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now I initially read the name of this product as

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mao1 but fortunately that wasn't right

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it's the mobile internet audio device 01 from moondrop and has absolutely nothing

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to do with assisted suicide this is

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rather the first mobile phone from

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moondrop who is best known for their chaii audio products and more recently

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keyboards and wow it's not particularly

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heavy and boy it's got like a camera

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camera a camera like hanger hook almost

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that is really something I think I see what they were going for it's kind of

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like those first generation OLED TVs where they had the super super thin

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advertised specs but then they just had like a giant Caboose at the bottom oh

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it's really not that comfortable to hold though look at that profile it's like

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sharp in the spots that you hold it where it's thin I feel like I'm coming

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across really negative we're going to take a closer look at this in a minute

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first what else have we got in here ooh accessories 3ft braided charging cable

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and that's it God it's amazing what crap

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qualifies as accessories these days

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charging cable that's not an accessory that's the bare minimum let's do a quick

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physical tour we've got a 64 megapixel main camera 8 megapixel wide camera and

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a 32 megapixel selfie camera that Moon

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drop themselves describes as it's not

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good but it works is that serious they

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actually said that okay on the left we've got a whole lot of nothing on the

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bottom we've got our micro SD slot yeah

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we've got a USB charging port that does support USB 3 5 GB per second speeds and

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fast charging in fact we managed to get to a 36% charge in just 15 minutes and a

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full charge in just a hair over an hour

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on the right we've got our lock button volume rocker where is my fingerprint

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sensor oh it's UND screen well hope hope

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it's a good one JK it's kind of mid it

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works about 80% of the time first try

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none of which is probably compelling you guys to drop everything and order this

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phone but worry not for I have something to show you on the top we've got a

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regular 3 and2 mm audio jack and what's this a 4.4 mm balanced audio jack that's

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right my friends true to their Heritage moondrop has focused this device on

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being well a phone yes but also

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recognizing that most people are not going to carry around an additional MP3

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player on top of their phone an excellent MP3 player if only I could get

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it to turn on right now is this thing charged well looks like someone might

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have turned this on before they put it in the box after lab testing so while we

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96% why was this refusing to turn on that's so weird what is up with this

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wall wallpaper why is there a school child on my phone look I try not to be

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judgy about this stuff but like what the

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that is a child kind of an interesting skin the phone's running Android 13

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before we poke at that too much though I want to talk about the material that the

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shell is made of here it's

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p we think they mean polycarbonate but we have no way of

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knowing for sure okay cool so the screen

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one of the highlights and also low light of the device it's 2460 x 1080 in

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resolution it's OLED it'll run at either 60 or 120 HZ or it'll auto switch

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between the two and it was pretty accurate out of the box right yes uses

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highfrequency dimming to avoid any Flicker and unfortunately that's about

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all that I can say about it it only hit

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460 nits in SDR and that's even with

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auto brightness enabled which on many other phones allows the display to boost

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making it more usable outside and in HDR man we got some weird Behavior to the

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point where we couldn't even really measure the accuracy properly because we

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couldn't trust our results watch this on YouTube I'm going to fire up an HDR

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video here

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what that is not even close and this is

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a phone from 6 years ago now obviously

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this Hardware is better so whatever's going on here has to be in the software

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what is this color maybe the audio experience is so good that I won't care

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how my HDR video

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looks nope of course Moon drop never

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said that the speakers were particularly good why don't we actually plug in a

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pair of headphones look I got to be honest with you I've never been able to

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tell the difference between a balanced output and a regular output did anyone

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else notice that this thing went from 90% battery to 42% while I've been

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sitting here it just dropped to 41 it

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just shut down I think there's something wrong with it okay well that's good to

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know because when we did our battery endurance test we only got what was it

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about 12 hours out of this thing which is very low compared to other devices so

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obviously it's lasting a lot less than 12 hours right now but it could be that

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it was in the middle of experiencing some kind of failure unfortunately our

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collaborators headphones.com were busy and we weren't able to get this tested

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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

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initial impressions of the deck are that it's about on par with a desktop deck

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that you could get in the 50 to $100 range but I haven't heard it for myself

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yet so all it remains is for me to listen to some music by default because

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this is like a Chinese Android 13 install none of the Google Play store or

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Google Play Services things were installed so we had to S load everything

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including Basics like Spotify onto this phone in order to get it to do anything

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so if you are in a Google region um just

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something that you might want to be aware of now we did manage to get 5G

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connectivity working but we don't have a full list of bands from Moon drop yet if

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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

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hacks sored it so I should be able to just install whatever I want I'm going

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to go with apple music this is a this is a audio file phone from the year 2024

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this is not a motherboard from 1998 why am I hearing interactions with

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the screen through my headphones watch watch watch watch watch watch watch

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watch huh you hear it so when I press

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the first one and then the second one

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here's what I think though okay one of the major selling points of this phone

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is that they are bypassing the Android audio subsystem so it's possible that

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whatever it is they're doing in order to do that involves like like some some

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switching time and so the first time that it needs to make a noise it might

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get a little confus mulated it's not a

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gamebreaking problem but it's irritating

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the good news is that it's not what I thought it's not just you know

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electronic noise being passed through to the headphone jack like we used to see

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on Old motherboards okay I'm sorry I swear I'm going to actually listen to

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this thing at some point all right guys give me give me something to listen

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to God airpods suck you know like they

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really do suck don't they why do I accept it was this really that bad you

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know the issue for me isn't even the wire the issue for me is not wanting to

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carry around the USBC to 3 and 1 half mm dongle and not being willing to

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compromise on the phone that has the 3 and 1 12 mm Jack because this sounds

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great compared to what you're probably carrying around in your pocket right now

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but this phone really sucks I wish I could say that the price makes up for it

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or that it has it's a Flagship killer it's got a super high-end s so or

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whatever but it doesn't it's got a mediatech chipset that's about

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equivalent to a Snapdragon 6 gen 1 and

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it's coming in at $400 which yeah is

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more of a budget oriented phone price especially when you consider that as a

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feat your phone it has something to kind of compel you to at least consider it

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but when you compare that to something like the nothing phone 2A for $50 less

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than this that's tough to recommend buy a

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nothing phone 2A and buy a nice USBC Dack yeah I'm getting the nod from Gary

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from the lab with that said we haven't tried the 4.4mm balanced output yet

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although I have to confess whether it's because I'm Tin eared or not trained

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enough I have yet on the same DAC and headphone combination to notice a big

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difference going from a regular output to a balanced output I'm sorry I

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uh I just can't imagine myself needing

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my phone to drive these like if I'm if I'm wearing something that comes off my

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head that easily when I'm moving I'm stationary

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boys obviously this is apples to oranges

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but if you went the full moon drop setup you'd be having a pretty good time

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when you're listening to music and a pretty rotten time the rest of the time

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gaming it falls behind the nothing phone 2A um not by a 10 you can play genin

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impact on low 60 FPS or low plus rather it's competitive with that phone RAM and

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storage wise though it has 12 gigs of lpddr 4X oh

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4X o 256 gigs of uh ufs 3.1 storage

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and I guess now's the time for us to look at the cameras that even Moon drop

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wasn't willing to talk up by the way I think this charging indicator kind of

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confirms my hypothesis that it was just a battery calibration issue that it got

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a little bit confused about so our

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battery tests may be accurate in spite

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of the 5,000 mAh battery the battery life on this thing is not great let's go

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ahead and fire up the camera wow this is the worst camera I have seen in years my

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friends and like I'm not talking that it's low resolution or whatever sure

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yeah 64 megapixel sensor so there's some sharpness there but then they took that

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sharpness and they added a sharpening filter to it and then they added a

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second sharpening filter to it and then they boosted the Vibrance look at this

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green next to this green that's supposed to be the same

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green what are you even talking about so

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let's put it this way I'm always happy to see new entrance in the market and

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I'm always happy to see companies that are trying to differentiate their

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product in a meaningful way and having a decent onboard deck on a phone is

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something I think a lot of people are asking for and the audio experience

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itself the isolation from the Android audio subsystem that stuff is a really

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good start but it's clear that they still have some work to do with respect

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to the ergonomics and with respect to the software experience and building a

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more rounded experience because on the one hand you guys have a compelling

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sales pitch here this is the one device that you have to carry in order to

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combine your phone functions and your mp3 player functions and you've got this

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side going pretty good but if I had one of these I'd probably still feel like I

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