the audio isn't good the

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main focus of this phone is the camera so why don't we also test the video but

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one here's the iPhone and here's the

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pixel uh let's go to like Alex's car or

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something Alex's car is such a good color for photos whoa careful

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Andy one two three okay and this is just

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a quick video test to give you an

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idea of what this looks like it's also

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taking AI photos oh yeah there's some

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shallows at the field there that's actually not bad but yeah I'm actually

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like I'm as I get closer to you and

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closer to your camera the bokeh gets better all right

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let's go back inside it's getting cold so I'm just taking a look at the video that we took really quickly video is not

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really the focus of this phone I don't expect it to be very good here's jonno

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it looks okay and the Boke up is pretty

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natural looking for a phone looks

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decently Shad out autofocus is struggling a little bit where this phone

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shines is definitely The Stills that you can get off of it so on the left we have

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the iPhone which looks very much like an iPhone image super bright hdri almost

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feeling and on the left this is the Leica image honestly looks pretty good

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to me now it's hard to say if the blur

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is that much significantly better cuz

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these aren't quite at the exact same angle but even on his bike here you can

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see how much sharper that is on the iPhone and how much Less in focus on the

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Leica and the Leica has kind of like a natural contrasty but like the look that

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you'd get out of a camera not a smartphone let's look at the pixel as

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well actually ooh pixel's really contrasty in a way that I actually don't

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love in this photo it's clear that with the computational photography background

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stuff the iPhone and the pixel are sharpened on capture whereas the Leica

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is not okay let's take a look at that photo that we took outside pixels quite

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a bit warmer it's more contrasty as well and they look like Flagship smartphone

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photos and then the Leica so yeah the Le

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is quite a bit wider than the pixel and the iPhone from the same spot so on this

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tree image from a detail perspective I'm

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sure a lot of people if pulled would like the pixel photo and the iPhone

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photo more but when I look at it from like a photography point of view which

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of these images I would prefer to edit and actually kind of try to manipulate

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and do something with I think I'd go with the Leica because yes it's not as

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sharp out of the box but you could probably get it if you like that

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punchier look but you also have a shallower depth the field like you can

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see on the closeup of the leaf here how

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much more out of focus the back Leaf

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that's a decent amount more shallow it actually is quite noticeable in this

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image man I'm impressed all right let's take a look at our last photo man the

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iPhone image is like very bright Shadows are brought up as expected the Leica

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photo is darker contrasti here but what

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I was seeing and then the pixel image

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man the pixel this time around really goes for the postprocessing because you

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see every little detail in the shadows here again compared to the Leica it's a

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lot brighter a photo but the Leica is what I was seeing with my eyes so

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between the three of these cameras the Leica is the most real some of you out

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there might prefer the iPhone and the pixel image and it is very convenient

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but for me someone who enjoys editing

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photos and who would potentially edit a photo off my phone if I thought it was

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good enough I think I'm going to go with the Leica in the photo examples that I

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have here it's really quite an enjoyable camera to use now I want to test one

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more thing I actually don't know that even if you went through all the effort

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to order this phone from Japan can you use your sim and just pop it in with no

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issues let me just see if I can call you Andy it's ringing Branda is calling okay

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so that part Works how come my data is not working I'm not sure why it's not in the

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scope of this video for me to troubleshoot

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that yeah yeah depth of field is clearly

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more shallow and the photos I think are in my opinion better than the iPhone and

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the pixel from a like photographer's perspective you can edit this the colors

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are very true to life that's really nice natural bokeh it's so cool okay cool see

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you later bye so if you put the effort

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in to buying this phone just make sure you know that it'll work in your region

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and I hope if they ever make a phone like this again if like it keeps going

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that they released this worldwide because now I want one even though it's

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expensive I hope you guys enjoyed this video as much as I enjoyed making it this phone is really cool and I hope

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it's just a sign of the future of smartphones and the cameras that can be

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put into them because I have no confirmation of this if this phone uses

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the entire 1-in sensor on the phone

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unlike the Sony this might be one of the best smartphone cameras ever made and

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not for everybody to be very clear but for me absolutely