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we are back with another Poco phone I

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know you love mid-rangers and I love talking about them and this one looks

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mid-rangey as heck it's the Poco X5 Pro

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5G which is what we've been waiting for on Poco phones and they finally listened

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we have this nice the standard kind of black and yellow text that Poco loves

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and honestly I love and who is it Wiz Khalifa loves

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you like jazz nothing too crazy about the Box just says Poco X5 Pro all over

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the place and what we have for specs on the back but I like to be surprised well

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I guess not too surprised because I looked spoiler alert we have the the

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Poco oh someone's definitely been here because it's got fingerprints all over

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it two million Subs no respect we've got the Sim popper we've got our handy dandy

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case feels like the included case with a Poco phone and what else we got in here

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oh okay we'll come back we'll come back to this guy

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in here we got our

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67 watt Euro charger and the orange USB

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a to c for that fast charging and then we have our meter long

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a to c cable again with those nice colored orange tips and that's it we're

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already onto the phone no frills here in the box but oh I gotta say I really like

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this yellow I'm actually not a huge fan of the color yellow but this is like a

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frosted glass yellow so it might look like it's kind of the reflection that's

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making it that pale but no it's just like a a nice frosted

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yellow it's got some goo on it but that's fine

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what's a little goo we got our branding here for 5G and all of the safety things

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and of course that big old Poco logo and this looks like it's part of the camera

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bump but it's not it's just flat flush colored plastic it is a plastic frame

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and a plastic back with a glass front which is fine I think it actually feels

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pretty nice in the hand and we have our cameras on the back here but before we

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get too far into that let's take a look at what we have on this phone so we have

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our volume rockers here oh good sounding

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buttons and the yellow power button slash fingerprint scanner

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I can't get over those buttons and that sounds great on the top we got our well

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we got my favorite the IR Blaster the

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Michael one of our dual speakers and the headphone jack because again this

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phone's under a thousand dollars so it has all the features you want on the

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left side here we got absolutely nothing just that nice Rail and on the bottom we

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have our SIM tray Michael USBC and

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speaker and I'm just going to open it up here as I know it's a dual SIM phone but

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I want to see if it has uh expansion does this get rid of the SD card slot or

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does it keep it drum roll

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ooh just dual Nano so they got rid of the headphone expansion even compared to

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the m5s which we've covered previously a little disappointing I mean again one of

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those weird things where these mid-range phones seem to have features like that

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but I guess lacking an SD card slot is a feature that's now falling down from the

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flagships into the mid-range but I hope this isn't something that kind of sticks

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around on the front here we have our 6.67 inch full HD Plus AMOLED display

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and it's 120 hertz it is really nice to

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have that high speed from when you're scrolling through feeds or even just

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your settings on your phone and it doesn't look so choppy so really glad to

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see it here and it's Gorilla Glass 5 on the front so again not the newest

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hottest Gorilla Glass but pretty good I don't know what it is

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about this aspect ratio if it's just the rails and how flat it is but it doesn't

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feel like it fits great in my hands and yet this one kind of noticeably stands

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out as like not feeling great and as you can see I can't reach all the edges

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super comfortably which isn't ideal but

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if you have bigger hands maybe you won't notice or if you consistently two-hand

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your phone whatever it is obviously good for media to have a larger size phone as

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for thickness only 7.9 millimeters thick which we've deemed I don't know what

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millimeters are but it's thin and again the camera bump is not too big

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especially when we have a whopping 108

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megapixel main cam that's nuts

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it's too much we also have the 8 megapixel Ultra wide and 2 megapixel

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macro which you're going to use all the time I can tell this is the year you do

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macro photography at two megapixels plenty but otherwise that's about it

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it's a very minimal phone just like a slat with bright yellow coloring so I

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guess all that's left is to turn it on but first let me tell you about our

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can see here we got quite a few different Vlogs we made and I mean let's

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just randomly select a few like maybe the Paris Avenue launch or the great

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Sony fw900 CRT road trip or behind the

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scenes at nanosis where James you were there over Nana says yes that was a

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great time these ones are great and I'm not biased because I shot and edited

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them but hey they're great times we can see some of the behind the scenes of

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what we've done when we go to all these different places or how it actually works to make a video I think the

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nanosis Vlog is really good for that where you can see James actually writing talking the different analysis employees

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Floatplane all right well the phone was dead so it's plugged into the charger

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now we can test out that fast charging because I actually don't have an advertised charge time with their their

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fast charger we're not using it so we'll never know but it is a 5 000 milliamp

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hour battery which is a pretty good size especially for again a mid-ranger phone

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they do advertise some interesting battery lengths so first for call time

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they advertise 28 hours so plenty for you and your significant other to chat

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on the phone literally all day they also advertise 20 hours of video playback so

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you can binge watch Malcolm in the Middle again all day and then finally

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they offer 21 hours of reading time which is not a spec I've really ever

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heard of but go nuts with your ebook as for

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brightness it does get pretty dim so if you like to use your phone at night or

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while you're in bed you won't have your eyes absolutely searing but the max

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brightness isn't fantastic so it's only

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500 nit to the max of 900 Peak brightness which isn't going to be great

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for outdoor use like obviously it will be usable but again be aware if you're

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coming from a higher end Flagship those are hitting up to like 2 000 nits so

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it's gonna be quite a big difference but you will be able to survive with

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something like this now this does have the fingerprint scanner built into the

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power button so let's give that a try make sure it's not completely awful all right this seems a bit excessive this is

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this is taking on a minute all right this better work well and it's

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asking if you want to add face it does have the AI Face Unlock as well but

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again I'm not a huge fan of that

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yeah not bad goes right in that means a fingerprint scanner it works I don't

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think I mentioned this is MIUI 14 built on Android 12. and there is a ton of

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bloatware AliExpress Bubble Shooter crazy juicer dust settle there's a ton

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of stuff that just comes default on these that again I am not a fan of you

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have to go through and delete them manually always a bummer some of the ways that these phones stay cheap is

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actually by selling the space on these phones that they come pre-loaded with

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these certain apps so that's why I'm keeping the price down I guess that's fine all right let's take a look at the

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screen and speakers by doing some crab raving

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it sounds okay definitely not the best sounding fun I've ever heard but I think

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it's not anything awful it's more apparent that the sound is louder on the

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left side instead of that dual speaker on this right side but when you hold it

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up to your ear there is some separation but it doesn't feel wide if you're really hoping for Dolby Atmos an

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affordable phone I don't think you're gonna really have that expectation here as for the screen it looks good nothing

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to really complain about here everything's crisp it is a you know full

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HD Plus screen it's not gonna be extremely sharp but it does look pretty

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good what is noticeable though is that camera bump wobble it's on quite a bit

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of an angle and Wobbles around quite a bit not great but also not really

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avoidable with any phone unless you have the pixel 7 which is not gonna rock but

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it's going to be on a definite angle there all right let's take a look at

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these cameras and see if that 108 megapixel camera

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kicks everything else to the curb we got our friendly faces over here James doing

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work we have our Ultra wide

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now it does show a zoom button but do know it is just cropping in on that 108

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megapixel camera so it's nothing too too wild there and we got to try out our

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macro mode all right we have our model here let's see how that macro camera

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does I'm assuming it's just going to automatically switch to it here

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there's a lot of bokeh there all right you know what for a a two megapixel

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photo it doesn't look bad it's definitely noisy but the bokeh looks

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really good in the depth of field it's pretty solid definitely not bad I

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don't know how often you'll use a macro camera especially enough to have its own

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dedicated lens a lot of them will use the ultra wide lens just as a macro but

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obviously it's kind of nice to have for the other shots here the 2x Zoom does

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look good you do lose a little bit of clarity because again it's just punching

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into that regular 108 megapixel sensor but I don't think it looks bad at all

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all right this is the ultrawide and it's got an interesting look it's almost like

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film which I don't think it should be

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for eight megapixels but the colors are just really kind of deep there's a lot

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you lose a lot of detail between James's blue shirt and his green pants that look

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Brown it's very odd and when you zoom in his hands have lost all sort of quality

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and it just looks bit crushed which is very odd onto the main camera it's still

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not fantastic as you can see if we zoom in on his hands here James's hands again

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are pretty crushed like they they it doesn't look

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like there's enough pixels even though that 108 megapixel sensor is binning

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down to a 12 megapixel photo so it's taking nine pixels making one big pixel

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to hopefully give you better night shots but we can take a photo in the Pro mode

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that will be just the straight 108 megapixel mode so let's try that

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wow One Fine Young gentleman let's take a look at that photo so with this 108

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one it seems to be affected by our studio lighting a bit more but it does

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look a bit sharper again not a great photo I

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don't know if it's like an AI trying to smooth or beautify or sharpen but it

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doesn't seem to be doing quite great James does a look a little bit like a

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painting So something to be aware of even though on paper does have some

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impressive specs it might not actually translate to what you're going to be

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taking in your day-to-day life selfie time I love taking selfies I'm a

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millennial guy it's the Millennials known for selfies I don't know but I'm

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taking one looks like we got our our little stars highlighted here so there's

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definitely some filters on original

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there's me in all my glory selfies look

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good I look sharp I'm glad there's just an original mode again we have seen it

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before where you just have to turn everything down by itself which I was

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not a fan of so Poco has changed their ways amazing video again here I'm

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connected to a cable I'm gonna have to unplug

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now again adjustments bright studio lights they're leaving it blown out to

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keep me fairly exposed which is I think the the better way to do things my skin

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color looks accurate even with James's very red jacket we can see all the

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colors uh do look pretty lifelike which is great to see two red two red there's

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no such thing the video looks good I don't think it sounds good though so if

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you do want to use this as a sort of vloggy phone I actually do think it

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could be viable like it does look quite sharp steady everything like that it

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does film at 1080p 60 on the front camera so pretty solid but that mic is

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pretty darn tinny but maybe the main camera is better here we are taking a

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video there he is there's James I'm Jocelyn this doesn't have any sort of

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optical image stabilization but maybe it still looks good we're zooming

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what was he swallowing that wow it goes 6X does it go all the way out

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to 1x cool

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okay so this is really weird I was going

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to talk about the video quality but there's a related videos bar at the

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bottom and these are not videos on the phone and guessing it's like Billy Billy

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or some other YouTube knockoff really weird to have in your gallery I guess

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that's a thing uh as for the actual video quality it looked really good the

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stabilization looks like there's ois built in but

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they don't say there's any sort of spec and the mic is still not great so again

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be aware if you're going to use it video very very viable on this but you'd want

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another audio solution but that's not why you bought this phone right you bought this phone because you are a

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gamer so let's try gaming we gotta talk about what's in this thing it's got the

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Snapdragon 778g which is a pretty strong

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mid-range performer which will handle most anything you throw at it and then gentian or you know Cod mobile any of

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those more intense games will probably be able to handle medium to high

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depending on how sensitive you are to that 60 FPS but if it's something more

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basic or you find with low settings you should be able to hit 60 easily or over

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60 since this screen supports it if the game does so we're in the settings for

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gention impacts visuals I put into medium and it warned me that this phone

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probably can't handle it it's going to go into overclocked mode which is very

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hardcore if you do it on low it says

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it'll be smooth but I would like to try medium I feel like

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it should be able to handle that and maybe part of it's because it's not

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fully charged but I've Got Confidence yeah it's a little choppy so far but

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maybe it just needs to load for a second I gotta say even a medium this game

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looks pretty good and now it is running a bit smoother but as you walk into

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different areas it is choppy like this is not a smooth 60. be aware again this

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is a mid-range phone so maybe put your

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expectations in like the mid-range you know is it does that make sense medium

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medium it's got great specs on paper for the camera it's got great specs on paper

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for the soc it's got ip53 water

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resistance it doesn't have wireless charging but it does have 5G and an IR

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blaster it costs 295 US dollars I do

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think the price is starting to creep up a little bit there like 300 US dollars

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for this it really depends on your use case if

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you're someone who's playing gentian impact maybe get something different if

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you're somebody who takes a lot of photos maybe look into something

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different but if you want a general all-around phone that's going to be decent at everything and just that the

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odd time that you want to play games you can and you know when you're out with

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friends you just want to be able to take a quick photo or a video at a concert I

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think this will do fine but I do feel this budget range is starting to get

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pretty darn competitive as we'll start to see with some of the devices coming

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up for mwc and into this new year so if you're in for a phone right now and you

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really need something that's going to do you well this might be it but this isn't

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a review I'm not telling you what to do

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do not say this is review this is something I've only been using

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for the last hour so this phone might not be enticing

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for very long thanks so much for watching this has been ShortCircuit make sure to like

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