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this phone is cheaper than a pair of airpods and not even the pros regular

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airpods and that may sound crazy Poco is known for making affordable phones while

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still having a lot of specs that can compete with a lot of flagships and this one hopefully is no different today we

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have the Poco m5s which is one of their newest phones here along with their M5

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that we're not going to really spend much time on because this is the interesting one but what's really

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interesting is a scent free loot oh baby

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we got the Poco juice yeah that's right delicious Poco juice

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where's the juice nothing in it there's nothing in it boy someone's gotten here first oh

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they're trying to win me over and I'm I'm not gonna lie it's working look at

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this wow I can really represent

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what else we got all right we got the Poco headband and a very very nice bag

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don't worry I promise not to let this bias me all right let's take a look at

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what's inside the box here it's a very simple Box by the way no information

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about specs of the phone so I don't actually know what we have here but

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there we go first little intro tells us a bit about the phone itself but let's

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take a look at what's in the box here first

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wow okay so we got this phone carrier

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there is something inside it's very heavy and oh perfect I don't think a lot

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of people make cases for these phones but that could just be pure ignorance on

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my part but squishy squishy case also in the box we

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have a charger so it's a 33 watt quick charger this is not going to be

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everywhere so this is a European Standard thing so since we have the European model whoa cool orange tip now

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for the phone itself obviously we've all been waiting for very exciting and you

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know it looks pretty cool it is a 6.43 inches so it's pretty decently big but

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doesn't feel heavy so it is a plastic frame and a plastic back but it doesn't

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feel cheap so I did use the Samsung s21fe before in the back I didn't like

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the texture kind of just made it feel like really plasticky but this no it

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doesn't feel bad at all still has a little bit of hatch so it's 178 grams

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this one here is a good balance it doesn't feel heavy on one side of the phone or the other doesn't feel like

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you're going to be fatigued from holding it up to your face when you're on the bus you know FaceTiming your mom or

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whatever so we have the white here but it is also available in blue and black and I wasn't able to find it on like

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AliExpress or anything like that but on their website they do show a yellow otherwise on the right side of the phone

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here we have our volume rocker and power button and the power button is also the

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fingerprint scanner which is pretty convenient on the top here we have one

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of our dual speakers and an IR blaster so this is not in a ton of phones but I

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absolutely love having an IR blaster it's super convenient for if you lose

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your remote or anything like that it's becoming rare and rarer to see but it is just like a nice to have why not throw

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it in and then we have our mic hole on the left side of the phone we have our SIM tray and I believe if we open it up

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it is also an SD card slot which is

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again something exceedingly rare in phones these days but a great way to

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save some money by being able to get a lower storage option and throwing in your own SD card and a dual card slot

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which is again super convenient it's not super common here in North America it's

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only just getting to that point in Europe and other countries I know it's a bit more common but it's super

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convenient while traveling or like for myself I actually Rock two phones at the

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same time one with my work phone number and one with my personal phone number and being able to put that all in one

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device is super convenient on the bottom of the phone we have our other dual

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speaker as well as a USBC port and a

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headphone jack checking all the boxes I know people in the comments are already

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going crazy you've got this in your cart but slow down we're going to finish this

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video on the back pretty simple I don't know is a hot take or something like

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that but having the certifications so

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big on the back of the phone ugly I use my phones caseless I have a

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pixel 7 Pro in one pocket and an iPhone 13 Pro in the other pocket both naked

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nothing no scratches no cracks anything

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like that I just don't drop your phone if you don't want to use a case if you want to save some money stop dropping

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your phone or AppleCare I don't know but I feel like if there was a huge

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certification on the back of this I actually might get a case just because

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it doesn't look good other than the certifications there is this big kind of

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Poco logo I don't mind it as much like I mean I feel like I'd be a little bit of

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a hypocrite because Apple does have the giant Apple logo the pixel has the G

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logo on the back it's just not like a super high-end brand it's not like this

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is going to be like yeah I've got a Poco so on the back we have four cameras we

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have our 64 megapixel main shooter our 8 megapixel wide angle shooter our 2

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megapixel depth camera and a 2 megapixel

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macro camera and I say four cameras because yes it does have the depth

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camera but you're never going to be taking a photo out of it it's just as used for the portrait mode so it's there

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there's no telephoto which some people might care about I personally never use

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a telephoto lens on my cameras and with a 64 megapixel sensor if this actually

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takes decent photos you'll just be able to crop in and get a zoom that way so

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that's about everything on the outside of the phone so all we need to do is turn it on but first you need to hear

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description and learn more about secret lab today so turning it on right away first you notice it's got a pretty

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decent screen so it's 2400 by 1080p full HD Plus ammo LED screen yeah one

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disappointing thing about the screen though is it is only 60 hertz a lot of

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modern phones or higher end phones or even just different kind of budget

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phones will have a 90 Hertz screen or even greater and this one being locked

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at 60. once you get used to something higher it is rough going back again it's

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not going to really show on camera because obviously your screen is going to be a different refresh rate than what

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we're filming at or anything like that but just trust me it does feel a bit choppy another disappointing thing I

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forgot to mention is that this is Gorilla Glass 3 which is I think we're

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on like the 7th or 8th gen one Saving Grace about this phone knows that the

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screen does get bright so its average brightness is about 450 50 Nets but it

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can go up to 700 nits in its auto brightness mode if it no zero in the Sun

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and has a peak brightness of 1100 nits which is competing with a lot of

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Flagship phones that's really great to see so yeah as we can see here we're on MIUI 13 and for specs we have the 128

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gig of storage and 6 gig of RAM model though as you notice here it does say

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it's six plus two so it has a dynamic RAM system where it can allow you up to

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an additional two gigs of RAM when you need it which is interesting I don't

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know why you just wouldn't have eight like maybe it's a battery saver thing it's also powered by the mediatek g95

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which is again a couple years old and it was already a mid-rager then so we're

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going to see if it affects performance at all but battery savings price savings

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it could all still be worth it one other thing I want to check out is the fingerprint unlock speed it does have ai

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Face Unlock but it's just a regular camera so I don't know if I'd really ever trust it even Windows hello

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requires an IR camera to get a special scan of your face to make sure it's

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actually you know and not just a picture of you well I've got a nice little happy face though it kind of makes me want to

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use it when you see the little happy face does that not make you want to use that I am not super used to a

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fingerprint reader anymore I've been using the iPhone Pro since it came out which is all just

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face ID and the pixel 7 Pro has the under display fingerprint scanner which

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I actually have learned to like a lot because when your phone is face up on the table you can just put your finger

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on top see your notifications or do whatever you'd like so I'm not quite sure how I feel about the fingerprint

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scanner on the side it just means you have to kind of pick it up and hold it if you want to use it let's see how fast

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this fingerprint scanner is oh that's fast super satisfying gets you right

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into the phone but as you unlock here you can see there's a lot of apps that come default on the phone there's a ton

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of bloatware it's got Netflix Poco Community tile fun though usually they

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charge for that so that's pretty impressive I mean it just creates a lot more work we have to go through and

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uninstall all the stuff that you're obviously never going to use like the me

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remote I mean I guess no it's got the IR Blaster I'm sold keep the bloatware

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foreign that's not bad it was a little dicey at

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the start I feel like uh it was just the high ends weren't sounding super great

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I'm not an audio file I use air pods but

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uh I did think it sounds pretty good it sounds pretty wide there wasn't a ton of

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stereo separation but it did sound pretty decent and the screen looks good

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I still think it looks really good for the fact that again this is cheaper than

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airpods you get all this nuts now we've

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seen the screen I heard the speakers let's check out the cameras that's obviously something that's really

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important too everybody most people UI is very iphone-like so

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you have the shutter button at the bottom the gallery I'm assuming that's going to be the flip as well as all of

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your different kind of shoot modes so let's take a picture right off the bat

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and just see what it looks like if you were to take a picture standard bog

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standard there he is the ultrawide is 0.6

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you know for a 10x just crop Zoom because that's not Optical that actually

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looks pretty decent I'm not gonna lie this is just a kind of standard suggested 2x again looks pretty clear

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it's not super bright over there and I am in a brightened area and it still

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looks pretty decent like uh you're not gonna be punching into these photos and

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you know posting just James's handsome face and then this is the wide angle oh

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colors look a bit better uh or at least kind of warm and saturated so it just

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appears better and then the standard 1X again this looks pretty darn good I took

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a footage behind me just so you can see something it's a little bit more kind of consistently lit yeah it looks pretty

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darn good again this isn't going to compare to the pixel or the iPhone with

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their computational photography or anything like that now we're gonna try some video so it can do up to 4K 30 and

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then it does 1080p 60 or 30. a lot of phones do 4K 60 but again I don't think

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most people are shooting at 4K 60 and at this price point I don't really think

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that's much of an issue all right we're taking a video you can hear the

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microphone I'm gonna Joss a little bit uh that does pretty well it's a little

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blurry but again the colors are pretty consistent if maybe a bit muted but I

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think for if you just need a quick video something or when you're out with your kids I just want to get that special

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moment this will do it it might not look absolutely amazing but it does look

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pretty decent me and my Poco uniform so great oh I

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gotta check for AI beautify because while my voice might be smooth my face

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is not that smooth all right you can see in the settings here you have the AI

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which actually was not on but there is a beautify Little Star icon down here that

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shows you your smooth and you can change that higher or lower

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slender didn't do a whole lot I guess it can't work miracles am I right and we

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got big eye mode wow quite Desi all

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right let's take a picture without all those AI filters on yeah it looks okay I

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don't think there's anything we're like I want to go on a hot date so I got to spruce up the profile but I mean that is

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somewhat what I look like so last thing I want to check out is gameplay as it

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does have a middle ground SOC so I want to see if you can still kind of hold up with games kids are playing like I don't

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know pension impact ever play against champagne

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don't join my clan it does run pretty

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smoothly and I am screen recording at the same time say this one's pretty

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decent it does feel like it's running at the full 60 hertz of the screen and uh

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there's minimal hitching that I probably would just Chuck up again to the screen

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recording though it seems like I've been kind of poo pooing the fact that it's

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got mid-range Hardware I do think that it actually has a huge benefit because

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this has a 5 000 milliamp hour battery which means that this thing should last

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you a long time they actually quote as

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37 hours of calling 19 hours of video

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playback or 11 hours of gaming and

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that's a long time my iPhone lasts the

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day doesn't make it into the second day my pixel does not make it into the

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second day and I'm not using these phones super super intensely so being

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able to say that this lasts that long shows that going for something that's

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maybe not the highest end but just sips away at battery means they can actually

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use this phone for probably a couple days which is really hard pressed to

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find another way to keep down costs is the fact that this doesn't have any 5G

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there's no Wi-fi six there's no wireless charger or anything like that but I feel

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like a lot of those features aren't super necessary or anything that you're really going to notice in a day-to-day

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scenario 5G is barely available and if it is you have to be outside standing by

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a tower but it does have ip53 water resistance that means you can't submerge

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it but it will do fine in the rain now we haven't actually said the price yet

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just that it's cheaper than airpods this thing starts at 169 dollars nice nice I

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can't go from there when you get the higher storage whatever like that but if you think about it the one terabyte SD

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card that this thing supports could cost more than the phone itself it's a

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screaming deal and there are quite a few players in the space including Poco Zone

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M5 this thing is 140 but you lose the

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water resistance you get some slightly weaker cameras slower charging but

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interestingly enough it has a 90 Hertz LCD screen another reason why I wish

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this one was more than 60 hertz but there's a lot of great options in this

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price range but I think this one has a really good balance again that battery

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life is insane the cameras were serviceable and the speed it kept up

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with genction impact and that's no slouch most people just use it for

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Instagram or emails and this thing should be able to tank through those with a breeze obviously this is Quick

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unbox Settings I don't know how this is going to last in the long term again some of that Hardware is already

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starting to age if you're in need of a phone or a mobile device just in general

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as a music player and Camera this seems like it could be a really solid choice

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and as someone who's only really used premium phones I don't think I would be

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that upset if I had to use this for work or uh broke my phone I was ready for

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replacement and use this instead it seems like a great stopover and that

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price unbelievable

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thanks so much for watching let us know if you want us to cover more budget phones we haven't really been covering

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