okay we gotta move this big thing over here
not because it's not cool it's just that the cool thing we're focused on today is a lot smaller
these are coming hard and heavy now i'm
talking of course about the bezel-less notchless phones from you know major
brands like oppo
and vivo okay yeah they're both a lot bigger in
asia especially apple oppo is freaking
huge in asia so but how is it that they beat samsung to
the punch and for that matter what was apple thinking
trying to make taking a bite out of your display into some kind of a status
symbol their hubris is going to be their downfall i swear
actually you know what who am i kidding if it hasn't happened yet then why would
it start now anyway this is the find x from chinese brand oppo
and the reviewer's guide came with a bunch of restrictions in terms of what i
was or wasn't allowed to test but i didn't sign anything so let's fire up
the trippiest phone camera i have ever seen
and look at some test photos and stuff shall we
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so i'm going to go ahead and say it it is one thing to rip off the iphone 10
and it is another to rip off the galaxy
s9 plus but to rip off
both of them and somehow do it
at the same time that is impressive
and that takes some serious
hutzpah so the fine 10 uh stopped me if you heard
this one before is a flagship Android smartphone with a snapdragon 845
processor eight gigs of lpddr4 RAM up to 256 gigs of storage a 37 30 milliamp
hour battery that is strangely specific dual sim slots fast five volt four and a
half amp charging Android 8.1 and yes here is the first big iphone 10
ripoff somebody's done it somebody has cloned
face id so my initial briefing materials this is
great said they were planning to call this o face
structured light show it swipe
oh anyway i guess some party pooper tipped
them off so the official name is probably tbd
but it uses a flood illuminator an infrared camera proximity sensor a dot
projector receiver and an RGB camera
which is another way of saying a camera and so far the thing has worked
basically seamlessly like check this out
so what you do is you swipe it grabs your face it takes about half a
second to go up and then half a second to go down and bam you're unlocked now
unfortunately i can't demo side by side with the iphone 10 because for whatever
reason face id is broken on my iphone i didn't feel like waiting two hours at
the apple store last time i was in the mall but from my memory the speed is
actually pretty similar once you factor in that the iphone 10
uses a lift to wake mechanism before face id will grab your face and register
it so by comparison this one i mean okay
so it does have lift to wake so i'm just gonna show so it has lift to wake but
the facial scanner obviously is is recessed right now so what you have to
do is you have to swipe the screen and then it comes up
and then it goes back down once it's done it's pretty freaking cool so it
uses a total of 15 000 dots
and if nothing else this is an absolutely
jaw-dropping part draw drawing jaw dropping party trick like check this out
so i'm gonna i'm gonna go out of my way to lock it and like you know you pull
out your phone to be like
that is so cool now with that said i do wish and this is
true of both the find x and the iphone 10 that
like vivo's next s there was a fingerprint scanner under the screen
this is a great solution because there are no moving parts and this one
actually has a fairly similar screen to
body ratio to the find x
i can say too though i mean like not drawing a ton of conclusions right now
because my time with the device has been pretty limited that i think i prefer apple's lift to
activate rather than swipe to activate especially because it allows face id to
work while it's just sitting down on a table in front of you
but then you are stuck with the notch
that holds all of the face id sensors and you don't get the all screen
experience and the all screen experience is pretty
freaking cool like i didn't rip out the calipers but apple claims that this is a
92.25 screen to body ratio and i have no
reason whatsoever to doubt it it looks absolutely amazing they're using pretty
much every trick available today including something called cop or chip
on panel which is like a flexible screen technology which
basically kind of wraps the electronics
for the display under the visible part of the panel
which curves around the sides so it doesn't have to sit on the edges which
gives you less bezel than ever before and that is where the samsung galaxy s9 comes in
okay come over here so so the similarities here
are um pretty striking so they've both got
curved gorilla glass 5 on both the front and the back now this one's got a d
brand skin so you can't really see it there but it's there this one's got a
6.4 inch amoled display running 2340x1080 so it is slightly lower
resolution but i do actually prefer
this taller aspect ratio so that's a 19
and a half by 9 aspect ratio other than
the difference in the bezels here on the bottom and here on the top so the fine 10 is
using uh swipe based navigation by the way you can use gestures or you can add
buttons these things look so similar like there's very little to distinguish
them on the top the s9 plus has got the sim tray whereas this one doesn't but
that's obviously because they've got this motorized
mechanism for the camera here you couldn't very well put a sim slot in
that thing and then on the bottom
okay so they weren't able to fit a headphone jack presumably because they
needed to make room for the dual sim tray right there
uh it is a little bit thinner though which doesn't really register in the
hand so much because it feels a little heavier although i
haven't actually put either of them on the scale the other the other thing
that's similar is even the colors so i've got the bordeaux version of the
fine 10 and i've got the lilac version of the s9 so they've actually both
managed to come out with purple phones which
previously i don't think was a very common thing
um yeah so not super stoked on the lack of
headphone jack oh right other other differences lock buttons on this side
and then over here the only thing missing is a bixby button if you're
especially into that sort of thing which i suspect most of you are not
camera wise we've got 20 megapixel dual cameras whatever that means um so the
spec sheet that i had actually wasn't 100 sure it seemed to think it was a 16
megapixel f 2.0 and a 20 megapixel f 2.2
and because it's got dual cameras it does have a portrait mode but quite
frankly uh maybe they still have some software
work to do or something along those lines i did do some test shots but
it is pretty rough right now which is
kind of weird to me especially when you consider that oppo is closely related to
one plus and oneplus's portrait mode actually isn't too shabby this is
actually not a terrible example of it it did reasonably well here but the biggest
difference so the main phones that i used for comparison were the s9 plus the
pixel 2 xl and then i threw in both the
nexus and the find 10 and the biggest
difference between the korean and the american phone i guess and the chinese
ones were that instead of a bokeh effect
the chinese phones both seemed to be content with blurring the background
which is not necessarily the same thing
they don't look the same another big difference that i noticed
between this and the s9 plus is actually something that i first picked up on a
review that i'm working on of the alcatel 3v
so this is a 150 phone way at the other end of the spectrum here
and that is that for some reason
and i still haven't narrowed down exactly why because netflix
did not reply to my inquiry but for some
reason the HDR certified phones that i'm
getting are not just getting an HDR version of movies like this is thor
ragnarok here they are also getting a higher resolution version it is very
noticeable in the hair on the characters or in any fine details in the distance
that this one not only has HDR colors
it is also getting a higher resolution feed and i haven't quite figured out
exactly why that would be so jury's kind of vote
on this other than lacking HDR um wireless charging and having some
serious misgivings about the durability of this mechanism like i'm already
noticing when i'm holding the camera to take a picture i'm kind of getting my fingers in there and if i were to close
the camera while they're in there it doesn't pinch but
there's there's definitely room for it to screw up
i'm not sure if i'm ready to give a recommendation but i don't know if that
matters because there isn't even like a global
rom available yet with Android assistant for example things that north americans
would be used to seeing and i don't know if apple has any plans to enter north
america but it's definitely a cool phone i'm
just not sure if this as amazing and cool as it is is quite
the right approach to all scree phone but i just i don't not 100 sure what the answer is
so so far we've got the notch which i i also don't think is the right
answer we've got your selfie camera down here and just one big bezel which i'm
not sure is the right answer we've got samsung with
you know maybe they can make this a little smaller but beyond that they really can't go anywhere with it
and then we've got vivo with the in-screen fingerprint sensor which is
not a bad approach but remember they too have a mechanical camera raising thing
but with this one it only pops up when you need to take a selfie which for me
anyway comes up an awful lot less
so let me know your comments below does oppo have the right approach here
or do we have to rethink everything does it even matter if you
have an all screen phone i will say it makes everything else feel
very last gen like a pixel 2 xl is like like caveman compared to this thing and
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