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do with assisted suicide this is rather the first mobile phone from moondrop who is best known for their chaii audio products and more recently keyboards and wow it's not particularly heavy and boy it's got like a camera camera a camera like hanger hook almost that is really something I think I see what they were going for it's kind of like those first generation OLED TVs where they had the super super thin advertised specs but then they just had like a giant Caboose at the bottom oh it's really not that comfortable to hold though look at that profile it's like sharp in the spots that you hold it where it's thin I feel like I'm coming across really negative we're going to take a closer look at this in a minute first what else have we got in here ooh accessories 3ft braided charging cable and that's it God it's amazing what crap qualifies as accessories these days charging cable that's not an accessory that's the bare minimum let's do a quick physical tour we've got a 64 megapixel main camera 8 megapixel wide camera and a 32 megapixel selfie camera that Moon drop themselves describes as it's not good but it works is that serious they actually said that okay on the left we've got a whole lot of nothing on the bottom we've got our micro SD slot yeah we've got a USB charging port that does support USB 3 5 GB per second speeds and fast charging in fact we managed to get to a 36% charge in just 15 minutes and a full charge in just a hair over an hour on the right we've got our lock button volume rocker where is my fingerprint sensor oh it's UND screen well hope hope it's a good one JK it's kind of mid it works about 80% of the time first try none of which is probably compelling you guys to drop everything and order this phone but worry not for I have something to show you on the top we've got a regular 3 and2 mm audio jack and what's this a 4.4 mm balanced audio jack that's right my friends true to their Heritage moondrop has focused this device on being well a phone yes but also recognizing that most people are not going to carry around an additional MP3 player on top of their phone an excellent MP3 player if only I could get it to turn on right now is this thing charged well looks like someone might have turned this on before they put it in the box after lab testing so while we charge our phone why don't we charge our sponsor LG thanks to LG for sponsoring this video upgrade your home entertainment experience with LG's OLED TVs they have a variety of series that will fit your needs and your budget from the more wallet friendly mid-range B series to the absolutely baller Z series so whether you're a gamer that needs Ultra fast response time or a cinema Enthusiast who's looking for crystal clear picture quality LG's OLED TVs are there to provide the depth detail high resolution and high dynamic range that you crave check them out today using our Link in the video description it's 96% why was this refusing to turn on that's so weird what is up with this wall wallpaper why is there a school child on my phone look I try not to be judgy about this stuff but like what the that is a child kind of an interesting skin the phone's running Android 13 before we poke at that too much though I want to talk about the material that the shell is made of here it's p we think they mean polycarbonate but we have no way of knowing for sure okay cool so the screen one of the highlights and also low light of the device it's 2460 x 1080 in resolution it's OLED it'll run at either 60 or 120 HZ or it'll auto switch between the two and it was pretty accurate out of the box right yes uses highfrequency dimming to avoid any Flicker and unfortunately that's about all that I can say about it it only hit 460 nits in SDR and that's even with auto brightness enabled which on many other phones allows the display to boost making it more usable outside and in HDR man we got some weird Behavior to the point where we couldn't even really measure the accuracy properly because we couldn't trust our results watch this on YouTube I'm going to fire up an HDR video here what that is not even close and this is a phone from 6 years ago now obviously this Hardware is better so whatever's going on here has to be in the software what is this color maybe the audio experience is so good that I won't care how my HDR video looks nope of course Moon drop never said that the speakers were particularly good why don't we actually plug in a pair of headphones look I got to be honest with you I've never been able to tell the difference between a balanced output and a regular output did anyone else notice that this thing went from 90% battery to 42% while I've been sitting here it just dropped to 41 it just shut down I think there's something wrong with it okay well that's good to know because when we did our battery endurance test we only got what was it about 12 hours out of this thing which is very low compared to other devices so obviously it's lasting a lot less than 12 hours right now but it could be that it was in the middle of experiencing some kind of failure unfortunately our collaborators headphones.com were busy and we weren't able to get this tested by them maybe they'll test it in the future though we'd be happy to send this over to them in the meantime the lab's initial impressions of the deck are that it's about on par with a desktop deck that you could get in the 50 to $100 range but I haven't heard it for myself yet so all it remains is for me to listen to some music by default because this is like a Chinese Android 13 install none of the Google Play store or Google Play Services things were installed so we had to S load everything including Basics like Spotify onto this phone in order to get it to do anything so if you are in a Google region um just something that you might want to be aware of now we did manage to get 5G connectivity working but we don't have a full list of bands from Moon drop yet if we get it by the time we publish this video we're going to put it up on screen right now but in the meantime Gary has hacks sored it so I should be able to just install whatever I want I'm going to go with apple music this is a this is a audio file phone from the year 2024 this is not a motherboard from 1998 why am I hearing interactions with the screen through my headphones watch watch watch watch watch watch watch watch huh you hear it so when I press the first one and then the second one here's what I think though okay one of the major selling points of this phone is that they are bypassing the Android audio subsystem so it's possible that whatever it is they're doing in order to do that involves like like some some switching time and so the first time that it needs to make a noise it might get a little confus mulated it's not a gamebreaking problem but it's irritating the good news is that it's not what I thought it's not just you know electronic noise being passed through to the headphone jack like we used to see on Old motherboards okay I'm sorry I swear I'm going to actually listen to this thing at some point all right guys give me give me something to listen to God airpods suck you know like they really do suck don't they why do I accept it was this really that bad you know the issue for me isn't even the wire the issue for me is not wanting to carry around the USBC to 3 and 1 half mm dongle and not being willing to compromise on the phone that has the 3 and 1 12 mm Jack because this sounds great compared to what you're probably carrying around in your pocket right now but this phone really sucks I wish I could say that the price makes up for it or that it has it's a Flagship killer it's got a super high-end s so or whatever but it doesn't it's got a mediatech chipset that's about equivalent to a Snapdragon 6 gen 1 and it's coming in at $400 which yeah is more of a budget oriented phone price especially when you consider that as a feat your phone it has something to kind of compel you to at least consider it but when you compare that to something like the nothing phone 2A for $50 less than this that's tough to recommend buy a nothing phone 2A and buy a nice USBC Dack yeah I'm getting the nod from Gary from the lab with that said we haven't tried the 4.4mm balanced output yet although I have to confess whether it's because I'm Tin eared or not trained enough I have yet on the same DAC and headphone combination to notice a big difference going from a regular output to a balanced output I'm sorry I uh I just can't imagine myself needing my phone to drive these like if I'm if I'm wearing something that comes off my head that easily when I'm moving I'm stationary boys obviously this is apples to oranges but if you went the full moon drop setup you'd be having a pretty good time when you're listening to music and a pretty rotten time the rest of the time gaming it falls behind the nothing phone 2A um not by a 10 you can play genin impact on low 60 FPS or low plus rather it's competitive with that phone RAM and storage wise though it has 12 gigs of lpddr 4X oh 4X o 256 gigs of uh ufs 3.1 storage and I guess now's the time for us to look at the cameras that even Moon drop wasn't willing to talk up by the way I think this charging indicator kind of confirms my hypothesis that it was just a battery calibration issue that it got a little bit confused about so our battery tests may be accurate in spite of the 5,000 mAh battery the battery life on this thing is not great let's go ahead and fire up the camera wow this is the worst camera I have seen in years my friends and like I'm not talking that it's low resolution or whatever sure yeah 64 megapixel sensor so there's some sharpness there but then they took that sharpness and they added a sharpening filter to it and then they added a second sharpening filter to it and then they boosted the Vibrance look at this green next to this green that's supposed to be the same green what are you even talking about so let's put it this way I'm always happy to see new entrance in the market and I'm always happy to see companies that are trying to differentiate their product in a meaningful way and having a decent onboard deck on a phone is something I think a lot of people are asking for and the audio experience itself the isolation from the Android audio subsystem that stuff is a really good start but it's clear that they still have some work to do with respect to the ergonomics and with respect to the software experience and building a more rounded experience because on the one hand you guys have a compelling sales pitch here this is the one device that you have to carry in order to combine your phone functions and your mp3 player functions and you've got this side going pretty good but if I had one of these I'd probably still feel like I needed to carry a phone subscribe to ShortCircuit"}